The temperature on August 13, 1943 was between 11.3 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
January 22 » World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese army and navy units in the bitterly fought Battle of Buna–Gona.
February 3 » The SSDorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.
March 21 » Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
July 25 » World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
October 26 » World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
December 5 » World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
Day of death May 7, 2001
The temperature on May 7, 2001 was between 6.9 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 12 » NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
February 13 » An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944.
May 25 » Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
June 28 » Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
July 24 » The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. Eleven civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while seven soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air Force are killed. In addition, three civilians and an engineer die. This incident slowed the Sri Lankan economy.
September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
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