The temperature on April 21, 1940 was between 7.3 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
February 28 » Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
May 24 » Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
June 17 » World War II: RMSLancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
July 11 » World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State.
November 12 » World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.
November 12 » World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.
Day of death January 26, 1942
The temperature on January 26, 1942 was between -23.4 °C and -11.2 °C and averaged -14.4 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 7.7 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
January 19 » World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
May 19 » World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
June 22 » The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.
October 11 » World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
November 8 » World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
November 30 » World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
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