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.

* Second Battle of El Alamein – 23 October – 4 November 1942

From 16 June 1940-1942 the colonial administration remained loyal to Vichy France ( from 1942, under Free French ), but 25 September 1942-13 October 1946 they were, like Madagascar, under British occupation.

The final Italian cavalry action occurred on October 17, 1942 in Pola ( Croatia ) by a squadron of " Alexandria Cavalry Regiment " against a large group of Yugoslav partisans.

This 64-page story was adapted by Donald Duck comic strip writer Bob Karp from an unproduced feature, and published in October 1942 in Four Color Comics # 9.

October 1942.

In October 1940 – February 1942, the NKVD under Beria carried out a new purge of the Red Army and related industries.

The President had this power under Executive Order 9260 of October 29, 1942 paragraph 3b.

Executive Order 9260, dated October 29, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, established the rules for the Legion of Merit and required the President's approval for the award.

* 1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.

* 1942 – The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.

* 1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.

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

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.

Heydrich's replacements were Ernst Kaltenbrunner as the chief of RSHA, and Karl Hermann Frank ( 27 – 28 May 1942 ) and Kurt Daluege ( 28 May 1942 – 14 October 1943 ) as the new acting Reichsprotektors.

The first steps of putting a man-made object into space were taken by German scientists during World War II while testing the V-2 rocket, which became the first human-made object in space on 3 October 1942 with the launching of V-4.

*, launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942

Shortly after the birth of their only child, Tania, Etienne died from chest wounds at the Battle of El Alamein in October 1942.

By 9 February 1942, Peenemünde engineer de Beek had documented the radio interference area of a V-2 as 10, 000 meters around the “ Firing Point ”, and the first successful A-4 flight on 3 October 1943, used radio control for Brennschluss.

The first successful test flight was on 3 October 1942:

* October 6 – Carole Lombard, American actress ( d. 1942 )

Between April 1942 and October 1943, at least 160, 000 people are killed in the camp.

Between July 23, 1942 and October 1943, around 850, 000 people are killed there, more than 800, 000 of whom are Jews.

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945 ) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) of Nazi Germany.

In a revolt that October, prisoners killed most of the guards and SS personnel, and 300 prisoners escaped.

On 4 October 1943, during a secret meeting with top SS officials in the city of Poznań ( Posen ), and on 6 October 1943, in a speech to the party elite — the Gau and Reich leaders — Himmler referred explicitly to the " extermination " ( German: Ausrottung ) of the Jewish people.

Ribbentrop also worked closely with the SS for what turned out to be his last significant foreign-policy move: Operation Panzerfaust, the coup that deposed Admiral Horthy on 15 October 1944.

As with the move of the V-2 Production Works to the Mittelwerk, the complete withdrawal of the development of guided missiles was approved by the Army and SS in October 1943.

* October 9 – SS Volturno catches fire and sinks in the North Atlantic.

* October 14 – A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137.

* October 7 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official and SS head ( d. 1945 )

The remote north of the island was the site of the sinking of the SS Wairarapa around midnight of 29 October 1894.

The deportation of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto began on 22 July 1942, which was the 9th of Av, Tisha B ' Av, according to the Jewish calendar: " According to the SS Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop report, a total of approximately 310, 000 Jews were transported in freight trains from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka during the period from 22 July to 3 October 1942.

Grace Horsley Darling ( 24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842 ) was an English Victorian heroine who in 1838, along with her father, saved 13 people from the wreck of the SS Forfarshire.

** 16 October: Sailed for Europe on board the Dutch packet SS Vlydte

On October 20, 1843, she won a speed trial against the paddle steamer SS Great Western, until then considered the fastest steamer afloat.

On 13 October 1941, Heinrich Himmler gave SS and Police Leader Lublin, SS Brigadeführer Odilo Globocnik, two orders which were closely connected with each other: to start Germanizing the area around Zamość and to start work on the first German Nazi extermination camp in the General Government near Bełżec.

When the camp resistance warned the Sonderkommando that they were due to be murdered on the morning of October 7, 1944, they attacked the SS and Kapos with two machine guns, axes, knives and grenades.

In September and October 1939, SS and SD terrorized ethnic Polish and Jewish population.

From October 1875 to January 1876 he was exploring the hinterland of Port Moresby under Octavius Stone, and in April 1876 went on another expedition under Luigi D ' Albertis for over 400 miles up the Fly River on the SS Ellengowan.

In February 1969, before the SS Manhattan had even sailed from its East Coast starting point, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System ( TAPS ), an unincorporated joint group created by ARCO, British Petroleum, and Humble Oil in October 1968, asked for permission from the United States Department of the Interior to begin geological and engineering studies of a proposed oil pipeline route from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, across Alaska.

On 13 October 1941, SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik ( headquarters in Lublin ) received a verbal order from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to start immediate construction work on the first Aktion Reinhard camp at Bełżec, in the General Government, Poland ( operational March 1942 ).

On October 14th 1945, after a long and exhausting battle, the 7th German SS Division ' Prince Eugene ' was defeated and Niš was liberated by Red Army and Partisans.

On 7 October, elements of the 1st Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Panzer Division were released to reinforce the defense of Aachen.

Militärbezirk Posen was created in September 1939 and as Reichsgau Posen annexed by Germany on 8 October 1939, with SS Obergruppenfuhrer Arthur Greiser as the only Gauleiter.