The temperature on November 24, 1940 was between 3.5 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
May 6 » John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
May 28 » World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
September 9 » George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
November 11 » World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.
November 11 » World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan.
November 16 » World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
Day of death February 28, 1971
The temperature on February 28, 1971 was between -2.9 °C and 0.9 °C and averaged -0.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 9 » Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
August 21 » A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
August 22 » J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
September 21 » Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
November 30 » Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.
December 4 » The PNS Ghazi, a submarine belonging to the Pakistan Navy, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971.
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