About the day » Friday May 24, 1996Calender converter

• Brenden Berger, Orangeville, Ontario (Canada)Orangeville, Ontario

• Bertha Deferme (84), Koersel
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• Cornelia van den Bos (81), 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Dirk Kluvers (84), Haren
• cornelis Heeren (60), Etten-leur
• Augustinus Hendrikus (Guus) van Poecke (67), Heiloo
• Cornelis Ippel (81), capelle aan den ijssel (zuid holland)
• Cornelis Ippel (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Hubertina Heri‰tta Drossaerd (74)
• Aaltje Straalman (81), Markelo

• 1989 » G-Eazy, American rapper
• 1990 » Mattias Ekholm, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 » Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower
• 1991 » Cody Eakin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 » Marcus Bettinelli, English footballer, goalkeeper
• 1994 » Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
• 1994 » Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
• 1994 » Emily Nicholl, Scottish netball player
• 1994 » Emily Temple Wood, American 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award
• 1999 » Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Norwegian actor

• 1990 » Arthur Villeneuve, Canadian painter (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1992 » Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1995 » Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 1996 » Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
• 1996 » Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
• 2000 » Kurt Schork, American journalist and scholar (b. 1947)
• 2000 » Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 » Wallace Markfield, American author (b. 1926)

• 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.
• January 11 » Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
• February 6 » Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.
• April 18 » In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Qana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
• May 10 » A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
• September 24 » Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
• December 10 » The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela.

The temperature on May 24, 1996 was between 12.6 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.