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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Dec 15 A musical standard was recorded this day on Victor Records. Lena Horne sang the torch classic that became her signature: Stormy Weather 
Dec 15 Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland
Dec 15 USS Swordfish is recorded as becoming inaugural US sub to sink a Japanese ship.
Dec 16 Sarawak occupied by Japanese.
Dec 16 Sarawak occupied by the Japanese.
Dec 17 Dutch and Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor
Dec 17 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa.
Dec 17 HMS THRACIAN, lost while in Hong Kong - ran aground, dry-docked but damaged by Japanese bombing, later beached. Salvaged and served in Japanese Navy.
Dec 18 German submarine U-434 sinks.
Dec 19 German submarine U-574 sinks
Dec 19 In this year, Company-Sgt. Major John Robert Osborn (The Winnipeg Grenadiers) claims the Victoria Cross at Hong Kong
Dec 19 L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle
Dec 20 Free France under adm Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon.
Dec 21 Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
Dec 21 HMS AUDACITY, sunk east of Azores by 3 torpedoes from German U-751
Dec 22 Japanese capture Sugar Loaf Hill at 12 noon, but Canadians from C Company of the Royal Rifles recapture the hill; later taken out to Stanley Fort down the peninsula, for a rest; will hold out until their ammunition, food and water are exhausted
Dec 22 Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines.
Dec 22 Leopoldo Mugnone, composer, dies at 83
Dec 22 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference.
Dec 23 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese.
Dec 24 1st ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor-fleet return to Japan
Dec 25 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong.
Dec 26 Winston Churchill is recorded as becoming 1st British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing".
Dec 26 Winston Churchill is recorded as becoming inaugural British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that the Axis would "stop at nothing"
Dec 27 Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
Dec 28 State of siege comes into force in Bohemia/Moravia
Dec 29 Ray Thomas, England, rock vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin).
Dec 30 Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach
Dec 31 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz assumes command of U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Dec 31 Sigwart Aspestrand, composer, dies at 85
Dec 31 Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
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