Page 6: Historical Events In January - 30
Tuesday, 03 February 2026
1933 Grimmett takes 7-86 for South Africa in Queensland 2nd inn, 13-135 for match. 

1933 The inaugural episode of the Lone Ranger radio show is broadcast on Detroit station WXYZ. Hi yo, Silver, away!. 

1933 "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio 

1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days. 

1934 Hitler proclamation on German unified states. 

1934 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC. 

1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos". 

1936 Victoria need 442 to win against New South Wales, but lose, all out for 415. 

1936 New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname 

1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death. 

1937 Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion is born. 

1937 Vanessa Redgrave, Stage and screen actress is born. 

1939 Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews 

1939 Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile 

1940 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Victoria can't stop a New South Wales win. 

1940 Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London. 

1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya 

1942 Hitler speaks at the Sports Palace in Berlin, "The war will end with the complete annihilation of the Jews." 

1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon. 

1942 Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer, dies at 72. 

1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin. 

1943 German assault on French in Tunisia. 

1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General - field marshal. 

1943 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing. 

1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean 

1944 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands. 

1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7700 die. 

1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7700 die. 

1945 Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90. 

1946 The inaugural issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime. 

1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime. 

1947 Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80 

1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland. 

1948 Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader, is assassinated by a Hindu extremist. 

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