31 events found for 1942
World War II: The tanker SS Ohio reached Malta as part of an operation to deliver much-needed supplies during the…
The Holocaust: During the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, President Jozef Tiso gave a speech describing Jews as…
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives…
World War II: At the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, bombers from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga sank the Japanese…
World War II: Japanese forces attacked the Australian base at Milne Bay on the eastern tip of New Guinea.
Second World War: German field marshal Erwin Rommel launched the last major Axis offensive of the Western Desert…
British and Australian prisoners of war in Singapore revolted against their Japanese captors, who required them to…
The Matagorda hurricane, the most intense and costliest tropical cyclone of the 1942 Atlantic hurricane season,…
The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland,…
RMS Laconia was sunk by a U-boat off the coast of West Africa, which then attempted to rescue the passengers as it was…
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to retake Henderson Field on…