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The Battle for The Hague (Dutch: Slag om Den Haag) took place on 10 May 1940 during the Battle of the Netherlands. German Fallschirmjäger units were dropped in and around The Hague to capture Dutch airfields and the city itself. After securing a bridgehead, Nazi Germany had expected the Netherlands to surrender that day. The Germans, however ...
(in Dutch) Carlo Tinschert, Boodschap aan de bevolking van Den Haag – Oorzaken, gevolgen en nasleep van het mislukte bombardement op het Bezuidenhout, 3 maart 1945, Sdu Uitgevers, The Hague ISBN 9012111889 (in Dutch) Extensive 2016 list of names of the citizens killed by the bombing (in Dutch) List of names of the citizens killed by the bombing
The 30th edition of Parkpop, was held 27 June and featured Alphabeat, Nick Lowe, Nena, Danko Jones, Juliette Lewis and Alpha Blondy.As local authorities forbade rapper Snoop Dogg from performing - it would require extra security measures because of gang rivalry - and first replacement Beenie Man was cancelled by Parkpop because of his gay-unfriendly reputation, Alpha Blondy performing as the ...
The Treaty of Den Haag (also known as the Treaty of The Hague and occasionally the Hedges Treaty) was signed on May 16, 1795, between representatives of the French Republic and the Batavian Republic. Based on the terms of the treaty, the Batavian Republic ceded to France the territories of Maastricht , Venlo , and Zeelandic Flanders .
The 2025 The Hague summit is an upcoming meeting of the heads of state and heads of government of the thirty-two members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), their partner countries, and the European Union, which will be held in The Hague, Netherlands, on 24–26 June 2025.
1935 - Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (museum for modern art) opens. 1940 - 10 May: Battle for The Hague. People celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of World War II on 8 May 1945; 1945 - 3 March: Bombing of the Bezuidenhout. 1946 - United Nations International Court of Justice headquartered in The Hague. [25]
De Blauwe Aanslag in 1987. De Blauwe Aanslag was a squat and self-managed social centre in the Dutch city of The Hague.The oldest part of the building was built in 1886. The large building formerly housed tax offices and was occupied in 1980.
Benoordenhout (Dutch pronunciation: [bəˈnoːrdə(n)ˌɦʌut]) is a neighbourhood in the Haagse Hout district of The Hague.In addition to Benoordenhout, Haagse Hout consists of the Bezuidenhout, Mariahoeve en Marlot, and Haagse Bos neighbourhoods.