Kramer Family Tree » Kåre Hans Sandmo (1944-1945)

Birthday October 19, 1944

• The temperature on October 19, 1944 was between 8.2 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • 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.
  • June 13 » World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
  • June 26 » World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
  • September 11 » World War II: The Western Allied invasion of Germany begins near the city of Aachen.
  • November 27 » World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
  • December 31 » World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1945 » Angus Deaton, Scottish-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate