* 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.

From 8 April to 11 April 1942, the First Consultative Meeting of Activists of the Communist Party of Albania was held in Tirana.

Enver Hoxha delivered the main report to the assembled delegates on 8 April 1942.

Felix Hausdorff ( November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942 ) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory, and functional analysis.

** Chicago ( now Reisinger ) ( 8 ) 1937, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1950, 1957, 1963

Following the Quit India resolution passed by the Congress party in Bombay ( now Mumbai ) on 8 Aug 1942, the entire Congress working committee, including Gandhi and Nehru, was arrested and imprisoned.

USS USS Lexington ( CV-2 ) | Lexington under air attack on 8 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Wide receivers Mark Clayton ( 73 receptions, 1, 389 yards, 18 touchdowns ) and Mark Duper ( 71 receptions, 1, 306 yards, 8 touchdowns ) became the first teammates ever to each gain over 1, 300 receiving yards in one season, while Clayton's 18 touchdown catches broke the NFL single season record of 17 set by Don Hutson in 1942.

* November 8 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician ( d. 1942 )

* January 8 – Helmuth Hubener, German youth political activist against the Hitler regime ( d. 1942 )

The lowest recorded temperature is − 38. 0 ° C recorded in February 1981, and the highest temperature was 17. 8 ° C recorded in August 1942.

Born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture on 8 January 1942, Koizumi was educated at Yokosuka High School and Keio University, where he studied economics.

The first US Army Combat Jump was near Oran, Algeria, in North Africa on November 8, 1942 conducted by elements of the 509th Parachute Infantry.

The first United States airborne combat mission occurred during Operation Torch in North Africa on 8 November 1942.

Following her retirement in 1942, she married Martin Arrougé ( March 23, 1914 – August 8, 1999 ), a former ski instructor twelve years her junior.

However, the FCC won on appeal, and on January 8, 1942 NBC decided to separate its Red and Blue networks with the intention of divesting itself of the latter. Swift, Thomas P. " Red and Blue Networks of NBC To Be Split ; WJZ May Be Sold ," The New York Times, Friday, January 9, 1942.

When the ballet premiered on 8 September 1942 it was considered a " remarkable success.

* 8 – Harry Giddings, Jr. ( 1911, 1913, 1914, 1920, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1942 )

* Aviation production: " In 1944 the German air force is reported to have accepted a total of 39, 807 aircraft of all types -- compared with 8, 295 in 1939, or 15, 596 in 1942 before the plants suffered any attack.

Operation Torch ( initially called Operation Gymnast ) was the British – American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, started on 8 November 1942.

The Western Task Force landed before daybreak on 8 November 1942, at three points in Morocco: Safi ( Operation Blackstone ), Fedala ( Operation Brushwood the largest landing with 19, 000 men ), and Mehdiya-Port Lyautey ( Operation Goalpost ).

* Les Cahiers Français, La part de la Résistance Française dans les évènements d ' Afrique du Nord ( Official reports of French Resistance Group leaders who seized Algiers on 8 November 1942, to allow allied landing ), Commissariat à l ' Information of Free French Comité National, London, Aug. 1943.

* A detailed history of 8 November 1942

Montgomery in a M3 Lee | Grant tank in North Africa, November 1942.

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.

* Second Battle of El Alamein – 23 October – 4 November 1942

In November 1942, he was also appointed Supreme Commander Allied ( Expeditionary ) Force of the North African Theater of Operations ( NATOUSA ) through the new operational Headquarters A ( E ) FHQ.

In November 1942, Fellini was sent to Libya, occupied by Fascist Italy, to work on the screenplay of I cavalieri del deserto ( Knights of the Desert, 1942 ), directed by Osvaldo Valenti and Gino Talamo.

In November 1942, the Allied forces retook Cyrenaica ; by February 1943, the last German and Italian soldiers were driven from Libya.

In November 1942 Vichy France was finally occupied by German forces, because the war in North Africa was coming to an end ; the Germans foresaw a threat in southern Europe by the allied forces.

A nationalist resistance to the Italian occupiers emerged in November 1942.

In November 1942, following Operation Torch, Ribbentrop met with Pierre Laval in Munich.

With his third wife, Beryl, he had three children, Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. ( September 23, 1940 – July 27, 2006 ), Wendy Anne Weissmuller ( b. June 1, 1942 ), and Heidi Elizabeth Weissmuller ( July 31, 1944 – November 19, 1962 ).

The Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia ( AVNOJ ) convened in Bihać on 26 – 27 November 1942 and in Jajce on 29 November 1943.

Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian.

In November 1942, the Italian Army invaded and occupied Monaco, setting up a fascist puppet government.

The ship was struck and sunk in night surface action on November 13, 1942 during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.

* 1942 – Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4.

* 1942 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.

The Wannsee Villa, which the Stiftung Nordhav acquired in November 1940, was the site of the Wannsee Conference ( 20 January 1942 ).

Between April and November 1942, 79, 000 Czech workers were taken in this manner for work within Nazi Germany.

In November 1942 he joined the 2 / 31st Infantry Battalion in New Guinea, where he served for two months.

November 26, 1942 it was time for departure and extermination ".

Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov () ( born November 22, 1942 ) is a Russian economist and politician of Chechen descent who played a central role in the events leading to the 1993 constitutional crisis in the Russian Federation.