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Day of death September 6, 1996

• The temperature on September 6, 1996 was between 5.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
  • February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
  • February 15 » At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
  • August 31 » Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
  • October 2 » Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
  • December 30 » Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.

Day of burial September 11, 1996

• The temperature on September 11, 1996 was between 8.4 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • January 9 » First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
  • February 1 » The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
  • February 16 » A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
  • 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.
  • August 6 » NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
  • September 5 » Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.

Source: Wikipedia

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