The temperature on March 3, 1947 was between -10.5 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -6.6 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 1 » The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
March 8 » Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
July 19 » Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
Day of death March 17, 2011
The temperature on March 17, 2011 was between 4.5 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
April 24 » WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
May 25 » Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
July 22 » Norway attacks: First a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
September 12 » The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opens to the public.
December 13 » A murder–suicide in Liège, Belgium, kills six and wounds 125 people at a Christmas market.
December 31 » NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
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