A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1942 – Barry Levinson, American producer and director

* 1942 – Carlos Reutemann, Argentine race car driver and politician

* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

* 1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist ( Captain & Tennille )

* 1942 – Brian Peckford, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Newfoundland

* 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1942 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist ( d. 2012 )

* 1942 – Indian leader Mohanda Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1942 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player ( d. 2001 )

* 1942 – Jack DeJohnette, American drummer, pianist, and composer ( Gateway and Trio Beyond )

* 1942 – David Steinberg, Canadian comedian, actor, director, and author

* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

* 1872 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1942 )

* 1942 – Isabel Allende, Chilean author

* 2012 – Jamaa Fanaka, American director, producer, and screenwriter ( b. 1942 )

* 1942 – André Gagnon, Canadian pianist and composer

* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )

* 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor

* 1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1872 )

This disaster was surpassed only by the Benxihu Colliery accident in China on April 26, 1942, which killed 1, 549 miners.

The worst mining accidents in history have been caused by coal dust explosions, such as the disaster at Senghenydd in South Wales in 1913 in which 439 miners died, the Courrières mine disaster in Northern France which killed 1, 099 miners in 1906, the Luisenthal Mine disaster in Germany, which claimed 299 lives in 1962, and the worst: the explosion at Benxihu Colliery, China, which killed 1, 549 in 1942.

It seems that this disaster was surpassed only by the Benxihu Colliery accident in China on April 26, 1942, which killed 1, 549 miners.

The worst coal mining disaster in the world took place on April 26, 1942 in Benxihu Colliery.

Enid Lamont McLaglen died in 1942 as a result of a horse riding accident.

After arriving in Australia he was posted to Darwin, Northern Territory on 12 August 1942 with No. 77 Squadron RAAF ( Kittyhawks ), during this time he was involved in his second air accident.

Pierce's father once served as a government representative on ocean-going cargo ships and sent reports back to Washington, D. C .; he later became manager of an insurance agency but was killed in a car accident in 1942.

In 1942, during a test flight with a Messerschmitt Bf 109, he had an accident – caused by a faulty fuel lead – which put him out of flying for a year.

Shortly after being promoted to Field Marshal, von Reichenau died in an aircraft accident while being transported to a hospital after a heart attack in January 1942.

He was killed in an accident with a misfiring trench mortar during training at the age of 43 on 28 March 1942 near Ilkley.

On Lumsden's return in March 1942 Messervy was moved to command 7th Armoured Division which had lost its commander, Jock Campbell, killed in a motor accident.

Lawrence's two eldest sons both died as passengers in a youthful joyriding car accident on April 19, 1942 in the northern suburb of Zelienople along U. S. Route 19.

On 25 August 1942, her former lover, Prince George, was killed in a plane accident, aged 39.

In December 1942 Nicholls married Gladys Nicholls, the widow of his brother Howard Nicholls ( 1905 – 1942 ); Howard ( who had married Gladys in 1927 ) had died in April 1942 as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident.

The worst accident in the tunnel was in 1942, when several train crew workers were asphyxiated, one dying, when a fully laden train passed through the tunnel at walking pace, due to the excessive grade.

The airfield on Adak was renamed " Davis Army Airfield " in honor of Colonel Everett S. Davis, the first Commander, Eleventh Air Force, killed in an aircraft accident on 28 November 1942.

Between 1940 and 1942 he made several visits to Manchukuo ( Japanese occupied Manchuria ) to instruct his martial art.

The Great Manchu Empire became an unofficial signatory of the Tripartite Pact by Japanese suggested, Zhang Jinghui the Prime Minister of Manchukuo signed the Tripartite Pact by himself on 15 February 1942 along with Thailand and Nanking Government.

He was transferred to the Japanese Second Area Army in Manchukuo in July 1942.

In April 1940, Park enrolled in the Manchukuo Imperial Army Academy, and on completing his studies with top marks in 1942, was selected for officer training at the Army Staff College in Japan.

The Imperial General Headquarters sent the order for drawing down 16 divisions and logistics support units from Japan reserves, Manchukuo and Southern Areas ( including New Guinea and Solomon islands also ) to reinforce the Japanese expeditionary forces in central China area, to prepare the principal force of ten divisions in south Shanshi and other support group conformed by six Divisions of Ichang in Hubei amongst other Divisions located in Changde, in Hunan, for striking Sichuan and the occupation of Chongqing in September 1942.