About the day » Sunday January 8, 2012Calender converter

• Cornelia Elizabeth Brabander (65)
• Adriana Leijs (78), Breda
• Adrianus Cornelis Schrover (85), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Elisabeth Robbers (87), Almere
• Bonne Jacob ten Kate (81), Nieuw Annerveen, Aa en Hunze, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bep Roodenburg (57), Arnhem
• Caspar Hubert Cremer (93), Zell am See (Oostenrijk)
• Antonio dos Santos Clemente (91)
• Donna Lou Mathias (60), Bluffton, Wells, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Catherine Wilhelmina Koew (92), Orem, Utah, Utah, United States

• 1986 » David Silva, Spanish footballer
• 1988 » Adrián López, Spanish footballer
• 1988 » Michael Mancienne, English footballer
• 1989 » Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player
• 1991 » Josh Hazlewood, Australian cricketer
• 1991 » Stefan Johansen, Norwegian footballer
• 1991 » Stefan Savić, Montenegrin footballer
• 1992 » Apostolos Vellios, Greek footballer
• 1992 » Koke, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Stefanie Dolson, American basketball player

• 2011 » Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1937)
• 2011 » Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (b. 1929)
• 2012 » Bernhard Schrader, German chemist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Dave Alexander, American singer and pianist (b. 1938)
• 2012 » John Madin, English architect, designed the Birmingham Central Library (b. 1924)
• 2012 » T. J. Hamblin, English haematologist and academic (b. 1943)
• 2013 » Alasdair Milne, Indian-English director and producer (b. 1930)
• 2013 » Jeanne Manford, American educator and activist, co-founded PFLAG (b. 1920)
• 2013 » Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1927)

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
• February 15 » Three hundred sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
• April 11 » A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.
• June 3 » A plane carrying 153 people on board crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board and 10 people on the ground.
• July 4 » The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
• October 14 » Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.
• November 6 » Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States

The temperature on January 8, 2012 was between 5.5 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.