1942 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1942?
- January 7, 1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
- January 25, 1942 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
- February 1, 1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States federal government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
- February 8, 1942 – World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
- February 15, 1942 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- April 8, 1942 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad – Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
- May 11, 1942 – William Faulkner’s collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
- May 12, 1942 – Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
- June 12, 1942 – Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
- July 10, 1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
- August 7, 1942 – World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
- September 3, 1942 – World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva, in present-day Belarus.
- September 5, 1942 – World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
- September 21, 1942 – In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
- September 25, 1942 – World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
- October 10, 1942 – The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
- October 23, 1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
- November 27, 1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
- December 27, 1942 – The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded.
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