About the day » Wednesday June 24, 1998Calender converter

• Hannah Elizabeth Svec
• Olav de Bruin, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1998)

• Albert Cant (83), Melsele
• Constant Caspar Hubert Duffhauss (90), Veldhoven
• Camille SAMSON (79), Écouflant, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
• Arie Huijgen (86), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Colin HOLDSWORTH (34)
• Dieuwke Visser (67)
• Adriaantje Marina Hagt (74), Breda
• Adrianus Johannes Stolwijk (68), Bedum, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Bouman (82), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Josephus van Gorkom (78), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1987 » Lionel Messi, Argentinian footballer
• 1987 » Simona Dobrá, Czech tennis player
• 1988 » Micah Richards, English footballer
• 1989 » Teklemariam Medhin, Eritrean runner
• 1990 » Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Richard Sukuta-Pasu, German footballer
• 1991 » Aidan Sezer, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Yasmin Paige, English actress
• 1992 » David Alaba, Austrian footballer
• 1996 » Duki, Argentinian rapper

• 1991 » Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter and illustrator (b. 1899)
• 1991 » Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (b. 1917)
• 1994 » Jean Vallerand, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1915)
• 1995 » Andrew J. Transue, American politician and attorney Morissette v. United States (b. 1903)
• 1997 » Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2000 » David Tomlinson, English actor and comedian (b. 1917)
• 2000 » Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine cuarteto singer (b. 1973)
• 2000 » Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
• 2002 » Pierre Werner, Luxembourgian banker and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
• 2004 » Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter and author (b. 1957)

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. Demi
14. Lisa
15. Anna
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.
• January 22 » Space Shuttle program: space shuttle Endeavor launches on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
• February 28 » Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
• May 13 » India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
• July 15 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.
• August 24 » First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
• September 2 » The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.

The temperature on June 24, 1998 was between 15.9 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.