History in 19th Feb

FDR signs Executive Order 9066

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, allowing the War Department to remove anyone from certain areas of the country "as deemed necessary or desirable." Japanese-Americans were affected the most, as over 100,000 Japanese-Americans, along with several thousand German and Italian-Americans were relocated and sometimes interned in military camps.
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Iwo Jima landings

United States Marines begin their amphibious landings on Iwo Jima, a Japanese-controlled island 650 miles south of Tokyo. Also known as Operation Detachment, about 70,000 Marines would fight in the 35-day battle to secure Iwo Jima.
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