Mrs. Sandusky Reads!!!!: 1942-WWII in full swing and the Diary of Ann Frank begins!

All History Facts from Wikipedia!

January

January 10 – WWII: The last German air-raid on Liverpool destroys the home of William Patrick Hitler, Adolf Hitler's nephew. After his house is destroyed, William Hitler goes to the USA and joins the navy to fight against his uncle.
January 13

Sikorsky R-4 first flies, in the USA; it will become the first mass-produced helicopter.
Heinkel test pilot Helmut Schenk becomes the first person to escape from a stricken aircraft with an ejection seat.

January 26 – WWII: The first American forces arrive in Europe, landing in Northern Ireland.

February

February 2 – WWII: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an executive order directing the internment of Japanese Americans and the seizure of their property.
February 8-Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States.
February 10 – In the early hours of the morning the SS Normandie capsizes at pier 88 in New York City.
February 19 – WWII:

Japanese warplanes attack Darwin, Australia.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066 allowing the United States military to define areas as exclusionary zones. These zones affect the Japanese on the West Coast, and Germans and Italians primarily on the East Coast.

February 24 – the SS Struma, which carried Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-controlled Palestine, was torpedoed and sunk by the Soviet submarine Shch 213, killing 768 men, women and children, with only one survivor, a 19 year old man, making it the largest exclusively civilian naval disaster of the war.^[1]
February 24 – Propaganda: The Voice of America begins broadcasting.

March

March – Construction begins on the Badger Army Ammunition Plant (the largest in the United States during WWII).
March 17 – Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Bełżec opens in occupied Poland about 1 km south of the local railroad station of Bełżec in the Lublin district of the General Government. Between March and December 1942, at least 434,508 people are killed there.

April

April – Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Sobibor opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór. Between April 1942 and October 1943, at least 160,000 people are killed in the camp.
Spring – Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Treblinka II opens in occupied Poland near the village of Treblinka. Between July 1942 and October 1943, around 850,000 people were killed there,^[2] more than 800,000 of whom were Jews.^[3]
April 13 – The FCC's minimum programming time required of TV stations is cut from 15 hours to 4 hours a week during the war.
April 27 – The Jewish Star of David is required wearing for all Jews in the Netherlands and Belgium. Other Jews in Nazi countries had been wearing it for longer.

May

May 15 – WWII: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
May 20 – The first African-American seamen are taken into the United States Navy.
May 31 – June 1 – WWII – Attack on Sydney Harbour: Japanese submarines infiltrate Sydney Harbour in an attempt to attack Allied warships.

June

June 7 – WWII: Japanese forces invade the Aleutian Islands (the first invasion of American soil in 128 years).
June 8 – WWII: Attack on Sydney Harbour: The Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle are shelled by Japanese submarines. The eastern suburbs of both cities are damaged and the east coast is blacked out.
June 12 – Holocaust: On her 13th birthday, Anne Frank makes the first entry in her new diary.

July

July 6 – Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
July 22 – Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
July 30 – Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).

August

August 13 – Movie Bambi is released.
August 16- Polish-Jewish teacher Janusz Korczak follows a group of Jewish children into the Treblinka death camp.

September

September 3 – WWII: A German attempt to liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Lakhva leads to an uprising.
September 10 – Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) begins operation.
September 24 – Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac become the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France.

October

October 2 – The British cruiser Curaçao collides with the liner Queen Mary off the coast of Donegal and sinks; 338 drown.
October 3 – The first A-4 rocket is successfully launched from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. The rocket flies 147 kilometres wide and reaches a height of 84.5 kilometres, becoming the first man-made object to reach space.
October 29 – Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.

November

November 26 – The movie Casablanca premières at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.

December

Holocaust: In Warsaw, 2 women, Zofia Kossak and Wanda Filipowicz, risk their lives by setting up the Council for the Assistance of the Jews.

Date unknown

Mrs. Sandusky Reads!!!!