The temperature on January 5, 1942 was between -1.2 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 31 » World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
March 31 » World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
July 22 » Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.
July 23 » Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
September 20 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.
Day of death June 20, 1971
The temperature on June 20, 1971 was between 9.1 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 12.2 mm of rain during 10.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 19 » Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
May 27 » Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
May 31 » In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
July 30 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
October 21 » A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.
December 20 » The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
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