May 07 The Lodz ghetto is sealed. 165,000 people in 1.6 square miles.

May 20 Concentration camp is established at Auschwitz.

May 17 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium

May 25 German troops conquer Boulogne

May 20 General Guderians tanks reach The Channel

May 14 Admiral Furstner departs to England

May 14 Rotterdam, in Holland, captured by German forces during WW2

Jan 09 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium

Jan 23 Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile

Jan 27 -17ºF (-27ºC), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record)

Jan 11 Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo &Juliet premieres in Leningrad

Jan 30 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Victoria can't stop a New South Wales win

Jan 22 The birth of John Hurt, English actor

Jan 15 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk

Jan 05 FCC hears first transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal

Jan 27 -17ºF (-27ºC), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record)

Jan 14 The birth of Trevor Nunn, British stage director

Jan 09 The Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) is set up again to raise money for comfort parcels for dispatch to service personnel in Australia and overseas

Jan 05 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia

Jan 10 First convoy carrying units of the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) sails for the Middle East

Jan 24 The Naval Secretary notifies Secretary of War Henry Stimson, "Hostilities would be initiated by a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor."

Jan 25 Nazi decrees the establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland

Jan 05 FCC hears first transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal

Jan 08 Great Britain begins the rationing of meat, butter, and sugar to help the war effort during WWII.

Jan 05 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia

Jan 26 Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains

Jan 21 Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship

Jan 14 Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers

Feb 16 RCAF's No. 110 Army Cooperation Squadron sails for Britain; first of 48 squadrons to go overseas

Feb 28 The first college basketball games are televised, as W2XBS in NY City broadcasts a pair of games from Madison Square Garden.

Feb 29 Gone with the Wind picks up eight Academy Awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture.

Feb 02 Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra

Feb 05 The birth of H R Giger, Dutch painter.

Feb 23 The birth of Peter Fonda, American actor

Feb 29 Hattie McDaniel becomes first black woman to win an Oscar

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