1924 New French government of Poincaré begins

1928 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson

1928 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner

1930 The first US radio broadcast from a ship at sea

1931 Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor

1931 John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on

1932 De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt

1933 At a mass rally in New York's Madison Square Garden, Jewish leaders threaten a counter-boycott against German-made goods unless their anti-Jewish boycott is called off.

1933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized

1933 Japan leaves League of Nations

1933 Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett

1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice

1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years

1941 Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)

1941 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul

1942 Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire

1942 Japanese still residing in California are told they must evacuate within 24 hours of receiving orders.

1942 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York NY)

1942 The Canadian Parliament passes War Appropriation (United Kingdom) Finance Act; $700 million British debt written off. The cost to each Canadian is $87

1943 Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau

1943 Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) first heard on CBS Radio

1943 HMS DASHER lost 5 miles south of Cumbraes Island in Firth of Clyde, SW Scotland - by aviation gasoline explosion. Working up after repairs to storm-damage sustained during Russian convoy JW.53 the previous month

1943 US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia

1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1944 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania

1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo

1944 Australian Government launches First Victory Loan aimed at raising £150 million ($300 million) for the war effort Twelve major government war loans were offered to the Australian public during World War Two

1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno

1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine

1945 Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"

1945 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken

1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed

1945 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden

1950 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China

1951 Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"

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