2008 in the Netherlands
This article lists some of the events that took place in the Netherlands in 2008.
Incumbents
Events
January
February
May
- 9: During a huge fire on a shipyard in De Punt (Drenthe) 3 firemen of the Eelde corps perish.
June
July
- 1: Most exceptions on the smoking ban are dropped.
- 10: The movie Hoe overleef ik mezelf? (How to survive myself?) gets a Gouden Film for getting 100.000 visitors.
September
- 24: Beginning of the Netherlands Film Festival.
- 28: Fortis is partially nationalized by The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg whom together get 49% of the stocks in their control.
- 30: The Gouden Griffel for the best children-book goes to Jan Paul Schutten for his book Children of Amsterdam (Kinderen van Amsterdam).
October
- 3: The Dutch branch of Fortis becomes completely nationalized and taken over by the Dutch government.
- 5: Huge fire in a shopping mall in Spijkenisse.
- 8: The Maasvlakte Light is deactivated.
- 11: TV presenter Ernst-Paul Hasselbach (43) dies together with a female Belgian colleague in a traffic accident in Norway.
November
Sports
- January 1: Koninklijke HFC win the traditional New Year's match against former international footballers 6-1.
- January 2: The Federatie Eredivisie Basketball of the Netherlands Basketball Association takes BC Omniworld of Almere out of the Eredivisie. The club had gone into administration.
- January 4: Jermo Ribbers (14), a member of the Dutch national youth ski jumping team, dies after a fall following a jump in Oberstdorf, Germany.
- March 30: Ellen van Dijk becomes World Champion at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the Women's scratch
- Ellen van Dijk won the gold medal in the Women's time trial, the only Dutch medal at the championships.
- The Netherlands won 6 medals: 2 gold, silver and 2 bronze medals. Ellen van Dijk won four of them including the two gold medals. She won gold in the Women's under-23 points race and the Women's under-23 scratch and silver in the Women's omnium and Women's under-23 individual pursuit.
See also
Deaths
January
- January 1: Dirk van Egmond, 54, journalist for Veronica, KRO, Omroep Flevoland, TROS, AVRO and RTL Veronique.
- January 4: Anton P. de Graaff, 79, author
February
March
- March 17: Ed Leeflang, 78, poet
- March 23: Wim Mager, 67, photographer, founder of Apenheul
April
August
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