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1942 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2026. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1942 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1942

• January 30, 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
• February 6, 1942 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand.
• February 15, 1942 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
• March 11, 1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur flees Corregidor.
• May 30, 1942 – World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
• June 4, 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• June 21, 1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
• August 9, 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
• November 8, 1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
• December 27, 1942 – The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded.

Who Were Born On 1942?

• January 19, 1942 – Thom Mayne, American architect, designed the San Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower
• February 6, 1942 – Ahmad-Jabir Ahmadov Ismail oghlu, Azerbaijani philosopher and academic
• March 2, 1942 – John Irving, American novelist and screenwriter
• June 17, 1942 – Doğu Perinçek, Turkish lawyer and politician
• August 20, 1942 – Fred Norman, American baseball player
• October 22, 1942 – Count Christian of Rosenborg (d. 2013)
• October 24, 1942 – Don Gant, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Neon Philharmonic) (d. 1987)
• November 7, 1942 – Johnny Rivers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• November 19, 1942 – Roland Clift, English engineer and academic
• December 27, 1942 – Ron Rothstein, American basketball player and coach