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1942 Calendar

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•  January 26, 1942 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
•  February 1, 1942 – World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
•  February 15, 1942 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
•  May 26, 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bir Hakeim takes place.
•  August 11, 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
•  September 20, 1942 – Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
•  October 23, 1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
•  October 26, 1942 – World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged.
•  November 3, 1942 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
•  November 26, 1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.

•  January 13, 1942 – Carol Cleveland, English actress
•  February 2, 1942 – Graham Nash, British-born American musician
•  February 8, 1942 – Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (d. 2004)
•  March 16, 1942 – James Soong, Taiwanese politician
•  April 23, 1942 – Sandra Dee, American actress (d. 2005)
•  June 20, 1942 – Brian Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys)
•  July 22, 1942 – Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer
•  November 2, 1942 – Shere Hite, American-German author
•  November 24, 1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian
•  December 19, 1942 – Cornell Dupree, American session guitarist