Feb 13 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council

Feb 04 The United Service Organizations (USO) is created, at the request of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Feb 26 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)

Feb 11 Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli

Feb 25 The birth of David Puttnam, English film producer

Feb 06 Battle of Beda Fomm Italian 10th army destroyed

Feb 08 NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins Nazi propaganda on Dutch radio

Feb 05 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands

Feb 24 Anti Nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam

Feb 01 US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner

Feb 07 Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey Orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me"

Feb 22 I G Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Feb 01 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn

Feb 15 Duke Ellington first records "Take the A Train"

Feb 03 Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage &Hour law, sets minimum wages &maximum hours

Feb 09 British troops conquer El Agheila

Feb 20 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation

Feb 20 First transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland

Feb 26 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews

Feb 06 British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya

Feb 25 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam

Feb 04 Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin

Apr 09 Commissioning of USS North Carolina, which carried 9 16-inch guns

Apr 22 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1567 Alikoski

Apr 03 British troops evacuate Libyan port Bengazi during World War II.

Apr 03 Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq

Apr 26 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2091 Sampo

Apr 30 Atlantic German U-boat torpedoes Canadian passenger ship Nerissa off Ireland; 73 Canadian Army personnel lost.

Apr 11 Belgrade, in Yugoslavia, occupied by German forces during World War 2

Apr 14 The birth of Julie Christie, American actress

Apr 10 Start of siege of Tobruk, Libya, which lasts until 7 December 1941

Apr 04 German troops conquer Banghazi

Apr 07 Canadian merchant ship S.S. Portadoc, (Great Lakes freighter) was torpedoed by the U-124 off Freetown south Africa

Apr 10 The birth of Paul Theroux, American writer

Apr 13 Corporal J H Edmonson, 2/17th Battalion, 2nd AIF, awarded posthumously the first Australian Victoria Cross of World War Two at Tobruk, Libya

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