The temperature on April 25, 1944 was between 5.3 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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.
January 27 » World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
April 26 » Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
June 10 » World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
June 17 » Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
August 23 » World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
August 24 » World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
Day of death August 6, 1966
The temperature on August 6, 1966 was between 10.9 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
April 21 » Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
May 15 » After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Tôn Thất Đính, forcing him to abandon his command.
August 29 » Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
November 8 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
December 27 » The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
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