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March 15, 1997Born on Sunday March 16, 1997
- Willem Everardus Renatus Feijen, Veghel
- Niels van ROSMALEN, zaltbommel
- Wendy van der Horst, Zegge, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
Died on Sunday March 16, 1997
- Anna Lou Todd **** (74), Springdale, Washington, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten
- Adrianus Johannes (Adrie) Leijtens (82), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Adriana Kornelia Vink (85), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Elisabeth (Lijp) Kras (73), Volendam
- Adriana Benschop (85), Netherlands
- Dena Elisabeth Radtstaak (59), Canada
- Carl Victor Soderdahl (84), Lake County (Illinois)
- Elisabeth Roozendaal (66), Schoorl
- Adolf Willem van Graas (89), Haarlem
- Charles Foster AFOS01.CHA05RT (70), n/k
Born on March 16
- 1989 » Blake Griffin, American basketball player
- 1989 » Jung So-min, South Korean actress
- 1990 » Andre Young, American basketball player
- 1991 » Reggie Bullock, American basketball player
- 1991 » Wolfgang Van Halen, American bassist
- 1993 » George Ford, English rugby union player
- 1993 » Marine Lorphelin, Miss France
- 1994 » Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
- 1995 » Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
- 1997 » Florian Neuhaus, German football player
Died on March 16
- 1992 » Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer (b. 1903)
- 1994 » Eric Show, American baseball player (b. 1956)
- 1998 » Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 1998 » Esther Bubley, American photographer (b. 1921)
- 1999 » Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1909)
- 2000 » Carlos Velázquez, Puerto Rican pitcher (b. 1948)
- 2000 » Michael Starr, Canadian judge and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Labour (b. 1910)
- 2000 » Pavel Prudnikau, Belarusian poet and author (b. 1911)
- 2000 » Thomas Ferebee, American colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
- 2001 » Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1997
- 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 15.6 million citizens.
- February 22 » In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
- July 10 » Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
- August 6 » Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 229 of 254 people on board.
- August 20 » Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
- September 3 » Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
- December 1 » In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
Weather March 16, 1997
The temperature on March 16, 1997 was between 8.1 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.