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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
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Historical Events Of 1942
- January 12, 1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
- February 15, 1942 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 20, 1942 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America’s first World War II flying ace.
- March 12, 1942 – Pacific War: The Battle of Java ends with an Allied surrender to the Japanese Empire.
- March 26, 1942 – World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
- July 23, 1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
- August 8, 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi’s call for swaraj or complete independence.
- August 16, 1942 – World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California.
- October 6, 1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
- October 10, 1942 – The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
Who Were Born On 1942?
- January 3, 1942 – John Marsden, Australian lawyer and activist (d. 2006)
- February 5, 1942 – Susan Hill, English author
- March 13, 1942 – Dave Cutler, American computer scientist and engineer
- April 7, 1942 – Jeetendra, Indian actor and producer
- May 17, 1942 – Al White, American actor
- August 1, 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage) (d. 1995)
- September 16, 1942 – Tadamasa Goto, Japanese mob boss
- October 29, 1942 – Melora Harte, American voice actress and screenwriter
- December 1, 1942 – John Crowley, American author and academic
- December 30, 1942 – Fred Ward, American actor and singer