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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1939 Comic strip "Superman" debuts 
1939 Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed
1941 US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
1941 War Department forms inaugural Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets.
1942 Actress Carole Lombard, and twenty other people, die in a plane crash near Las Vegas
1942 Screen star Carole Lombard, her mother and 20 other people were killed in a commercial airliner crash near Las Vegas, Nev. Lombard was the wife of actor Clark Gable
1942 William Knudsen is recorded as becoming inaugural civilian appointed a General in US army
1942 William Knudsen is recorded as becoming 1st civilian appointed a general in US army.
1942 Barbara Lynn, [Ozen], US singer (You'll Lose a Good Thing), dies
1943 -60ºF (-51ºC), Island Park Dam ID (state record)
1943 German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow.
1943 Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad.
1943 The inaugural US air raid on Ambon.
1943 -60°F (-51°C), Island Park Dam, Idaho (state record).
1943 Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Sunny Lane), dies at 88
1944 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower arrived in London to assume command of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe.
1944 General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London.
1944 In London, General Dwight D. Eisenhower is recorded as becoming commander of the Allied Invasion Force, during WWII
1944 Lieutenant (jg) S. R. Graham, USCG, while en route from New York to Liverpool in the British freighter Daghestan made a 30 minute flight in an R-4B (HNS-1) from the ship's 60 by 80 foot flight deck.
1944 Gen Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London.
1945 Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg
1945 U.S. inaugural and 3rd army units close the bulge, but do not succeed in entrapping enemy forces
1945 US inaugural and 3rd army meet at Houffalise.
1945 Dennis Donnini, Brit rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19
1946 Johanna HC Albregt, actress/wife of Henri Dons (Paradise), dies at 71
1947 Vincent Aurial elected President of France
1948 35 Haganah members are ambushed and killed in Gush Etzyon.
1949 "Rape of Lucretia" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 23 perfs.
1950 Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands recognize Israel.
1951 Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi.
1951 World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville TX, to 134th St, New York City NY).
1952 New Dutch bible translation finished.
1952 US Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85000 salary
1953 Egyptian Premier General Naguib disbands all political parties.
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