Date: August 7, 1942
World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Date: April 3, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 3 📅 Events on this day in 1942 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1942Guadalcanal Battle of the Tenaru: American…
Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank issues a memorandum detailing how Jews should be "evacuated". Date: September 26, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 26 📅 Events on this day in 1942 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1942FBI Convicts 33 in Duquesne Spy Ring, January 2, 1942RMS…
World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung. Date: March 5, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 5 📅 Events on this day in 1942 📅 On…
World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution. Date:…
The Holocaust in Ukraine: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported. Date: May 9, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 9 📅 Events on this day in 1942 📅…
Henry Ford patents a soybean car, which is 30% lighter than a regular car. Date: January 13, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events on this day in 1942 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1942World War II: Japanese Conquest of Burma Begins, January 19, 1942Battle…