About the day » Saturday March 20, 1999Calender converter

• Cornelis Jansz van der Kwaak (83), Rijnsburg
• Augusta Irene Bilka (81), Tompkins County, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus Johannes WESTEN (69), Ter Apel,Rûtenbrock
• Allegonda Maria Batens (88), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Jochems Admiraal (92)
• Bernardus Henderikus Wind (81), Wagenborgen gem. Delfzijl
• Anna Maria, barones Bentinck (92)
• Cornelia Maria Brabander de (91), Zoeterwoude
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• Bernard Alfons DE HAECK (83), Wijnegem

• 1987 » Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian footballer
• 1989 » Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi Cricketer
• 1989 » Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and director
• 1990 » Blake Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer
• 1991 » Ethan Lowe, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Mattia Destro, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Michał Kucharczyk, Polish footballer
• 1993 » Sloane Stephens, American tennis player
• 1995 » Jack Bird, Australian rugby league player

• 1992 » Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (b. 1946)
• 1997 » V. S. Pritchett, English short story writer, essayist, and critic (b. 1900)
• 1999 » Patrick Heron, British painter (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Gene Eugene, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1961)
• 2001 » Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1949)
• 2004 » Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
• 2004 » Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Armand Lohikoski, American-Finnish director and screenwriter (b. 1912)

• 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
• March 27 » Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
• April 14 » A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
• June 1 » American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
• October 27 » Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
• November 26 » The 7.5 M_w  Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.
• December 24 » Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).

The temperature on March 20, 1999 was between 2.6 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.