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# 1942

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Years : | 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: | 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: | 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945

## [edit] Events

- January 1 - World War II: The term "United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact.
- January 2 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. The Japanese Admiral stays in Solvec (owned by Charles Henry de Silva), Philippines.
- January 5 - Amy Johnson disappears in flight over River Thames estuary - assumed drowned
- January 6 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world.
- January 7 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins
- January 11 - World War II: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
- January 11 - World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
- January 12 - President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
- January 13 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car
- January 16 - Airplane crashes near Las Vegas. Dead include Carole Lombard and her mother
- January 19 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
- January 20 - World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide that the "final solution to the Jewish problem" is relocation, and later extermination.
- January 25 - World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom
- January 26 - World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.

## [edit] Births

- January 12 - Muhammad Ali, boxer
- February 12 - Huey Newton, Black Panther
- June 18 - Roger Ebert, movie critic
- June 18 - Sir Paul McCartney
- August 7 - B.J. Thomas, singer
- October 31 - David Ogden Steirs, actor
- December 30 - Michael Nesmith, musician and member of the Monkees

## [edit] Deaths

- January 6 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
- January 14 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (born 1883)
- January 16 - Carole Lombard, actress
- January 26 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (born 1868)
- February 19 - Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman (executed)
- February 28 - Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral
- March 1 - Cornelius Vanderbilt III, military officer, inventor, engineer
- March 8 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player
- April 15 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist
- April 18 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor and socialite
- May 3 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark
- May 7 - Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (born 1863)
- May 29 - John Barrymore, actor (born 1882)
- July 23 - Adam Czerniakow, Polish Jew (suicide)
- August 3 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)
- August 6 - Jonathan Campbell, film pioneer (born 1875)
- August 25 - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
- November 1 - Hugo Distler, German composer (born 1908)
- November 5 - George M. Cohan, American songwriter and entertainer
- November 19 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (born 1892)
- December 22 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (born 1858)

## [edit] Films Realesed

- Casablanca

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