About the day » Monday January 8, 2018Calender converter

• Eike Kornelia Broekema (90)
• Cornelia Potappel (104), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthony Charles Vogt* (78), Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
• Annet Beckeringh van Loenen (69), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Johanna Versteynen (94), Udenhout
• Ariaantje TROOST (96), Den Haag, Zuid Holland, Netherlands 2511
• Donald Otto Barth (89), Upper Saint Clair, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Charles Burdine Looper (86), Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States of America
• Andreas van de Vorst (91), Weert
• Abraham Lodewijk (Bram) Asscher (74), amsterdam, Nederland

• 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

• 2015 » Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (b. 1942)
• 2015 » Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 23rd Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1926)
• 2016 » German Moreno, Filipino television host, actor, comedian and talent manager (b. 1933)
• 2016 » Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926)
• 2017 » Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian politician (b. 1934)
• 2017 » James Mancham, Seychellois politician (b. 1939)
• 2017 » Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925)
• 2017 » Peter Sarstedt, Indian-British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
• 2020 » Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1930)
• 2020 » Pat Dalton, Australian rules footballer (b. 1942)

• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 17.2 million citizens.
• January 13 » A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii caused widespread panic in the state.
• February 14 » Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
• May 9 » The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
• August 3 » Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
• October 12 » Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
• November 26 » The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.

The temperature on January 8, 2018 was between -1.4 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.