On September 21, 1996, barely three years after the " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " imbroglio, and further straining relations with the LGBT community, Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ), which defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman.

As part of a 1996 initiative to curb illegal immigration, Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act ( IIRIRA ) on September 30, 1996.

After the introduction of presidency the law was amended twice: on September 4, 1996 and on November 9, 1999 but on the whole the law retains its initial contents.

The IMF granted standby credit in September 1995, but Belarus has fallen off the program and did not receive the second tranche of funding, which had been scheduled for regular intervals throughout 1996.

Bal Thackeray lost his wife Meena to a heart attack in September 1995, and his eldest son Bindumadhav (" Binda ") to a road accident on 20 April 1996.

Burhanuddin Rabbani ( Burhânuddîn Rabbânî ; 20 September 1940 – 20 September 2011 ) was President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996.

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

# Journey to Cubeville — September 1, 1996 to January 18, 1998

She eventually married Eugene Janssen ( February 18, 1918 – March 30, 1996 ) on September 29, 1940 in Los Angeles.

In September 1996, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras opened free trade talks with Mexico.

* Stratospheric ozone, myths and realities: Testimony of S. Fred Singer, Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates: Case Study 1 — Stratospheric Ozone: Myths and Realities, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, US House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Sess., September 20, 1995 31 ( Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1996 ).

An agreement signed in September 1996, which is one of the substantive peace accords, mandated that the mission of the armed forces change to focus exclusively on external threats.

It was the first version developed and standardized exclusively by the W3C, as the IETF had closed its HTML Working Group in September 1996.

In late September 1996 a visit to the country the delegation of the Federation Council of Federal Assembly of Russian Federation headed by Moscow Gordumy VM Platonov.

On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul.

The Taliban seized Kabul on September 27, 1996, and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on September 27, 1996, Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abdul Rashid Dostum, two former archnemesis, created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.

Human Rights Watch cites no human rights crimes for the forces under direct control of Massoud for the period from October 1996 until the assassination of Massoud in September 2001.

It was released again on laserdisc on September 16, 1996 with restored stereo sound.

), 80. 83 ( January 2009 ), 70. 0 ( December 2007 ), 62. 5 ( September 2005 ), 45. 7 ( June 2001 ), 41. 139 ( December 1999 ), 9. 044 ( 1999 ), 36. 550 ( 1998 ), 35. 404 ( 1997 ), 37. 120 ( 1996 )

On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul.

The Taliban seized Kabul on September 27, 1996, and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

September 1996

In September, Flair and Anderson teamed with their bitter rivals, Sting and Lex Luger, to lose to the nWo ( Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and an impostor Sting ) in the WarGames match at Fall Brawl when Luger submitted to the impostor Sting's Scorpion Deathlock.

Their team ended in September 1996 when Luger believed that Sting joined the New World Order ( nWo ).

The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862, and put into effect on January 1, 1863, declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas already under Union control in two states.

In September 2010, MIT students attempted to put a TARDIS, the time machine from the BBC's Doctor Who, onto a roof.

The dispute lead to open warfare, and in September Boniface appointed Landolfo to the command of his army, to put down the revolt of Landolfo's own Colonna relatives.

It was put into service in September 2006, aboard the world's largest container ship Emma Maersk which belongs to the A. P.

Essendon struggled to make the finals in 4th place, but once there they suddenly ignited to put in one of the most consistently devastating September performances in VFL history.

Such a company " George Orwell Productions Ltd " ( GOP Ltd ) was set up on 12 September 1947 although the service agreement was not then put into effect.

They put in place the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which ruled until September 1979.

Hoover believed " food will win the war ", and beginning on September 29, this slogan was introduced and put into frequent use.

To this end, Operation Boleas, consisting of South African and ( later ) Botswana troops, entered Lesotho on September 22, 1998 to put down the mutiny and restore the democratically elected government.

Retrieved 19 July 2006 .</ ref > In 1999, six other Libyans who had been accused of the September 1989 bombing of Union Air Transport Flight 772 were put on trial in their absence by a Paris court.

Following shooting between 16 September and 12 November 1978, a two-hour-long rough cut of the film was put together for its first private showing in January 1979.

In September 1979, Raskin began looking for an engineer who could put together a prototype.

In September 1834, Paganini put an end to his concert career and returned to Genoa.

Feeling that this arrangement put the Jets at a disadvantage, the team announced in 1977 that they would play two home games a year during the month of September at the Giants ' new home in New Jersey, Giants Stadium.

However, a hot start in the second half of the season put the Phillies back on the postseason hunt, though any hope was eventually extinguished with a loss to the Washington Nationals on September 28, thus the Phillies missed the postseason for the first time since 2006.

In September 1305, Edward ordered Robert Bruce to put his castle at Kildrummy, " in the keeping of such a man as he himself will be willing to answer for ," suggesting that King Edward suspected Robert was not entirely trustworthy and may have been plotting behind his back.

By September 1977, Somalia controlled 90 % of the Ogaden and captured strategic cities such as Jijiga and put heavy pressure on Dire Dawa, threatening the train route from the latter city to Djibouti.

From September 27, 2001, one-occupant cars were banned from crossing into Lower Manhattan from Midtown on weekday mornings in an effort to relieve some of the crush of traffic in the city ( the morning rush hour lasts from 5: 30 a. m. to 12: 00 p. m .), caused largely by the increased security measures put in place.

One of the major changes to be made to the revision of the Tube map put out in September 2009 was the removal of the River Thames.

The stability of the Toyotomi dynasty after Hideyoshi's death was put in doubt with the death of his only son Tsurumatsu in September 1591.

The date of the World Summit on Sustainable Development ( August – September 2002 ) was put forward as a target to bring the Kyoto Protocol into force.

Another special session was held in September 2000 to celebrate the millennium ; it put forward the Millennium Development Goals.

While the 2001 Canadian census done by Statistics Canada put Canadian Unitarians at 17, 480, the latest membership statistics from the Canadian Unitarian Council show as of September 1, 2007 they had 5, 150 " official " members.

* September 12 – President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U. S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

" He was preparing a bull that would excommunicate the King of France and put the interdict over France, and to depose the entire clergy of France, when in September 1303, William Nogaret, the strongest critic of the Papacy in the French inner circle, led a delegation to Rome, with intentionally loose orders by the king to bring the pope, if necessary by force, before a council to rule on the charges brought against him.