About the day » Sunday January 18, 2009Calender converter

• Myrna Haga, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Joey van Erp, Den Helder († 2009)

• Antje Zomerdijk (93), Den Oever
• Catharina Maria van der Wel (96), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Rudnay van Rudnó en Divék-Ujfalu (97)
• Alice Lokker (90), Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• Cornelia Catharina Groen (85), Schagen
• Berendina van Baren (83), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Claude Maxie Morrison (78), Fresno, Fresno, California, Verenigde Staten
• Arie Van Der Vorm (76), Rotterdam
• * Tena Groeneveld (95), Hudson ville
• Arnoldus Antonius (Ome Nul) Vos (84), Herpen

• 1990 » Gift Ngoepe, South African baseball player
• 1990 » Hayle Ibrahimov, Ethiopian-Azerbaijani runner
• 1990 » Nacho, Spanish footballer
• 1991 » Diego Simões, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Francesco Bardi, Italian footballer
• 1993 » Sean Keenan, Australian actor
• 1994 » Ilona Kremen, Belarusian tennis player
• 1994 » Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer
• 1995 » Bryce Alford, American basketball player
• 1998 » Aitana Bonmatí, Spanish footballer

• 2008 » Frank Lewin, American composer and theorist (b. 1925)
• 2008 » Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1927)
• 2008 » John Stroger, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Lois Nettleton, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2009 » Danai Stratigopoulou, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1913)
• 2009 » Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet and author (b. 1935)
• 2009 » Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (b. 1931)
• 2009 » Tony Hart, English painter and television host (b. 1925)
• 2010 » Kate McGarrigle, Canadian musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 2010 » Robert B. Parker, American author and academic (b. 1932)

• 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.
• March 21 » Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
• May 25 » North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device, after which Pyongyang also conducts several missile tests, building tensions in the international community.
• June 1 » General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
• October 28 » NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
• November 21 » A mine explosion in Heilongjiang, China kills 108.
• December 28 » Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.

The temperature on January 18, 2009 was between 2.1 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.