* 1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.

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.

The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part ( 13. 5 % in 1994 ) and reached 15. 7 % in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right.

However, the parting was amicable as Kahn remained on the Borland board until November 7, 1996, when he resigned from that position.

The Baltimore Ravens came into existence in 1996 when Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his intention to relocate his team from Cleveland to Baltimore.

The resulting controversy ended when representatives of Cleveland and the NFL reached a settlement on February 8, 1996.

In 1996 – 1997, Campbell was a recurring guest star on the show Ellen as Ed Billik, who becomes Ellen's boss when she sells her bookstore in season four.

* The CEO-The PFY's uncle Brian from 1996 until 2000, when the BOFH and PFY moved on to a new company

After Cobain committed suicide in 1994, Love began using heroin again regularly, but quit using the drug in 1996 at the insistence of director Miloš Forman when she landed a starring role in The People vs. Larry Flynt.

Astronomers estimated that the visible fragments of SL9 ranged in size from a few hundred metres to two kilometres across, suggesting that the original comet may have had a nucleus up to acrosssomewhat larger than Comet Hyakutake, which became very bright when it passed close to the Earth in 1996.

Sagan's book, The Demon-Haunted World ( 1996 ), included his memories of this conflicted period, when his family dealt with the realities of the war in Europe, but tried to prevent it from undermining his optimistic spirit.

The 5th Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling, in the County of Essex, when his father died in 1996.

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 ".

Monkees activity ceased until 1996 when Jones reunited with Dolenz, Tork, and Michael Nesmith to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

The peak year for the printed encyclopaedia was 1990 when 120, 000 sets were sold, but it dropped to 40, 000 in 1996.

Development of EverQuest began in 1996 when Sony Interactive Studios America ( SISA ) executive John Smedley secured funding for a 3D game much like text-based MUDs following the successful launch of Meridian 59 the previous year.

However, as Northcott was born in Victoria, it was not until Sir Eric Woodward's appointment by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 that the position was filled by a New South Wales-born individual ; this practice continued until 1996, when Queen Elizabeth II commissioned as her representative Gordon Samuels, a London-born immigrant to Australia.

The City Chambers has been the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since 1996, when it replaced the District Council with the abolition of the Strathclyde Region.

The second was from 3 November 1990 to 25 October 1996, when she resigned and retired from Norwegian politics, and was succeeded by Thorbjørn Jagland.

Critical Mass was created in 1996 when The Right Stuf made a deal with Manga Entertainment to release an unedited edition of Violence Jack, which they deemed too intense for their normal line.

The building was vacated in 1996 when it was determined unsafe and was also listed in the National Register of Historic Places the same year.

After Bush won and Kemp left Congress for the Cabinet, the two did not really cross paths again until 1996, when Kemp endorsed Dole's opponent Forbes on the eve of the New York Primary in March.

Kemp briefly served on the board of Oracle Corporation, CEO is friend Larry Ellison, in 1996, but resigned when he ran for Vice President ; he was named to the board of Six Flags, Inc. in December 2005.

New Model M keyboards continued to be manufactured for IBM by Lexmark until 1996, when Unicomp purchased the keyboard technology.

* 1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1996 )

* November 9 – Spiro Agnew, American Vice President ( d. 1996 )

Spiro Theodore Agnew (; November 9, 1918September 17, 1996 ) was the 39th Vice President of the United States ( 1969 – 1973 ), serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland ( 1967 – 1969 ).

Agnew died unexpectedly on September 17, 1996, aged 77 at Atlantic General Hospital, in Berlin, Maryland, in Worcester County ( near his Ocean City home ), only a few hours after being hospitalized and diagnosed with an advanced, yet to that point undetected, form of leukemia.

* The Laetoli Footprints ( 1996 ) Agnew, Demas, Leakey http :// www. jstor. org. proxy. lib. umich. edu / stable / pdfplus / 2890795. pdf? acceptTC = true

* Spiro Agnew ( 1918 – 1996 ), 39th Vice President of the United States

Not long after, in 1996, Karmal died from liver cancer.

He died of a heart attack in Bangui on 3 November 1996 at age 75.

Sagan taught a course on critical thinking at Cornell University until he died in 1996 from pneumonia, a few months after finding that he was in remission of myelodysplastic syndrome.

Since Fujiko F. died in 1996 before any decisions were reached, any " endings " of Doraemon are fan fiction.

She was born on 5 July 1996 and she lived until the age of six, at which point she died from a progressive lung disease.

* 1996 – Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes, all 123 passengers and crew died.

He died in his sleep on February 2, 1996, and his body was subsequently cremated, without any funeral or memorial services.

In 1996, actress-screenwriter Zoë Tamerlis, herself a heroin addict who died of drug-related causes in 1999, was commissioned to write a screenplay based upon Carangi's life.

He also had a sister, Julie J. Boucher, the Associate Director of the Library Research Service at the Colorado State Library ( who died in a mountain-climbing accident on October 12, 1996 ).< ref >

In 2008, Florida police declared the Walsh case closed, naming Toole, who died in prison in 1996, as the killer.

After Moshoeshoe II died in a car accident in 1996, King Letsie III ascended to the throne again.

* Gertrude of Nivelles, abbess of Nivelles ( died 658 ) presented in The Life of St. Geretrude ( in Fouracre and Gerberding 1996 )

* Balthild, queen of the Franks ( died ca 680 ), presented in The Life of Lady Bathild, Queen of the Franks ( in Fouracre and Gerberding 1996 )

She died on September 18, 1996 at Bremen, Lincoln County, Maine.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

To honor the recent death of former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, who died on December 6, 1996, each player wore a special helmet decal with Rozelle's signature, " Pete ," printed across the NFL logo.

** Cyril Poole, English cricketer ( died 1996 )

** Leon Garfield, English children's author ( died 1996 )

** Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( died 1996 )

* August 27 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( died 1996 )

* June 16 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper, poet, and actor ( died 1996 )

* Ernest Perry, first-class cricketer, died in Kidderminster in 1996.