The temperature on August 18, 1944 was between 15.0 °C and 27.8 °C and averaged 21.1 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
April 22 » World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
August 22 » World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
October 13 » World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
October 18 » World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm Germany.
November 4 » World War II: The 7th Macedonian Liberation Brigade liberates Bitola for the Allies.
December 28 » Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
Day of death August 23, 1944
The temperature on August 23, 1944 was between 18.6 °C and 34.7 °C and averaged 24.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (74%). 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 3 » World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
January 5 » The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic.
March 24 » Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
September 3 » Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
October 21 » World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMASAustralia as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
December 22 » World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
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