March 1942 in History

Events in History

Mar 11 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia

Mar 11 Japanese troop land on North Sumatra
Mar 12 British troops vacate the Andaman Islands in Gulf of Bengal
Mar 13 Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
Mar 17 Bełżec Concentration Camp opens with the transport of 30,000 Lublin Polish Jews
Mar 17 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
Mar 18 Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters

Mar 19 FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non-military duty

Mar 20 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia
Mar 20 General MacArthur vows "I came through and I shall return" after escaping Japanese invaded Philippines
Mar 20 Major German assault on Malta
Mar 21 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
Mar 23 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported
Mar 23 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
Mar 24 US government begins moving native-born citizens with Japanese ancestry into detention centres under Executive Order 9066, with intention of preventing home-grown espionage
Mar 25 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov district reach the Bełżec Concentration camp

Mar 26 First "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration camps
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Mar 26 Explosion of 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton, Pennsylvania, kills 21

Mar 26 German offensive in North Africa under General Erwin Rommel

Mar 27 -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
Mar 27 Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forward
Mar 28 -29] 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck
Mar 28 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
Mar 29 British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
Mar 29 British destroyer HMS Campbeltown explodes in St Nazaire: 400 Germans die
Mar 29 German submarine U-585 sinks
Mar 29 Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city
Mar 30 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
Mar 30 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki concentration camp

Mar 1 Richard Bowman Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mar 2 John Irving, NH, short-story writer (World According to Garp)
Mar 2 Kwang Jo Choi, the founder of Choi Kwang- do and is one of the twelve original Masters of Taekwon-Do.
Mar 3 Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovolyonok, USR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29/31, T-4)
Mar 4 Charles C. Krulak, 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
Mar 5 Michael "Mike" Resnick, American sci-fi author (Sideshow, Eros Ascending), born in Chicago, Illinois
Mar 5 Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain 1982-96), born in Seville
Mar 7 Paul Preuss, American sci-fi author (Medusa Encounter, Starfire)
Mar 7 Tommy F Robinson, (Rep-D-AR, 1985- )
Mar 7 Charles R. Boutin, American politician
Mar 8 Ralph Ellis, England, rhythm (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)

Mar 12 Ratko Mladić, Bosnian Serb general during the Bosnian War (found guilty of war crimes 2017), born in Božanovići, Croatia

Mar 17 John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer who killed 33 young men, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1994)

Mar 17 Sidney K Barthelmy, US politician(?)
Mar 19 David Minge, (Rep-D-Minnesota)
Mar 21 Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemeni politician and 1st President of Yemen (1990-2012), born in Bait el-Ahmar, Kingdom of Yemen (d. 2017)
Mar 22 Dick Pound, Canadian chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency
Mar 23 Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980)
Mar 26 Erica Jong, [Mann], American author (Fear of Flying), born in NYC, New York
Mar 27 Raymond J. McGrath, U.S. House of Representatives from New York, born in Valley Stream, New York
Mar 27 Sir John E. Sulston, British molecular biologist, co-recipient of 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (roundworm genome sequencing), born in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire (d. 2018)
Mar 27 Michael Jackson, British writer and journalist, born in Wetherby, Yorkshire (d. 2007)
Mar 28 Neil Kinnock, Leader of the British opposition (Labour Party), born in Tredegar, Wales
Mar 28 Daniel Dennett, American philosopher, born in Boston, Massachusetts
Mar 28 Conrad Schumann, East German border guard, born in Zschochau, Saxony, Nazi Germany (d. 1998)
Mar 29 Larry Pressler, American politician, United States Senator from South Dakota, born in Humboldt, South Dakota
Mar 30 George Esson, Chief Constable (Dumfries & Galloway)
Mar 31 Michael Savage [Michael A Wiener], American talk radio host and commentator, born in The Bronx, New York
Mar 31 Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician

Mar 26 Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi (25) weds politician and journalist Feroze Gandhi (29) at Anand Bhavan

Mar 1 George S. Rentz, U.S. Navy Chaplain (awarded the Navy Cross during WW II), dies at 59
Mar 3 Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, viceroy (Ethiopia), dies at 43
Mar 10 William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
Mar 12 Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
Mar 19 Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)
Mar 23 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73
Mar 28 Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1918-27), dies at 67
Mar 28 Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31
Mar 30 Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81