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

In 1941 they were swept by the Boston Bruins, and in 1942 they lost a seven-game series to Toronto after winning the first three games.

During the classic era, his work, either as author or screenwriter, was the basis for seven films now widely regarded as film noirs, including three of the most famous: High Sierra ( 1941 ), This Gun for Hire ( 1942 ), and The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ).

He attended the University of California at Berkeley for a year ( 1934 – 1935 ), worked as a movie projectionist, and spent three years in the U. S. Army after enlisting on August 15, 1942.

* 1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

With his third wife, Beryl, he had three children, Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. ( September 23, 1940 – July 27, 2006 ), Wendy Anne Weissmuller ( b. June 1, 1942 ), and Heidi Elizabeth Weissmuller ( July 31, 1944 – November 19, 1962 ).

The attack on 28 March 1942 created a firestorm, that caused severe damage to the historic centre and the Bombing of Lübeck in World War II destroyed three of the main churches and greater parts of the built-up area.

In the final Wimsey story, the 1942 short story " Talboys ", Peter and Harriet are enjoying rural domestic bliss with their three sons when Bredon, their first-born, is accused of the theft of prize peaches from the neighbour's tree.

It was not until the concluding months of 1943 that the only realized attempt to build a " true four engined " version of the A-series He 177, the He 177B emerged with only three airworthy prototypes produced by early 1944, some three years after the first flights of the Avro Lancaster prototypes, the most commonly encountered RAF bomber pounding Germany on strategic night raids from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe.

* Order of the Red Banner, three times ( 1924, 1942 and 1944 )

They had three children, Sebastian ( b. 1940 ), Fabian ( b. 1942 ), and Clare ( b. 1949 ).

Considered a classic of Christian apologetics, the transcripts of the broadcasts originally appeared in print as three separate pamphlets: The Case for Christianity ( 1942 ), Christian Behaviour ( 1943 ), and Beyond Personality ( 1944 ).

* Paramount sold three features – I Married a Witch, The Crystal Ball and Young and Willing – to United Artists ( along with five Harry Sherman-produced westerns and 13 Hopalong Cassidys ) beginning in 1942 when that studio needed product to release, and Paramount had a surplus.

Drilling of the first oil well began at Jebel Dukhan in October 1938 and, over a year later, the well struck oil in the Upper Jurassic limestone which, unlike the Bahraimi strike, was similar to Saudi Arabia ’ s Dammam field discovered three years before .< ref >" The Qatar Oil Discoveries " by Rasoul Sorkhabi < http :// www. geoexpro. com / history / qatardiscoveries ></ ref > Production was halted between 1942 and 1947 because of World War II and its aftermath.

* March 9 – WWII: Executive order 9082 ( February 28, 1942 ) reorganizes the United States Army into three major commands: Army Ground Forces, Army Air Forces, and Services of Supply, later redesignated Army Service Forces.

Faced with the necessity of turning an army of former civilians into a force of over eight million soldiers by 1942 ( a fortyfold increase within three years ), Marshall directed General Leslie McNair to focus efforts on rapidly producing large numbers of soldiers.

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.

He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in August 1942, telling his parents that he was doing the work of three people and expected to be a brigadier within a year or two, and in that role helped plan the Second Battle of El Alamein, having previously helped plan the attack on Rommel's supply lines.

Lawrence's secretary, Helen Griggs married the future Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, Glenn T. Seaborg, in 1942, as the three of them made their way to work on the Manhattan Project in Chicago, Illinois.

In 1942, he extracted three bitter compounds from neem oil, which he named as nimbin, nimbinin, and nimbidin respectively.

* Blohm & Voss BV P. 170-A 1942 design with three engines on the forward wing with the cockpit.

Vladimír Mečiar ( born 26 July 1942 ) is a former Slovak politician who served three times as Prime Minister of Slovakia serving from 1990 to 1991, from 1992 to 1994, and from 1994 to 1998.

One German document dated June 5, 1942 in occupied Minsk indicates that from December 1941 to June 1942 three gas vans were used to kill 97, 000 civilians.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

It first appeared in 1942, and proved so popular that it ran intermittently over the next 35 years.

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.

Throughout the years the structure of the guards has evolved, going from convoy to squadron, to regiment and, subsequent to 1942, to division.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

For the years 1942 – 1943 Alston was stationed in the army at Fort Huachuca in Arizona.

Dino Zoff ( born February 28, 1942 in Mariano del Friuli ) is an Italian former football goalkeeper and is the oldest winner ever of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the Italian team in the 1982 tournament in Spain, at the age of 40 years, 4 months and 13 days.

In the early years of the Holocaust, the Jews were primarily sent to concentration camps, but from 1942 onwards they were mostly deported to the extermination camps.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.

Hitler's emphasis on maintaining high living standards postponed the full mobilization of the national economy until 1942, years after the great rivals Britain, Russia, and the U. S. had fully mobilized.

A 1942 eyewitness description spoke of " a low grove of dead and decaying kou trees " on a very shallow hill at the island's center, but 58 years later ( 2000 ) a visitor accompanying a scientific expedition reported seeing " a flat bulldozed plain of coral sand, without a single tree " and some traces of building ruins.

The WLAs produced during all four years of war production generally have 1942 serial numbers.

* John Ford ( Tennessee politician ) ( born May 1942 ), American Democratic legislator who served 31 years ( 1974 – 2005 ) in state senate ; convicted in 2007 for bribery

Of the nine Jagdgeschwader in existence in 1939, no further units were built until 1942, and the years of 1940 – 1941 were wasted.

Gordon married second husband, writer Garson Kanin, who was 16 years her junior, in 1942.

One such radio serial, Big Sister, featured actress Thelma Scott in the cast and aired nationally for five years from 1942.

Mel Ott succeeded Terry as manager in 1942, but the war years proved to be difficult for the Giants.

The previous two teams to do it, the 1934 and 1942 Chicago Bears, both lost those years ' NFL Championship Games.

Worldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention held each year since 1939 ( except for the years 1942 to 1945, during World War II ).

Among the films the studio made during the war were Casablanca, Now, Voyager, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( all 1942 ), This Is the Army, and Mission to Moscow ( both 1943 ), the latter became controversial a few years afterwards.