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Events on the year of 1942 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1942 Rose Bowl played in NC due to Japanese threat-Oregon 20, Duke 16
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01 Jan 1942 US and 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis
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01 Jan 1942 The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
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02 Jan 1942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
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02 Jan 1942 German troops in Bardia surrender
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02 Jan 1942 Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
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02 Jan 1942 World War II: Manila, Philippines is captured by Japanese forces.
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02 Jan 1942 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
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03 Jan 1942 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
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04 Jan 1942 NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24
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04 Jan 1942 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly to Florida
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04 Jan 1942 Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame
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05 Jan 1942 55 German tanks reach North-Africa
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06 Jan 1942 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
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06 Jan 1942 Bob Feller, enlists in Navy and reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
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07 Jan 1942 WW II siege of Bataan starts
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07 Jan 1942 World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
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09 Jan 1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
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09 Jan 1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
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10 Jan 1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Netherlands Indies
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10 Jan 1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Dutch East Indies
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11 Jan 1942 World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
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11 Jan 1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
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11 Jan 1942 -23
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12 Jan 1942 World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
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12 Jan 1942 Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender
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12 Jan 1942 British troops reconquer Sollum
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12 Jan 1942 National War Labor Board created
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13 Jan 1942 World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
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13 Jan 1942 Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
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13 Jan 1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration
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13 Jan 1942 Allied Conference for war trials
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13 Jan 1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
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13 Jan 1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
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14 Jan 1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
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15 Jan 1942 Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WWII
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15 Jan 1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII
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16 Jan 1942 Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
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16 Jan 1942 William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a General in US army
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18 Jan 1942 Nazis arrest journalists Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman
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19 Jan 1942 Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers
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19 Jan 1942 World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
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19 Jan 1942 Titus Brandsma (Carmelite priest) arrested by German occupiers for speaking out against Nazism as a "lie" and "pagan"
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19 Jan 1942 Japanese forces invade Burma
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20 Jan 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".
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20 Jan 1942 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews
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20 Jan 1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
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20 Jan 1942 Japanese invade Burma
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21 Jan 1942 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
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21 Jan 1942 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
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21 Jan 1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
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21 Jan 1942 Tito's partisans occupy Foca
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22 Jan 1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
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22 Jan 1942 Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8 44 06)
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23 Jan 1942 World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign.
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23 Jan 1942 Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
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23 Jan 1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
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24 Jan 1942 Musical "Star & Garter, " premieres in New York City
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24 Jan 1942 World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
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24 Jan 1942 Musical "Star & Garter" premieres in New York City NY
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25 Jan 1942 Lieutenant General Rommels African corps reaches Msus
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26 Jan 1942 World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
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26 Jan 1942 1st US force in Europe during WWII goes ashore in Northern Ireland
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26 Jan 1942 Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel
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27 Jan 1942 -19
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28 Jan 1942 General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine
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28 Jan 1942 German troops occupy Benghazi Libya
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29 Jan 1942 Peru and Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation)
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29 Jan 1942 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC
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29 Jan 1942 German & Italian troops occupy Benghazi
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30 Jan 1942 World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
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30 Jan 1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon
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31 Jan 1942 World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
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01 Feb 1942 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms
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01 Feb 1942 Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
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01 Feb 1942 World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls–Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
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01 Feb 1942 World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
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02 Feb 1942 LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
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02 Feb 1942 US auto factories switch from commercial to war production
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02 Feb 1942 Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of Resistance [against the German occupation of Norway] when Østbanehallen (at present-day Oslo Central Station) was blown up to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
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03 Feb 1942 1st Japanese air raid on Java
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03 Feb 1942 Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
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04 Feb 1942 Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WWII
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05 Feb 1942 "Woman of the Year, " starring Hepburn and Tracy opens at Radio City
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05 Feb 1942 Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett and Gene Moore
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06 Feb 1942 World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand.
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08 Feb 1942 World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
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09 Feb 1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
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09 Feb 1942 Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
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09 Feb 1942 Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"
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09 Feb 1942 Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
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09 Feb 1942 World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
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10 Feb 1942 Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
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10 Feb 1942 The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
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11 Feb 1942 "Archie" comic book debuts
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11 Feb 1942 World War II: The Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
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11 Feb 1942 "Archie" comic book debuts
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12 Feb 1942 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
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13 Feb 1942 Hitler's Operation Seel
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14 Feb 1942 Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
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14 Feb 1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
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14 Feb 1942 Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
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15 Feb 1942 World War II: 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.
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15 Feb 1942 Singapore surrenders to the Japanese
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15 Feb 1942 German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
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15 Feb 1942 Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
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16 Feb 1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery
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18 Feb 1942 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
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18 Feb 1942 Japanese troop land on Bali
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19 Feb 1942 World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
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19 Feb 1942 World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
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19 Feb 1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
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19 Feb 1942 New York Yankees announce 5,000 uniformed soldiers will be admitted free at each of their upcoming home games
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19 Feb 1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
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19 Feb 1942 Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champion
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19 Feb 1942 Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber
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19 Feb 1942 Japanese troop land on Timor
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19 Feb 1942 Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"
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20 Feb 1942 Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
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20 Feb 1942 Lieutenant E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
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21 Feb 1942 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
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21 Feb 1942 US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht
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22 Feb 1942 World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
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23 Feb 1942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California
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23 Feb 1942 World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.
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24 Feb 1942 An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
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24 Feb 1942 The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history; the event lasted into the early hours of February 25.
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24 Feb 1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
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26 Feb 1942 Werner Heisenberger informs Nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"
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26 Feb 1942 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"
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26 Feb 1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
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26 Feb 1942 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies
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27 Feb 1942 World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
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27 Feb 1942 Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
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27 Feb 1942 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun
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27 Feb 1942 1st transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany
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28 Feb 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.
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28 Feb 1942 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
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28 Feb 1942 Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
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28 Feb 1942 1st weapon drop on Netherlands
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01 Mar 1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat
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01 Mar 1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
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01 Mar 1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews
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01 Mar 1942 Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
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02 Mar 1942 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley, " Cooper and Fontaine win
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02 Mar 1942 Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon
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03 Mar 1942 World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
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05 Mar 1942 Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
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05 Mar 1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia
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07 Mar 1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
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07 Mar 1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
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08 Mar 1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
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08 Mar 1942 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
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08 Mar 1942 World War II: Dutch forces surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
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09 Mar 1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
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11 Mar 1942 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur flees Corregidor.
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11 Mar 1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
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11 Mar 1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
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11 Mar 1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
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12 Mar 1942 Pacific War: The Battle of Java ends with an Allied surrender to the Japanese Empire.
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12 Mar 1942 British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
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13 Mar 1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
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14 Mar 1942 Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
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16 Mar 1942 The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
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17 Mar 1942 Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
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17 Mar 1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
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17 Mar 1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
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18 Mar 1942 The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
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18 Mar 1942 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out
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18 Mar 1942 Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters
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19 Mar 1942 FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty
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19 Mar 1942 Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
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20 Mar 1942 Gen MacArthur vows, "I shall return"
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20 Mar 1942 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
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20 Mar 1942 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia
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20 Mar 1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return"
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20 Mar 1942 Major German assault on Malta
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21 Mar 1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
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21 Mar 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
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22 Mar 1942 World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
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22 Mar 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
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23 Mar 1942 World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
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23 Mar 1942 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported
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23 Mar 1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
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23 Mar 1942 US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers
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25 Mar 1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp
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26 Mar 1942 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps
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26 Mar 1942 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pa, kills 21
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26 Mar 1942 World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
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26 Mar 1942 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec
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26 Mar 1942 20 tons of gelignite kills 21 in a stone quarry in Easton PA
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26 Mar 1942 German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel-General Rommel
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27 Mar 1942 Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
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27 Mar 1942 Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1
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27 Mar 1942 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York NY)
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28 Mar 1942 Raid on lock / dock St. Nazaire
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28 Mar 1942 World War II: St Nazaire Raid: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of Saint-Nazaire.
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28 Mar 1942 234 RAF bombers attack L
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28 Mar 1942 4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38
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28 Mar 1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
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29 Mar 1942 The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
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29 Mar 1942 British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
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29 Mar 1942 British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire; 400 Germans die
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29 Mar 1942 German submarine U-585 sinks
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30 Mar 1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
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30 Mar 1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
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31 Mar 1942 World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
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01 Apr 1942 Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor
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03 Apr 1942 World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
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05 Apr 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.
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08 Apr 1942 World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
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08 Apr 1942 World War II: Siege of Leningrad: Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
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09 Apr 1942 Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
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09 Apr 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.
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10 Apr 1942 Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
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11 Apr 1942 Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized
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12 Apr 1942 9th Golf Masters Championship Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 280
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12 Apr 1942 Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
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14 Apr 1942 Malta receives the George Cross for its gallantry. The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.
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14 Apr 1942 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
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15 Apr 1942 The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta: Its people and defenders" by King George VI.
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15 Apr 1942 George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta
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16 Apr 1942 Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship
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16 Apr 1942 King George VI awards George Cross to Island of Malta
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17 Apr 1942 French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.
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17 Apr 1942 12 Lancasters bombs MAN-factory in Augsburg
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17 Apr 1942 Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp
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18 Apr 1942 "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
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18 Apr 1942 Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
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18 Apr 1942 World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
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18 Apr 1942 "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
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18 Apr 1942 James H Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities
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19 Apr 1942 World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
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19 Apr 1942 46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith of Massachusetts in 2:26:51.2
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20 Apr 1942 German occupiers forbid Dutch access to their beach
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20 Apr 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
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23 Apr 1942 World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
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23 Apr 1942 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins
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23 Apr 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
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24 Apr 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
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25 Apr 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath
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26 Apr 1942 Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
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26 Apr 1942 Colliery explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
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26 Apr 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath
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27 Apr 1942 Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
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27 Apr 1942 Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars
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28 Apr 1942 "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
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28 Apr 1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along East Coast
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28 Apr 1942 "WWII" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
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28 Apr 1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along the East Coast
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29 Apr 1942 Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in the Netherlands and Vichy-France
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29 Apr 1942 Japanese troops march into Lashio, cut off Burma Road
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30 Apr 1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wisconsin
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01 May 1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
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02 May 1942 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4
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02 May 1942 Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma
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03 May 1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
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03 May 1942 World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
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04 May 1942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
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04 May 1942 Food 1st rationed in US
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04 May 1942 German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
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04 May 1942 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
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04 May 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
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05 May 1942 British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar
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05 May 1942 US begins rationing sugar during WWII
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06 May 1942 Corregidor and Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
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06 May 1942 World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
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07 May 1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
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07 May 1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
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07 May 1942 During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
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08 May 1942 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund
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08 May 1942 Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
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08 May 1942 German summer offensive opens in Crimea
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08 May 1942 World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
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08 May 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese 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.
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09 May 1942 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57
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09 May 1942 Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
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10 May 1942 World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
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11 May 1942 William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
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11 May 1942 Japanese troops conquer Kalewa
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12 May 1942 World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.
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12 May 1942 World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
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12 May 1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz
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12 May 1942 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
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12 May 1942 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
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12 May 1942 Russia occupies Crackow, until August 23, 1943
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13 May 1942 Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight
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13 May 1942 Pitcher Jim Tobin belts 3 homeruns in a game
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14 May 1942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded
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15 May 1942 Nazi occupiers in the Netherlands arrests 2,000 Dutch officers
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15 May 1942 World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
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15 May 1942 Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
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16 May 1942 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
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17 May 1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
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18 May 1942 New York City ends night baseball games for rest of WWII
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19 May 1942 Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson & Wagner)
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19 May 1942 World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
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19 May 1942 Atlanta Braves' Paul Waner is 3rd National League-er to get 3,000 hits (Anson & Wagner)
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20 May 1942 US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve
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21 May 1942 Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
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22 May 1942 Mexico declares war on Nazi-Germany and Japan
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22 May 1942 Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
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22 May 1942 The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
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22 May 1942 World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
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22 May 1942 M
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26 May 1942 World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
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26 May 1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London
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26 May 1942 Belgian Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
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26 May 1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army
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27 May 1942 World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
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27 May 1942 Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
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27 May 1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered
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27 May 1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
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27 May 1942 Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague
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28 May 1942 World War II: In retaliation for the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
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28 May 1942 1,800 Czechoslovakians murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich
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29 May 1942 Bing Crosby records "White Christmas, " greatest selling record to date
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29 May 1942 Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling single in history.
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30 May 1942 World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
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30 May 1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WWII
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30 May 1942 Reichsf
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30 May 1942 Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1
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30 May 1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
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31 May 1942 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview Country Club - Atlantic City, New Jersey
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31 May 1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
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31 May 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
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02 Jun 1942 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator
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03 Jun 1942 Battle of Midway Island begins
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03 Jun 1942 World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
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04 Jun 1942 Capitol Record Co opens for business
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04 Jun 1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
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04 Jun 1942 World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
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05 Jun 1942 British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie
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05 Jun 1942 Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54
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05 Jun 1942 USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania
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05 Jun 1942 World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
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06 Jun 1942 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
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06 Jun 1942 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2
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06 Jun 1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
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06 Jun 1942 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
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06 Jun 1942 World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
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07 Jun 1942 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Nimitz wins 1st WWII naval defeat of Japan
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07 Jun 1942 Germany Armys march into Sebastopol
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07 Jun 1942 Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands
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07 Jun 1942 World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
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07 Jun 1942 World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
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08 Jun 1942 Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"
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08 Jun 1942 World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
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09 Jun 1942 Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes Minister in Gerbrandy government
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09 Jun 1942 German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe
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09 Jun 1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice Czechoslovakia
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10 Jun 1942 Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
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10 Jun 1942 World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
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10 Jun 1942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo kills 173
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11 Jun 1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
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11 Jun 1942 US and the USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WWII
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11 Jun 1942 World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
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11 Jun 1942 Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
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12 Jun 1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)
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12 Jun 1942 Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
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12 Jun 1942 Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
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12 Jun 1942 Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
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13 Jun 1942 FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
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13 Jun 1942 Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
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13 Jun 1942 OSS, Office of Strategic Services, form
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13 Jun 1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenem
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14 Jun 1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced - Bridgeport, Connecticut
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14 Jun 1942 Anne Frank begins her diary
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14 Jun 1942 French government of Reynaud resigns
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14 Jun 1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released
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17 Jun 1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
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18 Jun 1942 Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy
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18 Jun 1942 Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
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19 Jun 1942 Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 hits
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20 Jun 1942 Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
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20 Jun 1942 German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa
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20 Jun 1942 The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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21 Jun 1942 President Roosevelt / Premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
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21 Jun 1942 Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
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21 Jun 1942 World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
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21 Jun 1942 World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
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21 Jun 1942 Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa
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22 Jun 1942 Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon
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22 Jun 1942 Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WWII, forms
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22 Jun 1942 Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
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22 Jun 1942 Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress
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23 Jun 1942 World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
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23 Jun 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.
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24 Jun 1942 Africa Corps occupy Egypt
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24 Jun 1942 Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered
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25 Jun 1942 British Premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London
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25 Jun 1942 Maj General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe
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25 Jun 1942 British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
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26 Jun 1942 German assault on British at Mersa Matruh
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26 Jun 1942 The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
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27 Jun 1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
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27 Jun 1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
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28 Jun 1942 World War II: Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue
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28 Jun 1942 Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)
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30 Jun 1942 144 U-boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month
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30 Jun 1942 US bombs Celebes and Timor
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30 Jun 1942 US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
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01 Jul 1942 German troops conquer Sebastopol
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01 Jul 1942 World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
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01 Jul 1942 The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
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03 Jul 1942 Germany troop march into Sebastopol
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03 Jul 1942 Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bocks headquarter / d into / d Ukraine
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04 Jul 1942 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WWII)
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04 Jul 1942 US air offensive against Nazi-Germany begins
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04 Jul 1942 World War II: the 250 day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
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05 Jul 1942 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada
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06 Jul 1942 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York
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06 Jul 1942 Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
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07 Jul 1942 Germany troop march into Woronezj
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07 Jul 1942 Military all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0
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09 Jul 1942 Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family and 4 other Jews
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10 Jul 1942 Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
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10 Jul 1942 World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
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13 Jul 1942 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by Nazis
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13 Jul 1942 German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
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13 Jul 1942 SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland
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14 Jul 1942 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
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14 Jul 1942 Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
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15 Jul 1942 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
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15 Jul 1942 Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"
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16 Jul 1942 French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris
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16 Jul 1942 Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
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16 Jul 1942 Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): The government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
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17 Jul 1942 Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pa (state record)
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17 Jul 1942 Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
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17 Jul 1942 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
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18 Jul 1942 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
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18 Jul 1942 World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
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18 Jul 1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
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19 Jul 1942 German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and Hague
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19 Jul 1942 World War II: Battle of the Atlantic – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
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20 Jul 1942 Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8
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20 Jul 1942 Time puts Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover
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20 Jul 1942 Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress
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20 Jul 1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines
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21 Jul 1942 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Virginia
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22 Jul 1942 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks
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22 Jul 1942 Gasoline rationing using coupons begins
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22 Jul 1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp
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22 Jul 1942 The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
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22 Jul 1942 Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
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22 Jul 1942 Gasoline rationing begins in US during WW II
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23 Jul 1942 German troops conquer Rostow
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23 Jul 1942 Treblinka Concentration Camp destroyed
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23 Jul 1942 The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
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23 Jul 1942 World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
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23 Jul 1942 Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
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25 Jul 1942 German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
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25 Jul 1942 Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
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26 Jul 1942 RAF bombs Hamburg
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26 Jul 1942 RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
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28 Jul 1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto
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28 Jul 1942 Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland
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29 Jul 1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
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30 Jul 1942 German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in the Netherlands
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30 Jul 1942 FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
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30 Jul 1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
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31 Jul 1942 U-boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton
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31 Jul 1942 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
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01 Aug 1942 Deurne soccer team forms
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01 Aug 1942 German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
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02 Aug 1942 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
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04 Aug 1942 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
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04 Aug 1942 British Premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
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04 Aug 1942 Colonel-General Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad / welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev
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04 Aug 1942 German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed
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05 Aug 1942 British government cancels agreement of Munich
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05 Aug 1942 German troops cross Kuban River
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06 Aug 1942 Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210
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06 Aug 1942 Churchill fires General Auchinlek as Middle-East Commandant
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06 Aug 1942 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
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07 Aug 1942 Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
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07 Aug 1942 Transport 16 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
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07 Aug 1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
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08 Aug 1942 "Monty" appointed Commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein
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08 Aug 1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington DC
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08 Aug 1942 Dianthus sinks U-379
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08 Aug 1942 Russ anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko
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08 Aug 1942 Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
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09 Aug 1942 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland
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09 Aug 1942 Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress
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09 Aug 1942 Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
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09 Aug 1942 Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
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09 Aug 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.
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10 Aug 1942 Gen B Montgomery becomes Commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
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11 Aug 1942 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
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11 Aug 1942 British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks
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11 Aug 1942 Lieutenant General Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar
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11 Aug 1942 Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
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12 Aug 1942 British Premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
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12 Aug 1942 German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe
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12 Aug 1942 Lieutenant General Montgomery arrives in Cairo
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13 Aug 1942 Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
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13 Aug 1942 Walt Disney's fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was released to theaters.
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14 Aug 1942 Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
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15 Aug 1942 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
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15 Aug 1942 World War II: Operation Pedestal: The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
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16 Aug 1942 Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
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16 Aug 1942 World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California.
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17 Aug 1942 1st European bombing run undertaken by US forces
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17 Aug 1942 1st US / 8th Air Force bombs Europe
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17 Aug 1942 Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on Hornet
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17 Aug 1942 US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
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19 Aug 1942 Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad
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19 Aug 1942 1,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France
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19 Aug 1942 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
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20 Aug 1942 Dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco
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21 Aug 1942 Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus
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22 Aug 1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
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23 Aug 1942 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
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23 Aug 1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
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23 Aug 1942 British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
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23 Aug 1942 Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY - Washington game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
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24 Aug 1942 Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
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25 Aug 1942 SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht Neth
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26 Aug 1942 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France
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26 Aug 1942 Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay
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26 Aug 1942 Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow
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26 Aug 1942 7,000 Jews rounded up in Vichy Free Zone of France
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27 Aug 1942 Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
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28 Aug 1942 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
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28 Aug 1942 Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)
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30 Aug 1942 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
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30 Aug 1942 World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
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31 Aug 1942 Battle at Alam Halfa: German and Italians assault
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31 Aug 1942 U-boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton)
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01 Sep 1942 Fed judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
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01 Sep 1942 German troops land on Taman peninsula
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02 Sep 1942 German troops enter Stalingrad
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03 Sep 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.
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05 Sep 1942 Battle at Alam Halfa ends
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05 Sep 1942 British and US bomb Le Havre and Bremen
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05 Sep 1942 World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
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06 Sep 1942 56th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64)
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07 Sep 1942 62nd US Mens Tennis: F Schroeder Jr beats F Parker (86 75 36 46 62)
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07 Sep 1942 German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle
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07 Sep 1942 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
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07 Sep 1942 World War II: Australian and US forces inflict a significant defeat upon the Japanese at the Battle of Milne Bay.
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09 Sep 1942 1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WWII)
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09 Sep 1942 Compulsory work for women, children and old males in Batavia
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09 Sep 1942 Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon
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09 Sep 1942 World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
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10 Sep 1942 British troops lands on Madagascar
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10 Sep 1942 World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
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12 Sep 1942 Free-Poland and Belgium asks Pope to condemn Nazi-war crimes
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12 Sep 1942 World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
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12 Sep 1942 World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces.
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13 Sep 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.
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13 Sep 1942 Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning
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13 Sep 1942 German forces attack Stalingrad
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14 Sep 1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
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15 Sep 1942 US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal
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15 Sep 1942 World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by a Japanese torpedo at Guadalcanal.
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16 Sep 1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled
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18 Sep 1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
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20 Sep 1942 Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
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20 Sep 1942 Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m
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21 Sep 1942 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris
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21 Sep 1942 The Holocaust: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
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21 Sep 1942 In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.
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21 Sep 1942 In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
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21 Sep 1942 The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
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22 Sep 1942 Meulenberg robs of church bells
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23 Sep 1942 Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions
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23 Sep 1942 Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad
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23 Sep 1942 World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
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25 Sep 1942 World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942: This instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
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26 Sep 1942 The Holocaust: August Frank, a higher official of the SS concentration camp administration department, issues a memorandum containing a great deal of operational detail in how Jews should be "evacuated".
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27 Sep 1942 Heavy German assault in Stalingrad
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27 Sep 1942 New York Giants beat Washington Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down
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27 Sep 1942 Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague, " appointed SS-General
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27 Sep 1942 Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
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27 Sep 1942 St Louis Cards win NL pennant on last day of the season
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28 Sep 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad
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28 Sep 1942 New York Americans NHL team folded
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29 Sep 1942 Government of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich
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30 Sep 1942 98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons)
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30 Sep 1942 SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period
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01 Oct 1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight
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01 Oct 1942 Little Golden Books (children books) begins publishing
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01 Oct 1942 USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
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01 Oct 1942 First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
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02 Oct 1942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
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02 Oct 1942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
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02 Oct 1942 World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Curacoa, off the coast of Ireland.
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03 Oct 1942 FDR forms Office of Economic Stabilization
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03 Oct 1942 Launch of 1st A-4 / V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
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03 Oct 1942 New York Yanks Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 and suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season
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03 Oct 1942 Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.
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04 Oct 1942 German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
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05 Oct 1942 5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred
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05 Oct 1942 St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series
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06 Oct 1942 Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
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06 Oct 1942 World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
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07 Oct 1942 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad
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07 Oct 1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth)
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07 Oct 1942 Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St. Mark, " premieres in New York City
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07 Oct 1942 US and British government announce establishment of United Nations
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07 Oct 1942 Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ
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07 Oct 1942 World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
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08 Oct 1942 Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)
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09 Oct 1942 Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
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09 Oct 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.
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10 Oct 1942 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt
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10 Oct 1942 The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
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11 Oct 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.
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12 Oct 1942 Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division
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12 Oct 1942 World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.
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12 Oct 1942 US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
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14 Oct 1942 Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
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14 Oct 1942 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed
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14 Oct 1942 Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
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16 Oct 1942 Aaron Copland / de Milles ballet "Rodeo, " premieres in New York City
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16 Oct 1942 National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services
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16 Oct 1942 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
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18 Oct 1942 Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed
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20 Oct 1942 "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations
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22 Oct 1942 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
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22 Oct 1942 US gens Clark and Lemnitzer and French General Mast meet secretly in Algeria
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23 Oct 1942 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk
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23 Oct 1942 German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad
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23 Oct 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.
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23 Oct 1942 All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
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23 Oct 1942 World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.
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23 Oct 1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
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24 Oct 1942 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry
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25 Oct 1942 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
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25 Oct 1942 Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins
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25 Oct 1942 Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa
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26 Oct 1942 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
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26 Oct 1942 4th day in battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough
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26 Oct 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes
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26 Oct 1942 World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.
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26 Oct 1942 US ship Hornet sunk in Battle of Santa Cruz Islands during WW II
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27 Oct 1942 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles / Australian advance
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27 Oct 1942 US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz
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28 Oct 1942 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
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28 Oct 1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit, Michigan)
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28 Oct 1942 The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
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29 Oct 1942 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault
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29 Oct 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.
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29 Oct 1942 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia
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29 Oct 1942 Alaska highway completed
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29 Oct 1942 Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers
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30 Oct 1942 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault
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30 Oct 1942 Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
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31 Oct 1942 94 U-boats sunk this month (619,000 ton)
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31 Oct 1942 9th day in battle at El Alamein
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01 Nov 1942 10th day of battle at El Alamein
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01 Nov 1942 John H Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest
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01 Nov 1942 Vice-admiral Cunningham becomes British commander-in-chief
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01 Nov 1942 World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.
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02 Nov 1942 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir
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02 Nov 1942 Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (G) in battle of Alamein Egypt (WWII)
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03 Nov 1942 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
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03 Nov 1942 Despite Ted Williams wins Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP
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03 Nov 1942 Mort Cooper wins NL MVP
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03 Nov 1942 William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
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03 Nov 1942 World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
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04 Nov 1942 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afr corps draws back out Fuka-posing
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04 Nov 1942 World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
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05 Nov 1942 Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris
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06 Nov 1942 Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
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06 Nov 1942 Sukarno and Mohammed Hatta finds Ampat Serangkai
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07 Nov 1942 1st US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
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07 Nov 1942 Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km)
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08 Nov 1942 Allies under Eisenhower land in N-Africa (Casablanca)
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08 Nov 1942 Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall
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08 Nov 1942 Operation "Torch" began as US and British forces land in French N Afr
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08 Nov 1942 Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US
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09 Nov 1942 German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish Premier
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10 Nov 1942 US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey Morocco
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10 Nov 1942 US-British troops occupies Oran Algeria
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11 Nov 1942 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz
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11 Nov 1942 Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David
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11 Nov 1942 Lieutenant General Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
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11 Nov 1942 During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France
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12 Nov 1942 In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
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13 Nov 1942 Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal
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13 Nov 1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
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14 Nov 1942 Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender
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16 Nov 1942 Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed
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18 Nov 1942 Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth, " premieres in New York City
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19 Nov 1942 Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden"
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19 Nov 1942 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along the Don front
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20 Nov 1942 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
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20 Nov 1942 British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
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20 Nov 1942 Hitler names Field Marshal Erich von Manstein becomes commanding
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20 Nov 1942 Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines
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20 Nov 1942 NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over
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21 Nov 1942 Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties"
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22 Nov 1942 General Major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
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22 Nov 1942 Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man
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23 Nov 1942 3rd and 5th Romanian army corp surrenders
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23 Nov 1942 Colonel-General Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender
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23 Nov 1942 German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad
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23 Nov 1942 Japans bombing of Port Darwin, Australia
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23 Nov 1942 Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don
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23 Nov 1942 Steward Poon Lim begins floating in a raft 133 days
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23 Nov 1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
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23 Nov 1942 Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed
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24 Nov 1942 Field Marshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk
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24 Nov 1942 French collaborator Earl De Brinon establishes "African Falanx"
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25 Nov 1942 National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms
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26 Nov 1942 "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, New York City
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26 Nov 1942 Anti fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
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26 Nov 1942 World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
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27 Nov 1942 Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ
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27 Nov 1942 Tito appoints Anti fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia
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27 Nov 1942 World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
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27 Nov 1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis don't take them
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28 Nov 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire kills 602 (Boston, Massachusetts)
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28 Nov 1942 In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.
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28 Nov 1942 Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston MA
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29 Nov 1942 US rations coffee
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30 Nov 1942 109 U-boats sunk this month (729,000 ton)
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30 Nov 1942 30th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Hurricanes defeats Winnipeg Bombers, 8-5
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30 Nov 1942 Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of New York Giants minor league system
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30 Nov 1942 German scout ship Altmark explode and sinks off Yokohama
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30 Nov 1942 World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
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01 Dec 1942 Gasoline rationed in US
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02 Dec 1942 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (Enrico Fermi - University of Chicago)
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02 Dec 1942 World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
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04 Dec 1942 1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
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04 Dec 1942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
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04 Dec 1942 US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WWII
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04 Dec 1942 Works Progress Administration liquidated
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04 Dec 1942 World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.
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05 Dec 1942 CFL Grey Cup: Tor beats Win RCAF, 8 -5 at Toronto
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05 Dec 1942 Seyss-Inquart orders students in Nazi-Germany to go work
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05 Dec 1942 West Indies chocolate / coffee drop above Netherland
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06 Dec 1942 Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth
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06 Dec 1942 RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die)
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08 Dec 1942 8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB)
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10 Dec 1942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of the Netherlands people"
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10 Dec 1942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherlands people"
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10 Dec 1942 North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel-General von Arnim
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11 Dec 1942 Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia
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12 Dec 1942 World War II: German troops begin Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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12 Dec 1942 A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland, kills 100 people.
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12 Dec 1942 German offensive in South Western Stalingrad
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13 Dec 1942 Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
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13 Dec 1942 Washington Redskins defeat Chicago Bears 14-6, to win NFL title
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15 Dec 1942 World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
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15 Dec 1942 Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
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16 Dec 1942 The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
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16 Dec 1942 Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia & Balkan
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17 Dec 1942 Allies in London sentence German war criminals
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20 Dec 1942 World War II: Japanese air forces[disambiguation needed] bomb Calcutta, India.
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20 Dec 1942 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
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21 Dec 1942 US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal
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22 Dec 1942 World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
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23 Dec 1942 Allies air attack on Den Helder
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24 Dec 1942 World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers, Algeria.
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24 Dec 1942 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenem
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24 Dec 1942 Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk
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25 Dec 1942 Admiral Dalans, murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death
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25 Dec 1942 British Colonel S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarters
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25 Dec 1942 Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
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27 Dec 1942 The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded.
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27 Dec 1942 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use
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27 Dec 1942 NFL Pro Bowl: NFL All-Stars beats Washington 17-14
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28 Dec 1942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly the Atlantic 100 times
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28 Dec 1942 Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
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31 Dec 1942 60 U boats sunk this month (330,000 ton)
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31 Dec 1942 Battle in Barents Sea
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31 Dec 1942 Potatoes rationed in Holland
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