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Friday, 13 February 2026
1929 In game between Pirates and Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning 
1932 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job
1933 The inaugural police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
1933 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY.
1934 The inaugural sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
1934 USS Houston takes Franklin Delano Roosevelt on inaugural visit of U.S. President to South America.
1934 1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia.
1936 New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
1936 109°F (43°C) Cumberland and Frederick, Maryland (state record)
1937 Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"
1937 Attilio Brugnoli, composer, dies at 56
1938 "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic.
1940 Australian fighter pilots begin their participation in the Battle of Britain.
1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air
1940 Battle of Britian began
1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air (114 days)
1940 Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist/composer, dies at 64.
1941 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton pioneer jazz pianist, dies at 56 in LA.
1941 Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
1941 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, pioneer jazz pianist, dies in LA at 56.
1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp.
1943 Naval gunfire help Allied troops land on Sicily. It was inaugural extensive use of LST's and smaller landing craft to deliver heavy equipment over the beach
1943 US and Britain invade Sicily in WW II
1943 6th day of battle at Kursk.
1943 Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer, dies at 72.
1944 U-821 sinks
1945 14 carriers from Third Fleet carriers begin air strikes on Japanese Home Islands which end 15 August.
1945 Robert Goddard Rocket pioneer, dies.
1945 Lt-adm Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff
1945 Robert Goddard, Rocket pioneer, dies
1946 Canada's inaugural drive-in movie theatre opens in Hamilton, Ontario (those were the days).
1946 Belgian govt of Acker, steps down
1947 200 die when train derails and fell into a river in Canton, China.
1948 "Allegro" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 318 performances.
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