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Day of death December 31, 1944

• The temperature on December 31, 1944 was between -2.3 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • June 4 » World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
  • June 5 » World War II: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
  • September 18 » World War II: The British submarine HMSTradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
  • October 29 » The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
  • November 12 » World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
  • November 16 » World War II: Düren, Germany, is destroyed by Allied bombers.

Source: Wikipedia

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