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Died on Friday March 2, 2018



Born on March 2

Died on March 2
  • 2013 » Peter Harvey, Australian journalist (b. 1944)
  • 2014 » Ryhor Baradulin, Belarusian poet and translator (b. 1935)
  • 2015 » Dave Mackay, Scottish-English footballer and manager (b. 1934)
  • 2015 » Dean Hess, American minister and colonel (b. 1917)
  • 2015 » Mal Peet, English author and illustrator (b. 1947)
  • 2016 » Aubrey McClendon, American businessman (b. 1959)
  • 2016 » Benoît Lacroix, Canadian priest, historian, and philosopher (b. 1915)
  • 2018 » Billy Herrington, American actor (b. 1969)
  • 2018 » Lin Hu, Chinese lieutenant general (b. 1927)
  • 2019 » Mike Oliver, British sociologist, disability rights activist (b. 1945)

Names that were popular for boys in 2018
  1. Louis
  2. Gijs
  3. Lucas
  4. Jan
  5. Jacob
  6. Noah
  7. Sem
  8. Thomas
  9. Milan
  10. Cornelis
  11. Arthur
  12. Max
  13. Bram
  14. Tygo
  15. Liam
  16. James
Names that were popular for girls in 2018
  1. Julia
  2. Emma
  3. Ada
  4. Eva
  5. Olivia
  6. Sophie
  7. Anna
  8. Saar
  9. Fleur
  10. Mila
  11. Isa
  12. Elizabeth
  13. Lauren
  14. Nora
  15. Tessa
  16. Maria

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2018
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • July 25 » As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
  • October 17 » Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.
  • December 18 » List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
  • December 31 » Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-storey building collapsed in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.
Weather March 2, 2018

The temperature on March 2, 2018 was between -7.2 °C and -0.5 °C and averaged -3.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (62%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east.

Source: KNMI