* John Reynolds ( Canadian politician ) ( born 1942 ), former Conservative MP for the West Vancouver — Sunshine Coast — Sea to Sky Country electoral district in the Canadian House of Commons

* John W. Reynolds, Sr. ( 1876 – 1942 ), American politician and Attorney General of Wisconsin from 1927 to 1933

Reynolds pitched in MLB for the Cleveland Indians ( 1942 – 1946 ) and New York Yankees ( 1947 – 1954 ).

Becoming increasingly homesick and not wanting to spend his entire professional career in the minor leagues, Reynolds considered retiring after the 1942 season if he wasn't promoted to Major League Baseball ( MLB ).

Reynolds appeared in his first MLB on September 17, 1942, making two relief appearances for the Indians that season.

In 1883, Leno met Sarah Lydia Reynolds ( 1866 – 1942 ), a young dancer and comedy singer from Birmingham, while both were appearing at King Ohmy's Circus of Varieties, Rochdale.

During the Dieppe Raid of August 1942, the mortar platoon commanded by Lieutenant FJ Reynolds was attached to the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade but stayed offshore during the raid.

John Douglas Reynolds, PC ( born January 19, 1942 ) was the Member of Parliament for the riding of West Vancouver — Sunshine Coast — Sea to Sky Country in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2006.

In 1936, Mrs. Stickney's nephew, Foster Reynolds, inherited the hotel, which closed in 1942 because of World War II.

Shortly before marrying in 1942, A. Reynolds Morse & Eleanor R. Morse attended a Dalí retrospective at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

In 1942, Miller Municipal Airport was renamed and dedicated to Smith Reynolds, a pioneer in aviation before his untimely death at the age of 20.

From 1942 until 1945, Smith Reynolds Airport served as a training base for military pilots in addition to its commercial and private airline services.

In 1942 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek personally went on tour in Northwestern China in Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, and Qinghai, where he met both Muslim Generals Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang.

Nevertheless, Essendon went on to win the 1942 Premiership with Western Australian Wally Buttsworth in irrepressible form at centre half back.

The money was used in studies which led to the first nuclear reactor — Chicago Pile-1, a massive " atomic pile " of graphite bricks and uranium fuel which went critical on December 2, 1942.

Then, in 1942, Weissmuller went to RKO and starred in six more Tarzan movies with markedly reduced production values.

Buñuel then went back to Hollywood where he worked in the dubbing department of Warner Brothers from 1942 to 1946.

After his education there, Jagan went to the United States to study dentistry, graduating from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1942.

O ' Brien went on to do some special effects work, re-using one of the mattes from Son of Kong, on Orson Welles ' American classic Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and George Pal's Oscar-nominated animated short Tulips Shall Grow ( 1942 ), as well as developing his own project, Gwangi, about cowboys who encounter a prehistoric animal in a " lost " valley, which he failed to sell to the studio.

On October 25, 1942 the first batch of motorcycles went to the front.

Lubitsch went independent to direct That Uncertain Feeling ( 1941, a remake of his 1925 film Kiss Me Again ), and the dark anti-Nazi farce To Be or Not to Be ( 1942 ), which was Jack Benny's only major screen success and Carole Lombard's last picture.

His adjunct, Jean Leguay, committed suicide in 1989 10 years after he was indicted for crimes against humanity for his role in the Vel'd ' Hiv Roundup of July 1942, but before he went to trial.

Irving went on to call the Auschwitz death camp a " tourist attraction " whose origins Irving claimed went back to an " ingenious plan " devised by the British Psychological Warfare Executive in 1942 to spread anti-German propaganda that it was the policy of the German state to be " using ' gas chambers ' to kill millions of Jews and other undesirables ".

James Cameron went on to serve as the Indiana State Director of Civil Liberties from 1942 – 1950 and founded three local chapters of the NAACP.

Chennault retired in 1937, went to work as an aviation trainer and adviser in China, and commanded the " Flying Tigers " during World War II, both the volunteer group and the uniformed units that replaced it in 1942.

Incidental to the story of discovery of the Lady Be Good is the 2012 discovery of a British RAF P40 Kittyhawk that went down in June of 1942.

After returning to Washington and winning re-election in November 1942 Lodge, went to observe allied troops in serving in Egypt and Libya, and in that position was on hand for the British retreat from Tobruk.

The name was changed to " McLaughlin-Buick " when sales went bad, and stayed until 1942, after which the McLaughlin name was dropped, leaving the " Buick " marque still in use today.

Lear went to high school in Hartford, Connecticut and subsequently attended Emerson College in Boston, but dropped out in 1942 to join the United States Army Air Forces.

He went to the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario and played Intercollegiate Football for the Western Ontario Mustangs from 1938 to 1942 including the Intercollegiate championship in 1939.

In 1942, about seven months after the war began ; CBS went on the air with a weekly radio variety show called Stagedoor Canteen.

* August 1942 went to Hollywood with Basie's band to record for the film Reveille with Beverly

Despite an early interest in birds, his father encouraged him to study law, but later went on to earn a doctorate in biology from the University of Debrecen in 1942.

Although he made several contributions in advisory roles during the campaigns in the Western Desert in 1940 and 1941, it was not until May 1942 that he went on active service again.

The 164th Infantry Regiment of the Americal Division went into action on Guadalcanal on 13 October 1942 alongside the 1st Marine Division as the first United States Army unit to conduct an offensive operation against the enemy in either the Pacific or European Theater of Operations.

Mr. Taffae went on to serve in the U. S. Army Air Corps from 1942 – 1945.

In 1942 Beech won its first Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award production award and became one of the elite five percent of war contracting firms in the country to win five straight awards for production efficiency, mostly for the production of the Beechcraft 18 which remains in widespread use worldwide.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Bush decided to join the US Navy, so after graduating from Phillips Academy earlier in 1942, he became a naval aviator at the age of 18.

Because his relationship with his new stepmother was less than happy, in January 1942 Karlheinz became a boarder at the teachers ' training college in Xanten, where he continued his piano training and also studied oboe and violin ( Kurtz 1992, 18 ).

Filming at the Babelsberg Studios near Berlin began 18 months later in April 1942 and lasted into summer.

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.

(; born 18 June 1942 ) is a South African politician who served two terms as the second post-apartheid President of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008.

* April 18 – Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister ( d. 1942 )

* July 18 – Bobby Fuller, American Musician Guitarist ( b. 1942 )

* September 18 – Bob Hayes, American athlete ( b. 1942 )

*; Yakovlev UT-2: Basic training aircraft, used for training between 1 and 18 December 1942.

*; Polikarpov Po-2: Initially Po-2s were used for training ( between 1 and 18 December 1942 ), later were used for liaison and courier duties.

On 11 June 1942 he made his last-ever speech in the House of Commons, and he cast his last vote in the Commons on 18 February 1943 as one of the 121 MPs ( 97 Labour ) condemning the Government for its failure to back the Beveridge Report.

Under cross-examination, Raeder admitted to passing on the Commando Order on 18 October 1942 to the Kriegsmarine and for enforcing the Commando Order by ordering the summary execution of captured British Royal Marines at Bordeaux in December 1942.

Roger Joseph Ebert (; born June 18, 1942 ) is an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter, who has been described by Forbes as " the most powerful pundit in America ".

His play The Skin of Our Teeth opened in New York on November 18, 1942, with Fredric March and Tallulah Bankhead in the leading roles.

* Alexander, Prince of Belgium, born in Brussels on 18 July 1942.

Robert Lee " Bullet Bob " Hayes ( December 20, 1942 – September 18, 2002 ) was an Olympic sprinter turned American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.

The first raid on Tokyo was the Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942, when sixteen B-25 Mitchells were launched from USS Hornet to attack targets including Yokohama and Tokyo and then fly on to airfields in China.

* 381st Base HQ & Air Base Group, 27 June – 18 November 1942

A loss in the 1942 Grand Final to Essendon ( after starting as favourite ) meant that over the previous 18 years, Richmond had won two flags but been runner-up eight times.

They remained there under poor conditions until the majority of the survivors were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz on July 18, 1942.

On about 18 April 1942, Walter Maiersperger, the Commanding Officer of 33 Bomb Squadron of the United States Army Air Force's 22nd Bomb Group, carried out an aerial reconnaissance flight over the Iron Range area.

It is named for Josephine Holloway who founded the first official African-American Girl Scout troop in Nashville in 1942 ( some 18 years after establishing one unofficially and 9 years after first seeking official permission ).