The temperature on November 8, 1937 was between 4.1 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
July 7 » The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
September 22 » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
December 21 » Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
Day of death December 8, 1943
The temperature on December 8, 1943 was between 0.9 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
July 10 » World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.
September 7 » World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
September 23 » World War II: The Nazi puppet state known as the Italian Social Republic is founded.
October 14 » World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
November 16 » World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
December 17 » All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.
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