The temperature on April 20, 1943 was between 4.0 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 27 » In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
March 22 » World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
April 26 » The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
July 19 » World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
August 29 » World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
October 5 » Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
Day of burial July 5, 1969
The temperature on July 5, 1969 was between 10.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
May 20 » The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
July 20 » A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, six days after the beginning of the "Football War".
July 20 » Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
July 24 » Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
December 24 » Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.
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