The temperature on March 29, 1944 was between -0.1 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 5 » The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic.
April 5 » World War II: Two hundred seventy inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
June 4 » World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.
July 26 » World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
September 3 » Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
November 21 » World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.
Day of death December 4, 2008
The temperature on December 4, 2008 was between 0.4 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 26 » The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
March 15 » Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people.
April 6 » The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.
May 15 » California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
September 12 » The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
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