November 1942 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1942 10th day of battle at El Alamein
• 02 Nov 1942 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir
• 03 Nov 1942 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
• 04 Nov 1942 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afr corps draws back out Fuka-posing
• 05 Nov 1942 Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris
• 06 Nov 1942 Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
• 07 Nov 1942 Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record
• 08 Nov 1942 Allies under Eisenhower land in N-Africa
• 09 Nov 1942 German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish Premier
• 10 Nov 1942 US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey Morocco
• 11 Nov 1942 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz
• 12 Nov 1942 In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
• 13 Nov 1942 Chaotic sea battle of Friday the 13th at Guadalcanal
• 14 Nov 1942 Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender
• 15 Nov 1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
• 16 Nov 1942 Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed
• 18 Nov 1942 Thornton Wilders Skin of our Teeth, premieres in New York City
• 19 Nov 1942 Joseph Goebbels visits German Theatre in the Niederlanden
• 20 Nov 1942 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
• 21 Nov 1942 Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in Tale of Two Kitties
• 22 Nov 1942 General Major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
• 23 Nov 1942 3rd and 5th Romanian army corp surrenders
• 24 Nov 1942 Field Marshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk
• 25 Nov 1942 National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms
• 26 Nov 1942 Anti fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
• 27 Nov 1942 Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ
• 28 Nov 1942 500 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston
• 29 Nov 1942 US rations coffee
• 30 Nov 1942 109 U-boats sunk this month

Famous Birthday

• Jimi Hendrix

  American musician, singer and guitarist who became a rock superstar.

• Martin Scorsese

  American award-winning film director who is known for his attraction to the seamy side of life.

• Joe Biden

  American Democratic politician, a three-term Senator from Delaware.

• Billy Connolly

  Scottish actor and comedian.

• Linda Evans

  American actress, probably best known for the role of Krystle Carrington in "Dynasty," a TV night-time soap that aired from 1981-1989.

• Stefanie Powers

  American actress, an attractive, athletic leading lady of multiple Hollywood pictures from the '60s.

• Larry Flynt

  American publisher and founder of a porno magazine, Hustler, in 1973.

• Jean Shrimpton

  British model made famous by Vogue magazine, an icon of the '60s when models began to be known with the same level of fame as actresses.

• Daniel Barenboïm
• Calvin Klein

  Fashion Designer.

• Johnny Rivers

  American singer-songwriter guitarist and producer.

• André Vingt-Trois

  French cardinal of the Catholic Church.

• Véronique Neiertz
• Ann Dunham

  American noted family member, the mother of US President Barack Obama.

• Marc Penfield

  American astrologer and writer, a student with Marcia Moore in 1971.

• Charles Konan Banny
• Françoise Lefèvre
• Sandro Mazzola

  Italian soccer player, noted family, son of soccer player Valentino Mazzola.

• Michel Tabachnik

  Switzerland -- Composer / conductor.

• Louise-Yvonne Casetta
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Famous Deaths

• Edouard Combe

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Marcel Barger [Streliskie]

  Cabaret performer, killed in Auschwitz.

• George M Cohan

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Anton H Blaauw

  Botanist (Perception of the Lichtes), dies at 60.

• Daniel J Callaghan

  US spy (at Guadalcanal).

• Douglas H Fox

  US captain of destroyer Barton, dies in battle.

• Norman Scott

  US Admiral (at Guadalcanal).

• James Barry M Hertzog

  South African Premier (1914-39), dies at 76.

• Hector Abbas

  Actor / director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58.

• Leopold Graf Berchtold

  Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (Born 1863).

• Ben Reitman

  American anarchist, physician (Born 1879).

• Carl Sternheim

  German dramatist best known for plainly written satiric comedies about middle-class values and aspirations.

• Hugo Distler

  German organist composer and conductor (d. 1942).

• Bruno Schulz

  Ukrainian-Polish author and painter (d. 1942).

• Boyd Wagner

  First USAAF fighter ace of World War II (d. 1942).

• Edna May Oliver

  American actress (Born 1883).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World)
2. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Dearly Beloved
3. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra (Vocal Frank Sinatra & Pied Pipers) - There Are Such Things
4. Harry James & His Orchestra - Mister Five By Five
5. Harry James & His Orchestra - I Had The Craziest Dream