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Day of death September 18, 1998

• The temperature on September 18, 1998 was between 6.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • March 24 » First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
  • March 24 » Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
  • August 20 » U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
  • August 28 » Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
  • August 30 » Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
  • September 2 » Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people onboard are killed.

Day of burial September 23, 1998

• The temperature on September 23, 1998 was between 7.7 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 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 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
  • January 25 » During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
  • March 19 » An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Kabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.
  • April 5 » In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.
  • May 28 » Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
  • August 20 » The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.

Source: Wikipedia

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