1 UID 4BA2C97EFD3D0949836881CABE692B1B6384 1 UID D5560C36D5B2D845AE9333C80C681614EB76 1 UID 0986391DBFFC1F4D8C7299CC3B9AA1FEE3BE Niall Known as: Middle name: Occupation: Surname: Darling Date of birth: ABT. 1 MAR Year of birth: Date of baptism: Gender: Male Year of death: 1945 Source of data: Place of birth: Kildare Place of baptism: Place of death: Kilbelin Cemetery, Newbridge (Darling Family Plot) Notes:
The temperature on March 1, 1942 was between -1.3 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 14 » Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
February 22 » World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
March 5 » World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
March 29 » The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
May 4 » World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USSYorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
September 9 » World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
Day of death January 17, 1945
The temperature on January 17, 1945 was between -0.7 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
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).
February 8 » World War II: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
April 15 » Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
April 16 » More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
April 18 » Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
May 5 » World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath becomes effective, encompassing all German armed forces opposing the 21st Army Group in northwestern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
August 2 » World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.
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