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1942

1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

January

  • January 1 - World War II: The word "United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact.
  • January 2 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. The Japanese Admiral stays in Solvec (owned by Charles Henry de Silva), Philippines.
  • January 5 - Amy Johnson disappears in flight over River Thames estuary - assumed drowned
  • January 6 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world.
  • January 7 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins
  • January 11 - World War II: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
  • January 11 - World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
  • January 12 - President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
  • January 13 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car
  • January 19 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
  • January 20 - World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide that the "final solution to the Jewish problem" is relocation.
  • January 25 - World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom
  • January 26 - World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.

    February

  • February 9
  • *World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
  • *Daylight-saving time goes into effect in the United States.
  • February 15 - World War II: Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces.
  • February 19
  • *World War II: About 150 Japanese warplanes attack Darwin, Australia
  • *World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066 allowing the United States military to define areas as exclusionary zones. These zones affect the Japanese on the West Coast, and Germans and Italians primarily on the East Coast.
  • February 20 - Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace
  • February 22 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense of the nation collapses.
  • February 23 - Japanese I-boat fires 16 high explosive shells into a Santa Barbara oil refinery, causing little damage
  • February 24 - Propaganda: The Voice of America begins broadcasting.
  • February 25 - Princess Elizabeth registers for war service
  • February 26 - Coal dust explosion in Honkeika mine in China - 1549 dead
  • February 27 - World War II: the USS Langley, the first United States aircraft carrier, is sunk by Japanese warplanes.

    March

  • March 5 - Felipe González Márquez, Prime Minister of Spain?
  • March 8 - World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
  • March 8 - World War II: Japan captures Rangoon, Burma.
  • March 9 - Effective date of major reorganization of U.S. Army, enhancing status of Army Air Forces.
  • March 11 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor
  • March 19 - The Thoroughbred Racing Association is established in Chicago, Illinois.
  • March 22 - World War II: In the Mediterranean sea, Regia Marina defeats Royal Navy in the Second Battle of Sirte.
  • March 23 - World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Anadaman Islands.
  • March 26 - World War II: In Poland, Auschwitz receives its first female prisoners.
  • March 28 - World War II: In occupied France, United Kingdom naval and commando forces destroy the dry docks at the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.

    April-June


    under attack by US aircraft at the Battle of Midway
  • April 3 - World War II: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Bataan fell on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.
  • April 27 - World War II: A national plebiscite is held in Canada on the issue of conscription.
  • May - first test of an undersea oil pipeline in Operation Pluto
  • May 6 - World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
  • May 8 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end. This is the first time in the naval history where two enemy fleets fought without seeing each other's fleets.
  • 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov - In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
  • May 15 - World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
  • May 20 - First colored seamen taken into US Navy
  • June 4-7 - World War II: The Battle of Midway.
  • June 7 - World War II- Japanese forces invade the Aleutian Islands. This is the first invasion of American soil in 128 years.
  • June 9 - World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
  • June 12 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
  • June 13 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda.

    July

  • July 1 - July 27 - World War II: the First Battle of El Alamein
  • July 9 - Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
  • July 13 - World War II: German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence.
  • July 16 - Holocaust: On order from the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.
  • July 18 - World War II: The Germanss test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time.
  • July 19 - 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 an effective American convoy system.
  • July 22 - Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.

    August-September


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