About the day » Saturday January 10, 2009Calender converter

• Luca Siam Julian Meijer, Steenwijk

• Anna Maria Senden Zenden (82), Valkenburg
• Cornelis Joseph Smit (92), Hoorn, Nederland
• Cornelia Antonia van Lent (90), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Daniel H Raymond (51), Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
• Cornelia van Wetten (90), Tiel, Nederland
• Arie Haasnoot (84), Katwijk
• Davy Hostyn (31), Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Bert Krommendam (47), Boeklo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Maria Caminada (84), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Augustus Casteleyn (90), Ieper

• 1987 » César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer
• 1988 » Leonard Patrick Komon, Kenyan runner
• 1988 » Vladimir Zharkov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Emily Meade, American actress
• 1989 » Kyle Reimers, Australian footballer
• 1990 » Cody Walker, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Ishiura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1990 » John Carlson, American ice hockey player
• 1990 » Mirko Bortolotti, Italian racing driver
• 1991 » Chad Townsend, Australian rugby league player

• 2005 » Jack Horner, American journalist (b. 1912)
• 2005 » Wasyly, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop (b. 1909)
• 2007 » Bradford Washburn, American explorer, photographer, and cartographer (b. 1910)
• 2007 » Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
• 2008 » Christopher Bowman, American figure skater and actor (b. 1967)
• 2008 » Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2010 » Patcha Ramachandra Rao, Indian metallurgist, educator and administrator (b. 1942)
• 2011 » Margaret Whiting, American singer (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Gevork Vartanian, Russian intelligence agent (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Jean Pigott, Canadian businesswoman and politician (b. 1924)

• 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 16.5 million citizens.
• January 1 » Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
• January 21 » Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip, officially ending a three-week war it had with Hamas. However, intermittent fire by both sides continues in the weeks to follow.
• May 18 » The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
• June 5 » After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
• September 9 » The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
• September 28 » The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1400 people.

The temperature on January 10, 2009 was between -10.5 °C and -3.6 °C and averaged -6.8 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.