The temperature on January 27, 1942 was between -24.7 °C and -5.0 °C and averaged -14.5 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 10 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.
February 11 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
February 28 » The heavy cruiser USSHouston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMASPerth which lost 375 men.
April 17 » French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.
June 21 » World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
September 10 » World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
Day of death June 6, 1962
The temperature on June 6, 1962 was between 7.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (87%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
July 6 » As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
July 23 » The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
September 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
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