1942 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1942?
- January 16, 1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
- January 24, 1942 – World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
- January 26, 1942 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
- February 11, 1942 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for “Chattanooga Choo Choo”.
- February 15, 1942 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 27, 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
- March 14, 1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
- April 3, 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
- May 29, 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”, the best-selling Christmas single in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
- June 10, 1942 – World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
- July 18, 1942 – World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.
- 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 9, 1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
- September 20, 1942 – Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
- September 23, 1942 – World War II: First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
- October 10, 1942 – The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
- October 23, 1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.
- October 28, 1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
- November 12, 1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days.
- December 12, 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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