Events
DateEvent
1942 Ayoob Tarish Was Born
January 01 1942 Bernat Adam Ferrero Was Born
June 15 1942 Birgitte Alsted Was Born
1942 Leo Ascher Died
1942 Stanislav Binički Died
1942 Gabriel Brnčić Was Born
September 16 1942 Canary Lee Burton Was Born
1942 George M. Cohan Died
1942 Phil Coulter Was Born
1942 Hugo Distler Died
1942 Henry Eichheim Died
August 04 1942 Alberto Franchetti Died
1942 Jean Gilbert Died
1942 Paul Gilson Died
1942 Roger Lee Hall Was Born
1942 Johannes Alfred Hultman Died
1942 Leon Jessel Died
1942 Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann Was Born
1942 Carole King Was Born
1942 Friedrich Klose Died
1942 Walter Leigh Died
1942 Wassili Leps Died
1942 Jeffrey Lewis Was Born
1942 Robin Maconie Was Born
1942 John McGuire Was Born
1942 Meredith Monk Was Born
1942 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Died
1942 Horațiu Rădulescu Was Born
1942 Johnny Rivers Was Born
1942 Shigeaki Saegusa Was Born
1942 Timothy Salter Was Born
1942 Sven-David Sandström Was Born
1942 Emil von Sauer Died
1942 Erwin Schulhoff Died
April 03 1942 Albert Siklós Died
1942 Geoffrey Toye Died
1942 Chinary Ung Was Born
August 07 1942 Caetano Veloso Was Born
1942 Felix Weingartner Died
March 15 1942 Alexander von Zemlinsky Died
January 01 1942 United Nations Declaration Signed
1942 Rafael Andia Was Born
January 02 1942 FBI Breaks Up German Spy Ring
January 02 1942 In World War II Japan Captures Manila, Phillipines
January 07 1942 Siege Of Bataan Peninsula Commences
January 11 1942 The Japanese Capture Kuala Lumpur
January 12 1942 National War Labor Board, Created By Roosevelt
January 13 1942 Ford Patents 30% Lighter Plastic Automobile
January 13 1942 First Aircraft Ejection Seat Used
January 16 1942 Carol Lombard And 21 Killed In Flight Crash
January 19 1942 Japanese Invade Burma In WWII
January 20 1942 In Berlin, Nazis Discuss Jewish Genocide
January 23 1942 WWII: Battle Of Rabaul Begins
January 24 1942 After Bombing, Thailand Declares War On Allies
January 25 1942 Thailand Declares War On U.S. And U.K
January 26 1942 WWII: US Forces Arrive In Ireland
January 30 1942 Japanese Forces Invade Dutch Indies Island
January 31 1942 Japanese Defeat Allied Forces At Battle Of Malaya
February 01 1942 Quisling Collaborates With Nazi Occupiers Of Norway
February 01 1942 WWII: U.S. Navy Conducts Raids Against Japan
February 01 1942 US Government's Voice Of America Begins Broadcasting
February 02 1942 Osvald Group Protest Bombing Of Quisling
February 06 1942 WW II: U.K Declares War On Thailand
February 08 1942 Japan Invades Singapore
February 09 1942 Military Leaders Discuss Strategy For War
February 09 1942 Daylight Savings Reinacted During Wartime Saving Energy
February 10 1942 First Gold Record Presented To Glenn Miller
February 11 1942 Bukit Timah Battle Fought In Singapore
February 14 1942 Battle Of Pasir Panjang Inspires Singapore's Demise
February 15 1942 British General Surrenders, 80,000 Prisoners Result
February 18 1942 Japanese Army Begins The Systematic Extermination
February 19 1942 Japanese Planes Bomb Darwin, Australia
February 19 1942 F.D.R. Signs Order To Relocate Japanese Americans
February 20 1942 O'Hare Becomes America's First WWII Flying Ace
February 22 1942 FDR Orders MacArthur Out Of Philippines
February 23 1942 Japanese Submarines Fire At Coastline Near Santa Barbara
February 24 1942 Battle Of Los Angeles Largest UFO Sighting
February 24 1942 Internship Of Japanese Legalized, Canada
February 27 1942 WW2: Java Sea: Japanese Defeat Allied Force
February 28 1942 USS Houston And HMAS Perth Sunk
March 03 1942 Japanese Warplanes Raid Australia
March 08 1942 Dutch Surrender To Japanese On Java
March 11 1942 MacArthur Flees Corregidor
March 12 1942 Allies Surrender To Japanese At Java
March 14 1942 First U.S. Patient Successfully Treated With Penicillin
March 16 1942 First V-2 Rocket Test Launch Explodes
March 17 1942 First Lvov Ghetto Jews Gassed At Belzec
March 18 1942 U.S. Begins Japanese-American Internment
March 20 1942 General MacArthur Speaks Of WWII Philippine Surrender
March 22 1942 WWII Second Battle Of Sirte Occurs
March 23 1942 WWII: Japanese Capture Andaman Islands
March 26 1942 WWII: First Female Prisoners Arrive At Aushwitz
March 28 1942 Saint Nazare Raided By British Naval Forces In France
March 29 1942 Luebeck Successfully Bombed By RAF
March 31 1942 Japanese Invade British Christmas Island
April 03 1942 Japan Attacks US And Philippines Attack Bataan Peninsula
April 05 1942 Japanese Navy Launches Carrier-based Attack
April 08 1942 Soviet Forces Open Railway Link To Leningrad
April 08 1942 Japan Take Bataan In Philippines
April 09 1942 WWII Battle Of Bataan
April 14 1942 Malta Recieves The George Cross
April 15 1942 George Cross Awarded By King
April 17 1942 French POW Escapes Konigstein Castle Prison
April 18 1942 Doolittle Raid Bombs Japanese Cities In WWII
April 18 1942 Laval Named Prime Minister Of Vichy France
April 19 1942 Majdan-Tatarski Ghetto Established In Poland
April 23 1942 German Baedeker Blitz Hits Britain
April 26 1942 Accident In Manchukuo Leaves 1549 Chinese Dead
May 03 1942 The U.S., Australia And Japan Battle
May 04 1942 USS Yorktown Attacks Japanese At Tulagi
May 06 1942 WW2 American Forces Surrend To Japanese At Corregidor
May 07 1942 US Navy Sinks Japanese At Coral Sea
May 08 1942 World War II Battle Ends With USS Lexington Sunk
May 08 1942 Ceylon Gunners Rebel Against British
May 09 1942 SS Murders 588 Jews In Zinkiv
May 10 1942 Thai Army Invades Shan States During Burma
May 11 1942 Faulkner's Go Down, Moses Published
May 12 1942 Red Army Forces Are Destroyed
May 12 1942 U.S. Tanker Virginia Torpedoed
May 12 1942 1500 Jews Killed In Auscwhitz
May 15 1942 WAAC Created In United States
May 19 1942 WWII Task Force Heads To Pearl Harbor
May 22 1942 Mexico Enters World War II
May 22 1942 United Steelworkers Union Formed
May 22 1942 Boston's Ted Williams Enlists In Marines
May 26 1942 Battle Of Gazala Takes Place
May 27 1942 Reinhard Heydrich Killed In Prague Operation
May 28 1942 Nazis Kill Over 1,800 In Czechoslovakia
May 29 1942 ""White Christmas"" Becomes All-time Best-selling Christmas Single
May 30 1942 1000 British Bombers Attack Cologne, Germany
May 31 1942 Japanese Navy Submarines Attack Sydney, Australia
June 03 1942 WWII: Japan Bombs Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands Campaign
June 04 1942 Japenese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo Starts The Battle Of Midway In World War II
June 05 1942 U.S. Declares War On Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania
June 06 1942 US Navy Bombers Sink The Mikuma And Four Carriers
June 07 1942 Americans Win Battle Of Midway
June 07 1942 Japan Occupies Alaskan Islands Attu, Kiska
June 08 1942 WWII: Japanese Submarines Shell Sydney And Newcastle
June 10 1942 Reinhard Heydrick WWII Slaying Prompts Nazi Attack Lidice
June 11 1942 United Stated Agrees With Soviet Union For Lend Lease Aid
June 11 1942 French Forces Retreat From Bir Hakeim
June 12 1942 Anne Frank Receives Her Famous Diary
June 20 1942 Four People Escape Holocaust Concentration Camp
June 21 1942 Axis Powers Take Tobruk
June 21 1942 WWII; Japanese Submarine Fires At Fort Stevens
June 22 1942 Rommel Promoted After Tobruk Capture
June 22 1942 Congress Adopts The Pledge Of Allegiance
June 23 1942 Parisian Jews Selected For Aushwitz Gas Chamber
June 23 1942 WWII German Fighter Captured In Wales
June 26 1942 The First Flight Of The Grumman F6F Hellcat
June 28 1942 Nazi Germany Started Summer Offensive
July 01 1942 First Battle Of El Alamein
July 01 1942 Australia Retains Federal, Not State, Income Tax
July 04 1942 Siege Ends When Sevastopol Falls
July 06 1942 Anne Frank Hides In Amsterdam Warehouse, ""Secret Annexe'
July 10 1942 Soviet Union And Netherlands Establish Relations
July 10 1942 U.S. Takes Intact Japanese Zero
July 16 1942 France Orders Mass Arrest Of Jews
July 18 1942 Germans Tested Jets On MM262 During WWII
July 19 1942 Admiral Donitz Orders U-boats Withdrawn
July 22 1942 US Goverment Rationed Civilian Gas
July 22 1942 The Systematic Deportation Of Jews
July 23 1942 Treblinka, Holocaust Extermination Camp, Is Opened
July 23 1942 Germans Launch Operations Edelweiss And Branschweig
July 23 1942 Poet, Communist Vaptsarov Executed
July 25 1942 Norwegian Manifesto: Nonviolent Resistance To Nazis
July 27 1942 Allied Forces Halt Axis Advance Egypt
July 28 1942 Stalin Issues An Order In Response To German Advances
August 06 1942 Queen Wilhelmina Addresses US Congress
August 07 1942 Marine's First Offensive At Guadalcanal For WWI
August 08 1942 Quit India Movement Launched By Ghandi's Call
August 09 1942 Gandhiji Was Arrested By British Force ,quit India
August 09 1942 Battle Of Savo Island-Allied Naval Forces
August 11 1942 Hedy Lamar, George Antheil Receive Patent
August 13 1942 Eugene Reybold Authorizes Construction Of Manhattan Project
August 13 1942 Bambi Was Walt Disney's First Full-length Animation
August 15 1942 WWII: SS Ohio Reaches Malta
August 16 1942 In WWII, Naval Blimp Crashes In California
August 17 1942 U.S. Marines Raid Island Of Makin
August 19 1942 Canada's Amphibious Assault Fails
August 21 1942 Nazi Flag Haung On Mount Elbrus
August 21 1942 US Beats Japan At Tenaru
August 22 1942 Brazil Declares War On German, Italy
August 23 1942 Beginning Of The Battle Of Stalingrad
August 24 1942 Japanese Carrier Sunk; USS Enterprise Damaged
August 25 1942 Battle Of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
August 25 1942 Allied Troops Turn Away Japanese Navy
August 26 1942 In Chortkiav, Ukraine, German Armies Deport Jews To Extermination Camps
August 30 1942 Battle Of Alam El Halfa Starts
September 03 1942 Uprising In Lakhva Ghetto
September 05 1942 Pacific War. First Major Japanese Defeat
September 07 1942 B-32 Takes It's First Flight
September 07 1942 Australian US Forces Inflict Defeat Japanese Battle Of Milne Bay
September 09 1942 Japan Bombs Oregon During WW2
September 10 1942 British Army Amphibious Landing On Madagascar
September 12 1942 RMS Laconia Sunk Near West Africa
September 12 1942 Japanese Attack Americans Protecting Henderson Field
September 13 1942 Americans Tromp Japanese At Guadalcanal
September 15 1942 Aircraft Carrier Sunk By Japanese At Guadalcanal
September 20 1942 3,000 Jews Were Murdered In Ukraine
September 21 1942 Over A Thousand Jews Sent To Extermination Camp On Yom Kippur
September 21 1942 Germans Order Jews To Evacuate Konstantynow
September 21 1942 Nazis Murder Jews In Ukraine
September 21 1942 Boeing B-29 Superfortress Takes Maiden Flight
September 23 1942 US Attacks Japanese Along Matanikau River
September 25 1942 Swiss Police Instruction Denies Jewish Refugees Entry Into Switzerland
September 26 1942 August Frand Issued Details Of Jewish Evacuation
September 27 1942 U.S. Marines Escape Japanese At Guadalcanal
October 01 1942 First Flight Of The Bell XP-59 "Aircomet
October 01 1942 USS Grouper Torpedoes Libon Maru
October 02 1942 RMS Queen Mary Sinks Escort Ship
October 03 1942 First Man-made Object To Reach Space
October 06 1942 October Matanikau Action On Guadalcanal Begins
October 09 1942 Statute Of Westminster Formalizes Australian Autonomy
October 09 1942 U.S. Marine Corps Forces Withdraw
October 10 1942 Soviets Establish Diplomatic Relations With Australia
October 11 1942 U.S. Navy Defeats Japanese At Guadalcanal
October 12 1942 Japanese Ships Retreat From Cape Esperance
October 23 1942 El Alamein Campaign Was Commanded By Montgomery
October 23 1942 12 Dead As Airliner, Bomber Collide Near Palm Springs
October 23 1942 Henderson Battle Begins During Guadalcanal Campaign
October 26 1942 Battle Of Santa Cruz Damages Naval Ships
October 28 1942 Alcan Highway Completed Through Fairbanks
October 29 1942 Germany's Persecution Of Jews Sparks British Outrage
October 30 1942 Three Sailors Retrieve Material
November 01 1942 America Wins The Battle Of Guadalcanal
November 03 1942 WWII Koli Action Starts, Ends November
November 04 1942 Erwin Rommel Disobeying Hitler Order In World War 2
November 06 1942 Carlson's Patrol Begins
November 06 1942 Heinkel He 219 Test Flight Held
November 08 1942 US And UK Land In French North Africa
November 08 1942 French Resistance Seizes Algiers From Vichy Government
November 10 1942 WWII: Germans Invade France Following Armistice
November 11 1942 Nazi Germany Occupies France
November 12 1942 World War II: America Beats Japan
November 13 1942 U.S., Japan In Guadalcanal Naval Battle
November 15 1942 Battle Of Guadalcanal Ends In Decisive Victory
November 19 1942 Operation Uranus Counterattacks Launched At Stalingrad
November 19 1942 Mutesa Is Crowned The 35th King
November 21 1942 Alcan Highway Completion Celebrated, Unusable Until 1943
November 22 1942 General Paulus Tells Hitler Army Surrounded During WWII
November 26 1942 Anti-Fascist Council Of Yugoslavia Convenes
November 27 1942 French Sink Ships To Dupe Nazis
November 28 1942 Fire Kills 492 In Cocoanut Grove Nightclub
November 30 1942 Raizo Tanaka Defeats An American Force
December 02 1942 Fermi Leads Manhattan Project
December 04 1942 Carlon's War Patrol Ends At Guadalcanal
December 12 1942 Operation Winter Storm Relieves Axis Forces
December 12 1942 Newfoundland Hostel Fire Kills 100
December 15 1942 Guadacanal Campaign Begins WWII Battles
December 16 1942 Himmier Orders Exterminates To Auschwitz
December 20 1942 Japanese Bomb Calcutta, India, During WWII
December 22 1942 Hitler Orders Development Of V-2 Rocket
December 24 1942 Bonnier De La Chappelle Assassinates Darlan
December 27 1942 Union Of Pioneers Of Yugoslavia Founded