About the day » Thursday May 30, 1996Calender converter

• Brayden Daniel (Brayden) Wisniewski
• Laura Healy, Manhattan (New York)
• Jules Verdin, Tongeren, België († 2015)
• Floor Nijhof, Groningen,, Nederland († 1996)

• Christina Margaretha Driessen (88), Leiderdorp, zkh
• Albert Boer (91), Wijster
• Aaltje Dijkstra (71), -
• Anna Greta Valke (53), Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland
• Carolien Victorine Lili Meulemans (77), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alicia Erauw (84), Sint-Lievenshoutem
• Anna Greta Valke (53), Groningen
• Anna Greta (Gre) Valke (53), Groningen
• Anna Klatilda Nechanicky (99), Spokane (Spokane County) (Washington)
• Annie van Lierop (67), Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1985 » Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player († 2013)
• 1986 » Nikolay Bodurov, Bulgarian international footballer, centre-back
• 1989 » Ailee, Korean-American singer and songwriter
• 1989 » Lesia Tsurenko, Ukrainian tennis player
• 1990 » Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1991 » Jonathan Fox, English swimmer
• 1992 » Danielle Harold, English actress
• 1992 » Harrison Barnes, American basketball player
• 1994 » Scott Laughton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1996 » Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player

• 1993 » Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 1994 » Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
• 1994 » Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
• 1994 » Marcel Bich, Italian-French businessman, co-founded Société Bic (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Bobby Stokes, English footballer (b. 1951)
• 1995 » Lofty England, English-Austrian engineer (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (b. 1961)
• 1996 » Léon-Étienne Duval, French cardinal (b. 1903)
• 1999 » Kalju Lepik, Estonian poet and author (b. 1920)

• 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 17 » The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
• February 1 » The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
• June 25 » The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
• July 17 » TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
• October 7 » Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
• November 19 » Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.

The temperature on May 30, 1996 was between 11.0 °C and 26.1 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.