The temperature on May 8, 1944 was between 1.5 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 17 » World War II: Operation Hailstone begins: U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
April 22 » The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
August 26 » World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
September 6 » World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
September 19 » World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed.
October 25 » Second World War: The USSTang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
Day of death March 28, 2000
The temperature on March 28, 2000 was between 2.5 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 14 » A United Nations tribunal sentences five Roman Catholic Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
February 29 » Second Chechen War: Eighty-four Russian paratroopers are killed in a rebel attack on a guard post near Ulus Kert.
May 4 » Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
August 23 » Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
December 15 » The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
December 30 » Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
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