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History on the 26th of February

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26 Feb 1732 RELIGIOUS In Philadelphia, Mass was celebrated for the first time at St Joseph's Church the only Roman Catholic church built and maintained in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War.
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26 Feb 1807 RELIGIOUS Birth of Johann K.F. Keil, German Bible scholar. His Old Testament commentary, written in collaboration with Franz Delitzsch, first appeared in 1861. Known today as "Keil & Delitzsch," the multi-volume set is still in print!
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26 Feb 1840 RELIGIOUS Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.'
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26 Feb 1846 RELIGIOUS Birth of George C. Stebbins, American Baptist music evangelist. A composer of over 1,500 songs during his lifetime, Stebbins is still remembered today for writing the melodies to such hymns as: "I've Found a Friend," "Take Time to Be Holy," "Have Thine Own Way, Lord" and "Jesus is Tenderly Calling Thee Home."
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26 Feb 1913 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was assigned to Navy Ministry. 
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26 Feb 1917 WW2 The 4th Company of the Pavlovsky Regiment of the Russian Imperial Guard mutinied and came out in support of workers demonstrating against the regime in Petrograd, Russia. 
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26 Feb 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Nahr-al-Kalek
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26 Feb 1918 WW2 Pyotr Masherov was born. 
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26 Feb 1918 WW2 Douglas MacArthur assisted in capturing a number of German prisoners during a trench raid. For this action, French Major General Georges de Bazelaire later awarded MacArthur with the Croix de guerre, the first such award given to a member of the American Expeditionary Force. 
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26 Feb 1921 WW2 USS Arizona arrived at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. 
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26 Feb 1924 WW2 Adolf Hitler was put on trial for treason for the failed Beer Hall Putsch. 
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26 Feb 1925 WW2 Adolf Hitler was released from prison; on the same day, the German government allowed the Nazi Party to publish its newspaper once again. 
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26 Feb 1932 WW2 Light carrier Hosho launched aircraft to attack airfields near Suzhou, China. Hosho-based fighters claimed 2 kills on this date. 
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26 Feb 1935 WW2 Adolf Hitler officially created the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) with Hermann Göring as its Commander-in-Chief. Walther Wever assumed the role of the Chief of Air Staff and Erhard Milch became the Secretary of State for Air. The independent branch started off with 1,888 aircraft and 20,000 men. 
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26 Feb 1935 WW2 During the Daventry Experiment, Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration that led to the development of radar in the United Kingdom. 
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26 Feb 1936 WW2 February 26 Incident began in Japan, which was a failed coup attempt. 
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26 Feb 1936 WW2 Adolf Hitler opened the 1st Volkswagen plant in Germany. 
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26 Feb 1938 WW2 Princess Aisin Gioro Huisheng, daughter of Prince Pujie and niece of Emperor Kangde of the Japanese-sponsored puppet state of Manchukuo, was born. 
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26 Feb 1940 WW2 Soviet troops continued to attack toward Viipuri, Finland. The Finnish 23rd Division counterattacked with 8 Mark E light tanks in the Battle of Honkaniemi, destroying 3 Soviet tanks but all 8 light tanks were lost during the engagement. 
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26 Feb 1940 WW2 Newly-constructed British large passenger liner Queen Elizabeth left Clydeside, Glasgow, Scotland on the spring tide. To prevent German attack, false intelligence regarding her destination being Southampton in southern England was generated, but her actual destination was New York in the United States. She would reach New York for her final fitting. 
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26 Feb 1941 WW2 Before dawn, British destroyer HMS Decoy, destroyer HMS Hereward, and gunboat HMS Ladybird landed 200 commandos and 24 Royal Marines on the Italian-held Dodecanese island of Castelorizo, off the coast of Turkey, capturing a small Italian garrison. Italian aircraft responded, damaging HMS Ladybird, but was able to retrieve the raiders and sail for the British Crown Colony of Cyprus. The codename for the raid was Operation Abstention. 
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26 Feb 1941 WW2 Werner Mölders claimed his 60th victory. 
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26 Feb 1941 WW2 American scientists Glenn Seaborg and Arthur Wahl discovered Plutonium. 
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26 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-47 attacked Allied convoy OB-290 190 miles northwest of Ireland before dawn, sinking 3 merchant ships and damage 1. U-47 was attacked by depth charges, which called for assistance in the form of Fw 200 bombers of I. Gruppe KG 40 based in Bordeaux, France. The aircraft attacked the convoy from 0900 to 1845 hours, sinking 8 ships. 
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26 Feb 1941 WW2 German bombers sank 4 merchant ships and German motor torpedo boats sank 1 merchant ship at various locations on the British coast. 
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26 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-70 sank Swedish ship Gotenborg south of Iceland. 
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26 Feb 1941 WW2 Francisco Franco refused Hitler's 6 Feb 1941 request for Spain to enter the war. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 German submarine U-432 sank US bulk carrier Marore 20 kilometers off North Carolina, Virginia, United States. To the north, 20 kilometers east of Barnegat, New Jersey, United States, German submarine U-578 sank US tanker R. P. Resor, killing 47 of 49 aboard. Far out to sea, 230 miles east of Florida, United States, U-504 sank Dutch tanker Mamura at 1913 hours, killing all 49 aboard. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 An irritable Churchill took General Auchinleck to task over lack of offensive spirit in North Africa. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 Allied Middle East command decided to transfer the veteran Australian 6th Division from North Africa to Greece. Newly-formed Australian 9th Division was to be sent to North Africa as the replacement. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 Reinhard Heydrich wrote a letter to Martin Luther of the German Foreign Office, enclosing the meeting minutes of the Wannsee Conference and requesting the Foreign Office to engage in discussions on carrying out the Final Solution to the Jewish Question. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 Major General John "Jock" Campbell VC, GOC 7th Armoured Division, was killed when his jeep overturned in North Africa. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 Lieutenant-General Hutton signaled GHQ(I) recommending that the sick Smyth be removed from command of 17th Indian, and recommending Major General David "Punch" Tennant Cowan as the replacement. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 Lieutenant Philip Cabell Evans was named the commanding officer of HMCS Trillium. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 The floatplane from Japanese submarine I-25 conducted a reconnaissance mission over Melbourne, Australia. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 Australian Wing Commander Dick Cohen led several Catalina aircraft in a night attack on Rabaul, New Britain; Cohen used his own Catalina aircraft as a dive bomber. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 Allied ABDA Command warships departed Surabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies in search of a detected Japanese invasion fleet; the search would be uneventful. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 49 British RAF bombers attacked Gneisenau in the drydock at Kiel, Germany. A bomb penetrated the armored deck, triggering a detonation in the forward turret which caused great damage to entire bow section of the ship; 112 were killed, 21 were wounded. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Grayback shook off the Japanese submarine that had been pursuing her in the Pacific Ocean for the past four days. 
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26 Feb 1942 WW2 The US Federal Bureau of Investigation began to relocate Japanese-American civilians living in East San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, United States. 
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26 Feb 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Saipan, departing later on the same day. 
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26 Feb 1943 WW2 The German government issued the order that Eastern European workers who were originally sent to concentration camps for a temporary basis were now to be held at the camps indefinitely. 
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26 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Argonaut was struck from the US Naval Vessel Register. 
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26 Feb 1943 WW2 In Burma, Orde Wingate lectured his officers about the British practice of worshipping gallant losers, citing the celebration of those who succeeded in the Dunkirk evacuation without placing blame on the same leaders whose failures made such an evacuation necessary. 
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26 Feb 1943 WW2 George Kenney arrived at Port Moresby, Australian Papua to personally take charge of organizing an attack on Japanese convoy Operation 81; this intelligence was provided by cryptanalysis. 
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26 Feb 1943 WW2 USAAF heavy bombers made a daylight attack on Wilhelmshaven, Germany. 
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26 Feb 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Officers and men of the 243rd and 244th Marine Scouting/Bombing Squadrons (VMSB-243 & VMSB-244) departed for Ewa. 
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26 Feb 1943 WW2 The first transport of Roma and Sinti arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland; they were assigned to the BIIe sector at Auschwitz II-Birkenau and housed in what was called the "Gypsy camp" (Zigeunerlager); this sector would eventually grow to house 23,000 Sinti and Roma people; 20,000 of them would not survive the Holocaust. 
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26 Feb 1943 WW2 The notorious SS Obergruppenfuhrer Theodor Eicke, formerly Inspector of Concentration Camps and now commanding the infamous Toenkopf Division, was killed when his aircraft was shot down about one kilometer southwest of Artelnoje in Ukraine. 
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26 Feb 1943 WW2 The British government authorized the use of the new water-skipping "Upkeep" bomb against German dams. 
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26 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Tang sank Japanese transport Choko Maru. 
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26 Feb 1944 WW2 The Japanese offensive on Sinzweya, Burma was called off, ending the Battle of the Admin Box. 
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26 Feb 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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26 Feb 1944 WW2 Syria declared war on Germany and Japan. 
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26 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Alabama arrived at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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26 Feb 1944 WW2 650 Italian Jews from Fossoli transit camp near Carpi, Modena and 84 Soviet prisoners of war from the Lamsdorf (Lambinowice, Poland) POW camp arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. Of the Italian Jews, 95 men and 29 women were registered into the camp; the remaining 526 were sent to the gas chambers. 
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26 Feb 1944 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria authorized Operation Lentil, which aimed to deport the whole of Chechen and Ingush (Ghalghai) populations to Central Asia and Siberia. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking a Japanese oiler with a torpedo. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 USS R-1 completed an extensive modernization. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 Indian 2nd Division completed the crossing of the Irrawady River at Ngazumi, Burma. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 1,500 French prisoners of war arrived at the Oflag IV-C camp at Colditz Castle in Germany, having been transferred from the camp at Königstein. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Corps and 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps took over as the main offensive force in the eastern Pommern region of Germany (occupied Poland). 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 Near Prekuln, Latvia, heavy Soviet attacks were held off by German troops. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 American troops captured Corregidor, Philippine Islands. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Northern Outfall Sewer in West Ham, London, England, United Kingdom at night. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Cero completed her scheduled overhaul at Mare Island Navy Shipyard in Vallejo, California, United States. 
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26 Feb 1946 WW2 USS Sterlet departed San Francisco, California, United States. 
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26 Feb 1947 WW2 Alexander Löhr was executed by firing squad in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 
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26 Feb 1963 RELIGIOUS The Lutheran World Federation's missionary radio station at Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia, was dedicated.
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