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Events in 1942 page 1

These are the events that occurred in the year of my birth, 1942. Nothing happened on August 29, so I guess it was a good day to be born.

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Jan 1 - Rose Bowl played in NC due to Japanese threat-Oregon 20, Duke 16
Jan 1 - US & 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis
Jan 2 - 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
Jan 2 - German troops in Bardia surrender
Jan 2 - Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
Jan 2 - The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Jan 3 - American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
Jan 4 - NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24
Jan 4 - Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to Florida
Jan 4 - Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame
Jan 5 - 55 German tanks reach North-Africa
Jan 6 - 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
Jan 6 - Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
Jan 6 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
Jan 7 - WW II siege of Bataan starts
Jan 9 - Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
Jan 9 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
Jan 10 - Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies
Jan 11 - -23°F (-31°C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)
Jan 11 - Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
Jan 12 - British troops reconquer Sollum
Jan 12 - Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender
Jan 12 - National War Labor Board created
Jan 13 - Allied Conference for war trials
Jan 13 - German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford Jan 13 - Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
Jan 13 - Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration
Jan 13 - World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
Jan 14 - Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
Jan 15 - Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II
Jan 15 - FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II
Jan 16 - William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US army
Jan 18 - Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman
Jan 19 - Japanese forces invade Burma
Jan 19 - Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers
Jan 20 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
Jan 20 - Japanese invade Burma
Jan 20 - Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews
Jan 21 - Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
Jan 21 - Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jan 21 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
Jan 21 - Tito's partisans occupy Foca
Jan 22 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
Jan 22 - Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06)
Jan 23 - Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
Jan 23 - Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
Jan 24 - Musical "Star & Garter," premieres in NYC
Jan 25 - Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus
Jan 26 - 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland
Jan 26 - Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German Marshal Rommel
Jan 27 - -19°F (-27.4°C), Netherland's coldest day since 1850
Jan 28 - General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine
Jan 28 - German troops occupy Benghazi Libya
Jan 29 - 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC
Jan 29 - German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi
German WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel Jan 29 - Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation)
Jan 30 - Japanese troops land on Ambon
Jan 31 - 62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton)
Feb 1 - 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms
Feb 2 - LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
Feb 2 - US auto factories switch from commercial to war production
Feb 3 - 1st Japanese air raid on Java
Feb 3 - Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
Feb 4 - Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II
Feb 5 - "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City
Feb 5 - Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett & Gene Moore
Feb 7 - 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8")
Feb 8 - Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles
Feb 8 - Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
Feb 9 - Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
Feb 9 - Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
Feb 9 - Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"
Feb 10 - Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
Feb 11 - "Archie" comic book debuts
Feb 12 - 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler Feb 13 - Hitler's Operation Sealion (invasion of England) cancelled
Feb 14 - Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
Feb 14 - Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
Feb 14 - Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
Feb 15 - German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
Feb 15 - Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
Feb 15 - Singapore surrenders to Japanese
Feb 16 - German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery
Feb 18 - Japanese troop land on Bali
Feb 19 - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
Feb 19 - Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ
Feb 19 - Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber
Feb 19 - FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
Feb 19 - Japanese troop land on Timor
Feb 19 - Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"
Feb 19 - NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games
Feb 20 - Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
Feb 20 - Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
Feb 21 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
Feb 21 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht
WW2 General Douglas MacArthur Feb 22 - World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapse
Feb 23 - Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif
Feb 24 - Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
Feb 24 - The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, lasting until the next day.
Feb 26 - German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
Feb 26 - Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies
Feb 26 - WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"
Feb 26 - Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"
Feb 27 - 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
Feb 27 - Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
Feb 27 - J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun
Feb 28 - 1st weapon drop on Netherlands
Feb 28 - Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
Feb 28 - Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
Mar 1 - 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat
Mar 1 - Baseball decides that players in milt can't play when on furlough
Mar 1 - J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3," premieres in Chicago
Mar 1 - Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
Mar 1 - Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews
Mar 1 - Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
Mar 2 - 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper & Fontaine win
Mar 2 - Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon
Mar 3 - 1st combat flight for Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane
Mar 5 - Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
Mar 5 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia
Mar 5 - Japanese troop march into Batavia
Mar 7 - 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
Mar 7 - 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
Mar 8 - Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
Mar 8 - KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
Mar 9 - Construction of the Alaska Highway began
Mar 11 - 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
Mar 11 - Gen MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
Mar 11 - Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
Mar 12 - British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
Mar 13 - Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
Mar 17 - Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
Mar 17 - Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
Mar 18 - Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters
Baseball Player Jackie Robinson Mar 18 - 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out
Mar 19 - FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty
Mar 19 - Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
Mar 20 - Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia
Mar 20 - Gen MacArthur vows, "I shall return"
Mar 20 - Major German assault on Malta
Mar 21 - Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
Mar 21 - Heavy German assault on Malta
Mar 22 - Heavy German assault on Malta
Mar 23 - 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported
Mar 23 - Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
Mar 23 - US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers
Mar 25 - 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp
Mar 26 - 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps
Mar 26 - 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec
Mar 26 - 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pa, kills 21

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