Voornaeme Geslachte en Eenvoudige Luyde » Pieter Cornelis BAKHUIJZEN (1939-1996)

Day of death September 1, 1996

• The temperature on September 1, 1996 was between 7.5 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 17 » The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
  • January 29 » President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
  • February 17 » The 8.2 M_w  Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured.
  • March 25 » The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
  • July 3 » British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland.
  • 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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