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March 24, 2008Died on Tuesday March 25, 2008
- Anna Maria Schroer (91)
- Antony SLOETJES (86), Hoorn
- Bernardus de Jongh (90), IJmuiden
- Catharina Hendrika Willemse (79)
- Catharina Hendrika Willems (79)
- Anton SLOB (81)
- Albert van der Kaap (74), Groningen
- Anna Elisabeth ( tante Annie) van der Klugt (94), Heino
- Charlene Ann SCHULTZ (72), Sacramento Sacramento County California U.S.A
- Adrian Veltema (80), Hudsonville Michigan, Verenigde Staten
Born on March 25
- 1988 » Big Sean, American rapper, singer and songwriter
- 1988 » Mitchell Watt, Australian long jumper
- 1989 » Aly Michalka, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1989 » Scott Sinclair, English footballer
- 1990 » Alexander Esswein, German footballer
- 1990 » Mehmet Ekici, Turkish footballer
- 1991 » Scott Malone, English footballer, left-back
- 1993 » Jacob Gagan, Australian rugby league player
- 1993 » Sam Johnstone, English footballer
- 1994 » Justine Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier
Died on March 25
- 2006 » Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (b. 1950)
- 2007 » Andranik Margaryan, Armenian engineer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951)
- 2008 » Abby Mann, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
- 2008 » Ben Carnevale, American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)
- 2008 » Herb Peterson, American businessman, created the McMuffin (b. 1919)
- 2008 » Thierry Gilardi, French journalist and sportscaster (b. 1958)
- 2009 » Dan Seals, American musician (b. 1948)
- 2009 » Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)
- 2009 » Kosuke Koyama, Japanese-American theologian and academic (b. 1929)
- 2009 » Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, Turkish politician and member of the Parliament of Turkey (b. 1954)
Names that were popular for boys in 2008
- Thomas
- Gijs
- Benjamin
- Ruben
- Lucas
- Pieter
- Ashton
- Daan
- Jan
- Sem
- Lars
- Noah
- Thijs
- Sam
- Milan
- Albert
Names that were popular for girls in 2008
- Marieke
- Emma
- Julia
- Femke
- Anna
- Sanne
- Sophie
- Lieke
- Lotte
- Jasmijn
- Maria
- Sanneke
- Fleur
- Eva
- Milou
- Nina
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2008
- 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, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
- The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
- February 17 » Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
- February 26 » The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
- February 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
- April 22 » The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
- May 29 » A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
- September 13 » Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.
Weather March 25, 2008
The temperature on March 25, 2008 was between -2.4 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.