The temperature on January 31, 1942 was between -4.6 °C and -1.6 °C and averaged -2.8 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). 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 1 » The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
February 2 » The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
March 3 » World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
March 20 » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
April 23 » World War II: Baedeker Blitz: German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
August 11 » Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
Day of marriage September 15, 1964
The temperature on September 15, 1964 was between 14.8 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 28 » An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
February 9 » The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
June 5 » DSV Alvin is commissioned.
August 1 » The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
August 19 » Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, was launched.
December 11 » Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
Day of death June 23, 2012
The temperature on June 23, 2012 was between 12.2 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (36%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
February 26 » Trayvon Martin was shot and killed at the age of 17 in Sanford, Florida.
April 21 » Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, injuring 116 people.
May 19 » A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
June 29 » A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
August 16 » South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute at Marikana near Rustenburg.
December 25 » An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people.
Day of cremation July 2, 2012
The temperature on July 2, 2012 was between 11.8 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly 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, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 7 » A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
April 20 » One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
July 12 » A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
July 30 » A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
August 10 » The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.
December 3 » At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.
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