The temperature on May 3, 1940 was between 7.8 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 7 » Winter War: Battle of Raate Road - The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
May 10 » World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
June 3 » World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
June 12 » World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
July 10 » World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
August 3 » World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
Day of death June 25, 2005
The temperature on June 25, 2005 was between 12.6 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 14 » YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
April 6 » Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
July 21 » July 2005 London bombings occur.
September 24 » Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
October 21 » Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery.
October 30 » The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
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