From June, 1942, until December, 1945, Pfaff served in the Army Air Corps.

( 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 change temporarily stopped the ability to read this network from February to December 1942.

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.

On December 2, 1942, physicist Enrico Fermi conducted the world's first controlled nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project.

Therefore, in December 1942, several patients with advanced lymphomas ( cancers of certain white blood cells ) were given the drug by vein, rather than by breathing the irritating gas.

In December 1942, after a British blockade lasting one hundred and one days, Governor Pierre Nouailhetas surrendered French Somaliland.

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.

On 2 December 1942 he initiated the atomic age with the first self-sustaining chain reaction, after which he became known as " father of the atomic bomb ".

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.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

In December 1942, more Albanian nationalist groups were organized.

In December 1942, during a meeting with the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who brought a message from Mussolini asking for the Germans to go on the defensive in the Soviet Union in order to focus on North Africa, Ribbentrop joined with Hitler in belittling Italy's war effort.

On 21 December 1941, the Partisans created the First Proletarian Brigade ( commanded by Koča Popović ) and on 1 March 1942, Tito created the Second Proletarian Brigade.

50 stills from the filming in Krün near Mittenwald were later found and from these, surviving prisoners were able to identify 29 camp inmates who worked for Riefenstahl and were then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the first weeks of March 1943 following Himmler ’ s December 1942 decree.

He persuaded his superiors that codebreaking process could be mechanised, and he was assigned to develop a suitable machine in December 1942.

Enrico Fermi created the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, called Chicago Pile-1 ( CP-1 ), in a racquets court below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago on December 2, 1942.

An Australian soldier, Private George " Dick " Whittington, is aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari, near Buna on 25 December 1942.

The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume Two: Europe, Torch to Pointblank, August 1942 to December 1943.

By Executive Order 9277, dated December 3, 1942, the decoration was extended to be applicable to all services and the order required that regulations of the Services be uniform in application as far as practicable.

Both men met in Paris in December 1942 and adapted Gagnan's regulator to a diving cylinder.

Authorization for the Silver Star was placed into law by an Act of Congress for the U. S. Navy on August 7, 1942 and an Act of Congress for the U. S. Army on December 15, 1942.

Vicente Fox Quesada </ small > (; born July 2, 1942 ) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.

He was dropped near Littleport Cambridgeshire on 16 December 1942 equipped with wireless, pistol, cyanide capsule and ₤ 1, 000.

Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with Adolf Hitler ( December 1941 ).

Although al-Husseini was located by Jewish Army members who began to plan an assassination, the mission was canceled in December by Moshe Sharett or by David Ben-Gurion, probably because they feared turning the Grand Mufti into a martyr.

At December 13, 1960 the fund held by the Industrial National Bank of Providence, as trustee for payment of past and future service pensions to qualified members of the plan, totaled $2,412,616.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

His Amnesty Proclamation of December 8, 1863, offered pardons to those who had not held a Confederate civil office, had not mistreated Union prisoners, and would sign an oath of allegiance.

Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

" After a vigorous debate, a formal vote for impeachment was held in the House of Representatives on December 5, 1867, and failed, 57 – 108.

On 27 December 1797, the last Tagsatzung of the Old Swiss Confederacy was held in Aarau.

Barney was replaced as Camden Yards ' PA announcer by Dave McGowan, who held the position until December 2011.

Among them were the minutes of a Cabinet Eastern Committee meeting, chaired by Lord Curzon, which was held on 5 December 1918.

Sinn Féin won 73 out of 105 seats in Ireland at the general election held in December 1918, and in January 1919 organised themselves as the First Dáil, which then declared an independent Irish Republic.

The funeral, held two days later on 27 December, was a small and private Anglican ceremony, according to Chaplin's wish.

In 1831, a legislative assembly was established by local consent at a meeting of principal inhabitants held at Pedro St. James Castle on December 5 of that year.

Elections were held on December 10 and the fledgling legislature passed its first local legislation on December 31, 1831.

The last congressional elections were held on December 11, 2006.

The Croatian parliamentary election, 2011 was held on 4 December 2011, and the Kukuriku coalition won.

The first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople was Honoratus, who took office on 11 December 359 and held it until 361.

Charles was baptised on 2 December 1600 by the Bishop of Ross, in a ceremony held in Holyrood Abbey, and was created Duke of Albany, Marquess of Ormond, Earl of Ross and Lord Ardmannoch.

* Fukuoka Marathon is held on first Sunday in December.

* Honolulu Marathon is held on second Sunday in December.

The main competitive season runs from February to July, although some competitions may be held in January or December, and many divers ( particularly international level athletes ) will train and compete year round.

The garrison at Kenilworth refused to accept the terms given, and held out until 14 December, when deprivation forced them to surrender.

The first round of new elections is scheduled to start on November 28, 2011, the second round would be held on December 14, the third on January 3 and the new assembly would convene on March 17.

In December 1893, Unter den Linden in Berlin held an exhibition of Munch's work, showing, among other pieces, six paintings entitled Study for a Series: Love.

The Democratic Front succeeded the National Liberation Front in August 1945 and the first elections in post-war Albania were held on 2 December.

The next year, in 1970, it was in this charged atmosphere that parliamentary elections were held in the country in December 1970.