Page 6: Historical Events In July - 15
Sunday, 22 February 2026
1932 The Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway is opened throughout between North Bay and Moosonee, Ont. Construction was started on May 10, 1902. The name was subsequently changed to Ontario Northland Transportation. 

1932 President Hoover cuts own salary 15%. 

1932 Nina Van Pallandt, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (American Gigolo). 

1933 Guido Crepax, Italian graphic novelist is born. 

1933 Wiley Post began inaugural solo flight around the world. 

1933 Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world. 

1933 Irving Babbitt, US writer (Democracy and Leadership), dies at 67. 

1934 Continental Airlines commences operations. 

1934 Jules Renkin, Belgian PM (1931-32), dies. 

1935 Alfred Archer, cricketer (England batsman in one Test 1899), dies 

1936 Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget. 

1937 Buchenwald concentration camp is opened 

1937 Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China. 

1937 Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens 

1937 Walter Gay, artist, dies. 

1938 Arthur Fagg completes 244 and 202 in the same cricket game for Kent 

1939 Clara Adams (NYC) is 1st woman to complete round world flight 

1939 Johon Mellanby, physiologist, dies 

1940 Robert Wadlow world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32 

1940 Voluntary Defence Force (VDC), composed mainly of World War One veterans, formed by Returned Sailors' Soldiers' and Airmen's League of Australia for home defence. 

1940 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il. 

1940 Donald Calthrop, dies at 52 

1941 Florey and Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Pencillin). 

1941 Florey and Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin). 

1942 inaugural deportees sent to Auschwitz come from Germany and Holland 

1942 Sgt. Keith Elliott 22 NZ Battalion, won the Victoria Cross at 

1942 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz 

1942 Denis Moloney, cricketer (during WW II 3 Tests for NZ 1937), dies 

1944 Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb 

1945 27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine CC Dayton Ohio 

1946 British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown 

1947 Henry Kolker, dies at 76 

1948 John J Persing US General (WW I), dies at 87. 

1948 Pres Truman nominated for another term 

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