The temperature on September 10, 1942 was between 6.8 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 12 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
May 6 » World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
May 31 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
June 8 » World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
June 26 » The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
August 23 » World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Day of death February 17, 1943
The temperature on February 17, 1943 was between -0.5 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 11 » Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
February 27 » In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
July 22 » World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
August 23 » World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk.
October 14 » World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.
November 15 » The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
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