The temperature on March 15, 2008 was between 0.4 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
May 2 » Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
May 12 » An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
June 1 » A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.
August 1 » The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.
August 17 » American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
November 26 » Mumbai attacks, a series of terrorist attacks killing approximately 166 citizens by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation, and the ship, Queen Elizabeth 2 is out of service, and docks in Dubai.
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