The temperature on January 11, 1942 was between -8.0 °C and -1.6 °C and averaged -5.7 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 22 » World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
February 23 » World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California.
July 1 » The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
July 18 » The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
September 9 » World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
November 4 » World War II: Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel begins a retreat of his forces after a costly defeat during the Second Battle of El Alamein. The retreat would ultimately last five months.
Day of death January 12, 1942
The temperature on January 12, 1942 was between -9.9 °C and -4.4 °C and averaged -7.9 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
January 26 » World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
June 20 » The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
August 22 » Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy.
August 23 » World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
September 21 » The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.
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