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Events from the year 1942 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government. President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York) Vice President: Henry A. Wallace (D-Iowa ...
1942 was a common year ... Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. ... to bear witness to a heroism and a devotion that will long be famous in ...
1942, clockwise from top left: British artillery barrage opens the Battle of El Alamein; the Jews of Salonika are rounded up for deportation to extermination camps; Soviet troops of the Great Patriotic War fight the Battle of Stalingrad; USS Lexington (CV-2) under fire at the Battle of the Coral Sea; Reinhard Heydrich's car after attack by Czech resistance; 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking troops ...
The following events occurred in January 1942: January 1, 1942 (Thursday) The ...
1942 – Casablanca released; 1942 - Sugar and gasoline are rationed; 1942 – Office of Price Administration; 1942 – Cocoanut Grove fire kills 492 people, leads to vast reforms in fire codes and safety standards; 1942 – Congress of Racial Equality; 1942 – Revenue Act of 1942; 1942 – Doolittle Raid; 1942 – Battle of the Coral Sea ...
This is a list of timelines of events over the period of World War II. Main timelines ... (1942) Timeline of World War II (1943) Timeline of World War II (1944)
Events from the year 1942 in the United Kingdom. ... Enid Blyton's children's story Five on a Treasure Island, first in The Famous Five series.
This is a timeline of the events that stretched over the period of late World War II, its conclusion, legal aftermath, with the inclusion of the Cold War, from January 1945 to December 1991. January 1945