About the day » Tuesday May 28, 1996Calender converter

• Elizabeth W. Rijsdijk (79)
• Alvin Jake Gruis (64), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
• Cornelia Simons Brussee (94), Kalamazoo MI
• Adrianus Cornelis Luijkx (91), Etten-Leur
• Anthony Flaman (84), Leiden
• Anny van Ochten (52), Breda
• * Lucia Johanna van Oijen (92), Boxtel
• elisabeth van gend (66), rotterdam
• Maatje (89)
• Catharina Elisabeth Sondaar (88)

• 1991 » Alexandre Lacazette, French footballer
• 1991 » Sharrif Floyd, American football player
• 1992 » Tom Carroll, English footballer
• 1993 » Bárbara Luz, Portuguese tennis player
• 1993 » Daniel Alvaro, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » John Stones, English footballer
• 1994 » Son Yeon-jae, South Korean gymnast
• 1998 » Dahyun, South Korean singer
• 1999 » Cameron Boyce, American actor († 2019)
• 2000 » Phil Foden, English footballer

• 1990 » Julius Eastman, American composer (b. 1940)
• 1994 » Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American author and academic (b. 1916)
• 1994 » Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor and comedian (b. 1948)
• 1999 » B. Vittalacharya, Indian director and producer (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Michael Barkai, Israeli commander (b. 1935)
• 2000 » George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (b. 1926)
• 2001 » Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
• 2001 » Joe Moakley, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2002 » Mildred Benson, American journalist and author (b. 1905)

• 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 6 » Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
• 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 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
• May 27 » First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
• October 7 » Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
• November 21 » Humberto Vidal explosion: Thirty-three people die when a Humberto Vidal shoe shop in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico explodes.

The temperature on May 28, 1996 was between 6.4 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.