June 1942 calendar

Events

• 02 Jun 1942 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator
• 03 Jun 1942 Battle of Midway Island begins
• 04 Jun 1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
• 05 Jun 1942 British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie
• 06 Jun 1942 1st nylon parachute jump
• 07 Jun 1942 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Nimitz wins 1st WWII naval defeat of Japan
• 08 Jun 1942 Bing Cosby records Silent Night
• 09 Jun 1942 Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes Minister in Gerbrandy government
• 10 Jun 1942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173
• 11 Jun 1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
• 12 Jun 1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present
• 13 Jun 1942 FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
• 14 Jun 1942 French government of Reynaud resigns
• 17 Jun 1942 First World War II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast).
• 18 Jun 1942 Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy
• 19 Jun 1942 Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 hits
• 20 Jun 1942 Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
• 21 Jun 1942 President Roosevelt / Premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
• 22 Jun 1942 Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon
• 23 Jun 1942 World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
• 24 Jun 1942 Africa Corps occupy Egypt
• 25 Jun 1942 British Premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London
• 26 Jun 1942 German assault on British at Mersa Matruh
• 27 Jun 1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
• 28 Jun 1942 Dumont TV network begins (WABD New York).
• 29 Jun 1942 WWII: The German Eleventh Army under Erich von Manstein takes Sevastopol, although fighting rages until July 9.
• 30 Jun 1942 144 U-boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month

Famous Birthday

• Paul McCartney

  British musician who is most widely known as being a member of the mega-star group "The Beatles.

• Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya.

• Brian Wilson

  American musician, the troubled and eccentric genius of "The Beach Boys," a composer and producer who gave up touring with the group in...

• Chantal Goya

  Vietnamese-French singer and actress.

• Giacomo Agostini

  Italian motorcycle champion of the world at 350 cc, 1968-74 and 500 cc, 1966 and 1975.

• Mick Fleetwood
• Manila (Philippines)
• Michele Lee

  American singer and TV actress who played Karen MacKenzie for 14 seasons in CBS's TV prime-time soap "Knots Landing.

• Rupert Sheldrake

  British scientist, a holistic biologist and philosopher of science; the author of numerous books such as "Dogs that Know When their Owners...

• Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

  President of Equatoriaal Guinee (1979- ).

• Jérôme Savary

  Argentinian-French actor and theater director, born to an American mother, daughter of the governor of New-York.

• Michel Cazenave

  French philosopher and writer, specializing in the work of Carl Gustav Jung.

• Chris Griscom

  American writer, the author of "Feminist Fusion" along with other books on reincarnation and self-awareness.

• Nick Tate

  Australian international TV and film star, originally trained in production and directing, found himself more comfortable in front of the...

• Anita Harris

  English actress, singer and entertainer.

• Liège (Belgium)
• Curtis Mayfield

  Funk Singer.

• Jean-François Le Grand
• Nicola Trussardi

  Italian entrepreneur, a well-known designer, industrialist and creator of high fashion.

• Patrick Le Lay

  French business leader, a former CEO of TF1.

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Famous Deaths

• Bunny Berigan

  American musician, a trumpeter and bandleader of the swing of the '30s.

• Vladislav Vancura

  Czech Physician / resistance fighter, executed at 50.

• Vera Figner

  Writer.

• Jean Van Royen

  Secretary-General of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63.

• Walter Leigh

  Composer, dies at 36.

• Adolf Opalka

  Czech resistance fighter, shot down.

• Arthur Willard Pryor

  Composer, dies at 71.

• John Kubris

  Czech resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28.

• Ernest Pingoud

  Composer, dies at 53.

• Titus Brandsma [Anno Sjoerd]

  Dutch RC priest (Dachau).

• Arnoldus J H Aerts

  Dutch Bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62.

• Reinhard Heydrich dies of his wounds from an assassination attempt Adolf Hitler appoints Karl Herman

  and demands the execution of 10,000 Czechs.

• Arthur Pryor

  American trombonist and bandleader (Born 1870).

• Alan Blumlein

  English electronics engineer, notable for his many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television and radar.

• Paul Troje

  German lawyer and politician Mayor of Marburg (d. 1942).

• Charles Fitzpatrick

  Canadian lawyer and politician 12th Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d. 1942).

• Hans Lietzman

  German Theologist / church historian, dies at 67.

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Top #1 songs in the USA

1. Merry Macs - Jingle, Jangle, Jingle