Genealogy Rongen » Maria Wilhelmina Hubertina Backus (1919-1993)

Day of death April 5, 1993

• The temperature on April 5, 1993 was between 0.5 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 3 » In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
  • February 26 » World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand people.
  • April 23 » Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
  • May 1 » Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became president of Sri Lanka automatically after killing of R Premadasa in LTTE bomb explosion.
  • November 9 » Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.
  • November 23 » Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.

Day of burial April 10, 1993

• The temperature on April 10, 1993 was between 4.1 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
  • January 7 » Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
  • March 24 » Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
  • August 21 » NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
  • September 9 » Israeli–Palestinian peace process: The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
  • September 22 » A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

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