Page 5: Historical Events In September - 02
Thursday, 19 February 2026
1938 Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster. 

1939 Bobby Purify, rocker 

1940 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa 

1940 Beverly Sanders, Hollywood Calif, actress (Lotsa Luck, CPO Sharkey) 

1941 Academy copyrights Oscar statuette. 

1941 Tommy Aycock, Edinburg TX, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas Senior-5th) 

1942 Sternbuch cable arrives at the Polish embassy in Washington, recounting the deportation of 100000 Jews from Warsaw to death camps, and how Jewish babies were being used to produce soap and fertilizer for Germany industry 

1942 The Chief Rabbi of Norway, Julues Samuel, refuses to go into hiding and chooses to join 208 Norwegian Jews sent to Bergen Belsen 

1942 German troops enter Stalingrad. 

1943 Glenn Sather, NHL coach (Edmonton Oiler). 

1944 Anne Frank (Diary of Anne Frank), is sent to Auschwitz 

1944 During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane. 

1944 Belgium's Emissie bank closes 

1944 Claude Nicollier, Vevey Switzerland, astronaut (STS 61-K, 46, 61, 75). 

1944 George W Norris, US senator (lame duck-amendement), dies 

1945 Allied forces arrive in Singapore and release prisoners of war. 

1945 Formal surrender of Japan is signed. 

1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France. 

1945 On board the aircraft carrier 'Missouri', in Tokyo Bay, General Douglas MacArthur accepts the Japanese surrender 

1945 President Truman sets the date as V-J Day 

1945 V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WWII ends). 

1945 59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64) 

1946 In this year, Johnny Neun formally adopts in place of Bill Dickey as Yankee manager. 

1949 Fire in riverfront area results in the deaths of 1700 (Chungking China). 

1951 Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron 161, equipped with HRS-1s, arrived Pusan, Korea 

1951 Australia, NZ and US sign ANZUS-pact 

1952 Jimmy Connors, American tennis player is born 

1952 Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery. 

1954 Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20 

1955 KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting 

1955 Rudolf Kattnigg, composer, dies at 60 

1956 Collapse of a RR bridge under a train results in the deaths of 120 (India). 

1956 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service 

1957 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1700 die. 

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