The temperature on May 5, 1940 was between 8.2 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
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.
January 8 » World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
February 28 » Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
March 16 » First person killed (James Isbister) in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
July 19 » Field Marshal Ceremony: First occasion in World War II that Adolf Hitler appoints field marshals due to military achievements.
September 7 » World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
November 23 » World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
Day of marriage August 7, 1962
The temperature on August 7, 1962 was between 11.1 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 13.3 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 5 » French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
July 5 » The official independence of Algeria is proclaimed after an 8-year-long war with France.
September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
October 8 » Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.
October 27 » By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
Day of death November 14, 1999
The temperature on November 14, 1999 was between 1.5 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
July 16 » John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when the Piper Saratoga PA-32R aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
August 31 » A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
November 18 » At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.
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