The temperature on July 9, 1912 was between 10.4 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
Day of marriage May 10, 1941
The temperature on May 10, 1941 was between 2.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
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.
May 10 » World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
May 27 » World War II: The German battleshipBismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
July 5 » World War II: Operation Barbarossa: German troops reach the Dnieper river.
August 22 » World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.
November 7 » World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
November 13 » World War II: The aircraft carrier HMSArk Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
Day of death February 11, 1944
The temperature on February 11, 1944 was between 0.5 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (43%). 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.
February 22 » World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
August 29 » World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
September 9 » World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
September 19 » World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed.
November 16 » World War II: Düren, Germany, is destroyed by Allied bombers.
November 29 » World War II: Albania is liberated by the Partisans.
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