The temperature on July 20, 1936 was between 12.5 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
May 5 » Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
July 26 » Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
October 27 » Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
November 20 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
December 10 » Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
Day of death October 9, 1944
The temperature on October 9, 1944 was between 10.1 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
January 30 » World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
February 22 » World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
June 20 » The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
August 1 » World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
August 15 » World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.
October 8 » World War II: Captain Bobbie Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen.
Day of burial October 12, 1944
The temperature on October 12, 1944 was between 8.3 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
April 1 » Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
June 4 » World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
August 28 » World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
September 25 » World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
October 18 » World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
December 31 » World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major Wehrmacht offensive on the Western Front begins.
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