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Died on Wednesday September 10, 2008
- Dick Hakkenbroek (84), Uitgeest
- De Coninck (67), Gent
- Dina Zandbergen (73), Amersfoort
- Christiane Van Dessel (62), Wuustwezel, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Alice Cecile Mochon (100), Schenectady, Schenectady, New York, Verenigde Staten
- Christianne VAN DESSEL (63), Wuustwezel, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
- Cornelis Korteland (86), Papendrecht
- Elberta Geertruida (Truus) Zandbergen (96), Nieuwleusen,, Overijssel, Nederland
- Alida Maria Snoek (100), Breukelen, Utrecht, Nederland
- Adrianus Heemskerk (80), Rijnsburg
Born on September 10
- 1988 » Bobby Sharp, Canadian wrestler
- 1989 » Lee Sawyer, English footballer
- 1989 » Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
- 1989 » Matt Ritchie, English footballer
- 1991 » Boadu Maxwell Acosty, Ghanaian footballer
- 1992 » Ayub Masika, Kenyan footballer
- 1992 » Ricky Ledo, American basketball player
- 1994 » Mohamed Sylla, French rapper
- 1997 » Brooke Henderson, Canadian golfer
- 1998 » Anna Blinkova, Russian tennis player
Died on September 10
- 2005 » Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924)
- 2005 » Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1919)
- 2006 » Patty Berg, American golfer (b. 1918)
- 2006 » Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Tongan king (b. 1918)
- 2007 » Anita Roddick, English businesswoman, founded The Body Shop (b. 1942)
- 2007 » Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2007 » Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (b. 1930)
- 2007 » Ted Stepien, American businessman (b. 1925)
- 2008 » Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
- 2008 » Vernon Handley, English conductor (b. 1930)
Names that were popular for boys in 2008
- Thomas
- Benjamin
- Gijs
- Ruben
- Lucas
- Pieter
- Daan
- Ashton
- Jan
- Sem
- Lars
- Noah
- Thijs
- Sam
- Albert
- Milan
Names that were popular for girls in 2008
- Marieke
- Emma
- Julia
- Femke
- Anna
- Sanne
- Sophie
- Lieke
- Lotte
- Jasmijn
- Sanneke
- Fleur
- Maria
- Eva
- Milou
- Nina
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2008
- 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
- The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
- February 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
- May 2 » Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
- May 12 » An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
- May 15 » California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
- August 16 » The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
- November 14 » The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
Weather September 10, 2008
The temperature on September 10, 2008 was between 14.7 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.