CHRONOLOGY
1942
Dated events from the historical database.
1942-01-01 — Declaration by United Nations1942-01-02 — Japanese Forces Capture Manila1942-01-07 — Failure of the German Offensive on Moscow1942-01-14 — First Flight of the Sikorsky XR-4 — Prototype of the First Production Helicopter1942-01-16 — Deportations from the Łódź Ghetto to Chełmno Begin1942-01-20 — Wannsee Conference1942-01-23 — Japanese Landing at Rabaul1942-01-26 — First US Troops Arrive in Northern Ireland1942-01-31 — Allied Forces Leave the Malay Peninsula1942-02-15 — Fall of Singapore1942-03-01 — Second Battle of the Java Sea1942-03-27 — Deportations of Jews from France to Auschwitz Begin1942-04-09 — Surrender on Bataan1942-04-18 — Doolittle Raid1942-05-04 — Battle of the Coral Sea1942-05-25 — First Commercial Fluid Catalytic Cracking Reactor Starts Up1942-05-30 — First British Thousand-Bomber Raid on Cologne1942-06-04 — Battle of Midway1942-06-28 — Operation Blue Begins1942-07-15 — Systematic Deportations of Jews from the Netherlands Begin1942-07-17 — Battle of Stalingrad Begins1942-07-18 — Messerschmitt Me 262 Makes Its First Flight on Jet Power Alone1942-07-22 — Grossaktion in the Warsaw Ghetto Begins1942-08-07 — Landings on Guadalcanal1942-08-13 — Manhattan Engineer District Formally Established1942-08-19 — Dieppe Raid1942-08-23 — Massive Air Raid on Stalingrad1942-10-03 — First Successful Full-Scale Test of the V-2 Rocket1942-10-23 — Second Battle of El Alamein1942-11-08 — Operation Torch1942-11-11 — Germany Occupies the Unoccupied Zone of France1942-11-12 — Liberty Ship SS Robert E. Peary Sets a Construction-Speed Record1942-11-19 — Operation Uranus1942-11-20 — Alaska Highway Officially Opened1942-11-23 — Encirclement Ring Closes at Stalingrad1942-12-02 — First Controlled Self-Sustaining Nuclear Chain Reaction