17 The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa) is constituted. Paris- and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 (Boeing 747) explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 people on board. July 19 The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, begin. Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadžić resigns from public office in Republika Srpska after being indicted for war crimes. July 21 – The Saguenay Flood, one of Canada's most costly natural disasters, is caused by flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec. July 24 – The Dehiwala train bombing kills 56 commuters outside Colombo. July 25 – The Tutsi-led Burundian army performs a coup and reinstalls previous president Pierre Buyoya, ousting current president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya. July 27 – The Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the United States kills one person and injures 111. August August The first three-parent baby is conceived in New Jersey through mitochondrial donation. The invasive species Asian long-horned beetle is found in New York City. August 1 Sarah Balabagan returns to the Philippines. A pro-democracy demonstration supporting Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia is broken up by riot police. August 4 – The 1996 Summer Olympics conclude. August 6 – NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, may contain evidence of primitive lifeforms; further tests are inconclusive. August 7 – Heavy rains kill more than 80 campers near Huesca, Spain. August 9 – Boris Yeltsin is sworn in at the Kremlin for a second term as President of Russia. August 13 – Data sent back by the Galileo space probe indicates there may be water on one of Jupiter's moons. August 14 – A rocket ignited during a fireworks display in Arequipa, Peru knocks down a high-tension power cable into a dense crowd, electrocuting 35 people. August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for vice president, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California. August 16 – Brookfield Zoo, Chicago. After a 3-year-old boy falls into the deep gorilla enclosure, Binti Jua, a female lowland gorilla sits with the injured boy until his rescue. August 21 Former State President of South Africa, F. W. de Klerk, makes an official apology for crimes committed under Apartheid to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Cape Town. In the UK, Queen Elizabeth