Page 6: Historical Events In July - 25
Monday, 16 February 2026
1930 Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st and 4th innings vs Cleveland. 

1930 Maureen Forrester, Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony) 

1932 Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken), dies [or 1936]. 

1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington. 

1934 Failed nazi coup in Austria 

1934 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis 

1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1641 Tana. 

1936 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #3761. 

1936 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx 

1937 Colin Renfrew, British archaeologist is born. 

1938 Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany. 

1939 5th and last Dutch govt of Colijn, forms 

1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi R. 

1941 FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan. 

1942 German troops occupy Rostov. 

1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II 

1943 Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, forced to resign. 

1943 With American and British forces racing across Sicily, Italian King Emmanuel III, acting under the recommendation of the Fascist Grand Council, dismissed Fascist leader Benito Mussolini and placed him under arrest 

1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched 

1944 The breakout from the Normandy beaches begins. 

1944 The inaugural jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262). 

1944 -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam. 

1944 Lesley J McNair, US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-Lo. 

1946 The inaugural bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show 

1946 US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion). 

1946 Narziss Oh, German psychology, dies 

1947 US Air Force, Navy and War Dept form US Dept of Defense 

1947 US Deptartment of the Army created. 

1950 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroids #1799 Koussevitzky, #1822 Waterman and #2842 

1951 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1714 Sy. 

1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day). 

1952 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1788 Kiess 

1952 Herbert Murrill, composer, dies at 43 

1953 NYC transit fare rises from 10. to 15., inaugural use of subway tokens. 

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