October 1942 in History

Events in History

Oct 3 FDR forms Office of Economic Stabilization

Oct 5 Budy Massacre at Auschwitz sub-camp, 90 French-Jewish women beaten to death by prison guards

Oct 7 Maxwell Anderson's "Eve of St Mark" premieres in NYC

Oct 7 US & UK government announce establishment of United Nations
Oct 8 Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)
Oct 9 Statute of Westminster 1931 passed by the Australian parliament, formalises Australian autonomy
Oct 10 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
Oct 11 -Oct 12] Naval battle at Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal
Oct 12 Successful Soviet counter attack through 37th Guard division
Oct 12 US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
Oct 14 Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
Oct 14 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed
Oct 14 Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
Oct 15 German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die
Oct 16 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India

Oct 18 Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed

Oct 20 "Durham Manifesto" issued by the Southern Conference on Race Relations held in Durham, North Carolina, calls for fundamental changes in race relations
Oct 22 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
Oct 22 Operation Flagpole: US Major General Mark Clark & Brigadier General Lyman Lemnitzer meet Vichy French Général Charles Mast secretly in small fishing village of Cherchell, Algeria to finalize plans for Allied Invasion of North Africa
Oct 23 During WWII, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
Oct 23 First ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk
Oct 23 German units go through Red October factory in Stalingrad
Oct 24 Second day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry
Oct 25 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
Oct 25 Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins

Oct 25 Field Marshal Rommel back in North Africa

Oct 26 Battle of Santa Cruz: Japanese naval offensive against US forces near Solomon Islands
Oct 26 Fourth day of battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough
Oct 26 Second day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
Oct 27 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance
Oct 27 US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz
Oct 28 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
Oct 28 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
Oct 29 Alaska highway completed
Oct 29 Nazis murder 16,000 Jews in Pinsk, Soviet Union
Oct 29 Seventh day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault
Oct 30 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault
Oct 30 US aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea
Oct 31 9th day of the Battle of El Alamein
Oct 31 U-boats sink and damage 120 allied ships this month (659,457 tons)

Oct 4 Karl W. Richter, American aviator (d. 1967)
Oct 9 Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister (2003-2006), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2012)
Oct 10 James Marshall, American illustrator and author (George and Martha, The Stupids), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 1992)
Oct 10 Radu Vasile, Prime Minister of Romania (1998-99), born in Sibiu, Romania (d. 2013)
Oct 11 Vic Fazio, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California), born in Winchester, Massachusetts
Oct 15 Jim Leach, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa), born in Davenport, Iowa
Oct 18 Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist
Oct 19 Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
Oct 21 Les AuCoin, American politician (Rep-D-OR, 1975-93), born in Portland, Oregon
Oct 23 Anita Roddick, English businesswoman and cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop), born in Littlehampton, West Sussex (d. 2007) [1]

Oct 23 American novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker) and filmmaker (Jurassic Park, ER), born in Chicago, Illinois

Oct 26 John P "Jannie" Roux, South African secretary to Presidents Botha and De Klerk

Oct 1 Ants Piip, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1884)
Oct 6 Erich Kuttner, German journalist and historian (Vorwarts), dies at 55
Oct 8 Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer, dies at 73
Oct 10 Richard von Schaukal, Moravian-Austria poet and writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68
Oct 16 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed
Oct 18 Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
Oct 22 Gustave "Staff" de Clercq, Belgian politician, and Nazi sympathizer (Flemish Nationally Covenant), dies at 58
Oct 22 Sybren Tulip, Dutch National Socialist Party (NSB) member, and Superintendent of Police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies of rheumatic fever at 53
Oct 23 Georg Stumme, German general, commandant of African corps, dies at 56
Oct 27 Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)