Events Date 1942 July | History by KabAstro

Jul 1 WWI: German troops conquer Black Sea port city of Sevastopol, Crimea, after a 250 battle; Russia takes it back in 1944

Hitler Visits Ukraine

Jul 3 Adolf Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bock's headquarters in Ukraine

Jul 3 German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea
Jul 4 1st American bombing missions over Nazi Germany-occupied Europe (WWII)

Best Foot Forward

Jul 4 Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane's musical "Best Foot Forward", starring June Allyson, with choreography by Gene Kelly, closes at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, after 326 performances

Siege of Sevastopol Ends

Jul 4 Siege of Sevastopol ends with the surrender of Soviet forces and after massive German bombing raids that leave just 11 city buildings undamaged

Jul 4 US air offensive against Nazi Germany begins
Jul 5 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada
Jul 6 10th MLB All Star Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, NYC, AL runs are homers

Frank Family Go into Hiding

Jul 6 Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam

Jewish Victim and Diarist of the Holocaust Anne Frank

Jul 6 Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj

Military All-Stars vs American League

Jul 7 Baseball Military All-Star team (including Bob Feller) loses to American League All Stars 5-0

Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Bob Feller

Jul 7 Germany troop march into Woronezj

Keynes Enters House of Lords

Jul 7 John Maynard Keynes takes his seat in the British House Of Lords as Baron Keynes of Tilton after being knighted

Event of Interest

Jul 10 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish women in Ravensbrück concentration camp, in northern Germany

Leading Nazi and Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler

Jul 10 Netherlands government in exile (London) recognizes Soviet Union
Jul 13 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by Nazis
Jul 13 German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
Jul 13 SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland
Jul 14 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
Jul 14 Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
Jul 15 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
Jul 15 Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"
Jul 16 French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris
Jul 16 Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
Jul 17 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
Jul 17 Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record); flooding kills 15
Jul 17 Transport #6 departs Pithiviers, France with 928 French Jews sent to Aushwitz Concentration camp; 45 survive until the war's end
Jul 18 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
Jul 18 1st performances of "Chôros No. 6" and "Chôros No. 11" by Heitor Villa-Lobos, with the composer conducting Orquestra Sinfônica do Theatro Municipal, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jul 18 Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time
Jul 19 German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and The Hague

Shostakovich's 7th Symphony

Jul 19 US première of Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony in NYC by the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini in a concert broadcast nationwide on NBC radio

Jul 20 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training
Jul 20 Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy taking 8-8; West Indian cricket domestic first class record
Jul 20 Legion of Merit Medal authorized by US congress
Jul 20 Time magazine puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich on its cover
Jul 21 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Virginia
Jul 22 4th Soviet army forms with 80 tanks
Jul 22 Gasoline rationing using coupons begins

Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka

Jul 22 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp

Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Mordecai Anielewicz

Jul 23 Adolf Hitler's Directive number 45: order for army to advance on Stalingrad
Jul 23 German troops conquer Rostow
Jul 23 World War II: Operation Edelweiss (a German plan to gain control over the Caucasus) begins
Jul 24 German troops occupy Rostov-on- Don in Southern Russia for the 2nd time

This Is The Army

Jul 24 Irving Berlin's musical "This Is The Army" premieres in NYC

Jul 25 German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
Jul 26 RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
Jul 28 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto
Jul 28 Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland
Jul 29 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx, NYC, renamed Bruckner Boulevard, in honor of former Bronx Borough President and US Congressman, Henry Bruckner