Page 5: Historical Events In September - 19
Sunday, 01 February 2026
1941 HMCS Levis (Corvette) torpedoed. 

1941 1st meeting of partizans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia 

1943 Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record 

1944 Finland and Russia agree to cease fire 

1944 David Lord, British lieutenant/Dakota-pilot DFC/VC, dies in battle. 

1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London. 

1945 Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea. 

1947 Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year" 

1948 Jeremy Irons, English born film actor is born 

1948 62nd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (46 64 15-13) 

1949 Twiggy, English model and actress is born. 

1949 Twiggy, British actress/model born. 

1950 European Payment Union forms in Paris 

1951 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV 

1952 The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England 

1952 Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Presento il mio Ticino), dies. 

1953 "Hazel Flagg" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 perfs. 

1954 In this year, Beverly Hanson claims LPGA Wichita Golf Open. 

1954 Tibor Harsanyi, composer, dies at 56 

1955 Juan Peron, president of Argentina since 1946, was deposed and exiled in a military coup,. 

1955 Argentine president Juan Peron, steps down and flees 

1956 1st intl conference of black writers and artists meets (Sorbonne) 

1957 Bathyscaph Trieste, in a dive sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in the Mediterranean, reaches record depth of 2 miles 

1957 The inaugural underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas Nevada). 

1957 1st underground nuclear explosion at Las Vegas Nevada 

1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. 

1959 Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland 

1959 Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland 

1960 Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1 

1961 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them 

1961 Helen Kimble, fictional wife of Dr Richard Kimble (Fugitive) 

1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 

1962 Pogodin, writer, dies 

1963 Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. 

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