October 1942 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1942 Little Golden Books (children books) begins publishing
• 02 Oct 1942 Queen Mary slices cruiser Curacao in half, killing 338
• 03 Oct 1942 FDR forms Office of Economic Stabilization
• 04 Oct 1942 German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
• 05 Oct 1942 5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred
• 06 Oct 1942 Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
• 07 Oct 1942 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad
• 08 Oct 1942 Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal
• 09 Oct 1942 The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
• 10 Oct 1942 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt
• 11 Oct 1942 World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance : On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
• 12 Oct 1942 Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division
• 14 Oct 1942 Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
• 16 Oct 1942 Aaron Copland / de Milles ballet Rodeo, premieres in New York City
• 18 Oct 1942 Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed
• 20 Oct 1942 "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations.
• 22 Oct 1942 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
• 23 Oct 1942 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk
• 24 Oct 1942 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry
• 25 Oct 1942 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
• 26 Oct 1942 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
• 27 Oct 1942 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles / Australian advance
• 28 Oct 1942 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
• 29 Oct 1942 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault
• 30 Oct 1942 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault
• 31 Oct 1942 94 U-boats sunk this month

Famous Birthday

• Amitabh Bachchan

  Indian film actor, producer, singer and TV host.

• Judith Sheindlin

  American judge and television host.

• Gérard Klein (actor)
• Michael Crichton

  American writer, the author of best-selling sci-fi thrillers, many of which were made into movies.

• Éric Charden

  French singer and songwriter born to a Tibetan mother.

• Jérôme Bellay

  French journalist, press baron and director of Europe 1 radio station.

• Britt Ekland

  Swedish-American actress, one of Sweden's top sex symbols.

• Annette Funicello

  American actress, the most famous of the "Mickey Mouse Club" Mouseketeers of the late '50s.

• Alain-Dominique Perrin

  French businessman and art collector.

• Bob Hoskins

  English actor and film director, known for playing Cockneys and gangsters.

• Penny Marshall
• Anita Roddick

  English businesswoman and activist founded The Body Shop (d. 2007).

• Jerry Jones

  American football player, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys.

• Pamela Tiffin

  American actress, a movie starlet of the '60s with a debut in "Summer and Smoke," 1961.

• Günter Walraff
• James Oliver Huberty

  Shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds.

• Jean-Pierre About

  French writer, reporter and assistant director, known for the films Statu Quo (2003), Louis Lumière (1968) and Tout le monde en parle...

• François Bonnemain
• Jan Sharrock

  Australian astrologer, a date-twin to writer Michael Palmer.

• Gary Puckett

  American musician, semi-famous in the '60s with his band, "Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.

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Famous Deaths

• Gustave "Staff" de Clercq

  Leader Flemish Nationally Covenant.

• Sybren Tulip

  NSBer / supt of police in Amsterdam (1941-42).

• Richard von Schaukal

  Austria Poet / writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68.

• Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Dirk Bannink

  Nurse / local counciller Deventer, executed.

• 12 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter / 3 NVV-hostages

  executed.

• Georg Stumme

  German General / Commandant of African corps.

• Ralph Rainger

  American composer (Born 1901).

• Mikhail Nesterov

  Russian painter (Born 1862).

• Sergei Chaplygin

  Soviet engineer (Born 1869).

• Helmuth Hubener

  German anti-Nazi activist (Born 1925).

• Ants Piip

  Estonian lawyer and politician 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942).

• May Robson

  Actress (Star is Born, Reckless), dies at 84.

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Kay Kyser & His Orchestra - Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition
2. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Manhattan Serenade
3. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World)
4. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Dearly Beloved