The temperature on December 7, 1944 was between 3.9 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 6.9 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
April 10 » Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
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.
August 7 » IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
August 13 » World War II: German troops begin the pillage and razing of Anogeia in Crete that would continue until September 5.
September 5 » Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
October 27 » World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
Day of death August 16, 1983
The temperature on August 16, 1983 was between 12.7 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
March 11 » Bob Hawke is appointed Prime Minister of Australia.
June 18 » Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
December 7 » An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.
December 17 » Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.
December 31 » The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
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