Page 6: Historical Events In March - 27
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized 

1933 Japan leaves League of Nations. 

1933 Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson and Eric William Fawcett. 

1933 Lionel Palairet, cricketer (49 runs in 2 Tests for England 1902), dies 

1936 WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air 

1937 Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam. 

1938 The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place 

1938 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66. 

1939 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: U of Oregon beats OH State 46-33. 

1939 Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57 

1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice 

1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years. 

1941 Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia). 

1941 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul. 

1942 Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire 

1942 Japanese still residing in California are told they must evacuate within 24 hours of receiving orders 

1942 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York NY) 

1942 The Canadian Parliament passes War Appropriation (United Kingdom) Finance Act; $700 million British debt written off. The cost to each Canadian is $87. 

1942 -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire. 

1943 Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau 

1943 Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) inaugural heard on CBS Radio 

1943 HMS DASHER lost 5 miles south of Cumbraes Island in Firth of Clyde, SW Scotland - by aviation gasoline explosion. Working up after repairs to storm-damage sustained during Russian convoy JW.53 the previous month 

1943 US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia 

1943 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash. 

1944 1000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp 

1944 2000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania 

1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo. 

1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno. 

1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine 

1945 Ella Fitzgerald and Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon". 

1945 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken 

1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22000 Japanese and 6000 US killed 

1945 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden 

1945 7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Okla State beats NYU 49-44 

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