Events Date 1942 P 3 | History by KabAstro

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Johnson Pitches to Ruth

Aug 23 Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NYY-Washington MLB doubleheader at Yankee Stadium; raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief

Aug 23 World War II: last cavalry charge in history takes place at Isbushenskij, Russia; the Italian Savoia Cavalleria charges Soviet infantry
Aug 24 Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands between United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy
Aug 24 Transport #23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 25 SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht
Aug 26 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France
Aug 26 Japanese troops land on Milne Bay, New Guinea
Aug 26 Soviet counter offensive begins in Moscow
Aug 26 Transport #24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 27 Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy

Russian sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Aug 27 Soviet woman sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko arrives in Washington D.C., the 1st Soviet citizen welcomed at the White House, by Eleanor Roosevelt

Aug 28 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
Aug 28 Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)
Aug 28 Transport #25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 30 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
Aug 31 Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault
Aug 31 U-boats sink and damage 131 allied ships this month (639,946 tons)
Sep 1 German troops land on Taman peninsula
Sep 1 US Federal judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
Sep 2 German troops enter Stalingrad
Sep 4 Transport #28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Sep 5 American sailor Charles J. French (22) swims for over six hours in waters near Guadalcanal while towing a life raft with fifteen survivors from his US Navy ship which was sunk by Japanese gunfire [1]
Sep 5 Battle at Alam Halfa ends
Sep 5 British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen
Sep 6 Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Sep 7 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator
Sep 7 German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle
Sep 7 Transport #29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Sep 9 1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes
Sep 9 Compulsory work for women, children and old males in Batavia
Sep 10 British RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf, Germany
Sep 10 British troops land on Madagascar

Five on a Treasure Island

Sep 11 Enid Blyton publishes "Five on a Treasure Island" first of her "Famous Five" children's novels, start of one of the best-selling children's series ever with over 100 million sold

Sep 11 Transport #31 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
Sep 12 Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal
Sep 12 Free-Poland & Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes
Sep 13 Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
Sep 13 Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning
Sep 13 German forces attack Stalingrad
Sep 14 Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
Sep 14 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1

1st Medal of Honor of WWII

Sep 14 US Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz presents the 1st Medal of Honor of WWII, for courage and valor beyond the call of duty during the attack on Pearl Harbor, to sailor John William Finn; ceremony took place in Pearl Harbor aboard USS Enterprise

USS Arizona ablaze and sinking after the attack on Pearl Harbor

Sep 14 Yanks clinch pennant #13
Sep 15 US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal
Sep 16 Japanese attack on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, repelled
Sep 18 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
Sep 18 The order for "extermination of asocials through labour" is approved by Nazi Minister of Justice, Otto Thierack
Sep 20 Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m
Sep 21 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris
Sep 21 Transport #35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Sep 23 Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad
Sep 23 Transport #36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany

Glenn Miller's Orchestra

Sep 27 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra give their final performance at Central Theater in Passaic, New Jersey; Miller disbanded the group as he joined the US Army

Big Band Leader and Jazz Composer Glenn Miller

Sep 27 Heavy German assault in Stalingrad
Sep 27 NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down
Sep 27 St Louis Cards win NL pennant on last day of season
Sep 28 Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad
Sep 28 NY Americans NHL team folded
Sep 29 32°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio in September
Sep 29 French Government in exile of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich

Nimitz Finds Guadalcanal

Sep 30 Admiral Chester Nimitz's B-17 finds Guadalcanal using a National Geographic map

Sep 30 SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period
Oct 1 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight
Oct 1 Little Golden Books (children's books) begins publishing
Oct 2 RMS Queen Mary, carrying thousands of US troops, slices cruiser HMS Curacao in half, killing 239
Oct 2 WWII: British Royal Navy boards floundering German U-boat U-559 retrieving abandoned Enigma code machine before it sinks; 2 British sailors go down with the sub

Office of Economic Stabilization

Oct 3 FDR forms Office of Economic Stabilization

Oct 3 Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
Oct 3 Triple Crown winner Whirlaway, ridden by George Woolf wins the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park to become the first thoroughbred to amass more than $500,000 in lifetime earnings
Oct 4 German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
Oct 5 5,000 Jews of Dubno, Russia massacred

Budy Massacre

Oct 5 Budy Massacre at Auschwitz sub-camp, 90 French-Jewish women beaten to death by prison guards

Oct 6 Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
Oct 7 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad
Oct 7 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands)
Oct 7 US & UK government announce establishment of United Nations

Abbott and Costello

Oct 8 Comedy duo Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show

Oct 8 Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)
Oct 9 Statute of Westminster 1931 passed by the Australian parliament, formalises Australian autonomy
Oct 10 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
Oct 11 -Oct 12] Naval battle at Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal
Oct 12 Successful Soviet counterattack through 37th Guard division
Oct 12 WWII: US Navy defeats Japanese in Battle of Cape Esperance between Savo Island and Guadalcanal in theSouth Pacific's Solomon Islands
Oct 14 Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
Oct 14 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed
Oct 14 Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
Oct 15 German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die

Rodeo

Oct 16 Aaron Copland and Agnes de Mille's ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC

Oct 16 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
Oct 16 National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services

Commando Order

Oct 18 Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed

Oct 20 "Durham Manifesto" issued by the Southern Conference on Race Relations held in Durham, North Carolina, calls for fundamental changes in race relations

Now, Voyager

Oct 22 "Now, Voyager" film directed by Irving Rapper, and starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains, premieres in New York; wins 3 Academy Awards

Oct 22 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
Oct 22 Operation Flagpole: US Major General Mark Clark & Brigadier General Lyman Lemnitzer meet Vichy French Général Charles Mast secretly in small fishing village of Cherchell, Algeria to finalize plans for Allied Invasion of North Africa
Oct 23 All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is composer Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory")
Oct 23 During WWII, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
Oct 23 First ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk
Oct 23 German units go through Red October factory in Stalingrad
Oct 24 Second day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry
Oct 25 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
Oct 25 Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins

The Desert Fox Returns

Oct 25 Field Marshal Rommel back in North Africa

Oct 26 Battle of Santa Cruz: Japanese naval offensive against US forces near Solomon Islands
Oct 26 Fourth day of battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough
Oct 26 Second day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
Oct 27 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance
Oct 27 US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz
Oct 28 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
Oct 28 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
Oct 29 Alaska highway completed

Dodgers Appoint Rickey

Oct 29 Branch Rickey named president and general manager of Brooklyn Dodgers

Baseball Player and Sports Executive Branch Rickey

Oct 29 Nazis murder 16,000 Jews in Pinsk, Soviet Union
Oct 29 Seventh day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault
Oct 30 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault
Oct 30 US aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea
Oct 31 9th day of the Battle of El Alamein
Oct 31 U-boats sink and damage 120 allied ships this month (659,457 tons)
Nov 1 10th day of battle at El Alamein
Nov 1 John H. Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest
Nov 2 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir
Nov 3 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault

Baseball Record

Nov 3 Boston Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams wins American League Triple Crown (.356 average, 36 HRs, 137 RBI); but NY Yankees pitcher Joe Gordon is AL MVP

Nov 3 William L. Dawson elected to the US Congress from Chicago
Nov 4 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afrika Korps draws back
Nov 5 Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris
Nov 5 Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission
Nov 6 Indonesian independence movement Empat Serangkai founded by Sukarno, Mohammed Hatta, Ki Hajar Dewantara and Mas Mansur
Nov 6 Nazis kill 12,000 Jews in the Minsk ghetto
Nov 7 1st US President to broadcast in a foreign language - FDR, in French

Fausto Coppi

Nov 7 Italian cyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world hour record 45.798km in Vigorelli, Milan, Italy

Nov 8 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa on the Gold Coast
Nov 8 Adolf Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall

Operation Torch

Nov 8 Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa

34th US President and WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nov 8 Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US
Nov 9 German occupiers install Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
Nov 9 Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Nov 10 Philip Barry's play "Without Love" premieres in NYC
Nov 10 US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey, Morocco
Nov 10 US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria
Nov 11 -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad
Nov 11 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz
Nov 11 Germany completes its WWII occupation of France
Nov 11 Jews in the Free Zone of France ordered to wear a yellow star of David
Nov 11 Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
Nov 11 Transport #45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
Nov 11 WWII: British led Allied forces defeat Erwin Rommel's German and Italian Army Panzers in Second Battle of El-Alamein, North Africa, helping to secure the Suez Canal

SS Robert E. Peary

Nov 12 The SS Robert E. Peary, a Liberty ship built in 4 days and 15.5 hours at Henry J. Kaiser's Richmond Shipyard #2, is launched, setting a new record

Nov 12 WWII Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solomon Islands
Nov 13 Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal
Nov 13 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 in the US
Nov 14 -Nov 15th) Japanese vs US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal
Nov 14 Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender
Nov 15 World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
Nov 16 Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed

Skin of our Teeth

Nov 18 Thornton Wilder's play "Skin of our Teeth" premieres in NYC (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1943)

Goebbels Visits Netherlands

Nov 19 Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Netherlands"

Nazi Minister of Propaganda and Information Joseph Goebbels

Nov 19 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army
Nov 19 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front
Nov 20 26th Soviet Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
Nov 20 British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
Nov 20 NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over
Nov 20 The Alaska Highway 2,451km long from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Fairbanks, Alaska, first opens to military traffic [1]
Nov 21 Adolf Hitler names field marshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)
Nov 22 Adolf Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to the last man
Nov 22 General-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
Nov 23 3rd & 5th Romanian army corps surrenders

Poon Lim's 133 Day South Atlantic Odyssey

Nov 23 Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond is torpedoed by a German U-boat, leaving him as the sole survivor

Poon Lim and his raft, photo made on request of the US Navy for its Survival Training.

Nov 23 German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad
Nov 23 Japanese bombing of Port Darwin, Australia
Nov 23 Soviet 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don
Nov 23 US Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
Nov 24 French collaborator Marquis de Brinon establishes "African Falanx"
Nov 24 German Fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk, Ukraine
Nov 25 National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms

Casablanca

Nov 26 "Casablanca" directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman premieres at Hollywood Theater, NYC (Academy Awards Best Picture 1943)

Nov 26 Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
Nov 27 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis cannot seize them

Tito

Nov 27 Tito appoints Anti-fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia

Nov 28 492 die in a fire that destroys Cocoanut Grove nightclub, fueled by flammable tropical decor, in Boston, Massachusetts [1]
Nov 29 US Office of Price Administration rations coffee for everyone, 10 pound a year
Nov 30 -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal

Bill Terry

Nov 30 Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system

Nov 30 German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes & sinks off Yokohama
Nov 30 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)
Dec 1 Gasoline rationed in US
Dec 1 The Beveridge Report is published by the British government unveiling plans for a post-war welfare state
Dec 1 With WWII travel restrictions in mind, MLB owners decide to restrict travel to a 3-trip schedule rather than customary 4; Spring training in 1943 limited to locations north of Potomac or Ohio rivers and east of the Mississippi

Nuclear Chain Reaction

Dec 2 World’s 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurs in Chicago Pile-1 (world's 1st nuclear reactor) at the University of Chicago, overseen by Enrico Fermi and Leó Szilárd

Dec 4 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
Dec 4 First US citizenship granted to an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
Dec 4 Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization
Dec 4 US bombers strike Italian mainland for first time in WW II
Dec 5 Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to work
Dec 5 West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland

Historical Events in 1942 (Part 3)