About the day » Thursday March 8, 2012Calender converter

• Dave Fabian de Vries, Blaricum
• Lucian van ZWEDEN, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Flor Verschueren
• Damian Michael van Zonneveld, Almere, Nederland († 2015)

• Afra Catharina Bakker (86), Egmond aan Zee, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bouwina Fokkelina Henderika Kalk (95)
• Cornelia Petronella van der Beek (80), Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Barbara May NN (84), Grandville, Kent County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Bertha Herrema (92), -
• Catharina Schüller (83), Alkmaar
• Ank Stolk (62), Koog aan de Zaan N.H
• Aaltje van Veen (87), Zeijen, Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Gerald Edward Heath (84), Marion (Marion County) (Ohio)
• Elisabeth Siedses Rienks (87), Joure, Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland

• 1990 » Asier Illarramendi, Spanish footballer
• 1990 » Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
• 1991 » Miriam Bryant, Swedish-Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Tom English, Australian rugby player
• 1992 » Uki Satake, Japanese singer, actress, and radio host
• 1994 » Claire Emslie, Scottish footballer
• 1994 » Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer († 2014)
• 1994 » Pablo Dyego, Brazilian footballer
• 1996 » Matthew Hammelmann, Australian rules footballer
• 1998 » Tali Darsigny, Canadian weightlifter

• 2009 » Hank Locklin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
• 2011 » Mike Starr, American bass player (b. 1966)
• 2012 » Minoru Mori, Japanese businessman, founded the Mori Art Museum (b. 1934)
• 2012 » Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (b. 1921)
• 2012 » Steven Rubenstein, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1962)
• 2013 » Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier and publisher (b. 1922)
• 2013 » Haseeb Ahsan, Pakistani cricketer and manager (b. 1939)
• 2013 » John O'Connell, Irish journalist and politician, 17th Irish Minister of Health (b. 1927)
• 2014 » Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American Holocaust survivor and author (b. 1921)
• 2014 » William Guarnere, American sergeant (b. 1923)

• 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.
• January 19 » The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
• April 2 » A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured.
• May 29 » A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
• June 11 » More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
• August 20 » A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
• December 29 » A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.

The temperature on March 8, 2012 was between 2.5 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.