" Another Bengals team had existed in the city and played in three previous American Football Leagues from 1937 to 1942.

After articulating the biological species concept in 1942, Mayr played a central role in the species problem debate over what was the best species concept.

* In the 1942 film Casablanca, Captain Renault, a corrupt official played by Claude Rains recites the last two lines of the poem when talking to Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, referring to his power in Casablanca.

Despite the often fierce rivalry with the SS, the Foreign Office played a key role in arranging the deportations of Jews to the death camps from France ( 1942 – 44 ), Hungary ( 1944 – 45 ), Slovakia, Italy ( after 1943 ), and the Balkans.

She played Hedda Gabler for 12 performances at New York City's Longacre Theatre, opening on June 28, 1942.

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.

He played his entire 22-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielder for the Boston Red Sox ( 1939 – 1942 and 1946 – 1960 ).

After going into the United States Marine Corps as an aviator at the end of 1942, Williams also played on the baseball team in Chapel Hill, North Carolina along with his Red Sox teammate Johnny Pesky in pre-flight training, after eight weeks in Amherst, Massachusetts and the Civilian Pilot Training Course.

In 1942, at the age of twelve, she played a lead in Don't Feed the Animals, a play produced by the East Falls Old Academy Players.

He then played opposite Barbara Stanwyck in Preston Sturges ' The Lady Eve ( 1941 ), and again teamed with Tierney in the successful screwball comedy Rings on Her Fingers ( 1942 ).

In football, Dole played at the end position, earning varsity letters in 1942 and 1944.

Walter was drafted into the armed forces in 1942, however, the end of the war found 24 year old Fritz in a Prisoner of War camp in Máramarossziget in which he played with Hungarian and Slovakian guards.

He largely moved away from historical parts when he played an Italian vineyard owner in California in They Knew What They Wanted ( 1940 ); a South Seas patriarch in The Tuttles of Tahiti ( 1942 ); and an American admiral during World War II in Stand by for Action ( 1942 ).

He played sympathetically an impoverished composer-pianist in Tales of Manhattan ( 1942 ) and starred in an updated version of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost in 1944.

Lorre played the role of Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) and portrayed the character Ugarte in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

" After being accepted into the Army, Glenn ’ s civilian band played its last concert in Passaic, New Jersey, on September 27, 1942.

In Roxie Hart ( 1942 ), based on the same play which served as the template for the later musical Chicago, Ginger played a wise-cracking wife on trial for a murder her husband committed.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

He played alongside Bing Crosby in Holiday Inn ( 1942 ) and later Blue Skies ( 1946 ) but, in spite of the enormous financial success of both, was reportedly dissatisfied with roles where he lost the girl to Crosby.

The original South Atlantic League was a mid-to higher-classification circuit that played from 1904 to 1917, 1919 to 1930 ( when it was known as the South Atlantic Association ), 1936 to 1942 and 1946 to 1963.

During a 19-year baseball career, he played from 1938 – 1942 and 1946-1959 for four different teams, but is noted primarily for his time with the St. Louis Cardinals.

* 1942 – Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist ( disappeared 1975 )

* 1942 – Jaap Blokker, Dutch businessman and executive ( d. 2011 )

* 1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies

* 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.

* 1942 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor ( d. 2004 )

* 1858 – Neel Doff, Dutch author ( d. 1942 )

During World War II, the city was renamed from Batavia to " Jakarta " ( short form of Jayakarta ) by the Indonesian nationalists after conquering the city from the Dutch in 1942 with the help of the Japanese forces.

* 1906 – Jan Ankerman, Dutch field hockey player ( d. 1942 )

* 1942 – World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.

Queen Wilhelmina had promised in a 1942 speech to offer autonomy to the overseas territories of the Netherlands, and British and American occupation — with consent by the Dutch government — of the islands during the war led to increasing demands for autonomy within the population as well.

* April 23 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral ( d. 1942 )

* May 30 – Hubertus van Mook, Acting Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1942 to 1948 ( d. 1965 )

* January 27 – Cornelia Hubertina Doff ( Neel Doff ), French author of Dutch origin ( d. 1942 )

However, Stein was not safe in the Netherlands — the Dutch Bishops ' Conference had a public statement read in all the churches of the country on July 20, 1942, condemning Nazi racism.

The position of the Roman Catholic Church is that Stein also died because of the Dutch episcopacy's public condemnation of Nazi racism in 1942 ; in other words, that she died to uphold the moral position of the Church, and is thus a true martyr.

Thousands of Japanese occupied Timor, in February 1942, and the borders of the Dutch and Portuguese were overlooked with Timor island being made a single Japanese army administration zone.

They started to call themselves Batavians, later resulting in the Batavian Republic, and took the name " Batavia " to their colonies such as the Dutch East Indies, where they founded the city that was called Batavia from 1619 until about 1942, when its name was changed to Djakarta ( later respelt Jakarta ; see: History of Jakarta ).

Tulips Shall Grow is a 1942 American animated short film directed by George Pal, about a Dutch boy and girl whose idyllic existence is destroyed when they are overrun by a group of mechanical men called " The Screwballs ", who lay waste to everything they touch ; it is generally recognized as a not-so-subtle allegory about the conquest of Holland by the Nazis.

He tried again on 5 January 1942, again in disguise, together with Dutch officer Anthony Luteyn.

On 4 May 1942 the Germans imprisoned 460 Dutch men in Beekvliet.

ADO Den Haag won the Dutch national football title in 1942 and 1943 and the KNVB Cup in 1968 and 1975 ( under the name FC Den Haag ).

He also appeared in propaganda films, debuting in One of Our Aircraft Is Missing ( 1942 ), in which he was required to deliver lines in English, Latin and Dutch.

* Hadriaan van Nes ( born 1942 ), Dutch rower

During the relentless Japanese offensive of February through April 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, the Dutch navy in Asia was virtually annihilated, and it sustained losses of a total of 20 ships ( including its only two light cruisers ) and 2500 sailors killed-as much as the Americans at Pearl Harbor.