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Key Events and Figures of 1942

This quiz tests your knowledge on key events and prominent figures from the year 1942, focusing on World War II, the Holocaust, and cultural icons.

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1 January 1 – WWII: The United States and Philippines troops fight the ________.

2 June 12 – Holocaust: On her 13th birthday, ________ makes the first entry in her new diary.

3 ________ – Marshall Bell, American actor

4 ________ – Francois Darlan, French Naval officer (b.

5 ________ – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.

6 probable – ________, leader of Libya

7 ________ – Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter (b.

8 ________ – WWII: Japanese forces invade Burma.

9 September 24 – Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac became the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied ________.

10 October 29 – ________, American painter and television presenter (d.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Soviet pop singer Klavdiya Shulzhenko performed more than 500 concerts in besieged Leningrad in 1941 and 1942.
  • the Lübeck Cathedral collapsed during an Allied bomb raid in 1942 but was subsequently restored.
  • the Soviet singer Lidiya Ruslanova financed the construction of two Katyusha batteries, which she presented to the Red Army in 1942.
  • the death toll from the 1942 Sook Ching Massacre is unknown, but probably lies between 25,000 and 50,000.
  • the first lieutenant Adolf Opálka, together with six fellow combatants, resisted 800 enemy soldiers for more than seven hours in the Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodious in Prague on 28 June 1942.
  • the French light cruiser Marseillaise was sabotaged by her own crew on November 27, 1942, in order to prevent the Germans from capturing the ship.
  • shortly before Christmas 1942, an alleged Nazi spy was captured by the Garda in Castletownroche, a small Irish village.
  • a young Aruna Asaf Ali had to commence the Quit India Movement in 1942 as all the major leaders were arrested the night before to prevent them from reaching the venue.
  • although the first meeting of the Indian Independence League took place in Tokyo in March 1942, it was not formally proclaimed until June of that year in Bangkok.
  • during a 1942 air attack on the Koolama, an Australian merchant ship, a man survived a direct hit to his head by a bomb, dropped by a Japanese aircraft.
  • in Operation Saturn, the Red Army drove the Axis Powers out of the Caucasus and back across the Donets River in the winter of 1942–1943.
  • Nobuo Fujita of the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted the only wartime bombing on the continental United States in 1942.
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