About the day » Friday February 1, 2008Calender converter

• Rosa KRIJGH († 2008)

• Bertha Jacoba Lagerweij (82)
• Anna Hillegonda Koedijk (88), Amersfoort
• Arnoldus Pieter Augustinus van de Moosdijk (62)
• Alfons Leon Daelemans (89), Bornem, Antwerpen, België
• Dirk Domerchie (76)
• Aaltje Doek (102), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Annie Ott (80)
• Aly Haije (61), Vriezenveen
• Anna de Boer (72)
• Anna Petronella Philipsen (90), Den Helder

• 1987 » Austin Jackson, American baseball player
• 1987 » Moises Henriques, Portuguese-Australian cricketer
• 1987 » Ronda Rousey, American mixed martial artist and actress
• 1987 » Sebastian Boenisch, Polish footballer
• 1988 » Brett Anderson, American baseball player
• 1989 » Ricky Pinheiro, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 » Kyle Palmieri, American hockey player
• 1993 » Diego Mella, Italian footballer
• 1994 » Harry Styles, English singer-songwriter
• 1994 » Joe Boyce, Australian rugby league player

• 2003 » Mongo Santamaría, Cuban-American drummer and bandleader (b. 1922)
• 2003 » Space Shuttle Columbia crew
• 2004 » Suha Arın, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942)
• 2005 » John Vernon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1932)
• 2007 » Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American playwright and composer (b. 1911)
• 2008 » Beto Carrero, Brazilian actor and businessman (b. 1937)
• 2012 » Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (b. 1936)
• 2012 » Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
• 2013 » Ed Koch, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 105th Mayor of New York City (b. 1924)
• 2013 » Helene Hale, American politician (b. 1918)

• 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.
• March 15 » Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 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.
• June 8 » At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
• June 11 » Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
• October 3 » The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
• December 9 » The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

The temperature on February 1, 2008 was between 1.9 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.