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Horrible year in many ways, but at least I had good company:
In 1942 (the year you were born) |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is president of the US The Battle of the Midway begins, marketing the first major defeat for the Japanese Fire at the Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston kills 491 Forced detention of 110,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast begins German General Rommel is defeated at the Battle of El Alamein Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world Stephen Hawking, Muhammad Ali, Tammy Faye Bakker, Martin Scorsese, and Jimi Hendrix born St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series Washington Redskins win the NFL championships Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York City |