About the day » Tuesday December 30, 2008Calender converter

• Zoë Maria van der Steen
• Genevieve Marie Blanchard Bouterie [KiObBu], Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama († 2009)

• Antonius Johannes Adrianus Suijker (56), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Frederik Folkert Hensens (48), Holte, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Corrie VAN VEELEN (73), Son en Breugel Noord-Brabant Netherlands
• Christina SCHMIDT (90), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• bastiaan BAARS (76), puttershoek
• Carol LaVonne Ripley (81), Pipestone, Pipestone County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Anne Kirkpatrick Smarr [McWk Ob]
• Earl W Draayer (52), Anchorage Anchorage Borough Alaska, Verenigde Staten
• Eva Laverne Brafford (94), Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Iowa
• Elisabeth NEYS (87), Genk (Limburg) (B)

• 1986 » Domenico Criscito, Italian footballer
• 1989 » Kateřina Vaňková, Czech tennis player
• 1989 » Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder and entrepreneur
• 1990 » Bruno Henrique Pinto, Brazilian footballer
• 1990 » Joe Root, English cricketer
• 1991 » Camila Giorgi, Italian tennis player
• 1992 » Carson Wentz, American football player
• 1992 » Ryan Tunnicliffe, English footballer
• 1995 » V, South Korean singer and actor
• 1996 » Brad Abbey, New Zealand rugby league player

• 2004 » Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 2005 » Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer and coach (b. 1940)
• 2005 » Rona Jaffe, American novelist (b. 1932)
• 2006 » Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 2006 » Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Terry Peck, Falkland Islander police officer and spy (b. 1938)
• 2009 » Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, 4th President of Indonesia (b. 1940)
• 2009 » Rowland S. Howard, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1959)
• 2010 » Bobby Farrell, Dutch dancer and performer from Aruba (b. 1949)
• 2011 » Ronald Searle, English-French cartoonist (b. 1920)

1. Thomas
2. Benjamin
3. Gijs
4. Ruben
5. Lucas
6. Pieter
7. Ashton
8. Jan
9. Daan
10. Sem
11. Lars
12. Noah
13. Thijs
14. Sam
15. Milan
16. Albert

1. Marieke
2. Emma
3. Julia
4. Femke
5. Anna
6. Sanne
7. Sophie
8. Lieke
9. Lotte
10. Jasmijn
11. Maria
12. Sanneke
13. Fleur
14. Eva
15. Milou
16. Nina

• 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.
• May 2 » Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
• August 18 » President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns under threat of impeachment.
• September 10 » The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
• September 24 » Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa
• November 27 » XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.
• December 22 » An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1billion US gallons (4,200,000m) of coal fly ash slurry.

The temperature on December 30, 2008 was between -7.9 °C and 0.5 °C and averaged -4.4 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.