Family tree Driessen » Drs. Clara Antonia Anna Maria "Claartje" Driessen (1910-1997)

Day of death May 5, 1997

• The temperature on May 5, 1997 was between 11.6 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 13.1 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily 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 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 23 » Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
  • April 22 » Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria where 93 villagers are killed.
  • May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
  • June 28 » Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
  • November 27 » Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
  • December 1 » Heath High School shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky

Day of burial May 9, 1997

• The temperature on May 9, 1997 was between 7.5 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (33%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • March 18 » The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
  • April 6 » In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occurs when a group of young people abduct and kidnap a religious family before shooting them dead on a rural suburban road.
  • May 6 » The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
  • June 2 » In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
  • June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • September 14 » Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.

Source: Wikipedia

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