Lot’s going on today – Children’s Day in Japan, Constitution Day in Kyrgyzstan, Independence Day in Latvia, Patriot’s Day in Ethiopia, Arrival Day in Guyana, The Buddha’s Birthday and some minor battle in Mexico. It is also Liberation Day in the Netherlands – the anniversary of the end of Nazi occupation in 1945.
At the outbreak of the second world war, the Netherlands had declared its neutrality from the conflict. However, this did not stop the country being invaded by Nazi Germany on May 10th 1940.
After landing in Normandy in June 1944, the allied forces advanced across Europe with key engagements taking place in the south of the Netherlands by September of that year.
The Netherlands was liberated in a large part by the Canadians, British and Polish armies.
On May 5th 1945, General Foulkes of the Canadian forces and the German Commander Blaskowitz reached an agreement on the surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands in Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen.
Me too…
You were warned…
New Marvel Hero…
Canadians have had it with the U.S.A.
(Thanks, Debra)
Today is the birthday, in 1951, of Rex Goh, guitarist, for the Australian soft rock band Air Supply who scored the 1980 UK No.11 single ‘All Out Of Love’ and the 1981 US No.1 single ‘The One That You Love’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY31ZH6hAFI
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