The temperature on February 16, 1941 was between 2.3 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 22 » World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
August 22 » World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.
September 3 » The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
October 2 » World War II: In Operation Typhoon, the Wehrmacht attempts to capture Moscow before the onset of winter.
December 5 » World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
December 17 » World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
Day of death July 23, 1998
The temperature on July 23, 1998 was between 16.0 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 19.1 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 14 » An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
March 26 » During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives.
May 26 » The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
July 6 » Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport.
July 24 » Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
August 20 » U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
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