19. Februar

Returning from 87°32′ S, Teddy Evans collapsed with scurvy. Lashly stayed with him and Tom Crean walked alone for help: 35 statute miles in about eighteen hours, on three biscuits and two sticks of chocolate, reaching Hut Point half an hour ahead of a blizzard. Evans was saved.

An attempt to force the Dardanelles, take Constantinople and open a sea route to Russia. NZHistory counts more than 130,000 dead: at least 87,000 Ottoman soldiers and 44,000 of the Allies, among them 2,779 New Zealanders and more than 8,700 Australians.

Britain and France tried to force the Dardanelles and take Istanbul, first with ships and then with an army. After eight months the Allies evacuated almost without loss, the one part of the campaign that went to plan.

Three Marine divisions landed on an island of volcanic ash wanted as an airfield for the bombing of Japan. The garrison fought from tunnels almost to the last man; of some 21,000 defenders, only a few hundred were taken alive.

She led about 1,500 women from Bint al-Nil and the Egyptian Feminist Union into Parliament and held up its business for four hours, until the Senate’s president promised to take up their demands. In 1954 she went on an eight-day hunger strike against a constitutional committee with no women on it.

The first Winter Games in a socialist country. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skated “Boléro” to a row of perfect sixes. Eight years later the siege of Sarajevo turned the venues into front lines and the fields by the stadium into cemeteries.

Jan Koum and Brian Acton’s messenger had 450 million monthly users and about fifty staff. Facebook paid $19 billion: $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in shares and $3 billion in restricted stock for the staff.

President Trump announced the withdrawal on 1 June 2017, but the Agreement’s rules delayed it until 4 November 2020, the day after the presidential election. President Biden rejoined on his first day in office, and the United States was a party again 30 days later.