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Saturday, 14 February 2026
Jan 13 In this year, Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration 
Jan 14 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
Jan 15 Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II.
Jan 15 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII
Jan 15 Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic-gold-08, 12), dies at 58.
Jan 16 Actress Carole Lombard, and twenty other people, die in a plane crash near Las Vegas
Jan 16 Barbara Lynn, [Ozen], US singer (You'll Lose a Good Thing), dies.
Jan 16 Screen star Carole Lombard, her mother and 20 other people were killed in a commercial airliner crash near Las Vegas, Nev. Lombard was the wife of actor Clark Gable.
Jan 16 William Knudsen is recorded as becoming 1st civilian appointed a general in US army.
Jan 16 William Knudsen is recorded as becoming inaugural civilian appointed a General in US army
Jan 17 Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61.
Jan 18 Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart and Wiardi Beckman.
Jan 19 Japanese forces invade Burma during World War 2.
Jan 19 Japanese forces invade Burma
Jan 19 Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers
Jan 20 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
Jan 20 Japanese invade Burma.
Jan 20 Nazi officials decide on their "final solution" that calls for the extermination of Jews
Jan 20 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews.
Jan 20 Wannsee Conference Details of plan to murder 11000000 European Jews are drafted.
Jan 20 Wannsee Conference: Details of plan to murder 11000000 European Jews are drafted.
Jan 21 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
Jan 21 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump".
Jan 21 Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72.
Jan 21 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
Jan 21 Tito's partisans occupy Foca
Jan 21 Unified partisan organization is established in the Vilna ghetto. Resistance organization set upon Kovno ghetto
Jan 22 Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
Jan 22 Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemishch Natl Front, dies at 81.
Jan 23 Japanese capture Rabaul, New Guinea.
Jan 23 Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
Jan 23 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
Jan 24 Battle of Makassar Strait, destroyer attack on Japanese convoy in inaugural surface action in the Pacific during World War II
Jan 24 In Ottawa Wartime Prices and Trade Board rations sugar to 3/4 lb per person per week; cut to 1/2 lb.
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