V-E Day (anniversary this year) - May 8 - 80 years ago

The Victory of the Allies over

the European Nazi-Fascist forces

(Germany & Italy, under Hitler & Mussolini).

April 1945 -- see history recorded timeline.

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The British Parliament will mark the

80th anniversary with a weeklong series:

May 5 : Military procession and fly-over;

May 6: Iconic buildings will be lit up

and 25,000 ceramic poppies will cascade

from the Tower of London;

May 7 -- performance of the Parliament Choir;

May 8 -- a service in Westminster Abbey with

a V-E Concert on the BBC.