The temperature on July 28, 1996 was between 6.4 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
January 29 » President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
January 31 » An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
April 24 » In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
July 29 » The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
December 30 » Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
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