About the day » Monday March 24, 2003Calender converter

• Anna Catharina Collas (88), Sint Odiliënberg
• Arie Burgerhout (77), Ridderkerk
• Christianus Wilhelmus Krijnen (82), Zevenbergen
• Arend Couperus (93), -
• Antje van den Berg (87)
• Antje Sterk (88), Amersfoort, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriaan Verbree (88), Amsterdam
• * Theodora Adelaar (81)
• Birdie Lee Linscomb (88), Orange, Orange, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Antoinetta van Gils (84), Made en Drimmelen

• 1988 » Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete
• 1988 » Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer
• 1988 » Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1990 » Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor
• 1990 » Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
• 1990 » Lacey Evans, American wrestler
• 1990 » Starlin Castro, American baseball player
• 1991 » Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player
• 1991 » Nick Browne, English cricketer
• 1995 » Enzo Fernandez, French-Spanish footballer

• 1999 » Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902)
• 2001 » Muriel Young, English television host and producer (b. 1928)
• 2002 » Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (b. 1932)
• 2002 » César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
• 2003 » Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919)
• 2006 » Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist (b. 1913)
• 2008 » Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)
• 2008 » Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (b. 1941)

1. Thomas
2. Daan
3. Lucas
4. Max
5. Ruben
6. Sem
7. Lars
8. Mike
9. Jesse
10. Jan
11. Sam
12. Remco
13. Martijn
14. Tom
15. Johannes
16. Niels

1. Emma
2. Isa
3. Maria
4. Lisa
5. Anna
6. Lieke
7. Anne
8. Laura
9. Nina
10. Catharina-amalia
11. Julia
12. Femke
13. Iris
14. Sanne
15. Lotte
16. Amber

• 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, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
• January 18 » A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
• July 6 » The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.
• July 13 » French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.
• October 18 » Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
• November 20 » After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
• December 13 » Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.

The temperature on March 24, 2003 was between 0.5 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.