The temperature on December 15, 1944 was between -1.3 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 24 » Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
June 11 » USSMissouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
June 15 » World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
August 12 » Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
September 11 » World War II: The Western Allied invasion of Germany begins near the city of Aachen.
October 7 » World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV.
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