About the day » Friday March 17, 1995Calender converter

• Byron Blair Zirkle (82), Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Aart Bos (85)
• Arend Gunnink (84)
• Anna van Pesch (87), Oosterbeek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida Geertruida Groot (75), Heiloo
• Anna Theodora Geurink (87)
• Annigje Cornelia Oskamp (93), Bodegraven
• Antoon Jozeph Martin Ligtenberg (64), Tilburg
• Charles Henri Klein (86), Parijs 12e Arrondissement Frankrijk
• Anton Berglez (87)

• 1989 » Shinji Kagawa, Japanese footballer
• 1990 » Hozier, Irish singer-songwriter and musician
• 1990 » Saina Nehwal, Indian badminton player
• 1991 » Jack De Belin, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » John Boyega, English actor
• 1992 » Patrick Cantlay, American golfer
• 1993 » Matteo Bianchetti, Italian footballer
• 1994 » Dean Britt, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Ashley Taylor, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 » Katie Ledecky, American swimmer

• 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)
• 1997 » Jermaine Stewart, American singer-songwriter and dancer (b. 1957)
• 1999 » Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer (b. 1921)
• 1999 » Jean Pierre-Bloch, French activist (b. 1905)
• 2002 » Rosetta LeNoire, American actress and producer (b. 1911)

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
• January 30 » Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
• March 31 » TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
• May 13 » Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
• June 5 » The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
• October 15 » Marco Campos dies in a race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series.
• November 14 » A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

The temperature on March 17, 1995 was between 4.2 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain during 8.8 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.