About the day » Friday December 30, 2011Calender converter

• Catharina Ooteman (88), Hoogkarspel
• Geert Jan Helder (91), Alphen aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• George Cortland Freeman (79), Vancouver BC
• Cornelis Gerardus Maris Vonk (64), Delft, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Doortje Berkelmans (92), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Menalda (81), Rheden,,Netherlands
• Bruce SMITH (83), East Devonport, Tasmania, Australia
• Anna Doornbos (93), Harlingen
• Catharina MIJWAART (88), Loenen aan de Vecht,Utrecht,Nederland
• Aalbert Arie Verkade (90), Barneveld

• 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

• 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)
• 2012 » Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (b. 1923)
• 2012 » Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Dennis Ferguson, Australian sex offender (b. 1948)
• 2012 » Philip Coppens, Belgian-American journalist and author (b. 1971)
• 2012 » Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
• 2013 » Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral (b. 1929)

• 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, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
• January 21 » Anti government demonstrations take place in Tirana, Albania. Five people lose their lives from gunshots, allegedly fired from armed police protecting the Prime Minister's office. To date, no one has been held accountable for the deaths.
• February 22 » Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
• March 19 » Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
• May 1 » Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
• May 11 » An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.
• May 25 » Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

The temperature on December 30, 2011 was between 3.8 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.