Monday, July 1, 1996
MONDAY: Commerce Department releases May personal income, spending. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce releases May construction spending. 10 a.m.
TUESDAY: Commerce releases May new home sales. 10 a.m.
WEDNESDAY: Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce Department releases May factory orders. 10 a.m.
FRIDAY: Labor releases June employment. 8:30 a.m.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Second round of presidential election.
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - U.N. mandate in Haiti expires.
Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina - First postwar elections in still-divided Muslim-Croat city.
Los Angeles - Vice President Gore gives keynote address at ShowBiz Expo.
San Antonio - Education Commission of the States convention begins.
Albuquerque, N.M. - 208th General Assembly of Presbyterian Church (USA). Through July 6.
New York - Gay & Lesbian Pride March.
Dublin, Ireland - Ireland takes over 6-month presidency of European Union.
Tirana, Albania - Newly elected Albanian parliament meets for first time.
Bucharest, Romania - Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives for one-day visit, as part of her two-week tour of Central and East European countries.
Washington - Congress in recess until July 8.
Washington - Supreme Court meets to issue orders and decisions.
Washington - Surface Transportation Board, successor to Interstate Commerce Commission, hears arguments in proposed Union Pacific-Southern Pacific railroad merger.
San Antonio - Gov. George W. Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson hold news conference for Education Commission of the States.
Boulder, Colo. - Unmarried couples, including homosexuals, can begin registering their commitment to one another for $25.
Kirksville, Mo. - Northeast Missouri State University officially changes its name to Truman State.
Norfolk, Va. - First day for new telephone area code 757.
New York - Court TV marks its fifth anniversary.
New York - Last change of command ceremony for the Coast Guard cutter Dallas at Governors Island; after its next patrol it will head to its new home port in Charleston, S.C.
Budapest and Taszar, Hungary - Defense Secretary William Perry arrives for talks with Hungarian leaders and to visit U.S. troops at IFOR base.
Helsingoer, Denmark - International Conference on Mine Clearance Technology.
Warsaw, Poland - Lady Margaret Thatcher on a visit. Also in Poznan. Through July 4.
Krakow, Poland - Hillary Rodham Clinton on a visit. Also in Auschwitz and Warsaw. Through July 3.
Washington - President Clinton to visit Chicago.
Washington - Federal Open Market Committee meets. Through July 3.
Los Angeles - Sentencing in Menendez brothers parental murder retrial.
Las Vegas, Nev. - Ross Perot to give keynote speech at Optimist International convention.
Matagorda Island, Texas - More than a dozen northern aplomado falcons released to help replenish the world's population.
Pueblo, Colo. - 29th reunion of crew of the USS Pueblo, which was seized on Jan. 23, 1968, by North Korean warships.
Stafford, Va. - Scheduled vote on the Wal-Mart at George Washington's farm.
New York - Press preview of "City of Ambition: Artists & New York, 1900-1960" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
New York - Scheduled federal bankruptcy hearing to ascertain assets of subway gunman Bernard Goetz.
Prague, Czech Republic - Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Czech Republic.
Washington - Surface Transportation Board to rule on merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads.
Dallas - Custody hearing for 8-month-old son of woman accused on killing her 6- and 7-year-old sons while they slept.
Houston - 1996 national convention for Mensa, the international high IQ society.
Denver - Immigration hearing for Jorg Peter Schmitz, charged in the hit-and-run death of Rocky Mountain News columnist Greg Lopez.
Newport News, Va. - City welcomes delegation from sister city of Neyagawa, Japan.
Bridgetown, Barbados - Heads of Government Conference for 14-nation Caribbean Community.
Rebild, Denmark - Largest Fourth of July celebrations outside United States.
New York - Financial markets closed.
Luckenbach, Texas - Willie Nelson's annual 4th of July picnic.
El Paso, Texas - 4,000 people are naturalized in Independence Day ceremony.
St. Louis - Start of Fair St. Louis.
New York - 92nd Street Y sponsors annual "all night" candlelight walking tour of Revolutionary War sites.
New York - Macy's 20th annual Fourth of July fireworks spectacular.
Copenhagen, Denmark - Copenhagen Jazz Festival.
Charlotte, N.C. - National NAACP convention. Through July 11.
Columbus, Ohio - Grand re-opening ceremony for renovated Ohio Statehouse.
Smithville, Tenn. - 25th Annual Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree. Competition for amateur bluegrass musicians that draws contestants from many states.
Budapest, Hungary - Hillary Rodham Clinton visits.
New York - "Equity on the Information Superhighway" is the theme of the American Library Association's 115th annual conference. Through July 10.
Cape Canaveral, Fla. - Shuttle Columbia is scheduled to return to Earth, but mission may be extended one day.
Kielce, Poland - The 1946 Jewish Pogrom anniversary to be observed.