About the day » Monday March 24, 1997Calender converter

• Tobias Joghems, Buenos Aires,a4, Argentinië
• Beaudine van Immerseel, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1997)

• Arie den Breems (72), Vlaardingen
• Anna Guurtje Eelman (89), Den Burg
• Anna Flipsen (93)
• Christian Edward Valdemar Jean Frederick Peter Von Rosenborg (64)
• Anneke Hendrica Griffioen (81), Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Everardus de Kok (77), Poeldijk
• Anna Guurtje Eelman (89), Den Burg
• Anneke Hendrica (Ank) Griffioen (81), Leiderdorp
• Antonie Johan van Barneveld (52), Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonius Rutgerus Maria Buurman (48), Arnhem

• 1988 » Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete
• 1988 » Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer
• 1988 » Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1990 » Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor
• 1990 » Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
• 1990 » Lacey Evans, American wrestler
• 1990 » Starlin Castro, American baseball player
• 1991 » Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player
• 1991 » Nick Browne, English cricketer
• 1995 » Enzo Fernandez, French-Spanish footballer

• 1991 » John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1914)
• 1993 » Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1993 » John Hersey, American journalist and author (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Joseph Needham, English historian and academic (b. 1900)
• 1999 » Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902)
• 2001 » Muriel Young, English television host and producer (b. 1928)
• 2002 » Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (b. 1932)
• 2002 » César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
• 2003 » Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919)

• 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.
• May 16 » Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
• September 7 » Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
• November 3 » The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
• November 17 » In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.
• December 3 » In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
• December 6 » A Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.

The temperature on March 24, 1997 was between 5.6 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.