November 1942 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Nov 6 Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta found Ampat Serangkai

Historic Communication

Nov 7 1st US President to broadcast in a foreign language - FDR, in French

Nov 8 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)

Event of Interest

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

Event of Interest

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

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 play "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

Event of Interest

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

Victory in Battle

Nov 11 WWII: British led Allied forces defeat Erwin Rommel's German and Italian Army Panzers in Second Battle of El-Alamein, North Africa, helping to secure the Suez Canal

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

Event of Interest

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

Event of Interest

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

Nov 19 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army
Nov 19 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front
Nov 20 26th Soviet Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
Nov 20 British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
Nov 21 Adolf Hitler names field marshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)
Nov 22 Adolf Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to the last man
Nov 22 General-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
Nov 23 3rd & 5th Romanian army corps surrenders

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

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

Nov 23 German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad
Nov 23 Japanese bombing of Port Darwin, Australia
Nov 23 Soviet 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don
Nov 23 US Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
Nov 24 French collaborator Marquis de Brinon establishes "African Falanx"
Nov 24 German Fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk, Ukraine
Nov 25 National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms
Nov 26 Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
Nov 27 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis cannot seize them

Event of Interest

Nov 27 Tito appoints Anti-fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia

President of Yugoslavia and Revolutionary Josip Broz Tito

Nov 28 492 die in a fire that destroys Cocoanut Grove nightclub, fueled by flammable tropical decor, in Boston, Massachusetts [1]
Nov 29 US Office of Price Administration rations coffee for everyone, 10 pound a year
Nov 30 -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal
Nov 30 German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes & sinks off Yokohama
Nov 30 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)

Birthdays in History

Nov 1 John Spratt, American politician (Rep-D-SC, 1983-2011), born in Charlotte, North Carolina

Larry Flynt (1942-2021)

Nov 1 American magazine publisher (Hustler), born in Lakeville, Kentucky

Nov 2 Shere Hite [Shirley Diana Gregory], American-German sex therapist (Hite Report), born in St Joseph, Missouri (d. 2020)
Nov 4 Patricia Bath, American ophthalmologist (invented laser cataract surgery), born in New York City (d. 2019)
Nov 9 Stuart Lipton, English real estate developer and multi-millionaire
Nov 10 Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss politician (President of Switzerland 2009) and Member of the Swiss Federal Council (2004-10), born in Herisau, Switzerland

Robert F. Engle (80 years old)

Nov 10 American economist (Nobel 2003 - for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)), born in Syracuse, New York

Nov 17 Khang Khek Leu 'Comrade Dutch', Cambodian Khmer Rouge figure convicted of crimes against humanity, born in Choyaot village, Cambodia (d. 2020)

Calvin Klein (80 years old)

Nov 19 American fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK), born in The Bronx, New York

Nov 19 Gary Ackerman, American politician(Rep-D-NY, 1983-2013), born in Brooklyn, New York
Nov 19 Sharon Olds, American poet ("Stag's Leap" - Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2013), born in San Francisco, California [1]

Joe Biden (80 years old)

Nov 20 American democratic politician, 46th US President (2021-), Vice President (2009-17) and Senator (1973-2009), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Nov 20 Paulos Faraj Rahho, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic bishop, born in Mosul, Iraq (d. 2008)
Nov 21 Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German politician
Nov 22 Guion Bluford, Col USAF, NASA astronaut (STS 8, 61A, 39, 53) 1st African American in space, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov 24 Marlin Fitzwater, American journalist and press secretary to US Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, born in Salina, Kansas
Nov 25 Rosa Von Praunheim [Holger Mischwitzky], Riga Latvia, dir (Affengeil)
Nov 28 Manolo Blahnik, Santa Cruz de La Palma Spain, shoe designer
Nov 29 Maggie Thompson, American librarian and magazine editor (Comics Buyer's Guide)

Deaths in History

Nov 3 Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64
Nov 4 Marcel Barger, Dutch Jewish cabaret performer, killed at Auschwitz at 51
Nov 11 Anton Hendrik Blaauw, Dutch botanist (Perception of the Lichtes), dies at 60
Nov 13 Daniel J. Callaghan, US Admiral (Medal of Honor), dies during the Battle of Guadalcanal at 52
Nov 13 Douglas H Fox, US captain of destroyer Barton, dies in battle
Nov 13 Norman Scott, US admiral (at Guadalcanal), dies
Nov 17 Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
Nov 19 Bruno Schulz, Polish writer (The Street of Crocodiles), shot and killed by German Nazi at 50