About the day » Thursday March 17, 1988Calender converter

• Angela M Bauman, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota († 2013)

• Anna Th. M. Roelofs (93), Doornenburg
• Adrianus van Meel (81), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Antoon Verhagen (72), Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus Nouws (91), Zundert
• Bernardina STROOTMAN (88), Oosterbroek
• Annigje Gritter (46), Jefferson City, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Benno Johan van de Westelaken (74), Eindhoven
• Antje Dirks de Jong (93)
• Baukje de Jong (76), Almere, Flevoland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Wezel (97), Drunen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1987 » Bobby Ryan, American ice hockey player
• 1987 » Emmanuel Sanders, American football player
• 1987 » Federico Fazio, Argentinian international footballer, centre back
• 1987 » Krisnan Inu, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1987 » Ryan Parent, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 » Fraser Forster, English footballer
• 1988 » Grimes, Canadian artist, musician and music video director
• 1988 » Rasmus Elm, Swedish footballer
• 1988 » Ryan White, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Shinji Kagawa, Japanese footballer

• 1981 » Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (b.1923)
• 1990 » Capucine, French model and actress (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (b. 1925)
• 1996 » René Clément, French director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)

• 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
• March 16 » The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
• June 12 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 46, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.
• September 18 » The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
• December 7 » The 6.8 M_s  Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.
• December 21 » A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur in British soil.
• December 21 » The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.

The temperature on March 17, 1988 was between -1.1 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.