About the day » Tuesday March 24, 1998Calender converter

• Mathew Peyton Hembree, Troy, Miami, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Dorinda Hendrikje Kluiter († 1998)
• Bo Catharina Woutera Adriana van Gorkum, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Alphonse Francis O'Rourke (86), Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Albertine Wilhelmina Gertrudis Liefers (88), Vessem, Nederland
• Albrecht Karel Debock (75), Evergem (B)
• Antonius Wilhelmus Gerardus (Toon) Stalpers (77), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Zwart (87), Terwispel
• Alida Maria Oud (90), Bloemendaal
• Antonia Maria Kuipers (97), Reek
• Cees Bekkers (66), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aartje Schuurman (92), Heelsum en Doorwerth, Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Dolores Jellema (69)

• 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)

1. Nick
2. Niels
3. Thomas
4. Daan
5. Robin
6. Tim
7. Jan
8. Max
9. Bas
10. Bram
11. Kevin
12. Rick
13. Dennis
14. Johannes
15. Lars
16. Pieter

1. Laura
2. Sanne
3. Emma
4. Amber
5. Kim
6. Anne
7. Femke
8. Charlotte
9. Anouk
10. Lotte
11. Julia
12. Eva
13. Lisa
14. Anna
15. Demi
16. Iris

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
• April 6 » Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
• August 15 » Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.
• August 24 » First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
• September 14 » Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
• October 10 » A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
• October 29 » Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.

The temperature on March 24, 1998 was between -2.5 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.