The temperature on May 9, 1943 was between 3.4 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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.
July 5 » World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
August 15 » World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds.
September 3 » World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign the Armistice of Cassibile aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMSNelson off Malta.
September 9 » World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
October 14 » World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
December 5 » World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
Day of death April 15, 1945
The temperature on April 15, 1945 was between 9.4 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
January 26 » World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
March 19 » World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USSFranklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the US under her own power.
May 5 » World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
August 14 » The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
October 18 » A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
December 12 » The People's Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, by order of the United States Army Military Government in Korea.
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