The temperature on January 1, 1942 was between 1.7 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
March 3 » World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
May 6 » World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
June 12 » Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
August 21 » World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
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.
December 20 » World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India.
Day of death April 21, 2008
The temperature on April 21, 2008 was between 6.6 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (89%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
March 15 » Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people.
July 10 » Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
August 18 » War of Afghanistan: Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
September 13 » Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
September 15 » Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
Day of burial April 26, 2008
The temperature on April 26, 2008 was between 8.5 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 5 » A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
February 17 » Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
May 15 » California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
July 21 » Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first president of Nepal.
August 1 » Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
September 12 » The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
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