The temperature on April 6, 1944 was between 5.0 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 14 » Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20million pounds.
June 11 » USSMissouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
August 21 » World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
September 3 » Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
September 18 » World War II:Battle of Arracourt begins
October 25 » Second World War: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
Day of marriage October 2, 1970
The temperature on October 2, 1970 was between 7.1 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 10.1 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
July 31 » Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
September 11 » The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
October 12 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
November 5 » The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
November 13 » Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.
Day of death December 4, 2012
The temperature on December 4, 2012 was between -0.1 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
February 7 » President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
May 13 » Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40.
June 26 » The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
July 7 » At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
August 23 » A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
November 14 » Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.
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