1942 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1942?
- January 1, 1942 – The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
- January 11, 1942 – World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
- February 15, 1942 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 19, 1942 – World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
- April 18, 1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
- May 8, 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
- May 22, 1942 – World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
- May 28, 1942 – World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
- June 12, 1942 – Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
- 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 26, 1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
- June 28, 1942 – Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue
- July 22, 1942 – Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
- July 23, 1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
- August 25, 1942 – World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
- September 7, 1942 – Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
- September 21, 1942 – On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
- September 27, 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.
- December 2, 1942 – Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
- December 22, 1942 – World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
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