Jan 31 Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

Jan 27 Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreibér warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor

Jan 16 US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor

Jan 11 Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton

Jan 03 Australian troops capture Bardia, Libya, from the Italians

Jan 08 Federal Minister Ian Mackenzie announces that the RCMP will be registering all Japanese Canadians in British Columbia; a national security matter under the War Measures Act. They are later moved inland to detention camps.

Jan 21 The first anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria

Jan 21 Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya

Jan 31 Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands

Jan 01 Formal opening of CBC News Service in canada

Jan 21 The birth of Placido Domingo, Spanish tenor

Jan 09 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane

Jan 19 British troops occupy Kassalaf Sudan

Jan 06 FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want &from fear)

Jan 01 Netherlands begins taxing wages

Feb 14 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel

Feb 20 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands

Feb 04 British tanks occupy Maus Libya

Feb 10 Anti-Nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands

Feb 14 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya

Feb 21 US Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to Brigadier-General

Feb 24 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague

Feb 09 Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)

Feb 22 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal

Feb 22 Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres

Feb 22 Paul Creston's first Symphony, premieres

Feb 11 First Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo)

Feb 22 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam

Feb 22 German assault on El Agheila Libya

Feb 11 Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments

Feb 12 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"

Feb 28 British-Italian dogfight above Albania

Feb 26 Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory

Feb 08 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore

Feb 19 Nazis raid Koco Amsterdam &round up 429 young Jews for deportation

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