The temperature on August 25, 1944 was between 13.2 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
June 10 » World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
June 20 » Continuation War: The Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
June 25 » World War II: United States Navy and British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
September 6 » World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
October 25 » Second World War: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
October 25 » Second World War: The USSTang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
Day of death January 21, 2003
The temperature on January 21, 2003 was between 6.3 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
April 14 » The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
August 22 » Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
September 14 » In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
September 20 » Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards.
October 14 » The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.
November 26 » The Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
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