About the day » Saturday December 19, 1998Calender converter

• antonius van etten (84), steenbergen
• Vermeeren (57), Waspik (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Berend Gerhardus Stege (76), Ommen,Gemeente Ommen,Overijssel,Nederland
• Alice Hubertine Meijers (80), Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Sybrigje van der Meulen (85), -
• Arizona B. Rushing (80), Paris, Lamar, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Anna Bertens (83), Tilburg
• Anna Stabel (95), Turnhout, Belgium
• Benjamin Spee (84)
• Agnes van Hout (61), Papendrecht, Nederland

• 1990 » Torrey Craig, American basketball player
• 1991 » Declan Galbraith, English singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Sumire Uesaka, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1992 » Iker Muniain, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Raphael Spiegel, Swiss footballer
• 1993 » Isiah Koech, Kenyan runner
• 1993 » Young K, South Korean singer-songwriter
• 1994 » M'Baye Niang, French footballer
• 1994 » Maudy Ayunda, Indonesian actress and singer-songwriter
• 1996 » Franck Kessié, Ivorian footballer

• 1996 » Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (b. 1924)
• 1997 » Jimmy Rogers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)
• 1997 » Masaru Ibuka, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Sara Northrup Hollister, American occultist (b. 1924)
• 1998 » Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh soldier and actor (b. 1914)
• 2000 » John Lindsay, American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City (b. 1921)
• 2000 » Milt Hinton, American bassist and photographer (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1958)
• 2002 » Will Hoy, English race car driver (b. 1952)

• 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 23 » Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source.
• March 19 » An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Kabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.
• May 30 » Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
• July 6 » Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport.
• October 29 » While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
• October 31 » Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.

The temperature on December 19, 1998 was between 4.3 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 10.1 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.