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 )

* 1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.

From 1938 to 1942, Pollock worked for the WPA Federal Art Project.

With more than eighty percent of the men in the area directly employed in the mining industry, the viability of the area's economy practically collapsed when gold mining was made illegal in 1942 by Federal Public Law L-208, under the authority of the War Labor Act.

Federal Member for Fremantle and wartime prime minister John Curtin ( left ) at the launch of HMAS Fremantle ( J246 ) | HMAS Fremantle, 1942

It continued as a viable community until 1942 when gold mining was made illegal by Federal Public Law 208 during World War II.

Pascal Couchepin ( born April 5, 1942 in Martigny, Valais ) is a Swiss politician, former member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1998 – 2009 ) and President of the Confederation in 2003 and 2008.

Ernest Chuard ( July 31, 1857 – November 9, 1942 ) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1919 – 1928 ).

In January 1942, the Defense Plant Corporation, a corporation entity of the Federal government, bought the school from Harold Darr.

Found guilty, Elijah Muhammad served four years, from 1942 to 1946, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan.

With South Carolina financially strapped by the Great Depression, Senator Byrnes managed to get the Federal government to authorize a loan for the entire project, which was completed and put into operation in February 1942.

On November 4, 1942, the Federal government expropriated National Steel Car and set up the crown corporation called Victory Aircraft.

As ordered by the Federal government, Hudson ceased auto production from 1942 until 1945 in order to manufacture materiel during World War II, including aircraft parts and naval engines, and anti-aircraft guns.

Hans-Rudolf Merz ( born 10 November 1942 ) is a Swiss politician of FDP. The Liberals and former member of the Swiss Federal Council.

During Summer, 1942 Gilbert ( as were many manufacturing companies ) was compelled by Federal wartime restrictions to cease manufacturing ( and even servicing!

The Banking Act of 1935 revised these protocols to include the Board of Governors and to closely resemble the present-day FOMC, and was amended in 1942 to give the current structure of twelve voting members: the seven members of the Federal Reserve Board and five of the twelve Federal Reserve Bank presidents.

* John Maxwell Evans ( born 1942 ), judge currently serving on the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal

From 1930 to 1942 he served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

On November 7, 1945, defecting Soviet espionage courier Elizabeth Bentley told investigators of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) that in late 1942 or early 1943 she learned from Soviet spies Nathan Gregory Silvermaster and Ludwig Ullmann that one source of the government documents they were photographing and passing on to her and NKVD spymaster Jacob Golos was Harry Dexter White.

In the spring of 1942 the U. S. Supreme Court affirmed the sentence and Browder began what proved to be an 14 month stint in Federal prison.

During World War II, he worked for the Federal government at the Office of Price Administration ( 1942 – 1945 ) and the United States Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Registration Section ( 1945 – 1948 ).

In 1942, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) ruled that no broadcaster could own more than one AM, one FM and one television station in a market.

For example, he opposed the Uniform Tax Plan of 1942, even though it was a Federal Labor Government which was proposing it.

Filinto Müller ( July 11, 1900-July 11, 1973 ) was a military-associated Brazilian politician, and President of the Senate for the state of Mato Grosso and Chief of Distrito Federal police during the government of Getúlio Vargas ( 1933 – 1942 ).