The temperature on August 11, 1944 was between 16.5 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 17 » World War II: Operation Hailstone begins: U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
March 3 » The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
July 21 » World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.
August 20 » World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
September 5 » Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
November 12 » World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
Day of death March 7, 1947
The temperature on March 7, 1947 was between -8.4 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -3.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
July 6 » The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
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