Feb 08 Congress advises FDR that Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort

Feb 10 The first ever record 'Gold Disc' is presented to Glenn Miller

Feb 19 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt grants authority for the military to intern Japanese-Americans during WWII.

Feb 19 Japanese troop land on Timor

Feb 26 Government starts evacuating 21,000 Japanese Canadians from coastal regions of British Columbia to interior work camps; under War Measures Act

Feb 19 Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber

Feb 27 The allies are routed in the Battle of the Java Sea.

Feb 09 Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes

Feb 26 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bombs

Feb 02 Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans

Feb 26 Werner Heisenberger informs Nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"

Feb 16 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery

Feb 18 The birth of Milos Forman, Czech director.

Feb 28 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies

Feb 27 First transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany

Feb 10 HMCS Spikenard (Corvette) torpedoed

Feb 28 HMAS PERTH (RAN) sunk in Sunda Strait, western Java by torpedoes and 8in gunfire of Japanese cruiser force.

Feb 15 Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra

Feb 26 WWII Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"

Feb 13 Hitler's Operation Seelöwe (invasion of England) cancelled

Feb 20 Lieutenant E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers

Feb 19 First Japanese air raid on Darwin The city was bombed 64 times between feb 1942 and nov 1943

Feb 24 The Struma, a small cattle boat with 769 refugees heading illegally towards Palestine, is torpedoed, leaving one survivor.

Feb 08 Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles

Feb 04 Clinton Pierce becomes first US General wounded in action in WWII

Feb 18 Japanese troop land on Bali

Feb 11 "Archie" comic book debuts

Feb 26 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies

Feb 21 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn

Feb 14 Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens

Feb 08 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort

Feb 02 US auto factories switch from commercial to war production

Feb 03 Japanese air raid on Java

Feb 27 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun

Feb 19 Tommy Dorsey &his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"

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