The temperature on August 20, 1942 was between 12.0 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 18.6 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 24 » An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
March 3 » World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
July 1 » World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
August 21 » World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
November 28 » In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.
Day of death April 1, 1999
The temperature on April 1, 1999 was between 7.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 12 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
May 1 » SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon.
May 6 » The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
May 7 » Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
September 7 » The 6.0 Mw Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.
November 30 » Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
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