The temperature on May 30, 1942 was between 9.0 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
February 19 » World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
July 23 » Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
August 23 » World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
August 27 » First day of the Sarny Massacre.
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 22 » World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
Day of marriage August 16, 1968
The temperature on August 16, 1968 was between 12.3 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
January 21 » Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
January 22 » Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
June 11 » Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
November 5 » Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
December 25 » Kilvenmani massacre: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.
Day of death August 5, 2009
The temperature on August 5, 2009 was between 12.1 °C and 27.1 °C and averaged 20.8 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south 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.
January 1 » Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
March 27 » The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
June 5 » After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
June 9 » An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
June 22 » A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured.
July 4 » The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.
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