The temperature on August 1, 1944 was between 15.2 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
June 13 » World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.
June 22 » World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
September 27 » The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
October 19 » A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.
October 25 » Second World War: The USSTang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
November 29 » World War II: Albania is liberated by the Partisans.
Day of death November 22, 1958
The temperature on November 22, 1958 was between 2.0 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
March 3 » Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
April 14 » The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
September 14 » The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
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