* 1942 – Nancy Parsons, American actress ( d. 2001 )

Castable composite solid rocket motors were invented by John Whiteside Parsons at Caltech in 1942 when he replaced double base propellant with roofing asphalt and potassium perchlorate.

It was in 1942, the same year Parsons was appointed as head of the Agapé Lodge by Aleister Crowley ( who himself had studied chemistry ), that Parsons made the crucial breakthrough in the development of rocket solid fuel.

Before his death, Jack Parsons appeared in science fiction writer Anthony Boucher's murder mystery Rocket to the Morgue ( 1942 ) under the guise of Hugo Chantrelle.

Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Parsons ( born c. 1853 – March 7, 1942 ) was an American labor organizer and radical socialist and anarchist communist.

His 1942 novel Rocket to the Morgue, in addition to being a classic locked room mystery, is also something of a roman à clef about the Southern California science fiction culture of the time, featuring thinly-veiled versions of personalities such as Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard and rocket scientist / occultist / fan Jack Parsons.

* 1942: Geoffrey Parsons, New York Herald Tribune, " for his distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Nancy Anne Parsons ( January 17, 1942 — January 5, 2001 ) was an American actress.

Lucy Parsons ( 1853-March 7, 1942 ), the widow of Albert Parsons, was a radical American labor organizer, anarchist communist, and is remembered as a powerful orator.

In 1942, however, the nation was at war.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

Work on Volume 2, was begun in 1941, interrupted by the war in 1942, and resumed in 1945.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

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.

It was successively renamed Annales d ' histoire sociale ( 1939 – 1942, 1945 ), Mélanges d ' histoire sociale ( 1942 – 1944 ), Annales.

It was successfully tested in 1942.

The term antibiotic was first used in 1942 by Selman Waksman and his collaborators in journal articles to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that is antagonistic to the growth of other microorganisms in high dilution.

His father was sent via Drancy to Auschwitz where he died in 1942.

Anton Drexler ( 13 June 1884 – 24 February 1942 ) was a German far-right political leader of the 1920s, instrumental in the formation of the anti-communist German Workers ' Party.

He encouraged technical investigation, and was Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the first technical journal, Technical Studies, in the Field of the Fine Arts, published by the Fogg from 1932 to 1942.

Instead he wrote radio scripts, including Your Hit Parade, until he was introduced to Austrian composer Frederick Loewe, who needed a partner, in 1942 at the Lamb's Club.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

This ship was originally named the USS Kearsarge, but was renamed in honor of the previous Hornet CV-8 ( famous for the Doolittle raid ), which was lost in October 1942.

In 1942 Laurence Housman also deposited an essay entitled " A. E. Housman's ' De Amicitia '" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years.

During a 1935 – 1942 colonization attempt, the island was most likely on Hawaii time, which was then 10. 5 hours behind UTC .< ref > Since it is uninhabited the island's time zone is unspecified, but it lies within a nautical time zone 12 hours behind UTC.

A resistance movement called Otechestven front ( Fatherland front, Bulgarian: Отечествен фронт ) was set up in August 1942 by the Communist Party, the Zveno movement and a number of other parties to oppose the elected government, after a number of Allied victories indicated that the Axis might lose the War.

From 1942 to 1948, the Negro League World Series was revived.

Unreal Tournament is often used for science fiction and Battlefield 1942 for war, but some artists subvert their chosen game's setting or completely detach their work from it.

In 1939, under approval of Giovanni Battista Montini of whom he had befriended, Moro was chosen as president of the association ; he kept the post till 1942, succeeded by Giulio Andreotti.

In 1942, Jemez Springs was the second choice ( after Oak City, Utah ) for the location of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the proposed Manhattan Project research laboratory, but Los Alamos was chosen instead.

In 1942, Zamość County, due to its fertile black soil, was chosen for further German colonization in the General Government as part of Generalplan Ost.

In 1942, following the destruction of the Queen's Hall in an air raid, the Hall was chosen as the new venue for the proms.

A. C. Grayling in his book Among the Dead Cities makes the point that as the Area Bombing Directive issued to the RAF on 14 February 1942, focused on the " morale of the enemy civil population ", Lübeck, with its many timbered medieval buildings, was chosen because the RAF " Air Staff were eager to experiment with a bombing technique using a high proportion of incendiaries " to help them carry out the directive – the RAF were well aware that the technique was effective against cities and not against industrial targets because cities such as Coventry had been subject to such attacks by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz.

She was chosen by director Orson Welles to appear in The Magnificent Ambersons ( 1942 ).

The area was originally chosen in 1930s as the site for the 1942 world's fair which Benito Mussolini planned to open to celebrate twenty years of Fascism ; the letters EUR standing for Esposizione Universale Roma.

This highway was chosen because it was the route taken in 1942 by the Canadian volunteers to join their American counterparts for training at Fort Harrison.

The music and lyrics of Himno de Barranquilla were chosen in competition by the Sociedad de Mejoras Públicas and officially adopted as the anthem of the city by the Municipal Council in a meeting on October 19, 1942.

He helped found the Bloc populaire canadien in 1942, but left it in early 1944 when André Laurendeau was chosen to lead the Quebec wing of the party.

The 1942 design was likely chosen because it was the most similar of all German designs to the most recognizable Soviet helmets, in particular the iconic SSh-40 design.

Benton was chosen for the American League All-Star team in both 1941 and 1942, and then missed the 1943 and 1944 seasons while serving in the U. S. Navy during World War II.

Adak Island was chosen as the site of an airfield, and flight operations began in September 1942.

From 1942, as the term " Ostmark " was still too reminiscent of the old, independent state of Austria, the chosen official name for the seven entities was Donau-und Alpenreichsgaue (" Danubian and Alpine Reichsgaue ").

The first major actions of armed resistance began in late 1942 when the Zamość area, due to its fertile black soil, was chosen for German colonization as part of Generalplan Ost.

In 1942, the site on Waiheke was chosen, but it took until early 1943 before the Public Works Department was finally tasked with construction after other contractors declined the job.

In 1942, a new site was chosen that was first called Refugee Cove ; it was not until 1955 that it eventually was renamed Happy Valley.

After much deliberation, Company A, 1st Ranger Battalion was constituted on 27 May 1942, and Captain William Orlando Darby, a graduate of West Point with amphibious training, was chosen as its commanding officer.

Operations from Alconbury with No. 3 Group continued until August 1942 when No. 156 was chosen to become one of the special Pathfinder Force units, moving to RAF Warboys early that month.

In 1942, when the first news about the Holocaust reached the Zionist Jewish community in British Mandate Palestine, Alterman wrote a poem, which can be described as a sarcastic paraphrase on the Jewish prayer, " Praised are You ... who has chosen us out of all the nations ".