About the day » Friday June 26, 1998Calender converter

• Farris Bailey Danyelle Decker [Ob] († 2001)
• Thijmen Yanick de Boer, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Elisabeth Spierenburg (84), Noordwijkerhout
• Edwin Joseph Davidson (69), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Maria Smit (81), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bobby Joe WALL (64), Carroll County, Tennessee
• Allegonda Ludwina Soontiens (73), Hapert
• Christina Josephina (Fien) Steijvers (91), Kerkrade
• Edward Lee (Eackward Leefet) Cantrell (74), Manitou Beach, Lenawee, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Egbert Luchies (66), Dalen
• Albert LEPRINCE (82), Bruxelles, 21004, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Antje Miedema (97)

• 1991 » Houssem Chemali, French footballer
• 1992 » Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer-songwriter
• 1992 » Joel Campbell, Costa Rican footballer
• 1992 » Rudy Gobert, French basketball player
• 1993 » Ariana Grande, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1994 » Hollie Arnold, English javelin thrower
• 1994 » Leonard Carow, German actor
• 1997 » Baek Ye-rin, South Korean singer
• 1997 » Callum Taylor, English cricketer
• 2002 » Chandler Smith, American racing driver

• 1993 » Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (b. 1921)
• 1993 » William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi author and activist (b. 1929)
• 1996 » Necmettin Hacıeminoğlu, Turkish linguist and academic (b. 1932)
• 1996 » Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
• 1997 » Don Hutson, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
• 1998 » Hacı Sabancı, Turkish businessman and philanthropist (b. 1935)
• 2002 » Arnold Brown, English-Canadian 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
• 2002 » Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
• 2003 » Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)

1. Nick
2. Niels
3. Thomas
4. Daan
5. Robin
6. Tim
7. Jan
8. Max
9. Bas
10. Bram
11. Kevin
12. Dennis
13. Rick
14. Johannes
15. Lars
16. Pieter

1. Laura
2. Sanne
3. Emma
4. Amber
5. Kim
6. Anne
7. Femke
8. Charlotte
9. Anouk
10. Lotte
11. Julia
12. Eva
13. Demi
14. Lisa
15. Anna
16. Iris

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
• January 25 » A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
• April 6 » Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
• May 5 » A Peruvian Air Force Boeing 737 operating for Occidental Petroleum crashes on approach to Alférez FAP Alfredo Vladimir Sara Bauer Airport in Andoas, Peru, killing 75 people.
• July 6 » Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport.
• October 29 » While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
• December 4 » The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.

The temperature on June 26, 1998 was between 8.9 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.