* Astra Custom SPS ( IPSC racegun ) 1996 –?

Thus, in England and Wales or in Hong Kong, a person born on February 29, 1996, will have legally reached 18 years old on March 1, 2014.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

Macmillan Press, Hong Kong, 1996.

A 100-minute special set in Hong Kong followed in 1996, and another two-hour story in 2006.

Increasingly, there are a large number of Mandarin Chinese-speaking schools in operation throughout Hong Kong as well since 1996.

* Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club obtained Royal Charter in 1959, now Hong Kong Jockey Club ( since 1996 ).

* Royal Hong Kong Golf Club was granted Royal Charter in 1889-now Hong Kong Golf Club ( since 1996 )

** Wong Fei Hung Series ( 1996 ) is a Hong Kong television series on five stories about Wong Fei-hung.

Asian edition was launch as FT started printing in Dubai while Financial Times has been printed in Tokyo and Hong Kong since 1990 and 1996 respectively.

** Fiona Yuen 袁彩雲 ( 1976 -; born in Germany ; Hakka pronunciation: Rhen Cai Rhun ), Second runner-up, Miss Hong Kong pageant, 1996

** Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Award for Comrades, Almost a Love Story 甜蜜蜜 ( 1996 )

* 1996 Hong Kong Film Awards

* Lee Lai Shan, a windsurfer, won Hong Kong's first Olympic gold medal in 1996.

Other private member's bills to have been enacted include the Adoption Act 1964, the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, the Charter Trustees Act 1986, the Law Reform ( Year and a Day Rule ) Act 1996, the Knives Act 1997, the British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Act 1997, the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, the Gangmasters ( Licensing ) Act 2004, the Sustainable Communities Act 2006.

* 1996 MuZ was bought by the Malaysian Corporation Hong Leong Group

ZEE Toys ceased production in 1996, but the line was purchased by Red Box Toys of Hong Kong in 1997.

This Carrefour store, which had opened in December 1996, had been the first one opened in Hong Kong.

1996 was also the first time for a team from outside Asia ever to win gold at the Hong Kong International Race, a Canadian men's crew from Toronto.

Among them were the Walled City's Yamen and remnants of its South Gate, which were officially designated as declared monuments of Hong Kong on 4 October 1996.

The name of the institution was reverted to its original name in 1996 due to the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong in 1997.

* Thailand-Vietnam-Hong Kong ( T-V-H ) operational since February 1996.

HM Queen Elizabeth II accorded it with Royal Charter in 1959, and became " The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club " ( 英皇御准香港賽馬會 ) until 1996.

* 1996 – In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more.

Purple horseshoes joined the roster in 1984, followed by red balloons in 1989, rainbows in 1992, pots of gold in 1994, leprechaun hats in 1996 ( temporarily replaced the green clovers ), orange shooting stars in 1998 ( added blue, green, yellow, purple, and red in 2011.

Production for a film adaptation of Private Parts began in May 1996 with all shooting complete in four months.

In 1996, a battle between a lottery winner and his former lover over custody of their 5-year-old child resulted in a gun battle ; the winner was acquitted of the murder of his former lover on the basis of self defense, and convicted of the shooting of the woman's father.

* Chris Kingsbury, shooting guard for the Iowa Hawkeyes from 1993 to 1996.

In 1996, Brown found himself involved in a drive-by shooting in Boston while with his brother-in-law, after they attempted to hold a sit-down between two gangs for peace.

A stream of Dre-dissing records followed, but things turned tragic in September 1996, when Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.

City Hall ( 1996 ) starred Al Pacino as an idealistic mayor and John Cusack as his deputy mayor, who leads an investigation with unexpectedly far-reaching consequences into the accidental shooting of a boy in New York.

* Thomas Watt Hamilton ( 1952 – 1996 ), Scottish mass killer responsible for the 1996 school shooting known as the Dunblane massacre

The International Defensive Pistol Association ( IDPA ), founded in 1996, is an organization based in Berryville, Arkansas, USA that has created a shooting sport based on defensive pistol techniques, using equipment including full-charge service ammunition to solve simulated " real world " self-defense scenarios.

He had further success after being released from prison, with his albums All Eyez on Me and The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, and after his fatal shooting and death in Las Vegas in 1996, his politically charged lyrics influenced many hip-hop artists and a big part of the African-American community.

During the latter half of the 20th century there were only two incidents in which men holding licensed firearms went on shooting sprees and killed on a large scale, the Hungerford massacre of 1987 and the Dunblane school massacre of 1996 ; each led to strong public and political demands to restrict firearm use, and tightening of laws.

* 28 April 1996 – Europa Hotel shooting, Cairo.

* 1996 ( 28 April ): Gunman Martin Bryant kills 35 people and injures 20 more in shooting rampage at Port Arthur historic site ; Supreme Court sentences him to life imprisonment

During the 1996 Summer Olympics, the GWCC hosted handball, fencing, judo, table tennis, weightlifting, wrestling, and the fencing and shooting portions of the modern pentathlon.

Martin Bryant ( born 7 May 1967 ) is an Australian spree killer who pled guilty to murdering 35 people and injuring 21 others in the Port Arthur massacre, a shooting spree in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia, in 1996.

Dorff played Candy Darling in I Shot Andy Warhol ( 1996 ), a film about Valerie Solanas, the woman infamous for shooting pop-art icon Andy Warhol.

* In 1996, Christian Brando was released from CMC " after serving five years of a 10-year term in the fatal shooting of his half sister's boyfriend.

This was due to a program of population reduction by shooting scheduled to begin implementation in 1996 ; due to public opposition the shooting was cancelled and a large scale muster and adoption program began in 1997.

Pujols, his father, and his grandmother immigrated to New York City in 1996, where Albert witnessed a shooting at a grocery store.

In 1996 Franklin admitted to having committed the shooting.

After the 1996 Summer Olympics, the International Shooting Union decided to discontinue the trap and skeet shooting events for women and instead allow women to compete in the double trap, where two clay saucers are thrown simultaneously.

He is also one of only ten goaltenders in NHL history to have scored a goal, and one of only five to have scored by shooting the puck directly into the opponent's net ( not an " own goal "), on March 6, 1996 vs. the Hartford Whalers.