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Tuesday, 17 February 2026
Jan 01 C T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies 
Jan 01 In this year, General Clark formally adopts in place of General Patton as commander of 7th Army.
Jan 01 The inaugural feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City NY
Jan 02 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol).
Jan 02 inaugural use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
Jan 03 Helicopter Mercy Mission a HNS-1 helicopter, made an emergency delivery of 40 units of blood plasma from lower Manhattan Island to Sandy Hook where the plasma was administered to survivors of an explosion on the destroyer Turner (DD 648).
Jan 03 Top Marine ace MAJ Boyington captured after shooting down 28 aircraft
Jan 03 World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero
Jan 04 Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder.
Jan 04 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department
Jan 04 Ralph Bunche appointed inaugural Negro official in US State Department
Jan 05 Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80
Jan 05 The Daily Mail is recorded as becoming the inaugural transoceanic newspaper
Jan 07 Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59.
Jan 07 Air Force announces production of inaugural US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
Jan 07 J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed.
Jan 10 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila.
Jan 10 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
Jan 11 Aircraft from USS Block Island make inaugural aircraft rocket attack on German submarine
Jan 11 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
Jan 11 Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies.
Jan 12 Churchill and de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh.
Jan 12 Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterdam
Jan 14 Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74.
Jan 14 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
Jan 15 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany.
Jan 15 General Eisenhower arrives in England
Jan 15 In Argentina a 7.8 earthquake resulted in 5000 deaths.
Jan 15 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die.
Jan 16 Gen Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London
Jan 16 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower arrived in London to assume command of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe
Jan 16 General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London.
Jan 16 In London, General Dwight D. Eisenhower is recorded as becoming commander of the Allied Invasion Force, during WWII
Jan 16 Lieutenant (jg) S. R. Graham, USCG, while en route from New York to Liverpool in the British freighter Daghestan made a 30 minute flight in an R-4B (HNS-1) from the ship's 60 by 80 foot flight deck.
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