The first round of mass privatisation finally began in January 1996, and auctions began toward the end of that year.

Morton wrote the column until 1975 ; it was revived in January 1996 and continues today, written by William Hartston, though the name " By the Way " has been dropped in favour of simply " Beachcomber ".

Belle and Sebastian are an indie pop band formed in Glasgow in January 1996.

Babrak Karmal (, born Sultan Hussein ; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996 ) was an Afghan politician and statesman during the Cold War.

Cyprus ratified the new world trade agreement ( General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT ) in 1995 and began implementing it fully on 1 January 1996.

During the period January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996, spending a total time of three months or more in the Channel Islands, England, the Falkland Islands, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales precludes individuals from donating.

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.

Similar regulations are in place in Germany, where anyone who has spent six months or more living in the UK between January 1980 and December 1996 is permanently banned from donating blood.

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.

In 2000, the same policy was applied to people who have resided in France, for at least three months from January 1980 to December 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.

In Poland, anyone who cumulatively spent six months or longer between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996 in the UK, Ireland or France is permanently barred from donating.

January, 1996

Prime minister Caambi El-Yachourtu became acting president until Djohar returned from exile in January, 1996.

* Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy ( 5 April 1993 – 29 January 1996 )

* Eduardo Martínez Somalo ( 29 January 1996 – 9 January 1999 )

Rolf Peterson investigating the carcass of a coyote killed by a wolf in Yellowstone National Park, January 1996

** Booknotes interview with Powell on My American Journey, January 7, 1996.

The tests were concluded in January 1996 and a moratorium was placed on future testing by the French government.

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The Cowboys won Super Bowl XXX in January 1996.

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

The full version was released for the PC ( the shareware version was released on January 29, 1996 ).

She was consequently considered inactive and not listed on the January 2005 FIDE rating list.

The highest ever FIDE rating was 2851, which Garry Kasparov had on the July 1999 and January 2000 lists.

In January 1996, Kramnik became the world number-one rated player ; although having the same FIDE rating as Kasparov ( 2775 ), Kramnik became number-one by having played more games during the rating period in question.

During his reign as world champion, Kramnik never regained the world number-one ranking, doing so only in January 2008 after he had lost the title to Viswanathan Anand ; as in 1996, Kramnik had the same FIDE rating as Anand ( 2799 ) but became number-one due to more games played within the rating period.

Raymond Dennis Keene OBE ( born 29 January 1948 ) is an English chess Grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author .< sup > p196 </ sup > He won the British Chess Championship in 1971, and was the first player from England to earn a Grandmaster norm, in 1974.

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament ( players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition ) organized by the World Chess Federation ( FIDE ).

In January 2010 he became the seventh player in history to be ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list.

On 1 January 2010 the new FIDE rating list was published, and at the age of, he became the youngest chess player in history to be ranked world number one, breaking the record previously held by Vladimir Kramnik.

In the January 2011 FIDE rating list, Nakamura was ranked number 10 in the world with a rating of 2751, his highest ranking to date.

From January 14 through January 30, Nakamura competed in the Tata Steel Grandmaster A tournament in Wijk aan Zee among a field of world No. 1 and defending champion Magnus Carlsen, world champion and world No. 2 Viswanathan Anand, world No. 3 and reigning World Blitz champion Levon Aronian, world No. 4 and former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, world No. 7 Alexander Grischuk, former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, reigning Russian champion Ian Nepomniachtchi, reigning Chinese champion Wang Hao, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alexei Shirov, Anish Giri, Jan Smeets, and Erwin L ' Ami.

Her January 2010 FIDE Elo rating was 2614, placing her number two in the world for women's players ( behind Judit Polgár ).

As a result of this enhanced representativeness, on 20 January 2012 FIDE and ACP issued a joint press release announcing major cooperation between the two entities.

On the January 2009 FIDE list, Bacrot had an Elo rating of 2721, making him number 21 in the world and France's number 1.

On the January 2007 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2583, just short of his five-year top score of 2595 achieved in January 2004.

In January 2006 FIDE listed Paragua with a rating of 2618 enough to get him in the top 100, but his rating has since dropped to 2521.

He first attracted attention in January 2002, when he was the official second of fellow Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov during the final of the 2002 FIDE World championship, though Karjakin had only just turned twelve at the time.

On the January 2008 FIDE rating list, published just before Karjakin's eighteenth birthday, he passed the 2700 mark for the first time, often seen as the line that separates " elite " players from other grandmasters, with a new rating of 2732 and a world rank of 13.

In the January 2007 FIDE rating list, Sasikiran was ranked number 21 in the world with an Elo rating of 2700.

According to a FIDE Press Release, dated 16 January 2007, Campomanes was cleared of these charges by the Philippine Supreme Court in December 2006, though FIDE's release states that the penalty was the equivalent of a 100 euro fine.

Friðrik Ólafsson ( born 26 January 1935 ) is an Icelandic chess Grandmaster and former president of FIDE.

His FIDE rating as of January 2011 is 2641.

On the January 2012 FIDE rating list, he held an Elo rating of 2583, ranking him 289 in the world and 12 in the United States.