The temperature on October 18, 1944 was between 7.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 14 » World War II: In the Action of 14 February 1944, a Royal Navy submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian submarine in the Strait of Malacca.
March 24 » Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
April 22 » World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
April 26 » Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
April 26 » Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
July 3 » World War II: The Minsk Offensive clears German troops from the city.
Day of marriage November 1, 1966
The temperature on November 1, 1966 was between -1.7 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
May 16 » The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
September 16 » The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
October 10 » The Beach Boys release one of their biggest singles, ranked the 6th greatest song by Rolling Stone, "Good Vibrations".
October 15 » The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
December 26 » The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
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