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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 16, 1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
• February 9, 1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
• February 15, 1942 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
• March 3, 1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
• March 17, 1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
• June 22, 1942 – Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
• July 1, 1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
• July 23, 1942 – The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
• November 3, 1942 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.

Who Were Born On 1942?

• January 2, 1942 – Dennis Hastert, American educator and politician; 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• February 6, 1942 – Tommy Roberts, English fashion designer (d. 2012)
• February 27, 1942 – Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, German footballer (d. 2011)
• March 23, 1942 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian, scholar, and activist (d. 1980)
• April 15, 1942 – Francis X. DiLorenzo, American bishop
• April 18, 1942 – Michael Beloff, English lawyer and academic
• June 7, 1942 – Charles R. Boutin, American lawyer and politician
• June 24, 1942 – Arthur Brown, English singer (Kingdom Come and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
• September 6, 1942 – Richard Hutton, English cricketer
• December 31, 1942 – Andy Summers, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Police and Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band)