February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
Day of death May 3, 1944
The temperature on May 3, 1944 was between 4.3 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 30 » Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
June 4 » World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.
June 13 » World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
August 19 » World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
September 8 » World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
October 2 » World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
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