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.
January 11 » World War II: Japanese forces attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
February 1 » World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
March 20 » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
August 17 » World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin.
September 7 » World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay.
December 15 » World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
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 9 » World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
March 16 » World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
April 30 » World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9000 American and British airmen.
May 4 » World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath is signed, coming into effect the following day. It encompasses all Wehrmacht units in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany.
June 26 » The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California.
September 5 » Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
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