Jan 05 55 German tanks reach North-Africa

Jan 16 William Knudsen becomes first civilian appointed a General in US army

Jan 21 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain

Jan 18 Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman

Jan 07 WWII siege of Bataan starts

Jan 01 US & 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis

Jan 27 -19ºF (-27.4ºC), Netherlands' coldest day since 1850

Jan 16 Actress Carole Lombard, and twenty other people, die in a plane crash near Las Vegas.

Jan 21 Tito's partisans occupy Foca

Jan 02 German troops in Bardia surrender

Jan 09 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created

Jan 26 Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel

Jan 20 Wannsee Conference: Details of plan to murder 11,000,000 European Jews are drafted.

Jan 03 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms

Jan 12 National War Labor Board created

Jan 02 The Philippine capital city of Manila falls to Japanese invaders during WWII.

Jan 09 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created

Jan 05 55 German tanks reach North-Africa

Jan 03 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms

Jan 20 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain

Jan 27 HMS THANET, sunk south east Malaya in South China Sea - by gunfire of Japanese 5.5in cruiser 'Sendai' and destroyers while attacking Japanese troop transports

Jan 11 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya

Jan 10 Japan invades North-Celebes, Dutch East Indies

Jan 21 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"

Jan 13 Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration

Feb 09 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US

Feb 15 The British colony of Singapore surrenders to Japanese troops during WWII.

Feb 28 Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit

Feb 21 US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht

Feb 05 "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn &Tracy opens at Radio City

Feb 16 Massacre of 22 members of the Australian Army Nursing Service and other survivors of the SS Vyner Brooke, on Banka Island, Straits of Sumatra

Feb 14 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra

Feb 19 About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin

Feb 15 British and Australian forces surrender at Singapore Over 15,000 Australian soldiers become prisoners of war

Feb 11 In Montreal anti-conscription riot breaks out after 10,000 people rally at the Marché St-Jacques

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