Today in History for January 1942

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 58 of 58

1st - Rose Bowl played in NC due to Japanese threat-Oregon 20, Duke 16
1st - US & 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis
2nd - 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
2nd - German troops in Bardia surrender
2nd - Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
2nd - The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
3rd - American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
4th - NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24
4th - Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to Florida
4th - Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame
5th - 55 German tanks reach North-Africa
6th - 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
6th - Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
6th - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
7th - WW II siege of Bataan starts
9th - Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
9th - US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
10th - Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies
11th - -23°F (-31°C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)
11th - Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
12th - British troops reconquer Sollum
12th - Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender
12th - National War Labor Board created
13th - Allied Conference for war trials
13th - German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford 13th - Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
13th - Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration
13th - World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
14th - Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
15th - Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II
15th - FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II
16th - William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US army
18th - Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman
19th - Japanese forces invade Burma
19th - Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers
20th - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
20th - Japanese invade Burma
20th - Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews
21st - Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
21st - Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
21st - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
21st - Tito's partisans occupy Foca
22nd - Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
22nd - Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06)
23rd - Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
23rd - Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
24th - Musical "Star & Garter," premieres in NYC
25th - Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus
26th - 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland
26th - Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel
27th - -19°F (-27.4°C), Netherland's coldest day since 1850
28th - General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine
28th - German troops occupy Benghazi Libya
29th - 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC
29th - German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi
29th - Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation)
30th - Japanese troops land on Ambon
31st - 62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 78 of 78

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

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

10th - Actress Ava Gardner (19) weds actor Mickey Rooney (21) in Ballard, California

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 25 of 25

1st - Jaroslav Jezek, composer, dies at 35
3rd - Pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress, dies at 70
4th - Leon Jessel, composer, dies at 70
5th - Yves Paringaux, French chief of staff, murdered
6th - Emma Calvé, French soprano (b. 1858)
7th - Henry, Count of Baillet-Latour, pres of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63
8th - Arvo Hannikainen, composer, dies at 44
8th - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
12th - George Francis, cricketer (WI Test fast-bowler, 23 wkts in 10), dies
14th - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)
15th - Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic-gold-08, 12), dies at 58
16th - Carole Lombard, actress, (Bolero), & mom killed in plane crash at 32
17th - Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61
17th - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
21st - Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72
22nd - Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemishch Natl Front, dies at 81
22nd - Walter Richard Sickert, British painter (Free House!), dies at 81
25th - Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer, dies at 78
26th - Gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83
27th - Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
28th - Pablo Luna y Carne, composer, dies at 61
29th - Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer, dies at 92
30th - Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer, dies at 72
31st - Henry Larkin, American baseball player (b. 1860)
31st - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917)