The temperature on February 20, 1944 was between -3.7 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged -2.2 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
March 3 » The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
August 2 » World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
August 20 » World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
August 23 » Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.
September 6 » World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
November 21 » World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.
Day of death September 18, 1987
The temperature on September 18, 1987 was between 8.8 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 14.6 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
April 19 » The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
September 13 » Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
September 16 » The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
October 19 » The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
November 28 » South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
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