The End of Tyranny
The End of Tyranny
January
* January 4 – Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California, is succeeded by Earl Warren.
* January 11
o The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
o President Roberto MarĂa Ortiz dies in Argentina; RamĂłn Castillo succeeds him.
* January 12 – Dutch journalist and writer Jan Campert dies in the Neuengamme concentration camp.
* January 13 – Helmut Schenk is the first person to use an ejection seat from an aircraft.
* January 14 – The Casablanca Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by [[fdead
-wing aircraft|airplane]] while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
* January 15
o WWII: The Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal.
o The worlds largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
* January 18
o WWII: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmachts siege of Leningrad.
o The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins.
* January 23
o WWII: British forces capture Tripoli from the Italians.
o Duke Ellington plays at New York Citys Carnegie Hall for the first time.
o Critic and commentator Alexander Woollcott suffers an eventually fatal heart attack during a regular broadcast of the CBS Radio roundtable program “Peoples Platform”.
* January 27 – WWII: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven is the target).
* January 29 – German police arrest alleged necrophiliac Bruno Ludke.
* January 29 – Marine Corps Womens Reserve (MCWR) created.
[edit] February
Soviet T34 tanks during the Battle of Kursk.
* February 2 – WWII: In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army.
* February 3 – WWII:
o The Four Chaplains of the U.S. Army are drowned, when their ship (USAT Dorchester) is struck by a German torpedo.
* February 7 – WWII: In the United States, it is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in 2 days.
* February 8 – WWII – Battle of Guadalcanal: United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
* February 10 – March 3 – Mohandas Gandhi keeps a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
* February 11 – General Eisenhower is selected to command the Allied armies in Europe.
* February 14 – WWII:
o Rostov-na-Donu, Russia is liberated.
o Battle of the Kasserine Pass: German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States first major battle defeat of the war.
* February 16 – WWII: The Soviet Union reconquers Kharkov, but is later driven out in the Third Battle of Kharkov
* February 18
o In a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast, German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declare a “Total War” against the Allies.
o The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
* February 20
o American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
o The Mexican volcano ParĂcutin is born in a farmers cornfield.
* February 22 – Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.