Friday, May 31, 1996
MONDAY: Commerce Department releases April construction spending. 10 a.m.
TUESDAY: Commerce releases April factory orders. 10 a.m.
THURSDAY: Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims. 8:30 a.m.
FRIDAY: Labor releases May employment. 8:30 a.m.; Federal Reserve releases April consumer credit. 3 p.m.
Tirana, Albania - Runoffs scheduled in parliamentary elections held May 26, boycotted by opposition and called flawed by international monitors.
Geneva - U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher meets with leaders of former Yugoslavia to discuss peace process.
New York - Fiftieth annual Tony Awards are broadcast live.
Beijing, China - Seventh anniversary of Beijing's crackdown on dissidents in Tiananmen Square.
Trondheim, Norway - Eurogas Conference on natural gas supplies in Europe. Through June 5.
Paris - 41st session of the Western European Union, the EU's defense arm. Through June 6.
Washington - Supreme Court meets to issue orders and hand down decisions. Also meets to hear arguments affecting validity of portion of new anti-terrorism law that imposes new limits on state prison inmates' access to federal courts.
Washington - Senate reconvenes; House in recess.
Los Angeles - Prosecutors to ask federal judge to reconsider overturning Charles Keating's thrift fraud conviction.
Alhambra, Calif. - Trial for taped beating victim Rodney King, accused of knocking his estranged wife over with his car.
Los Angeles - Former Rep. Walter Tucker III begins serving a 27-month prison sentence for extortion and tax evasion.
Lynchburg, Va. - Federal court hearing on suit filed by father who claims school violated his 9-year-old son's First Amendment rights by confiscating book written by Rush Limbaugh that contained chapter on condoms.
Roanoke, Va. - Opening day of federal trial of former government research chemist accused of concocting enough chemicals to make 40 million doses of hallucinogenic PCP.
Hohenwald, Tenn. - Coroner's inquest into the death of explorer Meriwether Lewis, 187 years after he was killed by a gunshot to the head.
Memphis, Tenn. - Commission on Religion and Racism will stage 10-mile protest march against International Paper over allegations that company officials used racial slurs, denied promotions and discrimated against black employees.
Charlottesville, Va. - Scheduled trial date for Virginia basketball star Harold Deane Jr. charged with trespassing and resisting arrest in connection with an incident outside a Charlottesville tavern April 13.
San Jose, Calif. - Sentencing for former Arizona man who stole computer chip designs and sent them to industry rival.
Nantes, France - 200th anniversary of royalists' surrender to France's revolutionary government after bloody fighting.
Washington - President Clinton travels to Princeton, N.J.
Washington - House reconvenes. Congress in session through June 7.
Long Beach, Calif. - Runoff election to decide bid by FDR grandson H. Delano Roosevelt for a Long Beach City Council seat.
Tulsa, Okla. - Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to speak at the ninth Sovereignty Symposium, which discusses legal, cultural and tribal administration challenges facing American Indians.
Mauston, Wis. - Plea hearing for state trooper accused of fondling woman on traffic stop.
Milwaukee - Hearing for children who want to divorce their father.
Alabama presidential and state primary; Iowa state primary; Montana presidential and state primary; New Jersey presidential and state primary; New Mexico presidential and state primary; North Carolina primary runoff, including two congressional districts; South Dakota state primary, including for state's lone congressional seat.
Phoenix - Federal bankruptcy court hearing on whether financial records of bankrupt Gov. Fife Symington should be kept private or released.
Phoenix - Sentencing hearing for LeVonnie Wooten, cousin of former Phoenix Suns player Jerrod Mustaf. Wooten was convicted of killing Mustaf's pregnant former girlfriend.
Vienna - OPEC holds general conference in Austria.
Copenhagen, Denmark - Crown princes of Spain and Denmark hand over EU Environment Agency's 1996 Princes Award.
Santa Monica, Calif. - Hearing scheduled in the O.J. Simpson wrongful death civil case to handle motions related to depositions, including effort by plaintiffs to force Simpson to produce more financial data and answer more questions.
Santa Ana, Calif. - Hearing set in suit by posh Four Seasons Hotel in Newport Beach against the nearby trendy Twin Palms restaurant, partially owned by Kevin Costner's ex-wife, alleging the open-air eatery's late night rock bands are so loud that Four Seasons guests can't sleep at night.
Phoenix - Pretrial hearing for Phoenix Suns rookie Mario Bennett steming from a reckless driving charge.
Hauppauge, N.Y. - At the start of the 1996 hurricane season, a two-day conference on hurricane preparedness and general emergency response on Long Island brings together more than 400 officials and emergency managers.
Knoxville, Tenn. - National Gymnastics Championships.
Copenhagen, Denmark - Congress of the World Society for the Protection of Animals. Through June 8.
Paris - Unionized postal workers call one-day strike across France to protest government austerity and privatization plans.
Colleville-Montgomery, France - Part of D-Day's 52nd anniversary observances, statue of British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to be unveiled.
Santa Ana, Calif. - Orange County to sell $920 million in refinance bonds prior to getting out of bankruptcy.
Richmond, Va. - 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear case on alleged racial bias in federal drug cases.
Dallas - State Democratic Convention, through Saturday.
Fort Collins, Colo. - Dr. William Gray, weather expert, releases his updated hurricane forecast.
New York - One of earliest Marilyn Monroe signatures, on Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. contract amendment signed shortly after she adopted the name, is for sale at autograph auction.
Waynesville, N.C. - North Carolina Environmental Management Commission hearing on Champion International's new wastewater permit for its Canton, N.C., paper mill on the Pigeon River.
Hampton, Va. - State Democratic convention opens.
Winchester, Va. - "We Wed in Winchester" celebration to honor people who married in the city because of Virginia's one-day license rule. For years, couples from West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland and Pennsylvania have gotten married in Winchester.
Middleton, WIs. - Republican State Convention.
Kansas City, Mo. - Mental competency hearing for Richard Oxford, who is scheduled to be executed June 12.
Steubenville, Ohio - Dean Martin memorial service held in his hometown.
New York - War Resisters League presents its 33rd Peace Award to the Living Theatre at its annual dinner.
Jonesborough, Tenn, - Hearing for pregnant woman ordered to use birth control after her conviction for sexually abusing her children.
Lubbock, Texas - Texas Libertarian Party's biennial convention to nominate candidates for state and congressional offices
San Antonio - 81st annual Catholic Health Assembly.
Rio Grande, Ohio - Steve Forbes speaks at University of Rio Grande commencement.
New York - Mary Tyler Moore is 1996 homecoming queen for the 14th annual Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival.
New York - Puerto Rican Day parade on Fifth Avenue.