1942 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1942?
- January 23, 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign.
- February 15, 1942 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- March 11, 1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor.
- April 3, 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
- April 5, 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.
- April 9, 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.
- May 6, 1942 – World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
- May 27, 1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.
- June 7, 1942 – World War II: Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
- June 20, 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.
- June 23, 1942 – World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
- July 25, 1942 – Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
- August 8, 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mahatma Gandhi’s call for swaraj or complete independence.
- August 25, 1942 – World War II: second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
- September 21, 1942 – The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
- November 19, 1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda.
- November 26, 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.
- November 27, 1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
- December 4, 1942 – Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization.
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