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The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders with Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom...

Timeline of Events

1992

12.21.1992

A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56 people.

1996

1.1.1996

Curaçao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

1998

8.24.1998

The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing.

1999

5.27.1999

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

2001

1.31.2001

In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

4.1.2001

Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first country to allow it.

2002

5.6.2002

Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by an animal rights activist.

2009

4.30.2009

Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

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