The temperature on August 7, 1942 was between 11.3 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
January 11 » World War II: Japanese forces capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay States.
May 12 » World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarineU-507.
August 8 » Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
September 3 » World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva (present-day Belarus).
September 20 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.
October 11 » World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
Day of death February 6, 1944
The temperature on February 6, 1944 was between 1.2 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
June 26 » World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
August 9 » Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
September 25 » World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
October 27 » World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
November 19 » World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
November 24 » World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
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