1942 in Film & TV. May 29 Bing Crosby records Irving Berlin's song "White Christmas", world's best-selling single (estimated 100 million copies sold); May 29 "Yankee Doodle Dandy", based on life of George M. Cohan, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring James Cagney and Joan Lesley, premieres in NYC (Academy Awards Best Actor 1943); Jun 4 "Mrs Miniver" based on the novel …

What Happened in 1933 Important News and Events, Key Technology and Popular Culture. 1933 Major News Stories including 25% US unemployment, Repeal of prohibition laws, Strong Winds With Drought strip topsoil causing dust storms, This was the one of the worst years of the great depression and very few countries around the world not affected, Alcatraz becomes a federal …

Nov 09, 2016 · Historical Events for the Year 1941. 2nd January » World War II: Strategic bombing during World War II named German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff named Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.; 6th January » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.; 9th January » …

What Happened in 1941 Important News and Events, Key Technology & Popular Culture. What happened in 1941 Major News Stories include US Joins World War II after Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, The war in Europe continues to escalate, Germany attacks the Soviet Union, Thanksgiving Day Bill Passed, Churchill launches the "V for Victory" campaign across Europe, GI-bill signed …

Jan 31 Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad; Feb 2 German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad in a major turning point in Europe during World War II; Feb 9 Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ending the epic World War II battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific; Mar 3 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Australian and American air forces …

Apr 04, 2022 · 2003 – Britain and the US go to war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. 2004 – Double Olympic gold for Kelly Holmes in 800m and 1500m in …

The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia.On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the town, ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and …

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American period drama written, produced, and directed by Orson Welles.Welles adapted Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1918 novel, about the declining fortunes of a wealthy Midwestern family and the social changes brought by the automobile age.The film stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes …

May 29, 2022 · Later, Hitler postponed Operation Sealion indefinitely. This victory was one of the most important for Britain and proof that air power alone could be used to win a major battle. 3. Battle of Midway, June 1942. The Japanese planned to eliminate the United States’ position as a strategic power in the Pacific by launching the Battle of Midway.

May 30, 2022 · Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war), with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. By the end of August 1944 all of northern France …