The temperature on January 24, 1938 was between 6.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
August 20 » Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
October 1 » Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
Day of death December 7, 1942
The temperature on December 7, 1942 was between 4.4 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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.
February 15 » World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
June 26 » The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
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.
November 4 » World War II: Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel begins a retreat of his forces after a costly defeat during the Second Battle of El Alamein. The retreat would ultimately last five months.
December 20 » World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India.
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