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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
May 29 Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer, dies at 72. 
May 29 Meat and cheese rationed in US.
May 30 French General De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
May 30 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians.
May 31 "Archie" comic strip inaugural broadcast on radio
Jun 01 Actor Leslie Howard dies today when a civilian flight from Lisbon to London is shot down by the Germans during WWII, killing all on board.
Jun 01 Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo and Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50.
Jun 02 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy).
Jun 02 99th Pursuit Squadron flies inaugural combat mission (over Italy)
Jun 03 Folkert E Posthuma, Min of Agriculture, dies
Jun 03 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration forms.
Jun 04 Argentina taken over by Gen Rawson and Col Juan Peron
Jun 04 Jean du Bela, singer/actor (Sobibor), dies at 39.
Jun 05 In this year, 75th Belmont: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet claims in 2:28.2.
Jun 06 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74
Jun 07 Ken Osmond, actor (Eddie Haskel-Leave it To Beaver).
Jun 07 Professor Clauberg in Auschwitz reports a sterilization rate of 1000 women a day, mostly on Jewish women from Greece.
Jun 09 "Pay-as-you-go" (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized.
Jun 09 Congress passes "pay-as-you-go" income tax.
Jun 10 FDR is recorded as becoming 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime.
Jun 10 FDR is recorded as becoming inaugural US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime.
Jun 10 FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
Jun 10 Lieutenant Commander F. A. Erickson, USCG, proposed that helicopters be developed for antisubmarine warfare, "not as a killer craft but as the eyes and ears of the convoy escorts." To this end he recommended that helicopters be equipped with radar and dunking sonar.
Jun 10 The ballpoint pen patented in the United States.
Jun 11 An Axis garrison at Pantelleria, in the central Mediterranean area, surrenders after six days and nights of heavy bombing
Jun 11 British invades Pantelleria (tiny island south of Sicily).
Jun 11 Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Boefje, In Sobibor), dies at 50.
Jun 12 Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos.
Jun 13 Malcolm McDowell, Film actor is born
Jun 14 F James Sensenbrenner, (Rep-R-Wisconsin).
Jun 14 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that schoolchildren cannot be required to salute the U.S. flag if doing so conflicts with their religious beliefs
Jun 15 Cecil Parkin, cricketer (32 wkts in 10 Tests for Eng 1920-24), dies.
Jun 15 Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms
Jun 16 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
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