About the day » Friday June 9, 1978Calender converter

• Wianda Bulthuis († 1994)

• Ardina Machuta Derks (88), Grave
• Christina Geraets (78), Erica, Drenthe, Nederland
• Corrie BURGESS (72), Mersey Hospital, Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia
• Adrianus Burger (93), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Beekhuis (76), Rhee
• Constantinus Vandenberk (69), Sint-truiden
• Aalbertha van de Scheur (89)
• Adriaan Vervaart (57), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Antonia Boog (85), Leusden, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Auke Jan Bierma (77), St. Annaparochie

• 1977 » Olin Kreutz, American football player
• 1977 » Paul Hutchison, English cricketer
• 1977 » Peja Stojaković, Serbian basketball player
• 1977 » Usman Afzaal, Pakistani-English cricketer
• 1978 » Hayden Schlossberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 » Heather Mitts, American soccer player
• 1978 » Matt Bellamy, English singer, musician and songwriter
• 1978 » Miroslav Klose, German footballer
• 1978 » Shandi Finnessey, American model and actress, Miss USA 2004
• 1979 » Dario Dainelli, Italian footballer

• 1968 » Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1940)
• 1973 » Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach (b. 1907)
• 1973 » Erich von Manstein, German general (b. 1887)
• 1973 » John Creasey, English author and politician (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (b. 1884)
• 1981 » Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
• 1984 » Helen Hardin, American painter (b. 1943)
• 1989 » George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. Mark
5. David
6. Dennis
7. Johannes
8. Peter
9. Patrick
10. Michael
11. Robert
12. Pieter
13. Paul
14. Richard
15. Bart
16. Willem

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Sandra
4. Patricia
5. Marieke
6. Linda
7. Monique
8. Jennifer
9. Jessica
10. Esther
11. Wendy
12. Kim
13. Bianca
14. Anna
15. Cornelia
16. Cindy

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
• January 13 » United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
• March 16 » A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73.
• March 22 » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• July 7 » The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
• August 19 » In Iran, Cinema Rex fire caused more than 400 deaths.

The temperature on June 9, 1978 was between 11.2 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.