Historical Events in November 1942

Baseball Record

Nov 3 Boston Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams wins American League Triple Crown (.356 average, 36 HRs, 137 RBI); but NY Yankees pitcher Joe Gordon is AL MVP

Baseball Player Ted Williams — Baseball Player
Ted Williams

Nov 3 William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
Nov 4 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afrika Korps draws back
Nov 5 Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris
Nov 5 Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission
Nov 6 Nazis kill 12,000 Jews in the Minsk ghetto

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Nov 6 Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta found Ampat Serangkai

1st President of Indonesia Sukarno — 1st President of Indonesia
Sukarno

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Nov 7 First US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt — 32nd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nov 7 Italian cyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world hour record 45.798km in Vigorelli, Milan, Italy
Nov 8 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)

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Nov 8 Adolf Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall

Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler — Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

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Nov 8 Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa

34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower — 34th US President & WWII General
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nov 8 Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US
Nov 9 German occupiers install Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
Nov 9 Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Nov 10 Philip Barry's "Without Love" premieres in NYC
Nov 10 US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey, Morocco
Nov 10 US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria
Nov 11 -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad
Nov 11 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz
Nov 11 Germany completes its WWII occupation of France
Nov 11 Jews in the Free Zone of France ordered to wear a yellow star of David
Nov 11 Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
Nov 11 Transport #45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
Nov 12 WWII Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solomon Islands
Nov 13 Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal
Nov 13 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 in the US
Nov 14 -Nov 15th) Japanese/US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal
Nov 14 Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender
Nov 15 World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
Nov 16 Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed

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Nov 18 Thornton Wilder's "Skin of our Teeth" premieres in NYC

Playwright and Writer Thornton Wilder — Playwright and Writer
Thornton Wilder

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Nov 19 Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Netherlands"

Nazi Minister of Propaganda and Information Joseph Goebbels — Nazi Minister of Propaganda and Information
Joseph Goebbels

Nov 19 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front
Nov 19 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army
Nov 20 26th Soviet Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
Nov 20 British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
Nov 20 NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over
Nov 21 Adolf Hitler names field marshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)
Nov 22 General-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov

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Nov 22 Adolf Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to the last man

German WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel — German WWII Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel

Nov 23 3rd & 5th Romanian army corps surrenders
Nov 23 US Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
Nov 23 German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad
Nov 23 Japanese bombing of Port Darwin, Australia

Poon Lim's 133 Day South Atlantic Odyssey

Nov 23 Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor

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*Poon Lim and his raft, photo made on request of the US Navy for its Survival Training.*

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Nov 23 Soviet 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don
Nov 24 Fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk
Nov 24 French collaborator Marquis de Brinon establishes "African Falanx"
Nov 25 National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms

Film Premier

Nov 26 "Casablanca" directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman premieres at Hollywood Theater, NYC (Academy Awards Best Picture 1943)

Actress Ingrid Bergman — Actress
Ingrid Bergman

Actor Humphrey Bogart — Actor
Humphrey Bogart

Nov 26 Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
Nov 27 Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
Nov 27 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis cannot seize them

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Nov 27 Tito appoints Anti-fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia

President of Yugoslavia and Revolutionary Josip Broz Tito — President of Yugoslavia and Revolutionary
Josip Broz Tito

Nov 28 492 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston
Nov 29 US Office of Price Administration rations coffee for everyone, 10 pound a year
Nov 30 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)
Nov 30 -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal
Nov 30 Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system
Nov 30 German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes & sinks off Yokohama

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Historical Events in November 1942

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Poon Lim's 133 Day South Atlantic Odyssey

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