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The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million each. [1]
History of the United States (1918–1945) Timeline of United States history (1930–1949) ... Events from the year 1942 in the United States. Incumbents
1942, clockwise from top left: British artillery barrage opens the Battle of El Alamein; the Jews of Salonika are rounded up for deportation to extermination camps; Soviet troops of the Great Patriotic War fight the Battle of Stalingrad; USS Lexington (CV-2) under fire at the Battle of the Coral Sea; Reinhard Heydrich's car after attack by Czech resistance; 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking troops ...
Between March 1942 and December 1942, at least 434,508 people were killed there. 24 March - The deportation of Slovak Jews to Auschwitz begins. 27 March - The first French Jews are deported to Auschwitz. April — Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Sobibor opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the village of Sobibór. Between ...
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were The Song of Bernadette, by Franz Werfel, which made the list for fifteen weeks; and The Robe, by Lloyd Douglas, which would dominate the list for the final six weeks of 1942 and most of 1943.
June 21–22, 1942 – Bombardment of Fort Stevens, the second attack on a U.S. military base in the continental U.S. in World War II. September 9, 1942, and September 29, 1942 – Lookout Air Raids, the only attack by enemy aircraft on the contiguous U.S. and the second enemy aircraft attack on the U.S. continent in World War II.
January 1 – The U.K. Book Production War Economy Agreement comes into force. [1] February 20 – Jean Bruller's novella Le Silence de la mer (Silence of the Sea), about resistance to the Nazi occupation of France, is issued clandestinely as the first publication of Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris, under the pseudonym "Vercors". A hundred ...
The #1 New York Times Best Seller: Intriguing Facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times Bestsellers Since the First List, 50 years ago. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992. Patton, Phil. "Dr. Strangelove’s Children". Archived 2010-10-19 at the Wayback Machine American Heritage, November 1998. Retrieved on November 5, 2006.