A medal awarded to women who served in the Women Army Auxiliary Corps from 10 July 1942 to 31 August 1943, and to the Women Army Corps from 1 September 1943 to 2 September 1945 featured Athena on the front.

Barney Bubbles ( born Colin Fulcher, 30 July 1942 – 14 November 1983 ) was a radical English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction.

Fulcher was born in Tranmere Road, Whitton, Middlesex ( now Greater London ), in July 1942.

* First Battle of El Alamein – 1 – 27 July 1942

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

General Charles Chandler Krulak ( born March 4, 1942 ) served as the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1999.

569 ) on 2 July 1942 ; and virtually completed on 30 June 1943.

In July 1942, a " Call to the Albanian Peasantry " was written by Enver Hoxha and issued in the name of the Communist Party of Albania.

Besides those six camps, there existed the little-known Maly Trostenets extermination camp, at Minsk, Belarus, in the anti-Communist Lokot Republic ( July 1942 – August 1943 ) established in the Nazi-occupied USSR ; similar camps existed at Warsaw and Janowska.

The First Battle of El Alamein ( 1 – 27 July 1942 ) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces ( Germany and Italy ) of the Panzer Army Africa ( Panzerarmee Afrika ) commanded by Field Marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ) Erwin Rommel, and Allied ( specifically, British Imperial ) forces ( Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand ) of the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck.

The Western Desert Battle Area, July 1942

Gary Arlen Kildall ( May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994 ) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP / M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. ( DRI ).

On 21 June 1941, the day before invasion of the Soviet Union, Himmler commissioned the preparation of the Generalplan Ost ( General Plan for the East ); the plan was finalised in July 1942.

By July 1942, the British and Indian forces in Burma had completed their fighting retreat back into India, and Alexander, having yet again been mentioned in despatches for his Burma service, was recalled to the United Kingdom.

The first line was opened in July 1942, the ceremony being disrupted by passively-resisting Jersey spectators.

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 ).

An Act of Congress ( Public Law 671 — 77th Congress, Chapter 508, 2d Session ) on July 20, 1942, established the Legion of Merit and provided that the medal " shall have suitable appurtenances and devices and not more than four degrees, and which the President, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, may award to

" " The first test was carried out on the football field next to the Harvard Business school on July 4, 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.

Named in honor of Samuel Bell Maxey, it was activated on 15 July 1942 and deactivated 1 October 1945.

In July 1943 Georges Commeinhes had reached a depth of 53 metres off Marseille equipped with his GC42 breathing apparatus (" G " for Georges, " C " for Commeinhes and 42 for 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.

Vicente Fox was born in Guanajuato on July 2, 1942, the second of nine children.

# In the summer of 1934 Hitler instructed the SS to kill Ernst Röhm and other leaders of the Nazi party's SA, former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and several aides to former Chancellor Franz von Papen in the so-called Night of the Long Knives ( June 30, 1934 / July 1, 1934 ).

Subsequently in July the Centre Party was voluntarily dissolved in a quid pro quo with the Pope under the anti-communist Pope Pius XI for the Reichskonkordat ; and by these manoeuvres Hitler achieved movement of these Catholic voters into the Nazi party, and a long-awaited international diplomatic acceptance of his regime.

With the SA thus neutralised, the SS became an independent organisation from 20 July 1934, responsible only to Hitler, and Himmler's title of Reichsführer-SS became the highest formal SS rank.

On 20 July 1944, a group of German army officers led by Claus von Stauffenberg and including some of the highest-ranked members of the German armed forces attempted to assassinate Hitler, but failed to do so.

Goebbels, although he continued to show " leftish " tendencies in some of his actions ( such as co-operating with the Communists in supporting the Berlin transport workers ' strike in November 1932 ), was totally loyal to Hitler in his struggle with the Strassers, which culminated in Otto ’ s expulsion from the party in July 1930.

Despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Goebbels ’ most important contribution to the Nazi cause between 1930 and 1933 was as the organizer of successive election campaigns: The Reichstag elections of September 1930, July and November 1932 and March 1933, and Hitler ’ s presidential campaign of March – April 1932.

By July, Goebbels was lamenting that Hitler had cut himself off from the people – it was noted, for example, that he never visited the bomb-ravaged cities of the Ruhr.

In July, following the Allied landings in France and the huge Soviet advances in Belarus, Hitler finally agreed to grant both of them increased powers.

When elements of the army leadership tried to assassinate Hitler in the July 20 plot shortly thereafter, it was this trio that rallied the resistance to the plotters.

* 1944 – World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Ribbentrop suffered a major blow when many old Foreign Office diplomats participated in the 20 July 1944 putsch and assassination attempt on Hitler.

On 16 July 1940, following Germany's swift and successful occupation of France and the Low Countries and growing impatient with Britain's outright rejection towards his recent peace overtures, Hitler issued Führer Directive No. 16, setting in motion preparations for a landing in Britain.

Captured SOE-supplied Nobel 808 was the explosive used in the failed 20 July plot assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in 1944.

On the following day, 31 July 1944, in view of the likely invasion by German forces, the state sent three letters of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranking diplomat in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July, Hitler and Mussolini supported the fascist and authoritarian Nationalist forces in their civil war against the Soviet-supported Spanish Republic.

On 16 July 1941 Hitler addressed a meeting of ministers, including Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, at which administration of the occupied Soviet territories was discussed.

* July 23 – Mahatma Gandhi the spiritual leader from India writes a personal letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him " My friend ", requesting to prevent any possible war.

The aftermath of the failed 20 July plot to kill Hitler.

* July 20 – WWII: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt by Claus von Stauffenberg.

* July 31 – WWII – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders S. S. General Reinhard Heydrich to " submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question.

* July 28 – Angela Hitler, Austrian elder half-sister of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1949 )

* July 29 – Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party.

* July 20 – Vatican state secretary Eugenio Pacelli ( later Pope Pius XII ) signs an accord with Hitler.