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March 30, 1998Born on Tuesday March 31, 1998
- Cornelia Hendrica Jong de, Roelofsarendsveen
- Michell ESTERHUIZEN († 1999)
- Cornelia Hendrica de Jong, Roelofsarendsveen
- Maureen van Wincoop, Utrecht, Nederland
Died on Tuesday March 31, 1998
- Albert-Eugene FOURNIER (78), Prunoy,89120,Yonne,Bourgogne-Franche-Comté,FRANCE
- Cornelis de Putter (80)
- Adriana Christina Naijen (81), Waalwijk
- Cecilia Esser (80)
- Annie Tijhuis (86), Oldenzaal, Overijssel, Nederland
- Adriaan Snoep (90), Colijnsplaat, Zeeland, Nederland
- Berend Christiaan Rotgers (84), Winterswijk, Nederland
- Cecília Vidigal Batista Pereira (54), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
- Arnoldus Antonius Mentink (68)
- Christina Zwinselman (97)
Born on March 31
- 1991 » Milan Milanović, Serbian footballer
- 1992 » Adam Zampa, Australian cricketer
- 1992 » Stijn de Looijer, Dutch footballer
- 1993 » Mikael Ishak, Swedish footballer
- 1994 » Mads Würtz Schmidt, Danish road cyclist
- 1994 » Samira Asghari, Afghan member of the International Olympic Committee
- 1994 » Tyler Wright, Australian surfer
- 1995 » Fiona Brown, footballer
- 1998 » Jakob Chychrun, American-born Canadian ice hockey player
- 1999 » Japhet Tanganga, English footballer
Died on March 31
- 1995 » Selena, American singer-songwriter (b. 1971)
- 1996 » Dante Giacosa, Italian automobile designer and engineer (b. 1905)
- 1996 » Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)
- 1998 » Bella Abzug, American lawyer, activist, and politician (b. 1920)
- 1998 » Joel Ryce-Menuhin, American pianist (b. 1933)
- 1998 » Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
- 1999 » Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and ethnographer (b. 1922)
- 2001 » Clifford Shull, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- 2001 » David Rocastle, English footballer (b. 1967)
- 2002 » Barry Took, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
Names that were popular for boys in 1998
- Nick
- Niels
- Thomas
- Daan
- Robin
- Tim
- Jan
- Max
- Bas
- Bram
- Kevin
- Dennis
- Rick
- Johannes
- Lars
- Pieter
Names that were popular for girls in 1998
- Laura
- Sanne
- Emma
- Amber
- Kim
- Femke
- Anne
- Charlotte
- Lotte
- Anouk
- Julia
- Eva
- Demi
- Lisa
- Iris
- Anna
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1998
- 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.
- March 4 » Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
- May 2 » The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
- May 4 » A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
- May 6 » Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.
- October 16 » Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
- October 29 » Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
Weather March 31, 1998
The temperature on March 31, 1998 was between 7.3 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.