About the day » Friday March 29, 1974Calender converter

• Jan Oosterbroek, Hattem († 1976)
• Max OTTENHOF, Etten-Leur († 1974)
• Annemarie Kunst († 1974)

• AUGUSTA MARIA VAN DEN BRANDEN (85), LOKEREN,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Amelia Bertha Cannaerts (77), Lier, België
• Cora Ann Shepherd (83), Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Bartha Gerritdina SCHILDKAMP (96), Enschede
• Bartha Matser (92), Rheden (Gelderland)
• Ale Tjeerds Hoekstra (81)
• Albert B Hayes (81), Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States
• Andries Mintjes Oord (85), Heerenveen, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• ANTJE POOT (94)
• Antonia Adriana Lambregts (52), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1972 » Alex Ochoa, Cuban-American baseball player and coach
• 1972 » Piet-Hein Geeris, Dutch field hockey player
• 1972 » Priti Patel, British Indian politician, Secretary of State for the Home Department
• 1972 » Rui Costa, Portuguese footballer
• 1973 » Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1973 » Sebastiano Siviglia, Italian footballer
• 1973 » Steve Smith, English high jumper
• 1974 » Miguel Gómez, Colombian-American photographer and educator
• 1976 » Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist
• 1976 » Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player

• 1963 » August Rei, Estonian soldier, journalist, and politician, 12th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian dentist and politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1898)
• 1970 » Anna Louise Strong, American journalist and author (b. 1885)
• 1971 » Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician (b. 1886)
• 1972 » J. Arthur Rank, English businessman, founded Rank Organisation (b. 1888)
• 1980 » Mantovani, Italian-English conductor and composer (b. 1905)
• 1981 » Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911)
• 1982 » Carl Orff, German composer and educator (b. 1895)
• 1982 » Nathan Farragut Twining, American general (b. 1897)
• 1982 » Walter Hallstein, German academic and politician, 1st President of the European Commission (b. 1901)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Johannes
4. Peter
5. Jeroen
6. Michael
7. Patrick
8. Richard
9. David
10. Robert
11. Marcel
12. Marco
13. Pieter
14. Dennis
15. Johan
16. Edwin

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Monique
4. Patricia
5. Johanna
6. Cindy
7. Esther
8. Bianca
9. Wendy
10. Ingrid
11. Anna
12. Jolanda
13. Nicole
14. Linda
15. Miranda
16. Jennifer

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
• January 6 » In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• March 1 » Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
• July 24 » Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
• August 9 » As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
• October 8 » Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
• November 22 » The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.

The temperature on March 29, 1974 was between 5.0 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.