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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 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
* 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 – 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.
* 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 )
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Barney Bubbles ( born Colin Fulcher, 30 July 1942 – 14 November 1983 ) was a radical English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction.
* 1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
The original personnel were John Meeks ( born 24 March 1937, Stalybridge, Cheshire ) ( guitar, vocals ); John's sister Lynda Meeks ( born 3 August 1947, Stalybridge ) ( vocals ); brothers George Radcliffe ( 9 August 1937, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire – 2002 ) ( bass, vocals ) and Colin Radcliffe ( born 19 January 1934, Ashton-under-Lyne ) ( guitar, vocals ); and Eddie Crotty ( 24 February 1942, Stalybridge – 11 April 2009 ) ( guitar, vocals ).
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Daniela Bianchi ( born 31 January 1942 ) is an Italian actress, whose best known part was Tatiana Romanova in the 1963 James Bond movie From Russia with Love.
Michael Gregg Wilson, OBE ( born January 21, 1942 ) is the producer and screenwriter of many James Bond movies.
Bell wrote the " Countryman ’ s Notebook " column in the Eastern Daily Press from 1950, and produced over twenty other books on the countryside, including Apple Acre ( 1942 ), Sunrise to Sunset ( 1944 ), The Budding Morrow ( 1946 ), The Flower and the Wheel ( 1949 ), Music in the Morning, ( 1954 ), A Suffolk Harvest ( 1956 ), the autobiographical My Own Master ( 1961 ) and The Green Bond ( 1976 ).
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The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.
Nevertheless, Essendon went on to win the 1942 Premiership with Western Australian Wally Buttsworth in irrepressible form at centre half back.
* 1942 – World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
However, the post still ultimately represented the government of the United Kingdom until, after continually decreasing involvement by the British government, the passage in 1942 of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 ( see Statute of Westminster ) and the Australia Act 1986, whereafter the governor became the direct, personal representative of the uniquely Australian sovereign.
* 1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.
* 1942 – World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
Australian troops at Milne Bay, Papua. The Australian garrison was the first to inflict defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II at the Battle of Milne Bay of Aug – Sep 1942.
An Australian soldier, Private George " Dick " Whittington, is aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari, near Buna on 25 December 1942.
From July 1942, a few Australian reserve battalions, many of them very young and untrained, fought a stubborn rearguard action against a Japanese advance along the Kokoda Track, towards Port Moresby, over the rugged Owen Stanley Ranges.
In early September 1942 Japanese marines attacked a strategic Royal Australian Air Force base at Milne Bay, near the eastern tip of Papua.
* Richard Butler ( diplomat ) ( born 1942 ), Australian diplomat, arms inspector, and ex-Governor of Tasmania
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