About the day » Sunday March 22, 1998Calender converter
March 21, 1998Died on Sunday March 22, 1998
- Cees van den Hout (56), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Adriana Maatje de KLERK (83), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
- Alice Ruth Voorhees (86), Garretson, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
- Anna Langstraten (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Adriaan Cornelis van Soolingen (75), Geldrop, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Ardith Y. (69)
- Anette van Vliet (37)
- Anthonia Hendrika Kwappenberg (80), Amersfoort
- Christine CASTELEYN (42), Kortrijk
- Arie Griffioen (83), Boskoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
Born on March 22
- 1985 » Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
- 1985 » Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
- 1986 » David Choi, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1986 » Dexter Fowler, American baseball player
- 1987 » Ike Davis, American baseball player
- 1987 » Jairo Mora Sandoval, Costa Rican environmentalist († 2013)
- 1987 » Liam Doran, British rally cross driver
- 1989 » J. J. Watt, American football player
- 1989 » Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer
- 1989 » Tyler Oakley, American internet celebrity
Died on March 22
- 1996 » Billy Williamson, American guitarist (b. 1925)
- 1996 » Don Murray, American drummer (b. 1945)
- 1996 » Robert F. Overmyer, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1936)
- 1999 » David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
- 1999 » Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic (b. 1913)
- 2000 » Carlo Parola, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1921)
- 2001 » Robert Fletcher Shaw, Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant (b. 1910)
- 2001 » Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish soldier and pilot (b. 1913)
- 2001 » Stepas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
- 2001 » William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and voice actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1910)
Names that were popular for boys in 1998
- Jan
- Johannes
- Thomas
- Willem
- Pieter
- Cornelis
- Hendrik
- Niels
- Michael
- Maria
- Nick
- Jacob
- Tim
- Daan
- David
- James
Names that were popular for girls in 1998
- Maria
- Johanna
- Marie
- Elisabeth
- Anna
- Anne
- Laura
- Sanne
- Emma
- Amber
- Charlotte
- Sophie
- Lisa
- Wilhelmina
- Elizabeth
- Eva
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.
- January 17 » Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website.
- May 6 » Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
- May 11 » India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
- May 12 » Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto.
- June 3 » After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
- December 31 » The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
The weather on Sunday March 22, 1998
The temperature on March 22, 1998 was between 3.5 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI