1942 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1942?
- January 11, 1942 – World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
- February 15, 1942 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- March 23, 1942 – World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
- April 15, 1942 – The George Cross is awarded to “to the island fortress of Malta – its people and defenders” by King George VI.
- April 18, 1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
- April 19, 1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
- May 22, 1942 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
- May 27, 1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.
- May 28, 1942 – World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
- May 29, 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”, the best-selling Christmas single in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
- June 23, 1942 – World War II: Germany’s latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
- July 28, 1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be immediately executed.
- September 13, 1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson’s Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
- September 15, 1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
- September 21, 1942 – On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
- October 1, 1942 – USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
- October 11, 1942 – World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance – On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
- November 8, 1942 – World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
- November 28, 1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.
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