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Wednesday, 11 February 2026
1938 Documented anti-Semitic remarks are heard over US radio (by Father Coughlin). 
1938 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin).
1939 Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer, dies at 72
1940 Hungary, Rumania, and Slovakia join Axis.
1940 German air raid on Birmingham fails
1941 Adm Nomura and Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note.
1942 Operation Galvanic, under command of Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance, lands Navy, Marine, and Army forces on Tarawa and Makin
1942 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski.
1943 US forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Island.
1943 U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1944 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
1944 Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine), dies at 21.
1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1945 The International Military Tribunal begins trying German war criminals at Nuremberg.
1945 The Nuremburg war crimes tribunal begins hearings with 24 Nazi leaders, including Hess and Goering, on trial
1946 Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in NYC.
1947 "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC.
1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten.
1947 The inaugural permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (The New Jersey).
1947 UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps.
1948 US balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
1949 Jewish population of Israel reaches 1000000
1950 In the Korean war advancing allied troops reach the Manchurian Chinese border
1950 Francesco Cilea, composer, dies at 84.
1951 Snowdonia is recorded as becoming a National Park
1952 In this year, Cubs slugger Hank Sauer claims NL MVP
1952 Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (La Critica), dies at 86.
1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, inaugural to break Mach 2 (1300 MPH)
1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1300 MPH).
1954 KTRK TV channel 13 in Houston, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting.
1955 Kripal Singh scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, India v NZ.
1957 Newly appointed Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy, while testifing before Congress said that he would set up an agency to manage all defense research. Despite objections by some of the military, the research agency, known as ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) was created in early 1958. ARPA developed ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, in 1969
1957 Weldon Hart, composer, dies at 46
1959 The all-new 105E Anglia was introduced in the United States--the inaugural British Ford to be marketed to Americans on a large scale.
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