Bidprentjesverzameling Stichting De Oude Schoenendoos » Wilhelmina Hendrika Mathilda Theunissen (1917-1996)

Day of death February 16, 1996

• The temperature on February 16, 1996 was between 2.5 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• 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.
• In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • February 9 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
  • February 16 » A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
  • March 4 » A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
  • April 24 » In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
  • July 18 » Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
  • December 10 » The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela.

Day of burial February 22, 1996

• The temperature on February 22, 1996 was between -6.4 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• 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.
• In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • January 19 » The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
  • 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.
  • May 10 » A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
  • June 4 » The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
  • July 15 » A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
  • August 14 » Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.

Source: Wikipedia

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