1942 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1942?
- January 20, 1942 – World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”.
- February 15, 1942 – World War II: The Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. The Sook Ching massacre begins.
- February 20, 1942 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America’s first World War II flying ace.
- February 28, 1942 – The heavy cruiser USS Houston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men.
- April 5, 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
- April 9, 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March – United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island’s east coast.
- April 17, 1942 – French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.
- May 11, 1942 – William Faulkner’s collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
- June 7, 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
- July 18, 1942 – World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.
- July 22, 1942 – Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
- August 22, 1942 – World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
- August 23, 1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
- September 7, 1942 – Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
- October 29, 1942 – The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews.
- November 1, 1942 – Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4.
- November 11, 1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
- November 19, 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR’s favor.
- December 12, 1942 – A fire in a hostel in St. John’s, Newfoundland, kills 100 people.
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