Feb 14 Soviets recapture Rostov

Feb 09 The southwest Pacific island of Guadalcanal is liberated by American forces, as the U.S. defeats Japan in this epic WWII battle.

Feb 02 The Germans surrender at Stalingrad.

Feb 20 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia

Feb 13 Women's Marine Corps created

Feb 06 Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade"

Feb 02 Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army, leaving 600,000 dead

Feb 05 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, first transmission

Feb 26 German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia

Feb 28 "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan

Feb 05 The birth of Nolan Bushnell, American game designer (founder of Atari and creator of Pong, the first videogame)

Feb 06 HMCS Louisburg (Corvette) torpedoed in the Mediterranean

Feb 23 German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia

Feb 05 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots Nazi General Seyffardt

Feb 02 Nazi troops surrender to Russian forces after the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Feb 01 Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Netherlands)

Feb 19 German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia

Feb 16 British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia

Feb 12 General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa

Feb 06 The first Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down

Feb 22 HMCS Weyburn strikes a mine near Gibralter and sinks

Feb 08 Red Army recaptures Kursk

Feb 20 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (México)

Apr 13 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial

Apr 03 Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested

Apr 09 Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau

Apr 05 Allies bomb Mortsel

Apr 19 Warsaw ghetto revolt; liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto continues for one month.

Apr 11 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his first (single-rotor) craft

Apr 19 "Bermuda Conference": Fruitless discussion by U.S. and British delegates on deliverance of Nazi victims.

Apr 05 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days

Apr 05 The third and last "Macedonian transport" reaches the Treblinka "resettlement"; all are gassed.

Apr 19 "Bermuda Conference" Fruitless discussion by U.S. and British delegates on deliverance of Nazi victims.

Apr 19 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto

Apr 06 British &US army link up in Africa during WW II

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