The temperature on February 4, 1942 was between -5.4 °C and -3.9 °C and averaged -4.8 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. 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.
April 9 » World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends. An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMSHermes and the Australian destroyer HMASVampire.
May 10 » World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
June 23 » World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
September 7 » World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay.
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 20 » World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India.
Day of death February 6, 1941
The temperature on February 6, 1941 was between -10.5 °C and -4.5 °C and averaged -6.4 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
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 17 » Franco-Thai War: Vichy French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
January 21 » Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
March 17 » In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
June 1 » The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes.
October 22 » World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
November 13 » World War II: The aircraft carrier HMSArk Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
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