In 1942 a tornado struck Alvan and caused much destruction, killing six people.

1942 tornado marker

On April 27, 1942, the city's downtown business district was destroyed by a devastating tornado which struck at 4: 45 p. m.

On April 27, 1942, a tornado swept along Pryor Creek's main street from the western edge of the business district to the eastern edge of the city, destroying nearly every building and causing extensive damage to the residential section.

* 1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.

In 1942 Lee had her first # 1 hit, " Somebody Else Is Taking My Place ", followed by 1943's " Why Don't You Do Right?

Many of these hit records were issued on new independent record labels, such as Savoy ( founded 1942 ), King ( founded 1943 ), Imperial ( founded 1945 ), Specialty ( founded 1946 ), Chess ( founded 1947 ), and Atlantic ( founded 1948 ).

In 1942 and 1943 typhus hit French North Africa, Egypt and Iran particularly hard.

Once the show hit its stride, they had leading roles in the RKO Radio Pictures films Look Who's Laughing ( 1941 ), Here We Go Again ( 1942 ), and Heavenly Days ( 1944 ).

After some success with short films, he graduated to features in 1942, turning out two crisp B mysteries, Eyes in the Night and Kid Glove Killer before getting his big break with The Seventh Cross ( 1944 ), starring Spencer Tracy, which was his first hit.

Aftermath of the Tornado that hit Pryor Creek on April 27, 1942

Fred Wedlock ( 23 May 1942 – 4 March 2010 ) was a folk singer best known for his UK hit single " The Oldest Swinger In Town ".

Harry Forster Chapin ( December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981 ) was an American singer-songwriter best known for his folk rock songs including " Taxi ", " W * O * L * D ", and the # 1 hit " Cat's in the Cradle ".

Fields and Chodorov adapted their play for a 1942 film released by Columbia Pictures ( their biggest hit of 1942 / 3 ).

On Sunday evening, January 11, 1942, as Butch and other VF-3 officers ate dinner in the wardroom, the carrier Saratoga was damaged by a Japanese torpedo hit while patrolling southwest of Hawaii.

Recorded days before the record ban, Jones scored a huge broadcast hit late in 1942 with " Der Fuehrer's Face ", a song ridiculing Adolf Hitler that followed every use of the word " Heil " with a derisive razzberry sound, as in the repeated phrase " Heil, ( razzberry ), Heil ( razzberry ), right in Der Fuehrer's face!

Freda Charcilia Payne ( born September 19, 1942 ) is an American singer and actress best known for her million selling, 1970 hit single, " Band of Gold ".

The Gildersleeve character, played by Harold Peary, became series broadcasting's first successful spin-off hit ; that plus the onset of World War II ( which cost Fibber McGee & Molly their Mayor LaTrivia, when Gale Gordon went into the Coast Guard in early 1942, and " The Old Timer " Bill Thompson was drafted almost a year later ) nabbed nearly every other remaining male voice.

In 1942 his great hit Always in my heart ( Siempre en mi Corazon ) was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song ; it lost out to White Christmas.

The aircraft is believed to be that flown by William “ Mac ” McGarry when he was hit by anti-aircraft fire while flying top cover over Chiang Mai on 24 March 1942.

Dizzy Gillespie was the band ’ s trumpeter for a while, and featured on Millinder's first charted hit, " When The Lights Go On Again ( All Over The World )", which reached # 1 on the R & B chart and # 14 on the pop chart in 1942.

" Mr. Five by Five " was also recorded by Morse with Slack, and they had a hit recording with the song in 1942 ( Capitol 115 ).

" During a gunnery practice session in June 1942, he hit a target drogue with 24 of the allotted 50 rounds of machine-gun fire, a feat that was considered difficult to achieve.

The style began with Illinois Jacquet's lively solo on Lionel Hampton's smash 1942 hit " Flying Home.

Billboard started making a separate list of hit records for African-American music in October 1942 with the " Harlem Hit Parade ", which was changed in 1945 to " Race Records ", and then in 1949 to " Rhythm and Blues Records ".

Somerton was hit by four Luftwaffe bombs on the morning of 29 September 1942 during the Second World War.

In the first six months of 1942, all the Italo-German efforts to hit Allied ships had only resulted in the sinking of the merchant ship Thermopilae by an aircraft flown by Carlo Faggioni.

By 1942 Rockefeller had become increasingly impatient that his purchased property might never be added to the park, and wrote to the Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes that he was considering selling the land to another party.

In 1931, President Herbert Hoover annexed an adjoining area south of the park, and in 1942 an additional was added.

Hu Shih's tombstone in the park named after him, near Academia Sinica in Taiwan Hu was the Republic of China's ambassador to the United States of America between 1938 and 1942.

Many of the facilities in the park were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1935 and 1942.

When the amusement park closed in 1942, the water park was dismantled.

From 1942, part of the Royal Air Force Regiment was housed in nissen huts at the park in a facility named RAF Belton Park.

The park was developed extensively between 1933 and 1942 when the Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC ) took on the project of building roads, bridges, camping areas, trails, and picnic areas.

Between 1919 and 1942, money from the trust fund was used to enlarge the park, increasing its size to almost.

Between 1919 and 1942, money from the trust fund was used to enlarge the park, increasing its size to almost.

During World War II ( 1942 onward ), the park was the home field for several women's baseball, softball and fastball teams, including the London Supremes who played in the Michigan-Ontario Women's Fastball League into the 1950s.

The park was founded in 1942, largely through the efforts of ornithologist and author Perrine Moncrieff to have land reserved for the purpose.

Critics also note that the designated " View Park ," a roadside park on the south side of U. S. Route 90 about 9 miles ( 14 km ) east of Marfa, is located at the site of Marfa Army Airfield, where tens of thousands of personnel were stationed between 1942 and 1947, training American and Allied pilots.

Gowalia Tank Maidan ( now also known as August Kranti Maidan ) is a park in central Mumbai where Mahatma Gandhi issued the Quit India speech on 8 August 1942 decreeing that the British must leave India immediately or else mass agitations would take place.

The park went through a few themes over years, from outdoor performance venue, to farm for zoo animal feed, to pasturage rental, to park with WPA Civilian Conservation Corps construction ( 1933 -– 36, removed in 1938 ), to U. S. Army camp ( just in 1942 ), to sewage treatment plant ( over vigorous opposition by neighborhoods groups ).

During World War II, American forces established a military camp in the park between 1942 and 1944.

Jbel Toubkal lies in the Toubkal national park, which was created in 1942.

The park system was authorized in 1939 and funding began in 1942 with local property taxes providing for most of the budget.

The 113 – acre ( 0. 5 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) park was placed under the control of the U. S. Army in 1942 and briefly occupied for defensive purposes, during which a series of military construction projects resulted in the removal of massive amounts of gravel from the park's river, shoreline and estuary.

In 1942, Anderson helped organize and served as the chairman of the Rockland County Committee To Save High Tor, which helped raise money to purchase the property in 1943 for the creation of a public park.

In 1942 the park was purchased by Dr. Dudley Cooper ( During same period Dr. Cooper also helped establish the nearby Seaview Amusement Park for blacks during segregation.

The park was established in 1942.

The estates and park was given its namesake from the 1942 battle ; The battle of the Coral Sea.