1942 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1942?
- January 19, 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
- January 23, 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign.
- 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: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
- April 18, 1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
- April 23, 1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
- May 8, 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
- 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.
- July 1, 1942 – World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
- July 10, 1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
- July 22, 1942 – Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
- July 23, 1942 – World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
- August 9, 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
- October 9, 1942 – The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army’s 4th Infantry Regiment.
- October 10, 1942 – The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
- 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.
- December 4, 1942 – Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization.
- December 24, 1942 – World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers.
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