Page 6: Historical Events In February - 09
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
1934 Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Romania) 

1934 -14.3°F (-25.7°C), coldest day in New York City. 

1935 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson 

1935 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee 

1935 Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, dies at 61 

1936 Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57. 

1938 Truby King, pioneer of mothercraft, dies. 

1939 Belgian Spaak government falls 

1939 Belgian Spaak govt falls 

1940 Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 

1941 British troops conquer El Agheila. 

1942 Daylight Savings War Time comes into force in US 

1942 Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes 

1943 FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry. 

1943 German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1200 in Vught Camp. 

1943 Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents 

1943 Joe Pesci, American actor is born 

1943 The southwest Pacific island of Guadalcanal is liberated by American forces, as the U.S. defeats Japan in this epic WWII battle 

1943 ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance 

1944 U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland 

1945 Germany destroys Ruhrdammen 

1945 Mia Farrow, American film actress is born 

1945 -Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen. 

1945 George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau. 

1946 Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms. 

1947 Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia PA 

1947 Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Phila 

1948 WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting. 

1948 Karl Valentin, German comic/writer, dies at 65 

1949 Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60. 

1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists 

1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy says the US State Department is infested with communists. 

1950 Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists. 

1951 The Royal Commission on Transportation, the Turgeon Commission produces its report. 

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