August 1942 in History

Events in History

Aug 4 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo, Egypt

Aug 4 Colonel general Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad and welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev

Aug 6 Hermann Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"

Aug 7 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
Aug 7 Dutch resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
Aug 7 Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 8 "Monty" appointed commander of British 8th Army at Alamein
Aug 8 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington, D.C.
Aug 8 British Flower class corvette HMS Dianthus sinks U-379
Aug 8 Soviet anti-offensive of Voronezh under Marshal Timosjenko

Aug 9 Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" motion and campaign by the All-India Congress

Aug 10 General Bernard Montgomery appointed commander British 8th Army in North Africa

Aug 11 - Sept 30] SS begins exterminating 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland
Aug 11 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
Aug 11 British aircraft carrier HMS Eagle hit by 4 German torpedoed and sinks in the Mediterranean Sea, 81 miles south of Mallorca
Aug 11 Lt Gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar
Aug 12 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow for a conference with Joseph Stalin and US representative W. Averrell Harriman
Aug 12 German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe
Aug 12 Lt General Bernard Montgomery arrives in Cairo

Aug 13 The 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb

Aug 14 Dwight D. Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa

Aug 15 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
Aug 16 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
Aug 17 Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on USS Hornet
Aug 17 Transport #20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 17 US 8th Air Force bombers stage first independent raid on Europe, attack Rouen, France
Aug 18 Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japanese
Aug 19 -20] Winston Churchill visits Field Marshal Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab

Aug 19 World War II: General Friedrich Paulus orders the German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad

Aug 19 World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France
Aug 20 Dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco
Aug 21 Transport #22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 21 World War II: German soldiers plant the Nazi flag on Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus
Aug 22 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
Aug 23 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
Aug 23 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
Aug 23 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo, Egypt
Aug 23 World War II: last cavalry charge in history takes place at Isbushenskij, Russia; the Italian Savoia Cavalleria charges Soviet infantry
Aug 24 Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands between United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy
Aug 24 Transport #23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 25 SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht
Aug 26 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France
Aug 26 Japanese troops land on Milne Bay, New Guinea
Aug 26 Soviet counter offensive begins in Moscow
Aug 26 Transport #24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 27 Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy

Aug 27 Soviet woman sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko arrives in Washington D.C., the 1st Soviet citizen welcomed at the White House, by Eleanor Roosevelt

Aug 2 Chilean-American author (The House of the Spirits, City of the Beasts), born in Lima, Peru

Aug 4 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (Labour: 1984-89), born in Otahuhu, Auckland

Aug 6 George Jung [Boston George], American convicted drug felon whose story was portrayed in the biopic "Blow", born in Boston, Massachusetts
Aug 10 Betsy Johnson, fashion designer (1971 Winnie Award)

Aug 13 Dictator of Chad (1982-90) and convicted war criminal, born in Faya-Largeau, Chad, French Equatorial Africa [1]

Aug 13 Robert Lee Stewart, American Brigadier General and astronaut (STS 41B, 51J), born in Washington, D.C.
Aug 15 Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto, born in Charlotte, North Carolina (d. 2007)
Aug 16 John Meulendijks, Dutch cryptogram maker (People's Daily)
Aug 19 Michiel Patijn, Dutch asst sect of state of Foreign affairs, born in The Hague, Netherlands
Aug 22 Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (Cumhuriyet Murder), born in Kırşehir, Turkey (d. 1993)
Aug 24 Howard Jacobson, British novelist (The Finkler Question) and newspaper columnist, born in Manchester, England
Aug 24 Karen Uhlenbeck, American mathematician and founder of modern geometric analysis (Abel Prize), born in Cleveland, Ohio
Aug 24 Max Cleland, American politician (U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1997-2003), born in Atlanta, Georgia
Aug 25 Nathan Deal, American attorney and politician (Rep-D-Georgia), born in Millen, Georgia
Aug 26 John E. Blaha, American USAF/astronaut (STS 29, 33, 43, 58, 79/81), born in San Antonio, Texas
Aug 27 Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
Aug 29 John Heuser, American electron microscopist, born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Aug 30 Jonathan Aitken, English politician (Conservative MP), born in Dublin, Ireland
Aug 31 Eugenio Trías Sagnier, Spanish philosopher, born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 2013)

Aug 8 Journalist Ben Bradlee (20) weds Jean Saltonstall

Aug 2 Friedrich Aereboe, German landlord and agricultural economist, dies at 77
Aug 3 Richard Willstätter, German chemist (Nobel 1915), dies at 69
Aug 7 Janusz Korczak [Henryk Goldszmit], Polish-Jewish educator and pedagogue (ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto), is gassed at Treblinka extermination camp along with the residents of his orphanage at 64
Aug 7 Richard Gott, British gen/commandant of 8th Army, dies in battle at 43
Aug 9 Edith Stein, German philosopher and Discalced Carmelite nun (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), dies at 50 [1]
Aug 21 Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WWII), dies
Aug 25 George Edward Alexander Windsor, British nobleman (Duke of Kent), and RAF officer, dies in battle at 39
Aug 25 W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded
Aug 31 Georg Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in Battle of Alam el Halfa at 51