The temperature on November 20, 1944 was between 7.4 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 11.6 mm of rain during 8.9 hours. 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.
January 31 » World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
March 9 » World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
April 26 » Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
August 6 » The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
September 6 » World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
September 8 » World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
Day of marriage December 14, 1968
The temperature on December 14, 1968 was between -8.4 °C and -2.7 °C and averaged -6.0 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
April 23 » Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
May 26 » H-dagurinn in Iceland: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
June 9 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
October 5 » A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
October 22 » Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
December 24 » Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.
Day of death December 2, 2001
The temperature on December 2, 2001 was between 3.0 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
June 10 » Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
June 23 » The 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
September 9 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
September 17 » The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
October 22 » Grand Theft Auto III is released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games, as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.
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