The temperature on March 14, 1945 was between -1.1 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
January 17 » The SS-Totenkopfverbände begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
January 20 » World War II: The provisional government of Béla Miklós in Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.
April 16 » The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
April 27 » World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
August 6 » World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
August 17 » Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire.
Day of death February 24, 1946
The temperature on February 24, 1946 was between -1.8 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
February 8 » The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
February 18 » Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
March 29 » Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
May 1 » The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
May 9 » King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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