The temperature on December 2, 1944 was between 3.3 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. The average windspeed was 4 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.
June 7 » World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
June 10 » World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
August 12 » Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
October 21 » World War II: The Nemmersdorf massacre against the German civilians takes place.
November 29 » World War II: Albania is liberated by the Partisans.
December 15 » World War II: a single-engine UC-64A Norseman aeroplane carrying United States Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over the English Channel.
Day of marriage December 8, 1969
The temperature on December 8, 1969 was between -1.7 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 14 » USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USSEnterprise near Hawaii kills 28 people.
April 1 » The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing capabilities, enters service with the Royal Air Force.
July 25 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
October 17 » The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
November 13 » Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
November 17 » Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
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