The Palm Beach Story
Release year: 1942
Directed by: Preston Sturges
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee
Country: United States of America
August 1942 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in August 1942.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Winston Churchill (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.
But much more happened on August 1942: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of August 1942?
Events
- 01 Aug 1942 Deurne soccer team forms
- 02 Aug 1942 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
- 04 Aug 1942 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
- 05 Aug 1942 British government cancels agreement of Munich
- 06 Aug 1942 Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210
- 07 Aug 1942 Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
- 08 Aug 1942 Monty appointed Commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein
- 09 Aug 1942 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland
- 10 Aug 1942 Gen B Montgomery becomes Commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
- 11 Aug 1942 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
- 12 Aug 1942 British Premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
- 13 Aug 1942 RKO Radio Pictures premieres the Disney film Bambi in the US at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
- 14 Aug 1942 Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
- 15 Aug 1942 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
- 16 Aug 1942 Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
- 17 Aug 1942 1st European bombing run undertaken by US forces
- 19 Aug 1942 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France
- 20 Aug 1942 Dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco, California.
- 21 Aug 1942 Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus
- 22 Aug 1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
- 23 Aug 1942 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
- 24 Aug 1942 Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
- 25 Aug 1942 SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht Neth
- 26 Aug 1942 Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay
- 27 Aug 1942 Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
- 28 Aug 1942 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0
- 30 Aug 1942 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
- 31 Aug 1942 Battle at Alam Halfa: German and Italians assault
Famous Birthday
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American musician, a black singer and the composer of the theme song from the movie "Shaft.
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Famous Deaths
Dutch landlord, dies at 77.
Composer, dies at 60.
Japanese Colonel (WWII).
Composer, dies at 72.
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Movies
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The Talk of the Town
Release year: 1942
Directed by: George Stevens
Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Country: United States of America
The Glass Key
Release year: 1942
Directed by: Stuart Heisler
Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, Bonita Granville
Country: United States of America
Orchestra Wives
Release year: 1942
Directed by: Archie Mayo
Starring: George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
Wake Island
Release year: 1942
Directed by: John Farrow
Starring: Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, William Bendix
Country: United States of America