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Thursday, 19 February 2026
Jan 12 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea 
Jan 13 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
Jan 13 The Soviet 'Red' army occupies the Hungarian city of Budapest
Jan 14 Death marches to the interior of Germany begin, taking 250000 Jewish lives
Jan 14 Sandor Vandor, composer, dies at 43
Jan 15 "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 perfs.
Jan 15 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
Jan 15 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp.
Jan 16 Dennis Donnini, Brit rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19
Jan 16 Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg.
Jan 16 U.S. inaugural and 3rd army units close the bulge, but do not succeed in entrapping enemy forces.
Jan 16 US inaugural and 3rd army meet at Houffalise
Jan 17 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation
Jan 17 Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)
Jan 17 Liberation of Warsaw from the Nazi by Soviet troops
Jan 17 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary
Jan 17 Warsaw is liberated by Polish and Soviet forces during WWII.
Jan 18 Approximately 800 prisoners remaining in the Lodz Ghetto are liberated by Soviet troops, after 74600 have been deported to Auschwitz.
Jan 18 Warsaw freed by Soviet army.
Jan 19 Approximately 800 prisoners remaining in the Lodz Ghetto are liberated by Soviet troops, after 74600 have been deported to Auschwitz.
Jan 19 Ernest B Allo, French theologist, dies at 71.
Jan 20 FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as President
Jan 20 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only president to be elected to four terms in office, was inaugurated to his final term. He died three months later and was succeeded by his vice president, Harry Truman
Jan 21 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma.
Jan 21 The Brazilian Expeditionary Force leads an allied attack on Monte Castelo in Italy, the only participation of South American troops in World War II
Jan 22 A Wolfenstein, writer, dies at 61.
Jan 22 Burma highway reopens.
Jan 22 HMCS Trentonian (Corvette) torpedoed
Jan 23 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation.
Jan 23 Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37
Jan 24 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg.
Jan 25 Dan Topping, Del Webb and Larry MacPhail purchase NY Yanks for $2.8 mil.
Jan 25 Grand Rapids MI is recorded as becoming inaugural US city to fluoridate its water
Jan 25 Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
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