January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
Day of death March 1, 1996
The temperature on March 1, 1996 was between -2.2 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
March 23 » Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
April 28 » Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
July 18 » Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
November 19 » Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
November 20 » A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.
November 23 » Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
Day of burial March 6, 1996
The temperature on March 6, 1996 was between 2.3 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
April 28 » Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
June 10 » Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
July 3 » British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland.
July 27 » In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
December 9 » Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topfree in Ontario, Canada.
December 22 » Airborne Express Flight 827 crashes near Narrows, Virginia, killing all six people on board.
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