The temperature on December 4, 1943 was between -4.9 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -2.0 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 7 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
February 23 » Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded in Greece.
April 18 » World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
August 31 » USSHarmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
October 13 » World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
October 21 » World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in Japanese-occupied Singapore.
Day of death December 16, 1943
The temperature on December 16, 1943 was between -4.4 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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.
January 23 » World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army.
February 9 » World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
February 27 » In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
September 7 » A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people.
September 18 » World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
October 19 » The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Crete and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
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