Today in History for Year 1942

Months in Year 1942: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 658

Jan 1st - Rose Bowl played in NC due to Japanese threat-Oregon 20, Duke 16
Jan 1st - US & 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis
Jan 2nd - 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
Jan 2nd - German troops in Bardia surrender
Jan 2nd - Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
Jan 2nd - The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Jan 3rd - American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
Jan 4th - NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24
Jan 4th - Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to Florida
Jan 4th - Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame
Jan 5th - 55 German tanks reach North-Africa
Jan 6th - 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
Jan 6th - Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
Jan 6th - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
Jan 7th - WW II siege of Bataan starts
Jan 9th - Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
Jan 9th - US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
Jan 10th - Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies
Jan 11th - -23°F (-31°C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)
Jan 11th - Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
Jan 12th - British troops reconquer Sollum
Jan 12th - Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender
Jan 12th - National War Labor Board created
Jan 13th - Allied Conference for war trials
Jan 13th - German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford Jan 13th - Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
Jan 13th - Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration
Jan 13th - World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
Jan 14th - Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
Jan 15th - Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II
Jan 15th - FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II
Jan 16th - William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US army
Jan 18th - Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman
Jan 19th - Japanese forces invade Burma
Jan 19th - Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers
Jan 20th - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
Jan 20th - Japanese invade Burma
Jan 20th - Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews
Jan 21st - Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
Jan 21st - Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
Jan 21st - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
Jan 21st - Tito's partisans occupy Foca
Jan 22nd - Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
Jan 22nd - Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06)
Jan 23rd - Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
Jan 23rd - Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
Jan 24th - Musical "Star & Garter," premieres in NYC
Jan 25th - Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus
Jan 26th - 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland
Jan 26th - Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel
Jan 27th - -19°F (-27.4°C), Netherland's coldest day since 1850
Jan 28th - General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine
Jan 28th - German troops occupy Benghazi Libya
Jan 29th - 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC
Jan 29th - German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi
Jan 29th - Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation)
Jan 30th - Japanese troops land on Ambon
Jan 31st - 62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton)
Feb 1st - 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms
Feb 2nd - LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
Feb 2nd - US auto factories switch from commercial to war production
Feb 3rd - 1st Japanese air raid on Java
Feb 3rd - Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
Feb 4th - Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II
Feb 5th - "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City
Feb 5th - Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett & Gene Moore
Feb 7th - 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8")
Feb 8th - Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles
Feb 8th - Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
Feb 9th - Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
Feb 9th - Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
Feb 9th - Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"
Feb 10th - Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
Feb 11th - "Archie" comic book debuts
Feb 12th - 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
Feb 13th - Hitler's Operation Sealion (invasion of England) cancelled
Feb 14th - Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
Feb 14th - Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
Feb 14th - Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
Feb 15th - German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
Feb 15th - Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
Feb 15th - Singapore surrenders to Japanese
Feb 16th - German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery
Feb 18th - Japanese troop land on Bali
Feb 19th - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
Feb 19th - Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ
Feb 19th - Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber
Feb 19th - FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
Feb 19th - Japanese troop land on Timor
Feb 19th - Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"
Feb 19th - NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games
Feb 20th - Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
Feb 20th - Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
Feb 21st - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
Feb 21st - US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht
32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt Feb 22nd - World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapse
Feb 23rd - Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif
Feb 24th - Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
Feb 24th - The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, lasting until the next day.
Feb 26th - German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 809

Jan 1st - Country Joe McDonald, California, rock guitarist/vocalist (& the Fish)
Jan 1st - Don Novello, [Father Guido Sarducci], Ashtabula Oh, comedian (SNL)
Jan 1st - Gennadi Vassilyevich Sarafanov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
Jan 1st - George Couroupos, composer
Jan 1st - Martin Frost, (Rep-D-TX, 1971- )
Jan 1st - Alassane Ouattara, Former Prime Minister of Ivory Coast
Jan 1st - Judy Stone, Australian pop singer
Jan 2nd - Hugh Shelton, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jan 3rd - John Thaw, British actor (d. 2002)
Jan 3rd - John Marsden, Australian lawyer, gay activist (d. 2006)
Jan 4th - John McLaughlin, rock guitarist (Sentimental Journey/Clouds of Joy)
Jan 5th - Charlie Rose, Henderson NC, newscaster (CBS Night Watch)
Jan 5th - Cliff Potts, Glendale California, actor (Ted-Lou Grant)
Jan 5th - Maurizio Pollini, Milan Italy, pianist
Jan 5th - Jan Leeming, English television presenter and newsreader
Jan 5th - Terenci Moix, Spanish writer (d. 2003)
Jan 7th - Vasiliy Ivanovich Alekseyev, USSR, weightlifter (Olympic-gold-72, 76)
Jan 8th - John Peterson, rocker
Jan 8th - Stephen Hawking, English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
Jan 8th - Vyacheslav Dmitriyevich Zudov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
Jan 8th - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
Jan 8th - Yvette Mimieux, Los Angeles California, American actress (Time Machine, Where the Boys Are)
Jan 9th - K Callan, Dallas Tx, actress (Joe's World, Martha-Lois & Clark)
Jan 9th - Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung
Jan 10th - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, Russia, cosmonaut
Jan 10th - Jack Regan, broadcaster
Jan 10th - Jim Croce, Phila, rock vocalist (Time in a Bottle)
Jan 10th - Walter Hill, director (48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice)
Jan 11th - Clarence Clemons, rock saxophonist (Bruce Springsteen's E St Band)
Jan 12th - Vladimir Sergeyevich Kozelsky, cosmonaut (Soyuz 24 backup)
Jan 12th - Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of the radical leftist organization Weather Underground
Jan 14th - Amichand Rajbansi, South African politician
Jan 14th - Carol Bellamy, Planfield NJ, (City Council Pres-D-NYC, 1978-85)
Jan 14th - Ian Brayshaw, Australian cricketer and footballer
Jan 14th - Dave Campbell, American baseball player
Jan 15th - Edward "Sonny" Bivins, US singer (Manhattans-Kiss & Say Goodbye)
Jan 16th - Barbara Lynn, US singer (You'll Lose a Good Thing),
Jan 16th - Bill Francis Mobile Al, rocker (Dr Hook)
Jan 16th - Tony P Hall, (Rep-D-OH, 1979- )
Jan 16th - William Francis, rocker
Jan 16th - René Angélil, Canadian music executive
Heavyweight Boxing Champ Muhammad Ali (Jan 17th) Jan 17th - Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay], Louisville Kentucky, heavyweight champ boxer (1964-7 74-8)
Jan 17th - Randy Boone, Fayetteville NC, actor (Cimarron Strip, Virginian)
Jan 17th - Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and businesswoman
Jan 17th - Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
Jan 17th - Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001)
Jan 19th - Michael Crawford, England, Broadway star (Phantom of the Opera)
Jan 19th - Shelly Fabares, Santa Monica California, actress (Donna Reed Show, Coach)
Jan 20th - Slim Whitman, yoddler/country singer (Home on the Range)
Jan 21st - Mac Davis, Lubbock Tx, singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)
Jan 21st - Mac Davis, American musician
Jan 22nd - Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
Jan 23rd - Ivan Ivanovich Bachurin, cosmonaut
Jan 23rd - Laurie Mayne, cricketer (Australian pace bowler in 6 Tests 1965-70)
Jan 23rd - Willy Bogner Jr, Munich, director (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
Jan 23rd - Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director
Jan 24th - Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (d. 2008)
Jan 25th - Carl Eller, American football player
Jan 25th - Eusébio, Portuguese footballer
Jan 26th - Nigel Walmsley, chairman (Carlton UK Television)
Jan 26th - William McLennan, CEO (Central Statistical Office)
Jan 26th - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (d. 2001)
Jan 27th - James Cromwell, LA California, actor (Stretch-All in the Family, Babe)
Jan 27th - Petr Kotik, composer
Jan 27th - John Witherspoon, American actor
Jan 29th - Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez, Cuba, cosmonaut (Soyuz 38)
Jan 29th - Claudine Longet, France, former Mrs Andy Williams/singer
Jan 29th - F R Hartley, Vice-Chancellor (Cranfield University)
Jan 29th - Katharine Ross, Hollywood Cal, actress (Graduate, Francesca-Colbys)
Jan 29th - Richard Needham, British MP
Jan 29th - Robin Morgan, Lake Worth Fla, actress (Dagmar-Mama)
Jan 30th - Andres, [Dries Holten], Dutch singer (Sandra & Andres)
Jan 30th - Christopher Howes, Crown Estate Second Commissioner
Jan 30th - Dave Brown, cricketer (Warwicks pace bowler, played 26X for England)
Jan 30th - Marty Balin, Cincinnati, singer (Jefferson Starship-Miracles)
Jan 31st - Derek Jarman, actor/director (Angelic Conversation, Edward II)
Jan 31st - Gerald Chanberlain, rocker
Jan 31st - Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
Feb 1st - Dave Sincock, cricketer (chinaman bowler played for Aust 1964-66)
Feb 1st - Terry Jones, Colwyn Bay North Wales, comedian (Monty Python)
Feb 1st - Muna Wassef, Wassef is a well known Syrian/Arab movie star and a United Nations Goodwill ambassador.
Feb 2nd - Barry Diller, founder (Fox-TV)
Feb 2nd - Bo Hopkins, Greenville SC, actor (Dynasty, Doc Elliot, Rockford Files)
Feb 2nd - Graham Nash, guitarist (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-Southern Cross)
Feb 4th - Johnny Gamble, rocker (Classics)
Feb 5th - Cory Wells, Buffalo NY, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
Feb 5th - Roger Staubach, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
Feb 5th - Susan Hill, English playwright (Magic Apple Tree)
Feb 6th - John London, bassist (Michael Nesmith band)
Feb 6th - Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
Feb 6th - James Loewen, American sociologist and historian
Feb 7th - Ton [ACHM] de Kok, Dutch MP (CDA)
Feb 8th - Fritz Peterson, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
Feb 8th - Robert Klein, Bronx, comedian/actor (Hooper, Deadly Rivals)
Feb 8th - Terry Melcher, Rip Chords, Doris Day's son
Feb 9th - Carole King, [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry)
Feb 9th - Charlie Morrow, composer
Feb 9th - Milos Stedron, composer
Feb 9th - Peder Lunde Jr, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1960)
Feb 10th - Jimmy Merchant, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 7 of 7

Jan 10th - Actress Ava Gardner (19) weds actor Mickey Rooney (21) in Ballard, California
Jun 6th - "The Thin Man" actress Myrna Loy (36) weds John Hertz Jr. in New York City
Jun 19th - Actress Marilyn Monroe (16) marries first husband James Dougherty (21), a policeman
Jun 21st - Jacqueline Kennedy's mother marries Hugh Auchincloss
Jul 8th - British born actor "His Girl Friday" Cary Grant (38) weds American heiress and socialite Barbara Hutton (29)
Jul 26th - Science fiction author Isaac Asimov (22) weds Gertrude Blugerman in Brooklyn, New York
Aug 23rd - "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 177

Jan 1st - Jaroslav Jezek, composer, dies at 35
Jan 3rd - Pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress, dies at 70
Jan 4th - Leon Jessel, composer, dies at 70
Jan 5th - Yves Paringaux, French chief of staff, murdered
Jan 6th - Emma Calvé, French soprano (b. 1858)
Jan 7th - Henry, Count of Baillet-Latour, pres of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63
Jan 8th - Arvo Hannikainen, composer, dies at 44
Jan 8th - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
Jan 12th - George Francis, cricketer (WI Test fast-bowler, 23 wkts in 10), dies
Jan 14th - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)
Jan 15th - Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic-gold-08, 12), dies at 58
Jan 16th - Carole Lombard, actress, (Bolero), & mom killed in plane crash at 32
Jan 17th - Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61
Jan 17th - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
Jan 21st - Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72
Jan 22nd - Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemishch Natl Front, dies at 81
Jan 22nd - Walter Richard Sickert, British painter (Free House!), dies at 81
Jan 25th - Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer, dies at 78
Jan 26th - Gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83
Jan 27th - Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
Jan 28th - Pablo Luna y Carne, composer, dies at 61
Jan 29th - Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer, dies at 92
Jan 30th - Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer, dies at 72
Jan 31st - Henry Larkin, American baseball player (b. 1860)
Jan 31st - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917)
Feb 2nd - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1905)
Feb 6th - Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist, dies at 78
Feb 7th - Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, marathoner (Oly-gold-1908), dies at 56
Feb 7th - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (b. 1876)
Feb 8th - Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt), dies at 50
Feb 12th - Grant Wood, US painter (American Gothic), dies at 49
Feb 13th - Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian president (b. 1865)
Feb 14th - Adnan Bin Saidi, Officer of the Malay Regiment killed in the defense of Singapore (b. 1915)
Feb 15th - Guido Adler, Austrian musicologist, dies at 91
Feb 15th - Stanislav Binicki, composer, dies at 69
Feb 18th - Albert Payson Terhune, American author (b. 1872)
Feb 19th - Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (b. 1910)
Feb 20th - Guido Gasperini, composer, dies at 76
Feb 23rd - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies at 60
Feb 25th - Leo Ascher, composer, dies at 61
Feb 27th - Karel WFM Doorman, Dutch rear-admiral (Java Sea), KIA at 52
Mar 1st - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain (b. 1882)
Mar 3rd - Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, viceroy (Ethiopia), dies at 43
Mar 4th - Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer, dies at 62
Mar 8th - Jose R Capablanca, Cuban chess player (world champ 1927), dies at 53
Mar 10th - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
Mar 12th - Enrique Morera, composer, dies at 76
Mar 12th - Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
Mar 15th - Alexander van Zemlinsky, Aust/US composer (African Dance), dies at 70
Mar 16th - Alexander van Zemlinsky, Austrian composer (African Dance), dies at 69
Mar 19th - Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)
Mar 20th - Theodoro Valcarcel, composer, dies at 41
Mar 26th - Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (b. 1874)
Mar 28th - Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67
Mar 28th - Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31
Mar 30th - Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81
Apr 3rd - Albert Siklos, composer, dies at 63
Apr 3rd - Paul Gilson, composer, dies at 76
Apr 8th - Alfred Mombert, writer, dies
Apr 8th - Kostas Skarvelis, Greek songwriter (b. 1880)
Apr 12th - Johannes E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 80
Apr 13th - Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58
Apr 15th - Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61
Apr 17th - Jean Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
Apr 18th - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875)
Apr 23rd - Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, pres of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73
Apr 24th - Karin Boye, Swedish author (b. 1900)
Apr 24th - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
Apr 25th - Paul Kornfeld, writer, dies at 52
Apr 30th - Catherine Murphy Urner, composer, dies at 51
Apr 30th - J van Hoddis, writer, dies at 54
May 3rd - Johan H Westerveld, lt-col/leader Order Service, executed
May 3rd - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
May 5th - Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
May 7th - Felix Paul von Weingartner, Austria conductor/composer, dies at 79
May 10th - Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber & Lewis Fields), dies at 74
May 13th - Hyam Greenbaum, composer, dies at 41
May 16th - Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies
May 19th - [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69
May 29th - John Barrymore, US actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies at 60
May 31st - Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia & Moravia, assassinated
Jun 1st - Ernest Pingoud, composer, dies at 53
Jun 1st - Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50
Jun 4th - Reinhard Heydrich, German protector (Bohemia/Moravia (Lidice)), dies
Jun 7th - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
Jun 10th - Jean François van Royen, Sect-Gen of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63
Jun 10th - Ross Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman 1937), dies
Jun 12th - Walter Leigh, composer, dies at 36
Jun 15th - Vera Figner, writer, dies
Jun 17th - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician (b. 1853)
Jun 18th - Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
Jun 18th - Arthur Willard Pryor, composer, dies at 71
Jun 18th - John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28
Jun 25th - Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian, dies at 67
Jun 30th - Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62
Jul 3rd - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
Jul 8th - Catherinus Elling, composer, dies at 83
Jul 11th - Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau
Jul 14th - Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Neth/French/Belgian painter's model, dies
Jul 15th - Denis Moloney, cricketer (during WW II 3 Tests for NZ 1937), dies