* 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.

* 1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.

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 ).

* 1996 – Suspected " Unabomber " Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana, United States.

* 1996 – A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.

* 1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.

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.

The first official home video releases of Beavis and Butt-Head were two VHS tapes titled There Goes the Neighborhood and Work Sucks !, distributed by Sony Music Video and MTV Home Video in 1996 in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.

Eight more VHS compilations were released between 1996 and 1999 in the United States, before the final volume, Butt-O-Ween, was issued in October 1999.

More recently, Bacardi lawyers were influential in the drafting of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act which sought to extend the scope of the United States embargo against Cuba.

On May 28, 2002, the United States Food and Drug Administration instituted a policy that excludes from donation anyone who spent at least six months in certain European countries, ( or three months in the United Kingdom ), from 1980 to 1996.

A similar policy applies to potential donors to the Australian Red Cross ' Blood Service, precluding people who have spent a cumulative time of six months or more in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996.

The Singapore Red Cross precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of three months or more in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996.

In New Zealand, the New Zealand Blood Service ( NZBS ) in 2000 introduced measures to preclude permanently donors who had resided in the United Kingdom ( including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands ) for a total of six months or more between January 1980 and December 1996.

As of 1999, Health Canada announced a policy to defer individuals from donating blood if they have lived within the United Kingdom for one month or more from January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996.

The Association of Blood Donors of Denmark precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least 12 months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

The Swiss Blutspendedienst SRK precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least six months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

Even the United States Postal Service got into the act, issuing a series of commemorative stamps marking the comic-strip centennial in 1996.

On July 11, 1996, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp depicting " Mighty Casey.

Membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as the 1996 treaty on the Union of Russia and Belarus and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State in 1999, has confirmed a close partnership with Russia.

In 1996, Destry Rides Again was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

A Doom-based game called Chex Quest was released in 1996 by Ralston Foods as a promotion to increase cereal sales, and the United States Marine Corps released Marine Doom, designed to " teach teamwork, coordination and decision-making ".

* 1996 – Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US $ 500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.

* Flexner, Eleanor, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States ( The Belknap Press, 1996 ( ISBN 978-0-674-10653-6 )).

Osama bin Laden issued two fatwās — in 1996 and then again in 1998 — that Muslims should kill civilians and military personnel from the United States and allied countries until they withdraw support for Israel and withdraw military forces from Islamic countries.

* 1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at-26 ° F (- 32. 2 ° C )

* 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 ).

By 1995, a billion cubic meters of the gas had been collected and the reserve was US $ 1. 4 billion in debt, prompting the Congress of the United States in 1996 to phase out the reserve.

The resulting " Helium Privatization Act of 1996 " ( Public Law 104 – 273 ) directed the United States Department of the Interior to start emptying the reserve by 2005.

By 1994, Kemp had embarked on 241 fund-raising dinners to raise $ 35 million for a 1996 Presidential bid and to pay off his 1988 campaign debts.

Forbes had tried to get Kemp to run in the 1996 campaign, but Kemp declined and in fact endorsed Forbes just as Dole was closing in on the nomination, and just after Dole gained the endorsements of former contenders Lamar Alexander and Richard Lugar.

On August 5, 1996, Dole announced a 15 % flat tax in response to both the Forbes campaign and Kemp's tax reform commission.

In 1996, the Sparkle campaign compared syntactic parsers in four different languages ( English, French, German and Italian ).

PAGAD's campaign came to prominence in 1996 when a local gang leader, Rashaad Staggie, was beaten and burnt to death by a mob during a march to his home in Salt River.

By January 1996, the party had collected $ 400, 000 in donations, while Hagelin's campaign had received about $ 300, 000 plus $ 100, 000 in matching funds.

In February the following year, China's alleged role in the campaign finance controversy first gained public attention after the Washington Post published a story stating that a U. S. Department of Justice investigation had discovered evidence that agents of China sought to direct contributions from foreign sources to the DNC before the 1996 presidential campaign.

The U. S. Justice Department alleged Hsia facilitated $ 100, 000 in illegal contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign through her efforts at the Temple.

In 1996, Unification Church gathered 3, 500 signatures during its anti-porn campaign.

" The addition of the V-chip into the Telecommunications Act was helpful to attract American voters for the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign.

McDonald's was accused of plagiarising a number of Viz Top Tips in an advertising campaign they ran in 1996.

IWW organizing drives in recent years have included a major campaign to organize Borders Books in 1996, a strike at the Lincoln Park Mini Mall in Seattle that same year, organizing drives at Wherehouse Music, Keystone Job Corps, the community organization ACORN, various homeless and youth centers in

* During the political controversy surrounding the dome in 1996 Wonderbra ran an advertising campaign with the slogan ' Not all domes lack public support '

Between 1996 and 2004, companies in the Hired Truck Program gave more than $ 800, 000 in campaign contributions to various politicians, from House Speaker Michael Madigan to Gov.

In February 1996 the KLA undertook a series of attacks against targets which included police stations and Yugoslav government officers, alleging that they had killed Albanian civilians as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign.

U. S. Senator Bob Dole decried its supposed moral depravity and glorification of drug use during the 1996 presidential campaign, although he admitted that he had not actually seen the film.

In the spring of 1996, with Yeltsin's popularity at a low ebb, Chubais and Yeltsin recruited a team of six leading Russian financiers and media barons ( all oligarchs ) who bankrolled the Yeltsin campaign with $ 3 million and guaranteed coverage on television and in leading newspapers directly serving the president's campaign strategy.

Dole was re-elected in 1974, 1980, 1986, and 1992, before resigning on June 11, 1996 to focus on his Presidential campaign.

The song was used in Tennessee politics by Lamar Alexander, a trained pianist, Governor of Tennessee and U. S. Senator, who performed the song for campaign events, including during his 1996 run for the Republican presidential nomination.

In 1996, the Republican Party made abolition of the Department a cornerstone of their campaign promises, calling it an inappropriate federal intrusion into local, state, and family affairs.

Browne's 1996 campaign platform

Claims of wrongdoing within Browne's 1996 presidential campaign surfaced during his second run in 2000.