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Thursday, 05 February 2026
1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii 
1927 John William Chancellor, Chicago Ill, news anchor (NBC, VOA)
1928 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher
1929 George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher.
1930 W H Ashley, cricketer (Test S Africa, 7 wkts), dies.
1932 Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders.
1933 East European Jewish immigrants are stripped of German citizenship
1933 Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness.
1934 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1325 Inanda and #1326 Losaka.
1934 NY Times erronously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time.
1934 116°F (47°C), Orogrande NM (state record, broken on June 27, 1994).
1936 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front govt
1938 In this year, Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifest
1938 Robert Poore, cricketer (3 Tests for S Africa in 1895-96 series), dies
1940 Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
1940 Bill Howell, cricketer (18 Tests for Aust 1898-1905), dies
1941 6000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp.
1942 Captain Charles Hazlitt UPHAM 20 th NZ Battalion, won the second of two Victoria Crosses in Egypt.
1942 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork.
1942 Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Neth/French/Belgian painter's model, dies.
1943 Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor, dies at 74%.
1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
1946 Dr Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published.
1947 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1747 Wright.
1948 Israel bombs Cairo
1948 Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's CPI chairman, assassinated.
1949 USSR explodes their 1st atom bomb
1949 Frank Hearne, cricketer (2 Tests for England, 4 Tests for S Afr), dies.
1950 RE Wayne awarded inaugural Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea.
1950 RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea.
1951 Citation is recorded as becoming inaugural horse to win $1000000 in races
1951 The inaugural color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race).
1951 "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances
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