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March 9, 2008Died on Monday March 10, 2008
- Anthonie Gerardus Cornelis van ZIJL (70), Zuid-Holland,Gouda,NETHERLANDS
- Aaltje Riktsje Hoving (86), Haren
- Antonia van Os (85), s-Hertogenbosch
- Annechien (Annie) Oosting (75), Enschede
- Huijsing (78)
- ANNA MARIA KNUBBEN (82), Brunssum
- Berend Nijmeijer (94), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
- "Christiane" Marie Thérèse de Truchis de Lays (80), Loctudy, Finistère, France
- Bartje van de Weteringh (87), Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland
- Bernard Ettema (79), Imlay City, Lapeer County, Michigan
Born on March 10
- 1987 » Greg Eastwood, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1987 » Martellus Bennett, American football player
- 1988 » Ivan Rakitić, Croatian football player
- 1988 » Josh Hoffman, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
- 1992 » Neeskens Kebano, French-born Congolese international footballer
- 1993 » Jack Butland, English footballer
- 1995 » DaeSean Hamilton, American football player
- 1995 » Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer
- 1995 » Zach LaVine, American basketball player
- 1997 » Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
Died on March 10
- 2005 » Dave Allen, Irish-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
- 2006 » Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
- 2007 » Ernie Ladd, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
- 2010 » Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
- 2010 » Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian scholar and academic (b. 1928)
- 2011 » Bill Blackbeard, American author and illustrator (b. 1926)
- 2012 » Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
- 2012 » Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (b. 1938)
- 2015 » Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1952)
- 2016 » Ken Adam, German-English production designer and art director (b. 1921)
Names that were popular for boys in 2008
- Johannes
- Jan
- Pieter
- Willem
- Benjamin
- Thomas
- James
- Lucas
- Hendrik
- Jacob
- Cornelis
- Ruben
- Daan
- Floris
- Albert
- Thijs
Names that were popular for girls in 2008
- Maria
- Anna
- Sophie
- Julia
- Marie
- Johanna
- Marieke
- Anne
- Emma
- Elisabeth
- Catharina
- Elizabeth
- Cornelia
- Jasmijn
- Sanne
- Eva
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 » The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence decides to withdraw Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan "immediately" after a leak leads to his deployment being reported by foreign media.
- June 1 » A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.
- August 20 » Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
- September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
- December 11 » Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
- 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 weather on Monday March 10, 2008
The temperature on March 10, 2008 was between 3.8 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI