Timeline Thursday 19 February 1942

Events on Thursday 19 February 1942 2

• 1942 Bombing of Darwin Japanese air raids strike northern Australia Japanese carrier aircraft and land-based bombers attacked the port of Darwin in two raids, sinking ships in the harbour and destroying aircraft. At least 235 people were killed. It was the largest single attack ever made on Australia.
• 1942 Executive Order 9066 Roosevelt authorises the removal of Japanese Americans President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an order allowing the military to exclude people from designated areas of the United States. It was used to force about 120,000 people of Japanese descent, most of them US citizens, from the West Coast into internment camps. The US government formally apologised in 1988.