* 1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.

In late 1996, Kamenshik-led East Line Group privatized the terminal facilities of Domodedovo Airport and formed JSC ' International Airport Domodedovo ' and several other commercial entities controlling the airfield operations at the airport.

Strathclyde Park previously hosted the major Scottish music festival, T in the Park, until 1996, when it was moved to a disused airfield in Balado, Kinross-shire.

Defence cutbacks and unit and facility realignments from 1994 to 1996 saw CFB Shearwater stand down as a separate formation and the facility merged as an airfield attached to CFB Halifax.

When the RN moved out in 1996, operational management of the airfield was taken over by Hampshire Police Air Support Unit ( HPASU ).

The Royal Naval Air Station HMS Daedalus closed in 1996 but Daedalus Airfield itself remains active as a civil airfield.

On Tuesday 13 August 1996, in a very unusual accident, a Lear Jet landing at the airfield overshot the runway and ended up crashing into a van that just happened to be passing on the A40.

The airfield was abandoned by the U. S. Navy sometime between 1945 and 1954, though usage as a bombing range continued until 1996.

In 1996 the airfield was declared surpulus to military requirements and transferred to the agency responsible for selling off military property to civilians ( Agencja Mienia Wojskowego ).

In 1996, a tenth anniversary edition was released.

Ter-Petrosyan was re-elected in 1996.

Extreme poverty was defined in 1996 by Joseph Wresinski, the founder of ATD Fourth World as:

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

A modified infrageneric classification of Amaranthus was published by Mosyakin & Robertson ( 1996 ) and includes three subgenera: Acnida, Amaranthus, and Albersia.

Their lower level Minor League Baseball teams began play in 1996 ; the expansion draft was held that year as well.

After the Soviet withdrawal, between 1992 and 1996, he was minister of defense in the new government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under president Burhanuddin Rabbani, and acted as its military leader in the civil war against competing militias around Kabul.

The compelling rationale for this was the integral role technology now plays in our lives, which was not present in 1996.

For the centenary of the VFL / AFL in 1996, the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

The study of apoptosis brought on by Bunyaviridae was initiated in 1996 when it was observed that apoptosis was induced by the La Crosse virus into the kidney cells of baby hamsters and into the brains of baby mice.

In 1994, the State Compensation Law ( 国家赔偿法 ) was passed, followed by the Administrative Penalties Law ( 行政处罚法 ) in 1996.

In 1996, two-tier local government was abolished and Angus was established as one of the replacement single-tier Council Areas.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

The song was later featured in the film The Birdcage ( 1996 ) and performed by Robin Williams and Christine Baranski.

Revision 1. 2 was the last version of the APM specification, released in 1996.

During his visit to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Manila in 1996, he was saved shortly before his car was due to drive over a bridge where a bomb had been planted.

In a July 2, 2011 editorial the New York Times opined, " The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments.

The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy was an alleged effort by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) to influence the domestic policies of the United States, before and during the Clinton administration, and involved the fundraising practices of the administration itself.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

However, knock sensors have been a requirement of the OBD-II specification used in 1996 model year vehicles and newer.

Leading contemporary composer Philip Glass described Low as " a work of genius " in 1992, when he used it as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 " Low "; subsequently, Glass used Bowie's next album as the basis for his 1996 Symphony No. 4 " Heroes ".

The road sections that are used were rebuilt prior to the inaugural event in 1996 to ensure consistency and smoothness.

Prior to the 1996 Australian Grand Prix, an earlier configuration of the current circuit was used for both the 1953 and 1956 Australian Grands Prix.

From 1996 to 2009, the IFF used a World Floorball Championship format where the last team in the A-Division was relegated to the B-Division, while the top team in the B-Division was promoted to the A-Division.

While much of the attempt at gender equity in mainstream Christianity ( Judaism never recognized any gender for God ) is aimed at reinterpreting scripture and degenderizing language used to name and describe the divine ( Ruether, 1984 ; Plaskow, 1991 ), there are a growing number of people who identify as Christians or Jews who are trying to integrate goddess imagery into their religions ( Kien, 2000 ; Kidd 1996 ," Goddess Christians Yahoogroup ").

*" Jump Around " is used in many television and cinema productions, such as in the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire, the 1996 film Happy Gilmore, Black Hawk Down, the TV series My Name Is Earl, and American Dad.

In The Mismeasure of Man ( 1996 ), paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould criticized IQ tests and argued that that they were used for scientific racism.

He first used the term " irreducible complexity " in his 1996 book Darwin's Black Box, to refer to certain complex biochemical cellular systems.

In his 1996 book, I Was Wrong, he admitted that the first time he actually read the Bible all the way through was while he was in prison, and that it made him realize he had taken certain passages out of context — passages which he had used as " proof texts " to back up his prosperity teachings.

From 1996 to 2007, the Wizards played home games in Arrowhead Stadium, the American football stadium mainly used by the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Executive Mansion has been the home of Liberian Presidents since the 1960s, but has not been used since a fire in 1996.

* The Calgary Corpus dating back to 1987 is no longer widely used due to its small size, although Leonid A. Broukhis still maintains The Calgary Corpus Compression Challenge, which started in 1996.

Coster-Mullen is the author of Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man, 2003 ( first printed in 1996, self-published ), considered a definitive text about Little Boy ; illustrations from which are used in the Assembly details section above.

Sometimes they are used as a way of saying something gently, in a veiled way ( Obeng 1996 ).

In October 2000, terrorists used C-4 to attack the USS Cole, killing 17 sailors In 1996, terrorists used C-4 to blow up the Khobar Towers U. S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.

The QuakeC source to the original id Software Quake game logic was published in 1996 and used as the basis for modifications like capture the flag and others.

During the First ( 1994 – 1996 ) and Second Chechen Wars ( 1999 – 2009 ), Chechen rebels used RPGs to attack Russian tanks from basements and high rooftops.

After joining Green Bay before the 1996 season, the team used him as a kick returner.

* Two songs for the film The Birdcage ( 1996 ) " It Takes All Kinds " ( not used ) and " Little Dream ".

Because the turbine generates rotary motion, it is particularly suited to be used to drive an electrical generator – about 90 % of all electricity generation in the United States ( 1996 ) is by use of steam turbines.

The ankh-like key was also used in the 1996 television movie.