and Clifford Berry describe the workings of the Atanasoff–Berry computer in print. January 19 – WWII: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea in Africa. January 20 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a third term as President of the United States. January 22 WWII: Battle of Tobruk: Australian and British forces capture Tobruk from the Italians. In Sweden, Victor Hasselblad registers the Hasselblad Camera Company. January 23 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress, and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. January 27 – WWII: Joseph Grew, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, reports to Washington a rumor overheard at a diplomatic reception, concerning a planned surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. January 28 – Subhas Chandra Bose, the chief of the separatist Indian National Army, reaches Kabul, Afghanistan by successfully evading the British authorities in British India. January 30 – WWII: Australians capture Derna, Libya, from the Italians. February February 3 – WWII: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to the office of Prime Minister in occupied Vichy France. February 4 – WWII: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops. February 5 – The Air Training Corps is formed in the United Kingdom. February 5–April 1 – WWII: Battle of Keren – British and Free French Forces fight hard to capture the strategic town of Keren in Italian Eritrea. February 6 – WWII: Benghazi falls to the Western Desert Force. Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel is appointed commander of Afrika Korps. February 8 – WWII: The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Act. February 9 – Winston Churchill, in a worldwide broadcast, tells the United States to show its support by sending arms to the British: "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job." February 12 WWII: Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli. Reserve Constable Albert Alexander, a patient at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England, becomes the first person treated with penicillin intravenously, by Howard Florey's team. He reacts positively, but there is insufficient supply of the drug to reverse his terminal infection. A successful treatment is achieved during May. February 13 – Aircraft from British carrier attack Massawa in Eritrea. February 14 – WWII: Admiral Kichisaburō Nomura begins his duties as Japanese Ambassador to the United States. February 19–22 – WWII: Three Nights' Blitz over Swansea, South Wales: Over these 3 nights of intensive bombing,