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Saturday, 14 February 2026
1934 Grete Gulbransson, writer, dies at 51. 
1935 "RvJ" Mitchell and Major Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire fighter aircraft decide on 8 .303 machine guns.
1935 "RvJ" Mitchell and Mjr Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire.
1936 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech
1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1936 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
1937 Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice and replace his 40 with 36 oz bat
1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City TX, erect statue of Popeye.
1937 William H Hastie is recorded as becoming inaugural black federal judge (Virgin Islands).
1937 Albert Relf, cricketer (13 Tests for England 1903-14), commits suicide
1938 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
1940 James Caan, American actor is born
1940 Ernest Hemingway and Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC
1941 HMS YORK, lost Eastern Mediterranean, in Suda Bay, north Crete - badly damaged by Italian explosive motor boats, beached and later wrecked by bombing.
1942 20 tons of gelignite results in the deaths of 21 in a stone quarry in Easton PA.
1942 ADM King is recorded as becoming both Chief of Naval Operations and Commander, U.S. Fleet.
1942 German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel-General Rommel
1942 The inaugural "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps.
1942 The inaugural 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec.
1942 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps.
1943 Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
1943 Second Lieutenant Moananui-a-Kiwi NGARIMU, 28th NZ (Maori) Battalion, won the Victoria Cross at Tebaga Gap, Tunisia.
1943 The inaugural woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott).
1943 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott).
1944 705 British bombers attack Essen
1944 Diana Ross, American singer is born.
1945 British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg).
1945 Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine.
1945 Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima.
1945 Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto.
1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms.
1945 Venray soccer team forms
1945 -29] Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1945 David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82.
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