* 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.

It has been asserted by Mansoor Ijaz that in 1996 while the Clinton Administration had begun pursuit of the policy, the Sudanese government allegedly offered to arrest and extradite Bin Laden as well as to provide the United States detailed intelligence information about growing militant organizations in the region, including Hezbollah and Hamas, and that U. S. authorities allegedly rejected each offer, despite knowing of bin Laden's involvement in bombings on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

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.

In 1996 and 1999, the show won the BAFTA award for Best Comedy, while Morgan also won Best Comedy Performance.

Notable names in mid-century modern design include Adrian Frutiger, designer of the typefaces Univers and Frutiger ; Paul Rand, who, from the late 1930s until his death in 1996, took the principles of the Bauhaus and applied them to popular advertising and logo design, helping to create a uniquely American approach to European minimalism while becoming one of the principal pioneers of the subset of graphic design known as corporate identity ; and Josef Müller-Brockmann, who designed posters in a severe yet accessible manner typical of the 1950s and 1970s era.

For the 1996 national elections, the center-left parties created the Olive Tree coalition while the center-right united again under the House of Freedoms.

In July 1996, disagreement on policy caused EFnet to break in two: the slightly larger European half ( including Australia and Japan ) formed IRCnet, while the American servers continued as EFnet.

He wrote the Debian Manifesto in 1993 while a student at Purdue University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1996.

* A convict, about to be released from a TBS-clinic, murdered the owner of a garage in 1996 while under the influence of drugs.

* 1996 – Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin

* 1996 – Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.

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.

In September 1996, he crashed his Dodge Viper while intoxicated and subsequently checked into the Betty Ford Center for 30 days.

A Koenigsegg CC prototype was first publicized in 1996, while the full carbon fiber production prototype was finally unveiled at the 2000 Paris Motor Show.

Dooms 1996 successor, Quake, offered new opportunities for both gameplay and customization, while retaining the ability to record demos.

Monica Samille Lewinsky ( born July 23, 1973 ) is an American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an " improper relationship " while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996.

Secret Theatre 1994 compiled rare tracks and demos, while Orange and Blue 1996 contained previously unreleased material including a flower-power cover of Kurt Cobain's song " Lithium " originally recorded by Cobain's grunge band of the same name, Nirvana.

Surviving parts of the former Hotel Esplanade have been incorporated into the north side of the Sony development, including the Kaisersaal which, in a complex and costly operation in March 1996, was moved in one piece ( all 1, 300 tonnes of it ), some 75 metres from its former location, to the spot that it occupies today ( it even had to make two right-angled turns during the journey, while maintaining its own orientation ).

* Quest for Glory Anthology ( 1996 ), a package that includes the first four games, including the fully patched CD version of QFG IV ; game copy protection codes ( a feature of Quest for Glory IV ) are included in the manual and on CD, while game saves are included in the save folder of the CD and the VGA version of Quest for Glory I.

According to a 1996 report of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress, during Reagan's two terms, and through 1993, the top 10 % of taxpayers paid an increased share of income taxes ( not including payroll taxes ) to the Federal government, while the lowest 50 % of taxpayers paid a reduced share of income tax revenue.

This was the second time a Shuttle had been photographed while docked and the first time since 1996.

Under their respective head coaches and quarterbacks, Green Bay posted an NFC-best 13 – 3 regular season record in 1996, while New England advanced to their second Super Bowl after recording an 11-5 record.

In the 1996 Nicaraguan election, Ortega and Ramírez both campaigned unsuccessfully as presidential candidates on behalf of their respective parties, with Ortega receiving 43 % of the vote while Arnoldo Alemán of the Constitutional Liberal Party received 51 %.

Troy Denning's 1996 novel Pages of Pain features an amnesic Theseus fighting to recover his past while interacting with some of the more colorful beings of the Planescape universe.

McVeigh was a registered Republican when he lived in Buffalo, New York in the 1980s, and had a membership in the National Rifle Association while in the military, but voted for Libertarian Party candidate, Harry Browne, in the 1996 presidential elections.

Law professor Ken Gromley's book The Death of American Virtue reveals that Clinton escaped a 1996 assassination attempt in the Philippines by terrorists working for Osama bin Laden.

Probably more representative of British humour were the working class comedies Brassed Off ( 1996 ) and The Full Monty ( 1997 ).

Lieber reveals that, in 1996, " ADM CEO, Mr. Dwayne Andreas, told The Washington Post that he had known about Whitacre's frauds for three years ” and speculates that Whitacre was fired and turned over to the Federal authorities only after ADM learned he had been working as an FBI mole.

The government agency " Contradrogas ", founded in 1996, facilitates coordination among Peruvian Government agencies working on counter-narcotics issues.

In 1996, there was a port of Quake to Linux by an id software employee working in his free time.

He was also " a senior engineer with the Martin Marietta Astronautics company, working as one of its leaders in development of advanced concepts for interplanetary missions " ( The Case for Mars 1996 ).

Devlin and Emmerich gave the rights to the franchise to MGM when they were working on their 1996 film Independence Day ( the rights to the Stargate film are currently owned by StudioCanal, with Lions Gate Entertainment handling most distribution in terms of international theatrical and worldwide home video releases ); however, MGM retains the domestic television rights.

* Winsome Pinnock: Mules ( 1996 ) – a play about Jamaican women working as mules for cocaine smugglers

( There was a rumor that Sleuth was given the working title Who's Afraid of Stephen Sondheim ?, but in a New York Times interview on March 10, 1996, Shaffer denied ever using the title.

A working Colossus has been rebuilt, and was switched on in 1996, followed by a Mk2 in 2004 ; a wartime German cyphertext was ( belatedly ) deciphered in 2007.

In 1996 Lindsey Buckingham, working on a planned solo album, enlisted the help of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, which eventually led to a reunion of the entire band.

By 1996, JPL was working on a full-fledged aerobot experiment named PAT, for " Planetary Aerobot Testbed ", which was intended to demonstrate a complete planetary aerobot through flights into Earth's atmosphere.

By late 1996, she was working as a para-legal.

Homestar Runner was brought to life in Atlanta in 1996 by two University of Georgia students, Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel, who were working summer jobs surrounding the 1996 Summer Olympics.

In particular, the Mac version of 3. 3 ( released in 1996 ) was seen as stable and trouble-free, working seamlessly with Adobe's PostScript fonts as well as with Apple's TrueType fonts.

In 1996 South Africa ’ s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research began working with medical companies to develop dietary supplements based on hoodia.

The band were due to begin working on a new album in late 1996.

Recent successful films include the working class comedies Brassed Off ( 1996 ) and The Full Monty ( 1997 ), the more middle class Richard Curtis-scripted films Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ) and Notting Hill ( 1999 ) the pop-culture referencing Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy ( so far Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz ), and a movie based on a real life event The Boat That Rocked ( 2009 ).

In 1996, working for Dreamworks, he created for The Neverhood for the PC.

* Rick Bragg, won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996 while working for The New York Times.

The other band members went their own ways during the period of inactivity following Loveless: Butcher contributed vocals to Collapsed Lung's 1996 single " Board Game ", Googe had been sighted working as a cab driver in London and formed the supergroup Snowpony in 1996, O ' Ciosoig joined Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions, while Shields collaborated with Yo La Tengo, Primal Scream, and Dinosaur Jr.

He spoke of his growing frustration over working with a Congress so partisan that it was harming the military establishment, and said that he did not think the results of the 1996 congressional election would decrease the partisanship.