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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 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 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 and World
* 1942 World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
* 1942 World War II: Operation Pedestal The reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
* 1942 World War II: The two-person crew of the U. S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean.
* 1942 World War II: U. S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin ( Butaritari ).
* 1942 World War II: Operation Jubilee the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.
* 1942 World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.
* 1942 World War II: the Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
* 1942 World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
* 1942 World War II: second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons.
* 1942 World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
* 1942 World War II: The Battle of Bataan / Bataan Death March United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula.
* 1942 World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
* 1942 World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan.
* 1942 World War II: Baedeker Blitz German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
* 1942 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid.
* 1942 World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
* 1942 World War II: Siege of Leningrad Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
* 1942 World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
* 1942 World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
* 1942 World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.
In 1942, during World War II, Japanese forces occupied Attu and Kiska Islands in the western Aleutians, and later transported captive Attu Islanders to Hokkaidō, where they were held as prisoners of war.
* Brazil in World War II ( 1942 1945 ): Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany in August 1942 and in 1944 sent 25, 334 soldiers to fight in Italy.

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