Birth of Adlai Stevenson II
Politician Adlai Stevenson II was born on February 5, 1900, in Los Angeles, California.
Politician Adlai Stevenson II was born on February 5, 1900, in Los Angeles, California.
Pilot Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit, Michigan.
At 12:01 a.m. on February 2, 1913, Grand Central Terminal officially opened in New York City.
Actor William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901, in Cadiz, Ohio.
Major League Baseball’s first Black player, Jackie Robinson, was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia.
Stamp collecting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York.
On January 28, 1945, the Burma Road, linking Burma with the southwest of China, was reopened.
On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, marking the beginning of the end of the Holocaust.
On January 26, 1945, Audie Murphy single-handedly held off an entire company of German soldiers at the Colmar Pocket, an action that earned him the Medal of Honor.