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Please visit Historical Events in 1942 to read the day-by-day events of 1942Events 1 - 200 of 639JanuaryJan 1 US & 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the AxisJan 1 28th Rose Bowl: #12 Oregon State beats #2 Duke, 20-16 (played in North Carolina due to Japanese threat)Jan 1 8th Sugar Bowl: #6 Fordham beats #7 Missouri, 2-0Jan 1 8th Orange Bowl: #14 Georgia beats TCU, 40-26Jan 2 World War II: the 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace dealsJan 2 German troops in Bardia surrenderJan 2 Japanese troops occupy Manila, PhilippinesJan 2 The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New JerseyJan 3 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command formsJan 4 NFL Pro Bowl: Chicago Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24Jan 4 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to FloridaJan 4 Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of FameJan 5 55 German tanks reach North-AfricaJan 6 Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk VirginiaJan 6 Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world ("Pacific Clipper").Jan 7 WW II siege of Bataan startsJan 8 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse replaced as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Bomber CommandJan 9 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing titleJan 9 US Joint Chiefs of Staff createdJan 10 Japan invades North Celebes, Dutch East IndiesJan 11 -23°F (-31°C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)Jan 11 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, MalayaJan 12 British troops reconquer SollumJan 12 Dutch troops on Tarakan surrenderJan 12 National War Labor Board createdJan 13 Allied Conference on war trialsJan 13 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coastInventionHistoric InventionJan 13 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodiesJan 13 Interallied war trial conference publishes St James DeclarationJan 13 World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighterJan 14 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in BorneoJan 15 Cubs drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW IIJan 15 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW IIJan 16 William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US armyJan 18 Nazis arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi BeckmanJan 19 Japanese forces invade BurmaJan 19 Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiersJan 20 Japanese invade BurmaJan 20 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the "final solution", the extermination of Europe's JewsJan 21 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegalJan 21 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"Jan 21 Tito's partisans occupy FocaJan 22 Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06)Jan 23 Battle of Rabaul: Japanese attack Australian air base in Rabaul, New BritainJan 23 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, Africa Korp vs British 8th armyJan 24 Musical "Star & Garter" premieres in NYCEvent of interestEvent of InterestJan 25 Lt General Rommels African corps reaches MsusJan 26 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern IrelandJan 26 Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German Field Marshal Erwin RommelJan 27 -19°F (-27.4°C), Netherland's coldest day since 1850Jan 28 Soviet troops under General Timoshenko's troops move into UkraineJan 28 German troops occupy Benghazi LibyaJan 28 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"Jan 29 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC radioJan 29 German & Italian troops occupy Benghazi, LibyaJan 29 Peru and Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination)Jan 30 Japanese troops land on AmbonFebruaryFeb 1 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling formsFeb 2 LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-AmericansFeb 2 US auto factories switch from commercial to war productionFeb 3 1st Japanese air raid on JavaFeb 3 Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942Feb 4 Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW IIFilm release premierFilm ReleaseFeb 5 "Woman of the Year" film directed by George Stevens, starring Katherine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy opens at Radio CityFeb 5 Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett and Gene MooreFeb 7 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8")Feb 8 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore (WWII)Feb 8 Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes" premieres in Los AngelesFeb 8 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effortFeb 9 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in USFeb 9 Japanese troops land near Makassar, South CelebesFeb 9 Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"Event of interestEvent of InterestFeb 10 Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"Feb 11 "Archie" comic book debutsFeb 12 German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen escape from Brest to Germany in a dash up the English ChannelFeb 13 Hitler's Operation Sealion, the invasion of England, is cancelledFeb 14 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang, SumatraFeb 14 Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opensFeb 14 The Polish resistance movement, the Home Army, is formed and will eventually become the largest resistance movement in occupied EuropeFeb 14 World War II: Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.Feb 15 German U-boat shells Antillian oil refineryFeb 15 Japanese troops march into Palembang, South SumatraFeb 15 World War II: British ruled Singapore surrenders to the JapaneseFeb 16 German submarines attack Aruba oil refineryFeb 16 Bangka Island massacre: Japanese soldiers machine-gun 22 Australian Army nurses and 60 Australian and British soldiers and crew members from two sunken ships. Only one nurse and two soldiers survive.Feb 18 Japanese troop land on BaliFeb 19 About 150 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian city of DarwinFeb 19 Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champFeb 19 Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture ChamberFeb 19 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-AmericansFeb 19 Japanese troops land on TimorFeb 19 Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"Feb 19 NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home gamesFeb 20 Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers, becomes America's first World War II flying aceFeb 21 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane VaughnFeb 21 US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby SpechtFeb 22 World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapseFeb 23 Japanese submarine fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, CaliforniaFeb 24 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)Feb 24 The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, lasting until the next dayFeb 26 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bombFeb 26 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch IndiesFeb 26 Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"Feb 27 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-GermanyFeb 27 Battle of Java Sea began: 13 US warships sunk and 2 JapaneseFeb 27 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from SunFeb 28 1st weapon drop on NetherlandsFeb 28 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East IndiesFeb 28 Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, DetroitMarchMar 1 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeatMar 1 Baseball decides that players in military can't play when on furloughMar 1 J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3" premieres in ChicagoMar 1 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in JavaMar 1 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save JewsMar 1 Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in BosniaMar 2 14th Academy Awards: "How Green was My Valley", Gary Cooper & Joan Fontaine winMar 2 Admiral Helfrich departs Java for CeylonMar 3 1st combat flight for Canadian British-built Avro Lancaster bomberMar 5 Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in BosniaMar 5 World première of Dmitri Shostakovich' 7th Symphony in Kuybyshev, RussiaMar 5 Japanese troop march into BataviaMar 7 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach MaltaMar 7 1st cadets graduated from flying school at TuskegeeMar 8 Japanese forces capture Rangoon, BurmaMar 8 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armiesMar 9 Construction of the Alaska Highway beganMar 11 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration CampMar 11 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for AustraliaMar 11 Japanese troop land on North SumatraMar 12 British troops vacate the Andaman Islands in Gulf of BengalMar 13 Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US armyMar 17 Bełżec Concentration Camp opens with the transport of 30,000 Lublin Polish JewsMar 17 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commanderMar 18 Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theatersEvent of interestEvent of InterestMar 18 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work outMar 19 FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non-military dutyMar 19 Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in ChicagoMar 20 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to RussiaMar 20 General MacArthur vows "I came through and I shall return" after escaping Japanese invaded PhilippinesMar 20 Major German assault on MaltaMar 21 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to MurmanskMar 23 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deportedMar 23 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian OceanMar 24 US government begins moving native-born citizens with Japanese ancestry into detention centres under Executive Order 9066, with intention of preventing home-grown espionageMar 25 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov district reach the Bełżec Concentration campExecution'The Banality of Evil'Mar 26 First "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration campsMar 26 Explosion of 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton, Pennsylvania, kills 21Mar 26 German offensive in North Africa under General Erwin RommelMar 27 -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St NazaireMar 27 Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forwardMar 27 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC)Mar 28 -29] 234 RAF bombers attack LubeckMar 28 4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38Mar 28 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St NazaireMar 29 British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents SeaMar 29 British destroyer HMS Campbeltown explodes in St Nazaire: 400 Germans dieMar 29 German submarine U-585 sinksMar 29 Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German cityMar 30 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp BirkenauMar 30 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki concentration campAprilApr 1 Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang TimorApr 1 Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2Event of interestEvent of InterestApr 2 USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San FranciscoApr 8 Arnold Schoenberg & Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire" premieres in NYCApr 9 Battle of Bataan; US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at BataanApr 10 Cigarettes & candy rationed in HollandApr 11 US Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal establishedSport awardGolf MajorApr 12 9th Masters Golf Tournament: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 280Apr 12 Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in BataanApr 14 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coastEvent of interestEvent of InterestApr 15 George VI awards George Cross to people of MaltaApr 16 Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorshipApr 17 12 Lancasters bomb MAN factory in AugsburgApr 17 Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration CampApr 17 POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung KönigsteinApr 18 "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces startsApr 18 James Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese citiesApr 18 Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3Apr 19 46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith of Mass in 2:26:51.2Apr 20 German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beachApr 23 4-day allied bombing on Rostock beginsApr 23 1st night Exeter bombed by German LuftwaffeApr 24 2nd night Exeter bombed by German LuftwaffeApr 25 Beginning of a 3 night bombing blitz on Bath by German Luftwaffe - 417 killedApr 26 Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko, ManchuriaApr 27 Belgian Jews are forced to wear starsApr 27 Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma, killing 100, injuring 300Apr 28 German Luftwaffe estimated to have flown over 11 thousand sorties against Malta since 20th MarchApr 28 "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup PollApr 28 Nightly "dim-out" begins along US East CoastApr 29 Japanese troop march into Lashio, cut off Burma RoadApr 29 Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-FranceApr 30 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, WisconsonPlease visit Historical Events in 1942 to read the day-by-day events of 1942