Page 4: Historical Events In 1945
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Feb 07 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. 


Feb 07 Pete Postlethwaite, American actor is born. 


Feb 07 Pete Postlethwaite, American actor.2006 An aging Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1400 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast is born 


Feb 07 President Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court. 


Feb 07 US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer. 


Feb 08 Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald. 


Feb 08 Beginning of the Battle of the Rhineland as the inaugural Canadian Army attacks German positions in the Reichswald 


Feb 09 -Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen 


Feb 09 George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau 


Feb 09 Germany destroys Ruhrdammen 


Feb 09 Mia Farrow, American film actress is born 


Feb 10 "Rum and Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1 


Feb 10 Juan de Hernandez, composer, dies at 63. 


Feb 11 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA 


Feb 11 Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53 


Feb 11 inaugural gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey CA 


Feb 11 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian leader Josef Stalin sign the Yalta Agreement during WWII. 


Feb 11 Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin. 


Feb 12 ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed. 


Feb 12 San Francisco selected for site of UN Conference 


Feb 12 SF selected for site of UN Conference 


Feb 13 Allied bombers began pounding Dresden, Germany, during WWII. 


Feb 13 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135000 die 


Feb 13 George Studd, cricketer (4 Tests with brother v Aus 1882-83), dies. 


Feb 13 Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy 


Feb 13 Soviet forces capture Budapest, saving 120000 Jews. 


Feb 13 USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159000 die 


Feb 14 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 


Feb 14 Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru join the United Nations 


Feb 16 American troops begin their reoccupation of the Philippine island of Corregidor during WWII. 


Feb 16 Billy Frank, cricketer (Test S Afr v Eng 1896, 5 and 2, 1-52), dies 


Feb 16 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3 


Feb 16 Venezuela declares war on Nazi-Germany. 


Feb 19 30000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima 


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