Dutch Roman Catholic bishops protest against persecution of Jews.
Event Type: Key Events of WW II
1942-02-21
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn. US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht.
1944-02-20
Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers. US takes Eniwetok Island. The “Big Week” began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1943-02-20
Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia. New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer’s corn field (Mexico). Phil Wrigley & Branch Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League. American movie studio executives agree to allow [ … ]
1942-02-20
Lt. E. H. “Butch” O’Hare became the U.S. Navy’s first flying ace of the war by shooting down 5 Japanese heavy bombers while defending the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in the [ … ]
1945-02-19
The U.S. 5th Fleet launched Operation Detachment as 30,000 U.S. Marines began landing on Iwo Jima, where they commenced a successful month-long battle to seize control of the island from Japanese [ … ]
1944-02-19
Some 823 British bombers attack Berlin. German submarine U-264 sinks off Ireland.
1943-02-19
German tanks under General Major Karl Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass, Tunisia. Bill Longson beats Bobby Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champion.
1943-12-19
German tanks under General-Major Karl Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass, Tunisia. Military coup in Bolivia.
1942-02-19
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which paved the way for the relocation and internment of people of Japanese ancestry, including U.S.-born citizens. Japanese troops land on Timor, Indonesia. About [ … ]
1944-02-18
Maastricht, Netherlands resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested. The youngest Major League baseball player, 15 year old pitcher Joe Nuxhall is signed by the Cincinnati Reds.
1943-02-18
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Chinese leader, addressed members of the Senate and then the House, becoming the first Chinese national to address both houses of the U.S. Congress. The 1st [ … ]
1942-02-18
Japanese troop land on Bali, Indonesia.
1944-02-17
U.S. forces invaded Eniwetok Atoll, encountering little resistance from Imperial Japanese troops. (The Americans secured the atoll less than a week later.) The U.S. begins night bombing of Truk, Caroline Islands.
1943-02-17
Adolf Hitler visits Field Marshal Erich von Manstein’s headquarters in Zaporozje, Ukraine and stays until the 19th. Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews. Major General Omar Bradley flies [ … ]