FutureHistory » Amelia Pauwels (1903-1999)

Day of death April 13, 1999

• The temperature on April 13, 1999 was between 0.6 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 10.3 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • March 12 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
  • May 6 » The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
  • May 25 » The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
  • July 9 » Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
  • August 10 » Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
  • August 31 » The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.

Source: Wikipedia

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