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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
– The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history; the event lasted into the early hours of February 26, 1942.
– During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
– World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
– World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
– World War II: Germany’s latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
– World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
– World War II: the Guadalcanal campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
– World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
– World War II: Carlson’s patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
Who Were Born On ?
– Michel Fugain, French singer and songwriter
– Valeriy Brumel, Soviet high jumper (d. 2003)
– Bill Rowe, Canadian radio personality and politician
– John E. McLaughlin, American former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
– Andraé Crouch, American singer
– Tim Maia, Brazilian singer (d. 1998)
– Pamela Tiffin, American film actress
– Paulos Faraj Rahho, Iraqi bishop (d. 2008)
– Henry Carr, American athlete
– Donald Carcieri, American politician, governor of Rhode Island