About the day » Saturday December 7, 1996Calender converter

• Nathan Meems, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1996)
• Nathan Meems, Zwolle Overijssel Nederland († 1996)

• Cornelia van Leijen (87), Bennekom, 6721, Nederland
• Colletta Wils (89), Eindhoven (Verpleegh. de Weerde)
• Arendina Braaksma (83), Haarlem
• Arend Slotboom (56), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia Alida van Beusichem (93)
• Cornelia Frederika Schmidt (87), Soest
• Adelaine Christina Bals (86), Gibbon, Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States of America
• Anna Johanna Alberta Weerts (77), Emmen,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Alexander Boeykens (70), Puurs
• Anna Cornelia Schilders (91), Tilburg, Nederland

• 1990 » Aleksandr Menkov, Russian long jumper
• 1990 » David Goffin, Belgian tennis player
• 1990 » Urszula Radwańska, Polish tennis player
• 1990 » Yasiel Puig, Cuban baseball player
• 1991 » Eugenio Pisani, Italian race car driver
• 1993 » Rahama Sadau, Nigerian actress
• 1994 » Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater
• 1997 » Abi Harrison, Scottish footballer
• 1997 » Tommy Nelson, American actor
• 1998 » Tony Yike Yang, Canadian pianist

• 1989 » Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (b. 1934)
• 1990 » Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1992 » Richard J. Hughes, American politician, 45th Governor of New Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Abidin Dino, Turkish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 1993 » Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
• 1995 » Kathleen Harrison, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1997 » Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1942)
• 1998 » John Addison, English-American composer and conductor (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
• February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
• April 1 » The government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the City of Halifax and the over 200 communities around the area to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.
• May 20 » Civil 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.
• July 29 » The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
• September 4 » War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
• October 16 » Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.

The temperature on December 7, 1996 was between 3.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.