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June 11, 1996Born on Wednesday June 12, 1996
Died on Wednesday June 12, 1996
- Doris M Daley (71), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
- Antonia Hendrika LAGARDE (86), Waubach
- Dirk Jan de Vries (79), Zaanstad
- Alice H. van de Zande (92), Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
- Arent GRIMMIUS (83), Grootegast Groningen Netherlands
- Cornelia Augusta SANSTRA (78)
- Charles Lyle Carls Iverson (82)
- Adrianus Marinus Verhoeven (72), Haaren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Aaltje van den Berg (69)
- Anna Wilhelmina van SON (72), USA
Born on June 12
- 1988 » Artūrs Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player
- 1988 » Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
- 1988 » Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer
- 1989 » Emma Eliasson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1989 » Ibrahim Jeilan, Ethiopian runner
- 1990 » David Worrall, English footballer
- 1990 » Jrue Holiday, American basketball player
- 1990 » Kevin López, Spanish runner
- 1991 » Avisail García, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1992 » Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer
Died on June 12
- 1990 » Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, English captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1914)
- 1994 » Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi and author (b. 1902)
- 1995 » Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
- 1995 » Pierre Russell, American basketball player (b. 1949)
- 1997 » Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)
- 1998 » Leo Buscaglia, American author and educator (b. 1924)
- 1998 » Theresa Merritt, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
- 1999 » J. F. Powers, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1917)
- 2000 » Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
- 2000 » Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian criminal (b. 1978)
Names that were popular for boys in 1996
- Jan
- Johannes
- Thomas
- Pieter
- Michael
- Willem
- Cornelis
- Hendrik
- David
- Alexander
- Jacob
- Robert
- Maria
- Kevin
- Tim
- James
Names that were popular for girls in 1996
- Maria
- Johanna
- Anna
- Elisabeth
- Marie
- Laura
- Anne
- Lisa
- Helena
- Charlotte
- Cornelia
- Elizabeth
- Nicole
- Lotte
- Emma
- Jessica
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1996
- 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.
- May 20 » Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
- May 28 » U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
- July 18 » Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 soldiers.
- September 21 » The Defense of Marriage Act is passed by the United States Congress.
- October 31 » TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 99 people.
- December 9 » Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topfree in Ontario, Canada.
The weather on Wednesday June 12, 1996
The temperature on June 12, 1996 was between 9.2 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI