Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus ; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is moved to June 3.

Until 1996, cryptographic code was legally a munition, and until 2000 export required a permit.

Until 1996, the President appointed the mayor of Buenos Aires, and by law, the president and Congress controlled any legislation that affected the city.

Until 1996 two-tier systems existed in Scotland and Wales, but these have now been replaced by systems based on a single-tier of local government with some functions shared between groups of adjacent authorities.

* A History of Law in Japan Until 1868 by Carl Steenstrup ; Brill Academic Publishers ; second edition ( 1996 ) ISBN 90-04-10453-4

Until 1996 professional players were not allowed to participate in the World Cups ; since then major league players generally have not participated because the tournaments have conflicted with regular season games.

Until 1996, France had compulsory military service of young men.

Until the formation of the Oaklyn Fire Company, the Defender Fire Company handled firefighting duties in the Borough of Oaklyn ( The Defender Fire Company was subsequently taken over by the Audubon Fire Department ( Station 1-1 ) as of 1996 ).

Until 1996 the parish was part of the district of Selby.

Until 1996 it had been part of the Selby district.

Until his death in 1996, the Society was actively led by Sagan, who used his celebrity and political clout to influence the political climate of the time, including protecting SETI in 1981 from congressional cancellation.

Until 1996, Oxford University Press continued to add further supplements featuring articles on subjects who had died during the twentieth century.

Until 1996, a main attraction in the park was a zoo, which grew out of the collection of animals begun by the first park superintendent ( aka Park Ranger, 1888 – 1896 ), Henry Avison, after he captured an orphaned black bear cub and chained it to a stump for safety.

Until around 1996, the change of designation to M6 once the Cumberland Gap had been closed was definite.

Until 1996 dealer plates were inexpensive and dealers tended to stock significant numbers of them, which they then rented out to owners of very expensive cars ( dealer plates were exempt from an extra tax on luxury cars ).

Until 1996 all Daewoo cars were based on GM-designed models.

Until 1996 the stone was kept with the chair in Westminster Abbey between coronations, but it was returned that year to Scotland, where it will remain on display in Edinburgh Castle until it is needed for a coronation.

Until the release of ATA-2 standard in 1996, there were a handful of large hard drives which did not support LBA addressing, so only Large or Normal methods could be used.

Until 1996, the federal government had little role in firearms law.

Until in June of 1996, there are eight kinds of reganmian, which are quanliao reganmian, shrimp reganmian, chashao reganmian, pork reganmian, zhajiang reganmian, fish reganmian, sanxian reganmian, and fruit reganmian.

Until 1996, when the United States government allowed encryption with keys longer than 40 bits to be exported, vendors shipped various browser versions with different encryption strengths.

Until 1995, she had released studio albums every year, but her popularity began to decline around 1996.

Until the redesign of the higher denominations of currency beginning in 1996, this seal was found on all denominations of Federal Reserve Notes.

Until the expansion of Old Trafford in 1996 Goodison Park held the record Sunday attendance on a Football League ground ( 53, 509 v West Bromwich Albion, FA Cup, 1974 ).

Until the Charter of Liberties was issued in the fall of 1958, there were no guarantees of the right to assemble or to organize for political purposes.

Until such work is done, there must remain the nagging suspicion that alienation may be little more than an expression of the malaise of the intellectual, who, rejected by and in turn rejecting the larger society, projects his own fear and despair onto the broader social screen.

Until modern times there was no clear distinction between the architect and engineer.

Until the 1970s there was considerable debate within psychiatry on the most appropriate term to use to describe the new drugs.

Until June 2007, The New York Times, from which the Square gets its name, was published at offices at 239 West 43rd Street ; the paper stopped printing papers there on June 15, 1997.

Until there it is used nearly exclusively for freight.

Until recently there were restrictions on the import of bananas to Greece, therefore bananas were grown on the island, predominantly in greenhouses.

Until this German Federal legislation was introduced, there were no recognised mechanism to prevent administrators in private bodies and civil servants in public-funded bodies ( such as universities ) from automatically discriminating between the qualifications of people with German doctorates compared to holders of doctorates from an EU member state.

Until the 20th century, there was no technology capable of detecting the deviations from Euclidean geometry, but Einstein predicted that such deviations would exist.

Until fairly recent times, there has been a remarkable homogeneity in the culture throughout this area, which traditionally relied on fish, sea mammals, and land animals for food, heat, light, clothing and tools.

Until recently, photovoltaics were most commonly used in remote sites where there is no access to a commercial power grid, or as a supplemental electricity source for individual homes and businesses.

Until World War II there were many Gothic, renaissance and baroque houses in Elbląg's Old Town ; some of them are reconstructed.

Until recently there was no genetic transfection vector available for this organism and detailed study at the cellular level was not possible.

Until the birth of Prince Hisahito, son of Prince Akishino, on September 6, 2006, there was a potential succession problem, since Prince Akishino was the only male child to be born into the imperial family since 1965.

Until 1963 when the line was closed, Terrier steam locomotives pulled carriages along the Hayling Billy line from Havant station on the mainland to a station which was located at the northern end of Staunton Avenue, passing through Langstone where there was a Halt.

Until Pope Pius X reduced in 1911 the number of Holy Days of Obligation to 8, there were in the course of the year 36 such days, apart from Sundays.

Until the day I die people will keep saying, ‘ Leni is a Nazi ’, and I ’ ll keep saying, ‘ But what did she do ?’” Although she won more than 50 libel cases against people accusing her of collaborating with the Nazis, there are many unanswered questions about her relation to National Socialism in particular and fascism more generally.

Until the 1970s there were no more than a dozen such sites around the moor, usually in the most inaccessible locations.

Until the mid-20th century, there were Jews all across the Levant ; now most are in Israel.

Until 3 July 2011, when Arriva took over bus operations, there were approximately 500 buses in public transit service in Malta, most of them privately owned by the bus drivers themselves, and operated to a unified timetable set by the transport authority.

Until recently, the last woolly mammoths were generally assumed to have vanished from Europe and southern Siberia about 12, 000 years ago, but new findings show some were still present there about 10, 000 years ago.

Until the early 1970s there was large apiary which was well known in the region and has lived on in the Scottish country dance " The Bees of Maggieknockater ".

Until the beginning of the 18th century, there appears to have been no national government or national leader.

Until the beginning of the 18th century, there appears to have been no national government or national leader in Niue.

Until the selection of Rickey Jackson in 2010, there had been no players in the Hall of Fame whose time with the Saints contributed to their selection ; the others were chosen for their work with previous teams.