Date | Event |
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 |