Sluzigers (e.a.) » Willem Hendrik van Veen (1923-1999)

Day of death June 6, 1999

• The temperature on June 6, 1999 was between 7.8 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
  • February 12 » United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
  • February 24 » China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
  • June 9 » Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
  • July 23 » Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
  • July 26 » Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.

Day of burial June 12, 1999

• The temperature on June 12, 1999 was between 8.3 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • February 4 » Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
  • February 12 » United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
  • May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
  • June 12 » Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  • July 9 » Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
  • July 31 » Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.

Source: Wikipedia

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