About the day » Wednesday November 20, 1996Calender converter

• Aaltje Bos
• Antoinetta Elie (79), Maastricht
• Betje Janke De Groot (70), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Arie van Oostveen (83), Weesp,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Baukje Djurema (86), Zwaagwesteinde
• Beulah Josephine Smith (85), Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
• Carolina van den Broek d'Obrenan (100)
• Alberdina Habing (58), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aris van de Steeg (89)
• Anna Christina Swildens (90)

• 1994 » Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle distance runner
• 1995 » Iván Garcia, Spanish cyclist
• 1995 » Kyle Snyder, American wrestler
• 1995 » Shaolin Sándor Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater
• 1995 » Théo Bongonda, Belgian footballer
• 1995 » Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete
• 1996 » Blaž Janc, Slovenian handballer
• 1996 » Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer
• 1996 » Jack Harrison, English professional footballer
• 1997 » Levi Garcia, Trinidadian footballer

• 1992 » Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1930)
• 1995 » Robie Macauley, American editor, novelist and critic (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)
• 1997 » Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 1997 » Robert Palmer, American saxophonist, producer, and author (b. 1945)
• 1998 » Galina Starovoytova, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1946)
• 1998 » Roland Alphonso, Jamaican saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1999 » Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
• 2000 » Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (b. 1958)

1. Pieter
2. Thomas
3. Jan
4. Kevin
5. Tim
6. Niels
7. Robin
8. Jeroen
9. Michael
10. Johannes
11. Rick
12. Jasper
13. Mike
14. Max
15. Hendrik
16. Cornelis

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anna
4. Jessica
5. Kim
6. Emma
7. Lotte
8. Charlotte
9. Iris
10. Anne
11. Sarah
12. Amber
13. Julia
14. Sanne
15. Maria
16. Naomi

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
• 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.
• July 18 » Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 soldiers.
• July 18 » Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
• November 18 » A fire occurs on a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel from France to England causing several injuries and damaging approximately 500 metres (1,600ft) of tunnel.
• November 20 » A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.

The temperature on November 20, 1996 was between 3.0 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.