WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO NOVEMBER 1942
Find out what all happened October to November 1942

World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded. (22. November 1942)

World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France. (11. November 1942)

World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers. (8. November 1942)

Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda. (19. November 1942)

World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins. (6. November 1942)

World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12. (3. November 1942)

The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia. (10. October 1942)

World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt. (23. October 1942)

World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory. (1. November 1942)

The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943). (21. November 1942)

Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space. (3. October 1942)

World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal – U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal. (13. November 1942)

World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein – Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat. (4. November 1942)

Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy. (9. October 1942)

World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia. (26. November 1942)

World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright. (30. November 1942)

In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people. (28. November 1942)

Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code. (30. October 1942)

World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged. (26. October 1942)

All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii"). (23. October 1942)