In 1996, the talk show BET Tonight debuted with Tavis Smiley as host ; in 2001, Ed Gordon replaced Tavis Smiley.

Another example of counter-culture-jamming was Smiley Man, a neon prank installed secretly on the Man at Burning Man 1996, the last year that Cacophony founder John Law was Director of Operations at Burning Man, before control of the festival was taken over by a new corporation headed by one of the other founders, Larry Harvey.

According to Rieley in 1996 posts to the " Smiley Smile " message board, the band had split into two camps: the artistically inclined, drug using, bashful Wilson brothers and the commercially-oriented, teetotalling triumvirate of Mike Love, Al Jardine, and Bruce Johnston.

Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991, and starting in 1996, he hosted the talk show BET Talk ( later renamed BET Tonight ) on BET.

In 1996, Smiley became a frequent commentator on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, a nationally syndicated radio show broadcast on black and urban stations in the United States.

Also in 1996, Smiley began hosting and executive producing BET Tonight ( originally BET Talk when it first premiered ), a public affairs discussion show on the Black Entertainment Television ( BET ) network.

* 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

The National Stadium hosted two group matches ( Pakistan v. South Africa on 29 February and Pakistan v. England on 3 March ), and a quarter-final match ( South Africa v. West Indies on 11 March ) during the 1996 Cricket World Cup.

* 1996 – Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.

Following Wik Peoples v Queensland ( 1996 ), Parliament amended the NTA with the Native Title Amendment Act 1998.

" Muller v. BP Exploration ( Alaska ) Inc., 923 P. 2d 783, 787 – 88 ( Alaska 1996 );

* R v Archer EWCA Crim 1996, 1 Cr App R ( S ) 86

Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition,, further upheld these rights by invalidating the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996, holding that, because the act " rohibit child pornography that does not depict an actual child ..." it was overly broad and unconstitutional under the First Amendment and that:

* Whren v. United States ( 1996 )

In the half century since Brown, the Court has extended the reach of the Equal Protection Clause to other historically disadvantaged groups, such as women and illegitimate children, although it has applied a somewhat less stringent standard than it has applied to governmental discrimination on the basis of race ( United States v. Virginia, 1996 ; Levy v. Louisiana, 1968 ).

* 1996: BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore

* 1996: United States v. Virginia

* 1996: Romer v. Evans

In 1996 R v. Doheny Phillips LJ gave this example of a summing up, which should be carefully tailored to the particular facts in each case:

In BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore ( 1996 ), the Court ruled that an excessive punitive award can amount to an arbitrary deprivation of property in violation of due process.

* Hornblower, Simon and Anthony Spawforth, The Oxford Classical Dictionary ( Third Edition ) ( Oxford: OUP, 1996 ), s. v.

* Tiepolo, M. ( 1996 ) " City Profile: Brazzaville " in Cities v. 13, pp. 117 – 124

VI. 108 ( v. 1. 0A – August 16, 1996 ) – ISSN: 1188-2492 Later republished in Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy ( 2002 ).

v. Vliet, 1996.

Congress attempted to grant this power to the president by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to control " pork barrel spending ", but in 1998 the US Supreme Court ruled the act to be unconstitutional in a 6-3 decision in Clinton v. City of New York.

In an essay written in 1996, Ralph Reed argued against the moral absolutist tone of Christian right leaders, arguing for the Republican Party Platform to stress the moral dimension of abortion rather than placing emphasis on overturning Roe v. Wade.

In 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island ( 1996 ) the Court held states cannot use the Twenty-first Amendment to abridge freedom of speech protections under the First Amendment.

See Arnold v. Runnels, 421 F. 3d 859, 866 n. 8 ( 9th Cir. 2005 ); United States v. Soliz, 129 F. 3d 499, 504 n. 3 ( 1997 ), overruled on other grounds by United States v. Johnson, 256 F. 3d 895 ( 9th Cir. 2001 ) ( en banc ) ( per curiam ); Evans v. Demosthenes, 98 F. 3d 1174, 1176 ( 9th Cir. 1996 ).

Actrius ( Catalan: Actresses ) is a 1996 film directed by Ventura Pons.

In 1996, a tenth anniversary edition was released.

93, pp. 2686 – 2689, April 1996.

" ( 1996 ) produced by Merzak Allouache.

A Modest Proposal is mentioned in the 1996 film The Birdcage.

According to Roy Andrew Miller ( 1996: 98-99 ), the Clauson – Doerfer critique of Altaic relies exclusively on lexicon, whereas the fundamental evidence for Altaic consists in verbal morphology.

* 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger ( d. 1996 )

* 1934 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor ( d. 1996 )

* 1932 – Tiny Tim, American singer, ukulele player, and archivist ( d. 1996 )

* 1896 – Hans List, Austrian inventor and entrepreneur ( d. 1996 )

* 1921 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg ( d. 1996 )

In the summer of 1996, the RNLI decided to station a lifeboat at Kildownet.

* 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

* 1990 – JonBenét Ramsey, American model and murder victim ( d. 1996 )

* 1899 – P. L. Travers, Australian author ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 1996.

* Bourdieu, P. ( 1996 ).

Ter-Petrosyan was re-elected in 1996.

: Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies, 1984, and Ibn Sina and Mysticism, Remarks and Admonitions: Part 4, London: Kegan Paul International, 1996.

* 1996 – Jean Le Moyne, Canadian journalist and politician ( b. 1913 )

* 1996 – John McSherry, American baseball umpire ( b. 1944 )