Category: Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics

* " Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity " by Alan Sokal, ( Spring / Summer 1996 issue of Social Text ).

* 1996 – Centennial Olympic Park bombing: in Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Category: Gymnasts at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The journal Social Text published the paper in its Spring / Summer 1996 issue, whereupon Sokal publicly revealed his hoax.

Resurrection, Summer issue 1996.

Resurrection, Summer issue 1996.

Category: Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics

From 1984 through 1992, the Summer Olympic Games featured solo and duet competitions, but they both were dropped in 1996 in favor of team competition.

The article " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ", published in the Social Text Spring / Summer 1996 " Science Wars " issue, proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct.

" Nonetheless, despite designating the physicist as a " difficult, uncooperative author ," and noting that such writers were " well known to journal editors ", Social Text published the article in acknowledgment of the author's credentials in the May 1996 Spring / Summer " Science Wars " issue.

Turner Field, first used for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium and then converted into a baseball-only facility for the Braves, is named after him.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1996 Summer Olympics

At the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics, the nations that were part of the Unified Team started to make their Olympic debuts.

Beach volleyball, a variation of the game played on sand and with only two players per team, became a FIVB-endorsed variation in 1987 and was added to the Olympic program at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

* September 18 – The International Olympic Committee awards the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta, Georgia.

** The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, begin.

* July 27 – The Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics kills 1 and injures 111.

* August 4 – The 1996 Summer Olympics conclude.

Although no copyright applies to the song in Australia and many other countries, the Australian Olympic organisers had to pay royalties to Carl Fischer Music following the song being played at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta.

* Since the 1996 Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee have recognized a separate Palestine Olympic Committee and Palestinian team.

* 27th Series ( Summer 1996 )-1 June-6 July episodes

Category: Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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.

* On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, the elder brother of the 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw to " send a message to the FBI and the media.

They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Turin in 2006, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010, and London in 2012.

Lightweight rowing was added to the Olympics in 1996.

The women's triple jump was introduced into the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.

The 1996 Atlanta Olympics saw the introduction of synthetic surfaces supported by steel frames.

The Championship acted as an Olympic qualifier, and hosts Croatia, who had won the 1996 Olympics, needed to finish in the top five to qualify.

Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, returned to the armed opposition, serving as the military and political leader of the United Islamic Front ( also known in the West as Northern Alliance ).

This school was eventually known as the Technical University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, and in 1996 changed its name to Bauhaus-University Weimar.

In 1996, Serge Vaudenay found a known-plaintext attack requiring 2 < sup > 8r + 1 </ sup > known plaintexts to break, where r is the number of rounds.

In 1996, both practices were replaced by the latest approach known as standard precautions ( health care ).

*** Dennis the Menace ( 1996 TV series ), an animated television series based on the Beano comic strip, known internationally as Dennis and Gnasher.

Stephen Donaldson ( July 27, 1946 – July 18, 1996 ), born Robert Anthony Martin, Jr and also known by the pseudonym Donny the Punk, was an American bisexual-identified LGBT political activist.

This development was further strengthened by the establishment ( in 1996 ) of a series of conferences on the Evolution of Language ( now known as " Evolang "), promoting a scientific, multidisciplinary approach to the issue, and interest from major academic publishers ( e. g., the Studies in the Evolution of Language series has been appearing with Oxford University Press since 2001 ) and scientific journals.

* Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole ' Logic ', or The Art of Thinking, ( known as the Port-Royal Logic ), translated J. Buroker, Cambridge 1996

With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the official view of the Rising became more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.

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.

In 1996, a new movement known as the Taliban, rose to power, defeated most of the warlords and took over roughly 80 % of Afghanistan.

* University of Medical Sciences and Technology, better known as UMST, it was founded in 1996 by Prof. Mamoun Humaida as Academy of Medical Science & Technology.

Little penguins have also been reported from Chile ( where they are known as Pingüino pequeño or Pingüino azul ) ( Isla Chañaral 1996, Playa de Santo Domingo, San Antonio, 16 March 1997 ) and South Africa, but it is unclear whether these birds were vagrants.

McGhee is best known for managing Bon Jovi and later KISS ( starting with their reunion tour in 1996 ).

On October 26, 1996, a well-known gaming clan, the Rangers, surprised the Quake community with Diary of a Camper, the first widely known machinima film.

Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai ( 6 August 194727 September 1996 ), better known mononymously as Najibullah or Najib, was President of Afghanistan from 1987 until 1992 when the Mujahideen took over Kabul.

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.

Another of Remey's followers, Leland Jensen ( d. 1996 ), who made a several religious claims of his own, formed a sect known as the Bahá ' ís Under the Provisions of the Covenant following Remey's death ; he believed that Remey was the adopted son of Abdu ' l-Baha, and that Remey's adopted son Joseph Pepe was the third Guardian.

The importance of Greenman cannot be overstated: in 1996, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America ( now known as the American Association of Justice ) celebrated its 50th anniversary by polling lawyers and law professors on the top ten developments in tort law during the past half-century, and Greenman topped the list.

The first SN system, known as SN-0, was released in 1996 under the product name Origin 2000.

It is currently known as Square Enix, Inc. Square Soft's original headquarters were in Redmond, Washington, where it distributed its now-dead newsletter, the Ogopogo Examiner, but it was relocated to Costa Mesa, California in August 1996, where it remained until late 2005 ; as of 2006, Square Enix, Inc. is now located in El Segundo, California.

From 1960 to 1996, the team was known as the Houston Oilers, an original charter member of the American Football League ( AFL ).

They are best known for their first album Becoming X ( released in 1996 ) and particularly the singles " 6 Underground ", " Spin Spin Sugar ", and " Tesko Suicide " from the same album.

By comparison, under US law, " A trade secret, as defined under ( 3 ) ( A ), ( B ) ( 1996 ), has three parts: ( 1 ) information ; ( 2 ) reasonable measures taken to protect the information ; and ( 3 ) which derives independent economic value from not being publicly known.