The temperature on September 28, 1942 was between 8.2 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 9 » World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
March 31 » World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
May 22 » Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.
June 11 » World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
November 8 » World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
December 2 » World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
Day of death February 13, 1988
The temperature on February 13, 1988 was between -1.5 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 6 » Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
February 29 » Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
October 19 » The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
November 15 » The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
December 1 » World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.
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