What happened in 1942?

Battle of Stalingrad begins

Major Events · Stalingrad, USSR

One of the bloodiest battles in history begins, eventually turning the tide of World War II against Germany.

Battle of Stalingrad

Wars & Conflicts

1942 major battle of World War II

Second Battle of El Alamein

Wars & Conflicts

1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War

First Battle of El Alamein

Wars & Conflicts

1942 battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War

Dieppe Raid

Wars & Conflicts

1942 landing operation in World War II

Battle of Singapore

Wars & Conflicts

1942 World War II battle

Second Battle of Kharkov

Wars & Conflicts

May 1942 battle during World War II

Battle of Gazala

Wars & Conflicts

Battle of the Western Desert Campaign of World War II, fought around the port of Tobruk in Libya

Battle of Madagascar

Wars & Conflicts

1942 battle during WWII

Demyansk Pocket

Wars & Conflicts

Military operation from 8 February – 20 May 1942

Battle of Bir Hakeim

Wars & Conflicts

1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II

Battles of Rzhev

Wars & Conflicts

1942 series of Soviet Operations in World War II

Battle of Savo Island

Wars & Conflicts · Savo Island

1942 battle

Battle of Alam el Halfa

Wars & Conflicts · El Alamein

1942 battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands

Wars & Conflicts · Solomon Islands

1942 battle

Battle of Los Angeles

Wars & Conflicts · Los Angeles

Anti-air shelling during WWII in Los Angeles, CA, against apparently nothing

Battle of the Eastern Solomons

Wars & Conflicts · Solomon Islands

1942 WWII carrier battle

Bombing of Darwin

Wars & Conflicts · Darwin

Japanese attack on Darwin, Australia during World War II

Battle of Cape Esperance

Wars & Conflicts

1942 battle in the Pacific theatre of World War II

Operation Pedestal

Wars & Conflicts · Mediterranean Sea

Battle in the Mediterranean Sea in 1942 during WWII

Battle of the Tenaru

Wars & Conflicts · Guadalcanal

1942 battle of World War II

Battle of Voronezh

Wars & Conflicts · Voronezh

1942 battle

Battle for Velikiye Luki

Wars & Conflicts · Velikiye Luki

1942 battle

World War II in Albania

Wars & Conflicts · Italian protectorate of Albania

Involvement of Albania in World War II

Battle of Timor

Wars & Conflicts · West Timor

1942 WWII battle in the Pacific Theatre

Battle of Bataan

Wars & Conflicts · Bataan

1942 intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II

Battle of Milne Bay

Wars & Conflicts · Milne Bay

1942 battle

Battle of Edson's Ridge

Wars & Conflicts · Guadalcanal

1942 WW2 battle in the Solomon Islands

Battle of Corregidor

Wars & Conflicts · Corregidor

1942 culmination of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II

Battle of Christmas Island

Wars & Conflicts · Christmas Island

1942 battle

Battle of Rabaul

Wars & Conflicts · Rabaul

1942 battle

Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo

Wars & Conflicts · Tulagi

1942 battle

Battle for Henderson Field

Wars & Conflicts · Guadalcanal

1942 World War II battle

Battle of Changsha

Wars & Conflicts · Changsha

1942 battle of World War II

Battle of Lyuban

Wars & Conflicts · Lyuban

1942 military operation

Battle of Buna–Gona

Wars & Conflicts · Buna

1942 World War II battle in the Pacific Theatre

Battle of Balikpapan

Wars & Conflicts · Borneo

1942 battle of World War II

Kholm Pocket

Wars & Conflicts · Kholm

1942 conflict

Battle of El Agheila

Wars & Conflicts · El Agheila

1942 brief engagement of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War

Second Battle of the Java Sea

Wars & Conflicts · Java Sea

Naval battle during World War II

Battle of Java

Wars & Conflicts · Java

1942 A battle on the Pacific theatre of World War II

Battle of Ambon

Wars & Conflicts · Ambon Island

World War II battle between Allied and Japanese forces which occurred on the island in 1942

Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse

Wars & Conflicts · Guadalcanal

World War II battle

Battle for Australia

Wars & Conflicts · Coral Sea

1942 battle in the Second World War

Naval Battle of Casablanca

Wars & Conflicts · Casablanca

1942 naval engagements during WW II invasion of North Africa

Battle of Dutch Harbor

Wars & Conflicts · Unalaska

1942 battle

Koli Point action

Wars & Conflicts · Guadalcanal

1942 Japan-US engagement

Actions along the Matanikau

Wars & Conflicts · Guadalcanal

Battles during the Guadalcanal campaign in WWII

Battle of Mersa Matruh

Wars & Conflicts · Marsa Matruh

1942 battle of the Western Desert Campaign in World War II

Battle of Skerki Bank

Wars & Conflicts · Strait of Sicily

1942 battle

Battle of Tarakan

Wars & Conflicts · Tarakan Island

1942 battle involving Japanese Empire and Dutch Empire

Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive

Wars & Conflicts

1942 Red Army operation on the Eastern Front of World War II

Battle of Muar

Wars & Conflicts · Muar District

1942 battle of the Malayan Campaign in World War II

Battle of Rzhev

Wars & Conflicts · Tver Oblast

1942 battle during the battles of Rzhev on the Eastern Front of World War II

Battle of Manado

Wars & Conflicts · Manado

1942 WWII battle of the Dutch East Indies Campaign

Tatsinskaya Raid

Wars & Conflicts · Tatsinsky District

1942 battle

Arakan Campaign 1942–1943

Wars & Conflicts · Rakhine State

1942 campaign during World War II

Battle of Kranji

Wars & Conflicts · Kranji

1942 battle

Battle of Slim River

Wars & Conflicts · Slim River

1942 battle of the Malayan Campaign in World War II

Battle of Palembang

Wars & Conflicts · Palembang

Battle of World War II near Palembang, on Sumatra, on 13–15 February 1942

Battle of the St. Lawrence

Wars & Conflicts · Gulf of Saint Lawrence

1942 marine and anti-submarine actions in WWII

Battle of Gemas

Wars & Conflicts · Gemencheh

1942 battle of the Malayan Campaign in World War II

Battle of Goodenough Island

Wars & Conflicts · Goodenough Island

1942 Pacific battle of World War II

Battle of Bilin River

Wars & Conflicts · Bilin River

1942 conflict

Battle of Kalach

Wars & Conflicts

1942 WWII battle of the Eastern Front

Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road

Wars & Conflicts

1942 battle of World Ward II

Battle of Kupres

Wars & Conflicts · Kupres

1942 World War II battle of the Independent state of Croatia and the Yugoslav Partisans

Defense of the Adzhimushkay quarry

Wars & Conflicts · Aji-Mushkay Quarry

1942 battle in Crimea during WW2

Battle of Rostov

Wars & Conflicts · Rostov-on-Don

1942 battle

Battle of Yenangyaung

Wars & Conflicts · Yenangyaung

1942 battle

Battle of the Kerch Peninsula

Wars & Conflicts · Crimea

Battle of Dražgoše

Wars & Conflicts · Dražgoše

1942 battle

Outpost Snipe

Wars & Conflicts

World War II location in the Second Battle of El Alamein

Battle of Sittang Bridge

Wars & Conflicts · Myanmar

1942 conflict

Operation Seydlitz

Wars & Conflicts · Smolensk Oblast

German offensive and opposing Soviet defensive operation on the Eastern Front, July 1942

Battle of Someri

Wars & Conflicts · Sommers Light

1942 military operation

Axis capture of Tobruk

Wars & Conflicts · Tobruk

Battle of Toungoo

Wars & Conflicts · Taungoo

1942 battle

Battle of Banjarmasin

Wars & Conflicts · Banjarmasin

1942 battle involving Japanese Empire and Dutch Empire

Battle of Port Lyautey

Wars & Conflicts · Kenitra

1942 WWII battle during Operation Torch

Battle of Pegu

Wars & Conflicts · Bago

1942 conflict

Battle of Suursaari

Wars & Conflicts · Gogland

Battle between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1942 during the Continuation War

Battle of Pasir Panjang

Wars & Conflicts

1942 final battle in Singapore during World War 2 against the Japanese

Battle of Samarinda

Wars & Conflicts · Samarinda

Battle of Sarimbun Beach

Wars & Conflicts · Western Water Catchment

1942 Japanese victory in Singapore

Battle of Kuala Lumpur

Wars & Conflicts · Kuala Lumpur

1942 battle

Battle of Livno

Wars & Conflicts · Livno

Battles fought during WWII

Battle of Tachiao

Wars & Conflicts · Pyu

Battle of Bukit Timah

Wars & Conflicts · Bukit Timah

1942 Final stage of the Empire of Japan's invasion of Singapore during World War II.

Battle of Kendari

Wars & Conflicts

1942 battle of the Pacific War (WWII)

Battle of Kalijati

Wars & Conflicts

1942 battle

Battle of Port Moresby

Wars & Conflicts · Port Moresby

1942 battle

Battle of Isurava

Wars & Conflicts

1942 World War II battle

Battle of Prome

Wars & Conflicts · Pyay

1942 battle

Action of 27 March 1942

Wars & Conflicts

Naval battle during the Second World War

Battle of Oktwin

Wars & Conflicts · Oktwin

Battle of Mission Ridge – Brigade Hill

Wars & Conflicts

1942 battle

Battle of Tjiater Pass

Wars & Conflicts · Ciater

1942 battle of World War II

Battle of Nanos

Wars & Conflicts

Battle of Bowmanville

Wars & Conflicts

1942 POW prison revolt

Battle of the Bell Islands

Wars & Conflicts · Bell Island

1942 battle

Battle of Sukho Island

Wars & Conflicts · Sukho

1942 battle

Japanese invasion of Cotabato

Wars & Conflicts · Cotabato City

Part of the 1941 invasion of the Philippines

Japanese invasion of Zamboanga

Wars & Conflicts · Zamboanga

Part of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, 1942

Japanese invasion of Cebu

Wars & Conflicts

Bangka Island massacre

Wars & Conflicts · Bangka Island

World World II mass killing

Battle of Midway

Wars & Conflicts · Midway Atoll

1942 World War II naval battle

Battle of the Coral Sea

Wars & Conflicts · Coral Sea

1942 major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II

Battle of the Java Sea

Wars & Conflicts · Java Sea

1942 naval battle on the Pacific campaign of WWII, in present-day western Indonesia

Channel Dash

Wars & Conflicts · English Channel

1942 German naval operation during the Second World War

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

Wars & Conflicts · Guadalcanal

1942 naval battle

Indian Ocean raid

Wars & Conflicts · Indian Ocean

1942 raid of Allied shipping by the Imperial Japanese Navy

Battle of Tassafaronga

Wars & Conflicts · Tassafaronga Point

1942 naval battle between US Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy warships during the Guadalcanal campaign

Lidice massacre

Wars & Conflicts · Lidice

Complete destruction of village and massacre of its population as a Nazi reprisal

Battle of Sunda Strait

Wars & Conflicts · Sunda Strait

1942 battle

Battle of the Barents Sea

Wars & Conflicts · Barents Sea

1942 battle between warships of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine and British ships escorting convoy JW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR

Battle of Badung Strait

Wars & Conflicts · Badung Strait

1942 navel battle

Operation Harpoon

Wars & Conflicts · Mediterranean Sea

1942 british operation during the second world war

Battle of Makassar Strait

Wars & Conflicts · Java Sea

1942 conflict

Second Battle of Sirte

Wars & Conflicts · Gulf of Sidra

Fought on 22 March 1942

Battle of La Réunion

Wars & Conflicts · Saint-Denis

1942 naval battle

Battle of Cape Burnas

Wars & Conflicts · Burnas Lagoon

1942 naval battle

Operation Wirbelwind

Wars & Conflicts · Kaluga Oblast

1942 German tank offensive

Dungcas Beach Defense Guns

Wars & Conflicts

an old World War II Japanese fortification in the United States territory of Guam.

Operation Torch

Wars & Conflicts · French protectorate in Morocco

1942 Allied landing operations in French North Africa during World War II

Guadalcanal campaign

Wars & Conflicts · Guadalcanal

1942-1943 series of battles fought on and around Guadalcanal as part of World War II

Doolittle Raid

Wars & Conflicts · Greater Tokyo Area

First air raid on the Japanese mainland conducted by the U.S. military on April 18, 1942

Case Blue

Wars & Conflicts · Rostov-on-Don

German summer offensive of 1942 in southern Russia

Tunisia campaign

Wars & Conflicts · French protectorate of Tunisia

1942–43 series of battles in Tunisia during the Second World War

Solomon Islands Campaign

Wars & Conflicts · Solomon Islands

1942 major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II

Operation Mars

Wars & Conflicts · Rzhev

Offensive operation part of the Battles of Rzhev, during World War II

Operation Anthropoid

Wars & Conflicts

1942 military operation

Aleutian Islands Campaign

Wars & Conflicts · Aleutian Islands

1942 military campaign

Burma Campaign

Wars & Conflicts · British Raj

Series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma, South-East Asian theatre of World War II

Operation Winter Storm

Wars & Conflicts · Volgograd

1942 German offensive in World War II in which the German 4th Panzer Army unsuccessfully attempted to break the Soviet encirclement of the German 6th Army during the battle of Stalingrad

St Nazaire Raid

Wars & Conflicts · Saint-Nazaire

1942 marine operation during ww2

New Guinea campaign

Wars & Conflicts · New Guinea

1942 to 1945 campaign of the Pacific Theater of World War II

Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon

Wars & Conflicts · Toulon

1942 destruction of the French naval fleet by Vichy France

Kokoda Track campaign

Wars & Conflicts · New Guinea

Part of the Pacific War of World War II

Convoy PQ 17

Wars & Conflicts · Arctic Ocean

Code name for an Allied World War II convoy in the Arctic Ocean

air raids on Japan

Wars & Conflicts · Japanese archipelago

Aerial bombings of Japan during the Pacific War

Operation Biting

Wars & Conflicts · Saint-Jouin-Bruneval

1942 British Combined Operations raid during World War II

Second Happy Time

Wars & Conflicts · Atlantic Ocean

1942 Informal name for a phase in the battle of the Atlantic

Toropets–Kholm Offensive

Wars & Conflicts

1942 world War II Red Army military operation

Marshalls–Gilberts raids

Wars & Conflicts · Marshall Islands

1942 military operation

Sinyavino Offensive

Wars & Conflicts

1942 military operation

Invasion of Tulagi

Wars & Conflicts · Solomon Islands

1942 battle during World War II

Makin Island raid

Wars & Conflicts · Butaritari

1942 raid of WWII in the Pacific Theater

Operation Postmaster

Wars & Conflicts · Bioko

1942 British SOE mission in West Africa

Operation K

Wars & Conflicts · Wotje Atoll

1942 bombing of Oahu by Japanese flying boats during WW2

Operation Agreement

Wars & Conflicts · North Africa

1942 military operation

Japan Campaign

Wars & Conflicts · Mainland Japan

1942–45 campaign in Japan during the Second World War

Japanese occupation of Nauru

Wars & Conflicts · Nauru

Period of three years (26 August 1942 – 13 September 1945) during which Nauru, a Pacific island under Australian administration, was occupied by the Japanese military as part of its operations in the Pacific War during World War II

Operation Trio

Wars & Conflicts · Independent State of Croatia

1942 military operation

Bombing of Cologne in World War II

Wars & Conflicts · Cologne

Aerial bombing of Cologne, Germany during World War II

Convoy PQ 18

Wars & Conflicts · Arctic Ocean

Allied WWII freighter convey to the Soviet Union

Kozara Offensive

Wars & Conflicts · Kozara

1942 battle in northwestern Bosnia

Matanikau Offensive

Wars & Conflicts · Guadalcanal

1942 World War II battle on the Solomon Islands

Baedeker Blitz

Wars & Conflicts · England

1942 series of World War 2 bombings

Operation Southeast Croatia

Wars & Conflicts · Bosnia

German-led military operation against the uprising in eastern Bosnia in 1942

Carlson's patrol

Wars & Conflicts · Guadalcanal

WWII anti-Japanese operation in 1942

Attack on Sydney Harbour

Wars & Conflicts · Port Jackson

1942 World War II attack by Japan

Operation Bamberg

Wars & Conflicts · Akciabrski District

1942 massacre

Operation Frankton

Wars & Conflicts · Bordeaux

1942 British raid in Bordeaux, France during WWII

Run for Tunis

Wars & Conflicts

1942 battle in Tunisia

Operation Reservist

Wars & Conflicts · Oran

1942 Second World War operation

Invasion of Salamaua–Lae

Wars & Conflicts · Salamaua

Japanese invasion of Salamaua–Lae area in New Guinea in March 1942

Invasion of Sumatra

Wars & Conflicts · Sumatra

Part of the Pacific War in South-East Asia during World War II

Operation Musketoon

Wars & Conflicts · Glomfjord

1942 World War II military operation

Operation Donnerkeil

Wars & Conflicts · English Channel

Codename for a German military operation of the Second World War

Raid on Algiers

Wars & Conflicts · Algiers

Italian frogman raid on Allied ships in Algiers harbour in 1942

Operation Nordlicht

Wars & Conflicts

Proposed artillery bombardment of Leningrad in 1942

Attack on Broome

Wars & Conflicts · Broome

1942 airstrike

Convoy PQ 13

Wars & Conflicts · Arctic Ocean

British Arctic convoy in March 1943

Operation Fischreiher

Wars & Conflicts · Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Axis operational expansion of Case Blue

Operation Alfa

Wars & Conflicts

1942 World War II offensive in Croatia

Air raids on Australia, 1942–43

Wars & Conflicts · Australia

Japanese air attacks on Australia in World War II

Bombing of Lübeck in World War II

Wars & Conflicts · Lübeck's Old City

1942 event of World War II

Japanese occupation of Attu

Wars & Conflicts · Attu Island

World War II occupation

Convoy PQ 8

Wars & Conflicts

Arctic convoy sent to aid the Soviet Union during World War II

Operation FB

Wars & Conflicts · Arctic Ocean

1942 Sailings by unescorted merchant ships during WWII

Operation Harling

Wars & Conflicts · Kingdom of Greece

1942 World War II sabotage operation by the British Special Operations Executive

Operation Prijedor

Wars & Conflicts · Bosnia

1942 military operation

Operation Neuland

Wars & Conflicts · Caribbean Sea

1942 submarine warfare of the German Kriegsmarine in the Caribbean Sea

Operation Kremlin

Wars & Conflicts · Russia

1942 German military deception operation

Operation Freshman

Wars & Conflicts

Codename of a British operation during WWII

Dünamünde Action

Wars & Conflicts

1942 Nazi operation in Latvia

Operation Ozren

Wars & Conflicts · Doboj

Lookout Air Raids

Wars & Conflicts · Oregon

1942 Japanese air-raid on the USA during WW2

Raid on Sidi Haneish Airfield

Wars & Conflicts · Sidi Haneish Airfield

1942 military operation during World War II

Bombardment of Fort Stevens

Wars & Conflicts · Fort Stevens

1942 Japanese attack on mainland U.S during World War II

Convoy QP 14

Wars & Conflicts · Arctic Ocean

Arctic convoy during World War II

Convoy PQ 16

Wars & Conflicts · Arctic Ocean

Arctic convoy

Operation Terminal

Wars & Conflicts · Morocco

1942 Allied military operation during the Second World War

Vyazma Airborne Operation

Wars & Conflicts · Smolensk Oblast

1942 parachute landing

Yevpatoria assault

Wars & Conflicts · Yevpatoriya

1942 Red Army tactical amphibious assault

Operation Hannover

Wars & Conflicts · Vyazma

Sonderkommando Blaich

Wars & Conflicts · N'Djamena

German air raid against Fort Lamy in the Chad in 1942

Convoy ON 92

Wars & Conflicts · Atlantic Ocean

Convoy during naval battles of the Second World War

proposed Japanese invasion of Sichuan

Wars & Conflicts · Sichuan

1942 failed plan to destroy the Republic of China

Operation Abercrombie

Wars & Conflicts · Neufchâtel-Hardelot

Raid on Hardelot, France scheduled for 18–19 April, 1942, but delayed by bad weather until 21–22 April

Operation Caravan

Wars & Conflicts · Cyrenaica

1942 Allied raids in Libya during WWII

Easter Sunday Raid

Wars & Conflicts · Indian Ocean

WWII battle in Ceylon between Britain and Japan

Operation Portcullis

Wars & Conflicts · Mediterranean Sea

1942 convoy to Malta in WWII

Operation Aquatint

Wars & Conflicts · Normandy

1942 World War II British raid in France

Operation Bigamy

Wars & Conflicts · Benina

British special forces operation in Libya (1942)

Operation Blackstone

Wars & Conflicts · Safi

Part of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in Africa during World War II

Operation Braganza

Wars & Conflicts

1942 military operation

Operation Gearbox

Wars & Conflicts · Svalbard

1942 Norwegian and British operation during the Second World War

Operation Alba

Wars & Conflicts · Split

Oslo Mosquito raid

Wars & Conflicts · Oslo

1942 WWII air raid

Bath Blitz

Wars & Conflicts · Bath

Air raids on Bath, Somerset, during WWII

bombing of Cagliari in World War II

Wars & Conflicts · Cagliari

1942 part of the strategic bombings during World War II

Japanese occupation of the Solomon Islands

Wars & Conflicts · Solomon Islands

1942 period in the history of the Solomon Islands

British airborne operations in North Africa

Wars & Conflicts · Algeria

British operations part of the Tunisian Campaign of World War II

Operation Orator

Wars & Conflicts · Arctic Ocean

1942 military operation

Operation Rösselsprung (1942)

Wars & Conflicts

1942 Atempt by German Navy to intercept convoy from UK to Soviet Union

Operation Eisbär

Wars & Conflicts · Dmitrovsky District

1942 massacre

Mozdok-Malgobek Operation

Wars & Conflicts

1942 military operation

Operation Oyster

Wars & Conflicts · Eindhoven

1942 RAF raid on a factory in the Netherlands.

Operation Stab

Wars & Conflicts · Bay of Bengal

1942 military operation in the Pacific Theatre of World War II

Japanese invasion of Dutch New Guinea

Wars & Conflicts · Western New Guinea

1945 Japanese invasion of Dutch New Guinea

Bombing of Calcutta

Wars & Conflicts · Kolkata

1942 airstrike

Bombing of Sukabumi

Wars & Conflicts · Sukabumi

1942 aerial bombing of Java during the WW2

Fall of the Riau Islands

Wars & Conflicts · Riau Islands

1942 invasion

Bombing of Stalingrad in World War II

Wars & Conflicts · Volgograd

Air campaign during Second world war

Bombing of Vienna in World War II

Wars & Conflicts · Vienna

Conflict

Air raids on the Hong Kong area

Wars & Conflicts · Hong Kong

1942 aerial bombing of a city

Convoy SC 104

Wars & Conflicts · Atlantic Ocean

Convoy during naval battles of the Second World War

Convoy HX 212

Wars & Conflicts · Atlantic Ocean

Convoy during naval battles of the Second World War

Brazil-United States Political-Military Agreement

Politics & Government · Washington, D.C.

1942 bilateral treaty

Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement

Politics & Government · Addis Ababa

1942 agreement between the United Kingdom and Ethiopia

Joseph Larmor died

People · Holywood

Irish physicist and mathematician (1857-1942)

William Henry Young died

People · Lausanne

English mathematician (1863–1942)

William Henry Bragg died

People · London

British scientist (1862–1942)

Jean-Baptiste Perrin died

People · New York City

French physicist (1870–1942)

Robert Musil died

People · Geneva

Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942)

Franz Boas died

People · New York City

German-American anthropologist

Richard Willstätter died

People · Muralto

German chemist (1872–1942)

Francis Younghusband died

People · Lytchett Minster

British army explorer (1863–1942)

Tina Modotti died

People · Mexico City

Italian photographer, activist and actress (1896–1942)

Mahadev Desai died

People · Aga Khan Palace

Indian independence activist, writer and Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary (1892–1942)

Kanaklata Barua died

People · India

Indian freedom fighter from Assam (1924-1942)

Matangini Hazra died

People · Tamluk

Martyr of India's Independence Movement

Stefan Zweig died

People · Petrópolis

Austrian writer (1881–1942)

Petar Dobrović died

People · Belgrade

Artist and politician (1890-1942)

Robert Bosch died

People · Stuttgart

German industrialist, inventor, engineer (1861-1942)

Felix Hausdorff died

People · Bonn

German mathematician (*1868 – †1942)

Henrik Bródy died

People · Jerusalem

Hungarian rabbi (1868–1942)

Judah Leo Landau died

People · Johannesburg

South African rabbi

Kato Mikeladze died

People · Kulashi

Georgian journalist, activist (1878-1942)

Elisabeth Schumacher died

People · Plötzensee Prison

German resistance member (1904–1942)

Hannah G. Solomon died

People · Chicago

Jewish American activist (1858–1942)

Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza died

People · Mexico City

Mexican journalist, teacher, feminist and political activist (1875–1942)

Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore died

People · California

American physician, writer, newspaper editor, activist

John Barrymore died

People · Los Angeles

American actor (1882–1942)

Louis Roule died

People · Versailles

French marine biologist (1861–1942)

Fritz Todt died

People · Kętrzyn

Died in Kętrzyn. German engineer, Holocaust perpetrator, and senior Nazi figure (1891–1942).

William G. Morgan died

People · Lockport

Inventor of volleyball

Yuri Kondratyuk died

People · Kaluga

Ukrainian Soviet scientist (1897–1942)

Heber Doust Curtis died

People · Ann Arbor

American astronomer (1872-1942)

Wilbur Scoville died

People · Gainesville

American pharmacist (1865–1942)

Sergey Chaplygin died

People · Novosibirsk

Russian mathematician (1869–1942)

Valdemar Poulsen died

People · Gentofte

Danish engineer (1869-1942)

Yakov Perelman died

People · Saint Petersburg

Russian science writer (1882–1942)

Roberto Arlt died

People · Buenos Aires

Argentine writer

Georg Alexander Pick died

People · Theresienstadt concentration camp

Austrian mathematician, holocaust victim (1859–1942)

Louis Bernacchi died

People · London

Australian physicist and astronomer (1876-1942)

William Henry Jackson died

People · New York City

American photographer and painter (1843-1942)

Camille du Gast died

People · Paris

French racing driver (1868-1942)

Ludwig von Höhnel died

People · Vienna

Austrian explorer (1857–1942)

Karl Martin died

People · Leiden

Dutch geologist (1851-1942)

Ernst Hans Ludwig Krause died

People · Neustrelitz

German botanist (1859–1942)

Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff died

People · Wassenaar

Dutch scientist (1860-1942)

Albert Peter Low died

People · Ottawa

Canadian geologist and ice hockey player (1861–1942)

J. Norman Collie died

People · Sligachan

British scientist, mountaineer and explorer (1859-1942)

Oluf Christian Dietrichson died

People · Trondheim

Norwegian general and member of the 1888 Greenland expedition (1856–1942)

Arthur Francis George Kerr died

People · Hayes

Irish botanist (1877–1942)

Leopold Janikowski died

People · Zielonka

Polish explorer and ethnographer

Louis Forniquet Henderson died

People · Puyallup

American botanist (1853-1942)

Walter Kaudern died

People · Stockholm

Swedish herpetologist (1881-1942)

Marie Rennotte died

People · São Paulo

Belgian-Brazilian teacher and physician (1852-1942)

Alice Kuperjanov died

People · Sosva

Estonian independence fighter (1894-1942)

Alison Roberta Noble Neilans died

People · Hampstead Garden Suburb

British activist for suffrage and anti-prostitution laws, editor

Grace Julia Parker Drummond died

People · Montreal

Canadian philanthropist

Julia Britton Hooks died

People · Memphis

Kentucky artist and activist during the early years of the Civil Rights Era

Lucy Bramlette Patterson died

People · Winston-Salem

American writer

Robina Nicol died

People · Wellington

New Zealand temperance campaigner, suffragist and photographer (1861-1942)

Espertirina Martins died

People · Porto Alegre

Brazilian anarchist activist

Alexander von Zemlinsky died

People · Larchmont

Austrian Jewish composer, conductor, and teacher (1871-1942)

May Robson died

People · Beverly Hills

Australian-born American actress (1858-1942)

Alfred Flatow died

People · Theresienstadt concentration camp

German gymnast (1869–1942)

Adam Czerniaków died

People · Warsaw

Polish politician (1880–1942)

Dorothea Klumpke died

People · San Francisco

American astronomer (1861-1942)

Vladimir Petlyakov died

People · Kazan

Soviet aerospace engineer (1891–1942)

Aurel Stodola died

People · Zurich

Slovak scientist (1859–1942)

Adolf Mayer died

People · Heidelberg

German agronomist (1843–1942)

Anna Weber-van Bosse died

People · Eerbeek

Dutch phycologist (1852-1942)

Oleg Losev died

People · Saint Petersburg

Russian inventor, and physicist (1903–1942)

Jerzy Różycki died

People · Mediterranean Sea

Polish cryptographer (1909-1942)

Ivan Horbachevsky died

People · O. Schneider Sanatorium

Ukrainian chemist (1854-1942)

Max Bodenstein died

People · Berlin

German chemist (1871–1942)

Stanisław Zaremba died

People · Kraków

Polish mathematician (1863-1942)

Glover Morrill Allen died

People · Cambridge

U.S. zoologist (1879-1942)

Ernest Chuard died

People · Lausanne

Member of the Swiss Federal Council (1857-1942)

Andrew Forsyth died

People · London

British mathematician (1858-1942)

Gerard Philips died

People · The Hague

Dutch industrialist (1858–1942)

Mykhailo Kravchuk died

People · Kolyma

Ukrainian mathematician (1892–1942)

Stefanie Horovitz died

People · Treblinka extermination camp

Polish chemist

Arthur Berson died

People · Berlin

German scientist (1859–1942)

Pinhas Rutenberg died

People · Jerusalem

Israeli engineer (1879-1942)

Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr. died

People · South Bend

U.S. mammalogist, bacteriologist, and pathologist (1875–1942)

Charles-Eugène Guye died

People · Geneva

Swiss physicist (1866-1942)

Stanisław Saks died

People · Warsaw

Polish mathematician (1897–1942)

Édouard Estaunié died

People · Paris

French novelist and engineer (1862-1942)

Emil Ernst died

People · Münster

German astronomer (1889–1942)

Lawrence Joseph Henderson died

People · Cambridge

American biochemist, philosopher and sociologist (1878–1942)

Andrey Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky died

People · Saint Petersburg

Russian geographer and entomologist (1866–1942)

Moses Schönfinkel died

People · Moscow

Russian logician and mathematician (1888–1942)

Robert Remak died

People · Auschwitz

German mathematician (1888-1942)

Oskar Bolza died

People · Freiburg im Breisgau

German mathematician (1857–1942)

Alfred Tauber died

People · Theresienstadt concentration camp

Hungarian-born Austrian mathematician (1866-1942)

Józef Paczoski died

People · Sierosław, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Polish botanist (1864-1942)

Nikolai Rynin died

People · Kazan

Russian civil engineer (1877–1942)

Margarethe Kahn died

People · Trawniki concentration camp

German mathematician and Holocaust victim (1880–1942)

Vladimir Varićak died

People · Zagreb

Croatian mathematician (1865–1942)

Egbert van Kampen died

People · Baltimore

Mathematician (1908–1942)

Emanuel Rádl died

People · Hradčany

Czech biologist, philosopher and politic writer (1873–1942)

Ivan Alekseyevich Kablukov died

People · Tashkent

Russian chemist (1857–1942)

Arnold Deutsch died

People · Norwegian Sea

Austrian spy (1904–1942)

Hermann Kobold died

People · Kiel

German astronomer (1858-1942)

Arthur Michael died

People · Orlando

American chemist (1853–1942)

Arnold Berliner died

People · Berlin

German physicist (1862–1942)

Károly Zipernowsky died

People · Budapest

Hungarian engineer (1853–1942)

Herman Auerbach died

People · Belzec extermination camp

Polish mathematician (1901-1942)

Ina Reck died

People · Berlin

German explorer and author (1872-1942)

Viktor Esbensen died

People · Falmouth

Norwegian explorer (1881–1942)

Sidney Jeffryes died

People · Ararat

Australian explorer (1884-1942)

Edna May Oliver died

People · Los Angeles

American actress (1883–1942)

George M. Cohan died

People · New York City

American entertainer, composer and playwright (1878–1942)

Otto Herschmann died

People · Sobibór Extermination Camp

Swimmer, fencer, and lawyer (1877–1942)

Dorando Pietri died

People · Sanremo

Italian distance runner (1885–1942)

Erwin Schulhoff died

People · Wülzburg

Czech composer and pianist (1894–1942)

Emanuel Feuermann died

People · New York City

Austrian musician (1902-1942)

Sidney Fox died

People · Beverly Hills

American actress (1907/1911–1942)

Joseph Schmidt died

People · Internment Camp Girenbad

Jewish Romanian opera singer (1904-1942)

James Cruze died

People · Hollywood

American actor (1884-1942)

Buck Jones died

People · Boston

American actor (1891-1942)

Joe Biden born

People · Scranton

Born in Scranton. 46th President of the United States (2021–2025).

Stephen Hawking born

People · Oxford

Born in Oxford. British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018).

Muammar Gaddafi born

People · Qasr Abu Hadi

Born in Qasr Abu Hadi. Military officer and former Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya (1969-2011).

Amitabh Bachchan born

People · Prayagraj

Born in Prayagraj. Indian film actor (born 1942).

Hu Jintao born

People · Jiangyan District

Born in Jiangyan District. Former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.

Martin Scorsese born

People · Queens

Born in Queens. American filmmaker (born 1942).

Thabo Mbeki born

People · Mbewuleni

Born in Mbewuleni. President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008.

Barbra Streisand born

People · Brooklyn

Born in Brooklyn. American singer and actress (born 1942).

Jacob Zuma born

People · Nkandla

Born in Nkandla. 4th President of South Africa (2009–2018).

Roger Ebert born

People · Urbana

Born in Urbana. American film critic and author (1942–2013).

Muhammadu Buhari born

People · Daura

Born in Daura. Former President of Nigeria from 1983 to 1985 and 2015 to 2025 (born 1942–2025).

Peter Handke born

People · Griffen

Born in Griffen. Austrian writer, playwright and film director (born 1942).

Junichiro Koizumi born

People · Yokosuka

Born in Yokosuka. Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006.

Mohamed ElBaradei born

People · Cairo

Born in Cairo. Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

Wen Jiabao born

People · Tianjin

Born in Tianjin. 6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2004 to 2013.

Michael Crichton born

People · Chicago

Born in Chicago. American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008).

Michael Bloomberg born

People · Boston

Born in Boston. American businessman and politician; 108th Mayor of New York City.

José Eduardo dos Santos born

People · Luanda

Born in Luanda. President of Angola from 1979 to 2017.

Teodoro Obiang born

People · Akuacam

Born in Akuacam. Equatoguinean politician, President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979.

Lou Reed born

People · Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center

Born in Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center. American rock musician (1942–2013).

Alassane Ouattara born

People · Dimbokro

Born in Dimbokro. President of Ivory Coast (2010–present).

Werner Herzog born

People · Munich

Born in Munich. German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director (born 1942).

Ted Kaczynski born

People · Evergreen Park

Born in Evergreen Park. American domestic, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023).

Emmerson Mnangagwa born

People · Zvishavane

Born in Zvishavane. President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.

Mitch McConnell born

People · Sheffield

Born in Sheffield. American politician and lawyer (born 1942).

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir born

People · Reykjavík

Born in Reykjavík. Icelandic politician.

Daniel Dennett born

People · Boston

Born in Boston. American philosopher (1942–2024).

Vicente Fox born

People · Mexico City

Born in Mexico City. 62th President of Mexico.

Michael Haneke born

People · Munich

Born in Munich. Austrian film director and screenwriter (born 1942).

Ehud Barak born

People · Mishmar HaSharon

Born in Mishmar HaSharon. 10th Prime Minister of Israel.

Jacques Rogge born

People · Ghent

Born in Ghent. President of the International Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2013.

Erica Jong born

People · New York City

Born in New York City. American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic.

Felipe González born

People · Seville

Born in Seville. Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996.

Wolfgang Schäuble born

People · Freiburg im Breisgau

Born in Freiburg im Breisgau. German politician and statesman (1942–2023).

László Sólyom born

People · Pécs

Born in Pécs. Politician and former President of Hungary (1942–2023).

Pál Schmitt born

People · Budapest

Born in Budapest. President of Hungary from 2010 to 2012.

John Irving born

People · Exeter

Born in Exeter. American novelist and screenwriter.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak born

People · Kolkata

Born in Kolkata. Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic.

Javier Solana born

People · Madrid

Born in Madrid. Spanish politician.

Nguyễn Minh Triết born

People · Bến Cát

Born in Bến Cát. Sixth President of Vietnam (2006-2011).

Manuel Castells born

People · Hellín

Born in Hellín. Spanish sociologist.

Giorgio Agamben born

People · Rome

Born in Rome. Italian philosopher (b. 1942).

Hissène Habré born

People · Faya-Largeau

Born in Faya-Largeau. 5th president of Chad.

Arto Paasilinna born

People · Kittilä

Born in Kittilä. Finnish poet, novelist, screenwriter, and jourrnalist (1942–2018).

Ama Ata Aidoo born

People · Abeadzi Kyiakor

Born in Abeadzi Kyiakor. Ghanaian writer, politician, and academic (1942–2023).

Ana Blandiana born

People · Timișoara

Born in Timișoara. Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure.

Abdulsalami Abubakar born

People · Minna

Born in Minna. Nigerian general and brief head of state.

Silvia Federici born

People · Parma

Born in Parma. Italian American scholar, teacher, and feminist activist.

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez born

People · Guantánamo

Born in Guantánamo. Cuban cosmonaut.

Prince Michael of Kent born

People · Coppins

Born in Coppins. First cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; grandson of King George V and Queen Mary.

Conrad Schumann born

People · Zschochau

Born in Zschochau. East German soldier (1942-1998).

Kang Kek Iew born

People · Peam Bang

Born in Peam Bang. War criminal and former leader in the Khmer Rouge (1942–2020).

Huey P. Newton born

People · Monroe

Born in Monroe. Co-founder of the Black Panther Party (1942-1989).

Radu Vasile born

People · Sibiu

Born in Sibiu. 57th Prime Minister of Romania (1998-1999).

Rupert Sheldrake born

People · Newark-on-Trent

Born in Newark-on-Trent. English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942).

Derek Parfit born

People · Chengdu

Born in Chengdu. British philosopher (1942–2017).

Vyacheslav Zudov born

People · Bor

Born in Bor. Soviet cosmonaut (1942–2024).

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri born

People · Ad-Dawr

Born in Ad-Dawr. Iraqi military and politician (1942-2020).

Shere Hite born

People · St. Joseph

Born in St. Joseph. German-American sexologist.

Vladimir Kovalyonok born

People · Bielaje

Born in Bielaje. Soviet cosmonaut.

Gloria E. Anzaldúa born

People · Raymondville

Born in Raymondville. Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory (1942-2004).

Janusz Korwin-Mikke born

People · Warsaw

Born in Warsaw. Polish far-right politician and publicist (born 1942).

Étienne Balibar born

People · Avallon

Born in Avallon. French philosopher.

Janko Prunk born

People · Loka pri Zidanem Mostu

Born in Loka pri Zidanem Mostu. Slovenian politician and historian.

Richard Bohringer born

People · Moulins

Born in Moulins. French actor, director, producer.

Yevgeny Shaposhnikov born

People · Bolshoi Log

Born in Bolshoi Log. Soviet Air Force Marshal (1942–2020).

Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino born

People · Caracas

Born in Caracas. Cardinal of the Catholic Church (1942–2021).

Walter Rodney born

People · Georgetown

Born in Georgetown. Guyanese Marxist, Pan-Afrianist, and historian (1942-1980).

Deirdre McCloskey born

People · Ann Arbor

Born in Ann Arbor. American economist & academic.

Donald E. Williams born

People · Lafayette

Born in Lafayette. American astronaut (1942–2016).

Guion Bluford born

People · Philadelphia

Born in Philadelphia. American astronaut (born 1942).

Yasmeen Lari born

People · Dera Ghazi Khan

Born in Dera Ghazi Khan. Pakistani architect.

John E. Blaha born

People · San Antonio

Born in San Antonio. American astronaut.

John McDowell born

People · Boksburg

Born in Boksburg. South African philosopher and academic.

Edward Luttwak born

People · Arad

Born in Arad. American writer and military strategist.

Suzanne Cory born

People · Melbourne

Born in Melbourne. Australian molecular biologist.

Ned Block born

People · Chicago

Born in Chicago. American philosopher and academic.

Mario Terán born

People · Cochabamba

Born in Cochabamba. Bolivian army soldier.

Lyudmila Zhivkova born

People · Govedartsi

Born in Govedartsi. Bulgarian minister (1942-1981).

Donald Rayfield born

People · Oxford

Born in Oxford. British academic and translator (born 1942).

Louis Schweitzer born

People · Geneva

Born in Geneva. French-Swiss businessman (1942–2025).

Manuel Saturnino da Costa born

People · Bolama

Born in Bolama. Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (1942-2021).

Sallehuddin of Kedah born

People · Alor Setar

Born in Alor Setar. Sultan of Kedah.

Mohand Laenser born

People · Imouzzer Marmoucha

Born in Imouzzer Marmoucha. Moroccan politician.

Maurice Lévy born

People · Oujda

Born in Oujda. French businessman (born 1942).

Carlos Arthur Nuzman born

People · Rio de Janeiro

Born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian volleyball player.

National University of Mongolia

Science & Technology

Oldest university in Mongolia

Naval Air Station Patuxent River

Science & Technology · Lexington Park

Military naval air station and flight test center in Maryland, United States

Applied Physics Laboratory

Science & Technology

University-affiliated research center

Chiba Institute of Technology

Science & Technology

Higher education institution in Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Faulkner University

Science & Technology

Private university in Montgomery, Alabama, United States

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Science & Technology

Private university in New Jersey, United States

Namangan State University

Science & Technology

University in Namangan, Uzbekistan

Caro and Cuervo Institute

Science & Technology

Organization

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Science & Technology

Finnish non-profit multidisciplinary R&D organization

Yamashina Institute for Ornithology

Science & Technology

Japanese non-profit research organization

Tonantzintla Observatory

Science & Technology

Observatory

Botanical Garden of the Comenius University

Science & Technology

Botanical garden in Bratislava, Slovakia

Universidad ORT Uruguay

Science & Technology

Academic publisher

University Hospital Centre Zagreb

Science & Technology · Dobri Dol (neighborhood)

Hospital in Croatia

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Science & Technology

Indian scientific research and development organization

Diplomatic School of Spain

Science & Technology

Universitary school in Madrid, Spain

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Science & Technology

Public university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences

Science & Technology

Medical higher education institution in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Montreal Laboratory

Science & Technology

Physics laboratory

Safdarjang Hospital

Science & Technology

Hospital in India

Dr. Sapir Hospital and Charity Center

Science & Technology

Hospital in Iran

University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy

Science & Technology · Sofia

University in Sofia, Bulgaria

Altai State Technical University

Science & Technology · Russia

Technical university in Barnaul, Russia

Universidad de Sonora

Science & Technology

University in Hermosillo, Mexico

National School of Agriculture of Meknes

Science & Technology

School of Agricultural Engineering in Morocco

Kamchatka State Technical University

Science & Technology

Education organization in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia

King's Mill Hospital

Science & Technology

Hospital in England

Morriston Hospital

Science & Technology

Hospital

Providence Saint John's Health Center

Science & Technology

Hospital in Santa Monica, California, United States

Karlskoga Hospital

Science & Technology

Hospital

Concord Repatriation General Hospital

Science & Technology · Sydney

Hospital in Sydney, Australia

Chengdu Sport University

Science & Technology

University in Chengdu, China

College of Art, Delhi

Science & Technology

College affiliated to the Amdebkar University Delhi

Ho Chi Minh City University of Science

Science & Technology

Public college in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center

Science & Technology

Research institution in Costa Rica

Krasnoyarsk State Medical University

Science & Technology · Krasnoyarsk

Education organization in Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Ramniranjan Anandilal Podar College of Commerce and Economics

Science & Technology

College of Commerce and Economics in Mumbai

Ochsner Medical Center

Science & Technology

Hospital in Louisiana, United States

Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital

Science & Technology

Retirement community in Los Angeles, California

Naval Medical Research Center

Science & Technology · Forest Glen Annex

US agency that performs applied biomedical research for the benefit of the US Navy

Geha Mental Health Center

Science & Technology

Healthcare organization in Petah Tikva, Israel

Churchill Hospital

Science & Technology

Hospital in Oxford, UK

Hollywood Private Hospital

Science & Technology

Hospital in Western Australia

Hospital Universitario San Ignacio

Science & Technology

Hospital in Colombia

Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

Science & Technology

Kihara Institute for Biological Research

Science & Technology

Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología

Science & Technology

Spanish Pyrenean Institute of Ecology

Ushimado Olive Garden

Science & Technology

Alexandria University

Science & Technology

Public university in Egypt

Tokai University

Science & Technology

Private university in Tokyo, Japan

National Research Nuclear University

Science & Technology · Moscow

University

Fairfield University

Science & Technology

University located in Fairfield, Connecticut

University of Peradeniya

Science & Technology

State university in Kandy, Sri Lanka

Samara National Research University named after academician S.P. Korolev

Science & Technology · Samara

University in Samara, Russia

Omsk State Technical University

Science & Technology · Omsk

University in Omsk, Russia

Kansai Women's College

Science & Technology

College in Japan

University of Montemorelos

Science & Technology

Private university in Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Jiyugaoka Sanno College

Science & Technology

Ozark Christian College

Science & Technology

Private evangelical Christian college

Urgench State University

Science & Technology

University in Urgench, Uzbekistan

Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon

Science & Technology · Legon

Protestant seminary in Accra, Ghana

Mildenhall Treasure

Exploration & Discovery · British Museum

Roman silver tableware hoard

Orlova Chuka

Exploration & Discovery

Cave in Bulgaria

Veksø helmets

Exploration & Discovery · National Museum of Denmark

2 bronze helmets found near Veksø, Denmark

Psi Islands

Exploration & Discovery

Group of islands in Antarctica

New St. Michael's Cave

Exploration & Discovery

Cave in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar

20th Mountain Army

Exploration & Discovery · Norway

Military unit

Meir Taweig Synagogue

Religion & Belief Systems

Iraqi synagogue

Cathedral of the Annunciation

Religion & Belief Systems

Church in California, United States

National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes

Religion & Belief Systems

Roman Catholic church in Quezon City, Philippines

Saint Apollinaris in Baggio Church

Religion & Belief Systems

Parish church of Baggio, Milan, Italy

Wat Buppharam

Religion & Belief Systems

Thai Buddhist temple in Penang, Malaysia

Jinlongshan Beifeng Temple

Religion & Belief Systems

Onze-Lieve-Vrouwkapel

Religion & Belief Systems · Sint-Laureins-Berchem

Chapel in Sint-Laureins-Berchem, Belgium

Mount St. Peter Church

Religion & Belief Systems

church building in Pennsylvania, United States of America

Risshodoshin Temple

Religion & Belief Systems

Buddhist temple in Yokohama, Japan

Creu del Camí de Sant Pau

Religion & Belief Systems

Cross in Sant Pere de Ribes (Catalonia)

Vale

Economy & Trade · Rio de Janeiro

Multinational diversified metals and mining corporation

Talgo

Economy & Trade · Las Rozas de Madrid

Spanish trainmaker

Esposizione Universale di Roma

Economy & Trade

Project for the 1942 Rome Universal Exposition

Osem

Economy & Trade · Shoham

Israeli company

Vostok watches

Economy & Trade · Chistopol

Company

Grupo ACS

Economy & Trade · ACS headquarters, Madrid

Company

Aerojet

Economy & Trade · Rancho Cordova

Former American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer

Asian Paints

Economy & Trade · Mumbai

Indian Multi-National Paint and Coating Manufacturing Company

Izhevsk Mechanical Plant

Economy & Trade · Izhevsk

Firearms manufacturer

Thule

Economy & Trade · Malmö

Swedish automotive accessory company

Alpa

Economy & Trade · Zurich

Company and manufacturer of 35 mm SLR cameras

Nexen Tire

Economy & Trade · Yangsan

South Korean tire manufacturer

Eczacıbaşı

Economy & Trade · Istanbul

Company

Famous Studios

Economy & Trade · New York City

Defunct American animation studio

UBE Corporation

Economy & Trade · Tokyo

Japanese company

SAME

Economy & Trade · Treviglio

Italian agricultural machinery manufacturer

Azad Hind Radio

Economy & Trade · Germany

Propaganda radio service

Niksar–Erbaa earthquake of 1942

Disasters & Pandemics

7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Tokat in north-central Turkey on December 20, 1942

1942 Wairarapa earthquakes

Disasters & Pandemics

Earthquakes in New Zealand

1942 Guatemala earthquake

Disasters & Pandemics

Earthquake off southern coast of Guatemala

1942 Ecuador earthquake

Disasters & Pandemics

Earthquake in northeastern Ecuador

1942 Peru earthquake

Disasters & Pandemics

Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia

Disasters & Pandemics · Volhynia

Massacre of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II

Novi Sad raid

Disasters & Pandemics · Novi Sad

A massacre carried out by the Royal Hungarian Army during World War II

Grossaktion Warsaw

Disasters & Pandemics · Warsaw Ghetto

Cocoanut Grove fire

Disasters & Pandemics · Bay Village

1942 nightclub fire in Boston, Massachusetts

Chinese famine of 1942-43

Disasters & Pandemics · Henan

1942-1943 famine in Henan, China

Reinhard Heydrich assassination

Disasters & Pandemics

Special operation by soldiers of the Czechoslovak army-in-exile during WW2

Struma disaster

Disasters & Pandemics · Istanbul

Maritime disaster

Gata massacre

Disasters & Pandemics · Gata

Massacre in Gata, Croatia

Arakan massacres in 1942

Disasters & Pandemics · Rakhine State

Part of the Japanese invasion of Burma during World War II

Catavi Massacre

Disasters & Pandemics · Catavi

1942 massacre of striking miners in Bolivia

Makarska massacre

Disasters & Pandemics · Makarska

1942 mass murder of Croat civilians

Voćin massacre (1942)

Disasters & Pandemics · Voćin

Killing of 350 Serb civilians in Voćin, Independent State of Croatia in 1942

Beisfjord massacre

Disasters & Pandemics · Q4881401

Prison camp massacre in Norway, 1942

Begoña Bombing

Disasters & Pandemics · Basilica of Begoña

1942 terrorist incident in Spain

Parit Sulong Massacre

Disasters & Pandemics

1942 massacre in British Malaya by Japan

Dzyatlava massacre

Disasters & Pandemics

1942 mass killings of Jews

Kitów massacre

Disasters & Pandemics

Nazi war crime

Chosei coal mine disaster

Disasters & Pandemics

Disaster of Korean and Japanese laborers being buried alive in the underwater mine

Artemivsk massacre

Disasters & Pandemics · Bakhmut

Holocaust massacre in Artemivsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Bakhmut, Ukraine)

Sarny Massacre

Disasters & Pandemics · Sarny

Execution of between 14,000 and 18,000 persons, mostly Jews, in the Nazi-occupied city of Sarny

Massacre in Budy

Disasters & Pandemics · Auschwitz

1942 massacre in KL Auschwitz

Święciany massacre

Disasters & Pandemics

1942 mass murders of Poles in occupied Lithuania

Sleepy Lagoon murder

Disasters & Pandemics · Los Angeles

1942 murder in Los Angeles

Rohingya conflict

Social Movements & Revolutions · Rakhine State

Sectarian conflict in Rakhine State, Myanmar

Zamość Uprising

Social Movements & Revolutions · Zamość

Resistance operation during the Nazi occupation of Poland

Cocos Islands Mutiny

Social Movements & Revolutions · Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Conflict

Ust-Usa uprising

Social Movements & Revolutions · Ust-Usa

1942 prisoner uprising in the Ust-Usinsk area

1942 Phoenix Thanksgiving Day riot

Social Movements & Revolutions · Phoenix

1942 riot in Phoenix, United States

Sabotage in Serbia during World War II

Social Movements & Revolutions · Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia

Robertson Stadium

Architecture & Engineering

Former American football stadium in Houston

Chedly Zouiten Stadium

Architecture & Engineering

Stadium in Tunis, Tunisia

Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium

Architecture & Engineering · Kyoto

Building in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Santa Emerenziana a Tor Fiorenza

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Rome, Italy

Christ the King Church, Riga

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Riga, Latvia

Santa Maria Immacolata all'Esquilino

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Rome

Memorial Stadium, Clemson

Architecture & Engineering · Clemson

American football stadium

Estadio Arquitecto Antonio Eleuterio Ubilla

Architecture & Engineering

Sports venue

Santa Maria Regina Pacis

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Rome, Italy

Estadio Max Augustín

Architecture & Engineering

Sports venue in Iquitos, Peru

Municipal Stadium in Buzău

Architecture & Engineering

Stadium in Buzău

Estadio Municipal Roberto Bravo Santibáñez

Architecture & Engineering

Stadium

Liberation Tower of Bessarabia

Architecture & Engineering

Monument in Chișinău, in Moldavia

Estadio Federico Schwager

Architecture & Engineering

Stadium in Coronel, Chile

McCoy Stadium

Architecture & Engineering

Baseball stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Stade Pierre-Delort

Architecture & Engineering

Stadium in Marseille, France

St Richard's Church, Haywards Heath

Architecture & Engineering

Grade II listed church in Haywards Heath, Mid Sussex, West Sussex, England, UK

Victory Stadium

Architecture & Engineering

Football stadium in Virginia, United States

Fort Capuzzo

Architecture & Engineering

WWII-era fort near Sollum, Italian Libya

Battery Dietl

Architecture & Engineering

Building in Steigen, Northern Norway

Fort de Chillon

Architecture & Engineering · Chillon

Twentieth-century fortification adjacent to Chillon Castle, Switzerland

Hsinchu Shrine

Architecture & Engineering

Former Shinto shrine in Taiwan

Sturmbock

Architecture & Engineering · Karesuvanto

1942–1944 German fortification in Kaaresuvanto, Enontekiö, Finland

Westerbork Transit Camp

Architecture & Engineering · Hooghalen

Nazi transit camp for Jews in the occupied Netherlands

Zmievskaya Balka

Architecture & Engineering · Rostov-on-Don

Russian site of Holocaust massacre

Soviet submarine S-56

Architecture & Engineering

1939 S-class submarine

Fshajt Bridge

Architecture & Engineering · Gjakova

Cultural heritage monument of Kosovo

Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery

Architecture & Engineering

Cemetery located in Seine-Maritime, in France

Site A / Plot M Disposal Site

Architecture & Engineering

Nuclear disposal site in Cook County, Illinois, US

Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park

Architecture & Engineering

state park of California, United States, marking the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in 1848, sparking the California Gold Rush

First Ebenezer Baptist Church

Architecture & Engineering

church building in Alabama, United States of America

Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church

Architecture & Engineering

church building in Arkansas, United States of America

Commodore Levy Chapel

Architecture & Engineering

the U.S. Navy's oldest land-based Jewish Chapel, at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia

Monument to Mikhail Panikakha in Volgograd

Architecture & Engineering

Monument in Volgograd, Russia

Pranidhipurna Mahavihar

Architecture & Engineering · Balambu

Buddhist monastery in Balambu, Nepal

10th Venice International Film Festival

Sports & Entertainment · Venice

1942 film festival edition

Komissarzhevskaya Theatre

Sports & Entertainment

Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren

Sports & Entertainment · Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Football league

China National Opera House

Sports & Entertainment

Opera house in Beijing, China

Latin Quarter

Sports & Entertainment

Nightclub in New York City, a former cinema and Broadway theatre

Border Theater

Sports & Entertainment

Historic place in Mission, Hidalgo County, Texas

1942 Copa del Generalísimo Final

Sports & Entertainment · Estadio Chamartín

Football match

Esposizione universale

Sports & Entertainment

Planned World's Fair in Rome cancelled due to WWII

Lokot Autonomy founded

Empires & Countries · Lokot

Lokot Autonomy was founded, with its capital at Lokot.

Oguni founded

Empires & Countries

Oguni was founded.