The temperature on September 29, 1944 was between 8.2 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
February 15 » World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.
March 24 » Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
April 22 » World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
August 21 » Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
October 19 » United States forces land in the Philippines.
November 27 » World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
Day of death April 29, 1947
The temperature on April 29, 1947 was between 7.0 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
February 21 » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
February 25 » The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.
November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
November 29 » Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
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