WHAT HAPPENED IN 1942.
Look what happened the 1942.

The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed. (22. May 1942)

World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor. (22. May 1942)

World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place. (26. May 1942)

World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later. (27. May 1942)

World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people. (28. May 1942)

Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history. (29. May 1942)

World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany. (30. May 1942)

World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia. (31. May 1942)

World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island. (3. June 1942)

World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy. (4. June 1942)

World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. (5. June 1942)

World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers. (6. June 1942)

World War II: The Battle of Midway ended. (7. June 1942)

World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Japanese soldiers began occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. (7. June 1942)

World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle. (8. June 1942)

World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich. (10. June 1942)

World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. (11. June 1942)

Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. (12. June 1942)

The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp. (20. June 1942)

World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces. (21. June 1942)