February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 327 days remain until the end of the year.
February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 325 days remain until the end of the year.
USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy which served in World War II, the first of three U.S. Navy ships to bear the name.
Samuel Eto'o Fils is a Cameroonian football administrator and former player who is the current president of the Cameroonian Football Federation. He won the African Player of the Year a record four times: in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2010.
Shinji Okazaki is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is best known for winning the Premier League with Leicester City in 2016.
Kristian Samuel Armenteros Nunez Jansson, known as Samuel Armenteros, is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Chinese Super League club Shenzhen Peng City.
Samuel Sáiz Alonso is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a forward for Turkish club Eyüpspor.
Ademilson Braga Bispo Junior, known as Ademilson, is a Brazilian professional footballer who currently plays for Campeonato Brasileiro Série B club Avaí as a forward. He has previously played for São Paulo in his homeland, then Yokohama F. Marinos and Gamba Osaka in Japan as well as Wuhan Three Towns in China.
Wataru Endō is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Japan national team.
Shohei Ohtani is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher and designated hitter for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "Shotime", he has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Angels and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Because of his elite contributions as a hitter and as a pitcher, a rarity as a two-way player, Ohtani's 2021–2024 seasons are considered among the greatest in baseball history, with some comparing them favorably to the early career of Babe Ruth.
Samuel Mráz is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a forward for Polish club Motor Lublin.
The Iwate Big Bulls are a professional basketball team that compete in the third division of the Japanese B.League.
The Ibaraki Robots is a professional basketball team that competes in the Eastern Conference of the First Division of the Japanese B.League.
Samuel Seo is a South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer. Born in Seoul, he spent his youth living in his home country, as well as Japan, the United States, and Canada. An aspiring pianist, Seo's exposure to hip hop music in his teens led him to pursue the genre. He released a series of singles before enlisting and serving two years in military service.
Samuel Arredondo Kim, better known by his stage name Samuel (Korean: 사무엘), is an American singer based in South Korea. He was a part of the short-lived hip hop duo 1Punch in 2015. He participated in the reality television series season 2 of Produce 101 during the first half of 2017. In the final episode, he ranked 18th and was not able to join the show's project group. One month after the show ended, he began his solo career, with the release of his debut extended play (EP) Sixteen on August 2, 2017.
The Shinagawa City Basketball Club is a professional basketball team that competes in the Japanese B.League.
The following is an overview of the year 2018 in Japan.
Samuel Joseph Holland is an Australian professional baseball player for the Brisbane Bandits of the Australian Baseball League.
Echigo-jofu (越後上布) is a fabric of Echigo, Japan on national Important Cultural Properties listing in 1955, and UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list since 2009. It is made from fine bast fiber from the ramie plant, also called hemp, although not directly related to cannabis hemp. After it is woven on a jibata backstrap loom, the fabric is spread on snowfields (yuki-zarashi) where ultraviolet light from the sun creates ozone and bleaches it white. Echigo-jofu has even been found in the Shōsōin repository from over 1,200 years ago. The production of Echigo-jofu is recorded in detail in the encyclopedic work of human geography describing life in the Uonuma area, Hokuetsu Seppu
Hiroki Itō is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back and left-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Japan national team.
