Page 5: Historical Events In April - 29
Monday, 02 February 2026
1926 Carie Meek, (Rep-D-Florida) 

1927 Construction of the Spirit of St Louis is completed. 

1927 Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed 

1927 Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist/auto company exec 

1928 Big Jay McNeely, rocker 

1928 Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61. 

1929 Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, composer 

1930 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1268 Libya 

1930 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games. 

1930 Alf Valentine, cricketer (great West Indian lefty spinner). 

1931 Cleve Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0. 

1934 Pitts is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday 

1935 Leroy Carr, rocker, dies= 

1936 1st pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5 

1936 Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76. 

1937 Saddam Hussein, Iraqi leader is born. 

1938 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1484 Postrema. 

1939 Whitestone bridge connecting the Bronx and Queens opens 

1939 Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx and Queens opens 

1940 1st radio broadcast of "Young Dr Malone" on CBS. 

1942 Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road 

1943 Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrested by nazis. 

1943 Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56. 

1944 Fast carrier task force (12 carriers) commence 2 day bombing of Truk 

1944 HMCS ATHABASKAN (RCN), sunk off north coast of Brittany, France in English Channel, 10 miles north of Ile de Vierge - by 1 or 2 torpedoes from German torpedo boat T.24.While covering minelaying operation of Brittany with Canadian destroyer 'Haida' 

1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague. 

1945 Canadians start air dropping food supplies to the starving Dutch 

1945 The German armed foces in Italy surrender to the allies. 

1945 The German commanding officer in Italy surrenders to General Alexander of the U.S. 5th Army unit. 

1945 US liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany 

1945 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna). 

1946 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals 

1947 Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80. 

1948 Bradman scores 107 Aust v Worcs, 152 mins, 15 fours. 

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