The temperature on December 18, 1943 was between -2.7 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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.
February 18 » World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
March 3 » World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
March 4 » World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
October 17 » The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
November 1 » World War II: The 3rd Marine Division, United States Marines, landing on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, secures a beachhead, leading that night to a naval clash at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay.
November 25 » World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Day of death February 10, 1999
The temperature on February 10, 1999 was between -2.9 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
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