Historical Events in 1942
48 curated events dated to this year, and 120 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1942
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The Brutal Jungle Ordeal of the Death Railway Construction
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Awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship
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Beveridge Report Published
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Death of Miguel Hernández in Prison
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Doolittle Raid carries the war to Japan by air
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Executive Order 9066 Authorises Japanese American Incarceration
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Manhattan Project Begins
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Siege of Stalingrad
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The AF Water-Ration Message Before Midway
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Wannsee Conference
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Albert Camus Publishes 'The Myth of Sisyphus'
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Battle of Midway
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Battle of Stalingrad Begins
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Benxihu Colliery Disaster
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First Nuclear Reactor (Chicago Pile-1)
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Forced Relocation from Singapore
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Publication of 'Poésie et Vérité'
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Recognition by the Scottish Arts Council
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Siege of Leningrad — Lice and Disease in the Blockaded City
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Soviet Deployment of the SN-42 Steel Breastplate
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The Agonizing Cross-Country Flight of the survivors of the St. Nazaire Raid
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The Agonizing Defense of Fort Segarra
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The Agonizing Ordeal of the Bataan Death March
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The Bracero Program Begins
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The First International Surrealist Exhibition in New York
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Women Enter Industrial Workforce in Denim During World War II
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Doolittle Raid Aftermath and Island Hopping Strategy
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Eunice Tietjens' Work Recognized by Critics
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Malaria Kills or Incapacitates Soldiers in the Second World War Pacific Campaign
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Patrick Kavanagh's 'The Great Hunger' Depicts Rural Irish Poverty and Infestation
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Planned Parenthood Federation Founded
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Publication of Such Was My Singing
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Sherman Tank Deployment by Allies
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Taggard Publishes Long View
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The Agonizing Open-Sea Survival of the Poon Lim Drift
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The Publication of M.F.K. Fisher's Culinary Masterpiece
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Touring with the USO during WWII
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Valéry's Cantate du Narcisse is premiered in Marseille
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Writing of 'Our Lady of the Flowers' by Jean Genet
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Burma Campaign
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Claire McCardell Designs Denim 'Popover' Dress
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Development of the Bazooka
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Friendship with Poet William Carlos Williams
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Luis Rosales's Poetry of the Franco Years
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Operation Outward British Incendiary Balloons
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Publication of The Forgiveness of Sins
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Cullen publishes My Lives and How I Lost Them
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Two-Ply Toilet Paper Commercialization
Poets alive in 1942
120 poets
Poets in 1942
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