Yankee Doodle Dandy
Release year: 1942
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Starring: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf
Country: United States of America
May 1942 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in May 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 May 1942: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of May 1942?
Events
- 01 May 1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star".
- 02 May 1942 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4.
- 03 May 1942 World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
- 04 May 1942 Food 1st rationed in US
- 05 May 1942 US begins rationing sugar during WWII
- 06 May 1942 World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
- 07 May 1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
- 08 May 1942 Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
- 09 May 1942 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57.
- 10 May 1942 World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
- 11 May 1942 Japanese troops conquer Kalewa.
- 12 May 1942 Russia occupies Crackow, until August 23, 1943
- 13 May 1942 Helicopter makes its first cross-country flight.
- 14 May 1942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded.
- 15 May 1942 Nazi occupiers in the Netherlands arrests 2,000 Dutch officers
- 17 May 1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Adolf Hitler.
- 18 May 1942 New York City ends night baseball games for the rest of war.
- 19 May 1942 Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits
- 20 May 1942 US Navy first permits black recruits to serve.
- 21 May 1942 WWII: Mexico declares war against Nazi Germany after the sinking of the Mexican tanker ''Faja de Oro'' by the German U-boat, U-160, off Key West.
- 22 May 1942 Mexico declares war on Nazi-Germany and Japan
- 26 May 1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London
- 27 May 1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
- 28 May 1942 1,800 Czechoslovakians murdered by Germans during attack on Reinhard Heydrich.
- 29 May 1942 Bing Crosby records Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," the best-selling Christmas album in history.
- 30 May 1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
- 31 May 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury, England.
Famous Birthday
American terrorist, called the Unabomber.
French musician, singer and composer.
French writer and philosopher.
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Famous Deaths
Lieutenant Colonel / leader Order Service, executed.
Composer, dies at 41.
Anthropologist.
Norwegian Author (Enken), dies at 69.
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Movies
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Mrs. Miniver
Release year: 1942
Directed by: William Wyler
Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, May Whitty
Country: United States of America
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Release year: 1942
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Starring: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Virginia Grey
Country: United States of America
Romance on the Range
Release year: 1942
Directed by: Joseph Kane
Starring: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Sally Payne, Linda Hayes
Down Texas Way
Release year: 1942
Directed by: Howard Bretherton
Starring: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Luana Walters