The temperature on August 22, 1940 was between 9.0 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
February 29 » Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
March 12 » Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
April 9 » Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
July 20 » California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
October 25 » Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
November 27 » World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
Day of death July 27, 2001
The temperature on July 27, 2001 was between 15.8 °C and 28.7 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The 7.7 Mw Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.
January 31 » In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
June 28 » Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
September 4 » Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
October 11 » The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
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