The temperature on August 2, 1944 was between 15.6 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
February 22 » World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
March 4 » World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
June 10 » World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
June 15 » World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
September 11 » World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
December 22 » World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
Day of death August 17, 2010
The temperature on August 17, 2010 was between 15.1 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
February 13 » A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
February 18 » WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.
May 12 » Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes on final approach to Tripoli International Airport in Tripoli, Libya, killing 103 out of the 104 people on board.
June 16 » Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
July 23 » English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowell on The X Factor (British series 7), later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s.
September 19 » The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
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