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From July 1942, a few Australian reserve battalions, many of them very young and untrained, fought a stubborn rearguard action against a Japanese advance along the Kokoda Track, towards Port Moresby, over the rugged Owen Stanley Ranges.
The young, pre-war squad of Valencia had also remained intact and in the post-war years matured into champions, gaining three Liga titles in 1942, 1944, and 1947.
A year after the birth of their first daughter, Danuté, in June 1942, the young Gimbutas family fled the country in the wake of the Soviet re-occupation, first to Vienna and then to Innsbruck and Bavaria.
Kings Row is a 1942 film starring Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, and Ronald Reagan that tells a story of young people growing up in a small American town at the turn of the twentieth century, beset by social pressure, dark secrets, and the challenges and tragedies one must face as a result of these hard facts.
So many citizens of D ’ Lo served in the war that the July 1942 cover of Life magazine featured a picture of two young boys standing in the deserted streets of D ’ Lo with the headline,D ’ Lo Men Have Gone Off to War ” with a caption that stated, “ There is a war and a country is in danger.
As the neighbouring municipality Gitter had already been incorporated in 1938, the young city initially comprised 29 boroughs in 1942.
In fact, Feklisov, a lifelong Communist, was covering the role of Jacob Golos, who in 1942 passed the Communist " information " cell of young engineers headed by Julius Rosenberg into direct contact with the Soviet operatives in New York.
" The United States in 1942 badly needed a live hero, and Butch O ' Hare was a young, handsome naval aviator, so he participated in several war bond tours the following months.
The Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC ), a New Deal relief agency for young men, played a major role between 1933 and 1942 in developing both Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park.
As of 1942, McLaren could no longer keep up with the demands for animation at the fast-growing NFB, and he was asked by Grierson to recruit art students and create a small animation team — a task made more difficult because many young students had gone off to fight in the war.
Hitchcock continued to perfect his recognizable brand of suspense-thriller, directing Foreign Correspondent ( 1940 ), the haunting Oscar-winning Rebecca ( 1940 ), which is about the unusual romance between a young woman ( Joan Fontaine ) and an emotionally-distant rich widower ( Laurence Olivier ) overshadowed by a vindictive housekeeper ( Judith Anderson ), Suspicion ( 1941 ) about a woman in peril from her own husband ( Cary Grant ), Saboteur ( 1942 ) and Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), which was Hitchcock's own personal favorite and based upon the actual case of a 1920s serial killer known as The Merry Widow Murderer.
Founded in 1942 under the guidance of José Ardévol, a Catalan composer established in Cuba since 1930, the " Grupo de Renovación Musical " served as a platform for a group of young composers to develop a proactive movement with the purpose of improving and literally renovating the quality of the Cuban musical environment.
Desai was a young lawyer in Ahmedabad when he decided to join Gandhi along with Narhari Parikh, Mohanlal Pandya and Ravi Shankar Vyas, and became his most devoted secretary for 25 years, from 1917 to 1942.
On the afternoon of 24 December 1942, the admiral drove to his offices at the Palais d ' Ete and was shot down at the door to his bureau by a young man of 20, Bonnier de la Chapelle, a monarchist.
Reginald Ray was born in New York City in 1942 and raised in Darien, Connecticut and from a very young age found Tibet compelling.
In the late 1960s, two young Irish poets, Michael Smith ( b. 1942 ) and Trevor Joyce ( b. 1947 ) founded the New Writers Press publishing house and a journal called The Lace Curtain.
In 1942, the Japanese transported thousands of young male Malayans, the majority of them Malays, to work on the construction of a railway from North Siam to Burma.
American soldiers brought Lindy Hop / Jitterbug to Europe around 1942, where this dance swiftly found a following among the young.
Sydney Norman John Rapson, a politician in the United Kingdom, was born on 17 April 1942 in the Isle of Wight and moved to the Paulsgrove area of Portsmouth as a young child.
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.
In 1943, twenty-two young Chicanos were convicted of a murder of another youth at a party held at a swimming hole southeast of Los Angeles known as the " sleepy lagoon " on a warm night in August 1942 ; they were eventually freed after an appeal that demonstrated both their innocence and the racism of the judge conducting the trial.
McCrea also starred in two William A. Wellman Western's, The Great Man's Lady ( 1942 ), again with Stanwyck, and Buffalo Bill ( 1944 ), with character actor Edgar Buchanan and a young Maureen O ' Hara.
A young disciple and associate of the Generation of 1898, Hernández, like Lorca, became a martyr to the Republican cause but this time as a post-war prisoner, fighting and writing as a soldier poet throughout the war and then languishing and dying in one of Franco's prisons in 1942.
From July 1942, a few Australian reserve battalions, many of them very young and untrained, fought a stubborn rearguard action against a Japanese advance along the Kokoda Track, towards Port Moresby, over the rugged Owen Stanley Ranges.

1942 and physician
* 1942 Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, German physician
As early as September 1942, Dr. Johann Paul Kremer, M. D., an SS physician, witnessed a gassing of prisoners, and in his diary wrote: " They don't call Auschwitz the camp of annihilation Lager der Vernichtung for nothing!
* 1942 Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician ( b. 1879 )
In 1942, Lichtenberg protested against the euthanasia programme by way of a letter to the chief physician of the Reich, " I, as a human being, a Christian, a priest, and a German demand of you, Chief Physician of the Reich, that you answer for the crimes that have been perpetrated at your bidding, and with your consent, and which will call forth the vengeance of the Lord on the heads of the German people.
Hubert Work ( July 3, 1860 December 14, 1942 ) was a U. S. administrator and physician.
After receiving his medical degree from Washington University in 1942, Sutherland served as a World War II army physician.
In 1942, McNider enlists in the U. S. Medical Corps as a physician during World War II, rising to the rank of Captain.
Arthur B. Lintgen ( born 1942 ) is a United States physician who can recognize classical phonograph records with a naked eye.
Amulree died in May 1942, aged 81, and was succeeded in the barony by his son, Basil, who became a distinguished physician.
* Jakub Szulman, physician, rabbi, died in the ghetto 2 January 1942
Dean Edell ( born 1942 ) is an American physician and broadcaster who hosted the Dr. Dean Edell radio program, a syndicated radio talk show which aired live from 1979 until December 10, 2010.
Marian Teodor Ludwik Gieszczykiewicz ( b. May 21, 1889 in Kraków, Austria-Hungary-July 30, 1942 in Auschwitz ) was a Polish physician, bacteriologist.
Sabina Naftulovna Spielrein ( Russian: Сабина Нафтуловна Шпильрейн, also transliterated " Shpilrein " or " Shpilreyn ", 7 November 1885 12 August 1942 ) was a Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts.
Nikolai was born in the town of Kronstadt on Kotlin Island, into the family of Stepan Yakovlevich Gumilev ( 1836 1920 ), a naval physician, and Anna Ivanovna L ' vova ( 1854 1942 ).
* James Andrews ( physician ) ( born 1942 ), American surgeon, renowned practitioner of sports medicine

1942 and named
( Siegel and Shuster had earlier poked fun at Capp in a Superman story in Action Comics # 55, December 1942, in which a cartoonist named " Al Hatt " invents a comic strip featuring the hillbilly " Tiny Rufe.
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 she was named President-elect of The Herdwick Sheepbreeders ’ Association, the first time a woman had ever been elected to that office, but died before taking office.
In 1937 Bombardier sold 12 snowmobiles — named the B7 and, in 1942, created l ' Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée company.
In Canada, a variety of conservative governments have been progressive conservative, with Canada's major conservative movement being officially named the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1942 to 2003.
A war with Peru ( named the Cenepa War, after a river located in the area ) erupted in January February 1995 in a small, remote region, where the boundary prescribed by the 1942 Rio Protocol was in dispute.
During US involvement in WW II, April 29, 1942, Socony's unescorted tanker, named Mobiloil, was sunk by a German U-boat ( U-108 captained by Klaus Schlotz ), and all 52 people survived after 86 hours adrift in lifeboats.
Heydrich was attacked in Prague on 27 May 1942 by a British-trained team of Czech and Slovak soldiers who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill him in an operation code named Operation Anthropoid.
Fort Ebey, named for the Colonel, was established in 1942 on the west side of the central part of the island, just northwest of Coupeville.
In 1942, the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington was named in his honor, the first major oceangoing vessel to be named after an African American.
In Britain, it was named the top box office attraction of 1942.
555 of the 592 film critics polled by American magazine Film Daily named it the best film of 1942.
Three peacetime sequels followed, then a Tex Avery cartoon named Blitz Wolf, a 1942 wartime version with the Wolf as a Nazi.
In 1942, he extracted three bitter compounds from neem oil, which he named as nimbin, nimbinin, and nimbidin respectively.
On 6 October 1942, a writer named Judith Cass had used the term " supermodel " for her article in the Chicago Tribune, which headlined " Super Models are Signed for Fashion Show ".
By 1942, Dönitz had emerged as Hitler's favourite admiral ( whom Hitler liked so much that he eventually named him as his successor ), and that to sack Dönitz would probably lead Hitler to sack him in turn.
He was named to the Order of Merit by King George VI in 1942.
The Allies overwhelmed the outnumbered Japanese defenders, who had occupied the islands since May 1942, and captured Tulagi and Florida, as well as an airfield ( later named Henderson Field ) that was under construction on Guadalcanal.
In 1942 the station was linked to the adjacent Montparnasse station, forming a single station named Montparnasse-Bienvenüe.
Two Royal Norwegian Navy ships King Haakon VII, an escort ship in commission from 1942 to 1951, and Haakon VII, a training ship in commission from 1958 to 1974 — have been named after King Haakon VII.
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.
In May 1942, his chief Sabatier was named prefect of Aquitaine by Pierre Laval, head of the Vichy government.
Bob Clampett created the character that would become Tweety in the 1942 short A Tale of Two Kitties, pitting him against two hungry cats named Babbit and Catstello ( based on the famous comedians Abbott and Costello ).

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