What Happened in 1942
35 historical events, 39 notable births, and 4 notable deaths in 1942.
Major Events
January 1942
1942 — year
Wannsee Conference — 1942 meeting of senior officials and functionaries of National Socialist organisations and ministries in Berlin to organise and coordinate the deportation of the entire Jewish population of Europe to the East for extermination
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia — massacre of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II
Declaration by United Nations — treaty
Solomon Islands Campaign — 1942 major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II
1942 South American Championship — Football tournament edition
Sonderkommando — work units of German Nazi death camp prisoners forced to dispose of corpses
Battles of Rzhev — 1942 series of Soviet Operations in World War II
Battle of Savo Island — 1942 battle
1942 in film — overview of the events of 1942 in film
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War — South American border war fought between 5–31 July 1941 between Ecuador and Peru
Esposizione Universale di Roma — project for the 1942 Rome Universal Exposition
Battle of Voronezh — 1942 battle
November 1942
Operation Torch — 1942 Allied landing operations in French North Africa during World War II
Case Blue — German summer offensive of 1942 in southern Russia
Battle of Tassafaronga — 1942 naval battle between US Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy warships during the Guadalcanal campaign
Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon — 1942 destruction of the French naval fleet by Vichy France
Kokoda Track campaign — part of the Pacific War of World War II
August 1942
Dieppe Raid — 1942 landing operation in World War II
The Death Match — 1942 association football match in Kyiv
Battle of the Tenaru — 1942 battle of World War II
April 1942
Doolittle Raid — first air raid on the Japanese mainland conducted by the U.S. military on April 18, 1942
Bataan Death March — forced transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942
December 1942
Operation Mars — offensive operation part of the Battles of Rzhev, during World War II
Battle of the Barents Sea — 1942 battle between warships of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine and British ships escorting convoy JW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR
February 1942
14th Academy Awards — American Motion Picture Academy film award ceremony
Battle of the Java Sea — 1942 naval battle on the Pacific campaign of WWII, in present-day western Indonesia
Channel Dash — 1942 German naval operation during the Second World War
Battle of Los Angeles — anti-air shelling during WWII in Los Angeles, CA, against apparently nothing
Bombing of Darwin — Japanese attack on Darwin, Australia during World War II
May 1942
Operation Anthropoid — 1942 military operation
Demyansk Pocket — military operation from 8 February – 20 May 1942
Japanese conquest of Burma — military operation during World War Two
March 1942
St Nazaire Raid — 1942 marine operation during ww2
June 1942
Lidice massacre — complete destruction of village and massacre of its population as a Nazi reprisal