✦ History

Explore December 8, 1941 – January 31, 1942

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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20

People

Stephen Hawking born 1942-01-08
Jean-Paul Sartre age 36
Jimmy Carter age 17
Benedict XVI age 14
Mother Teresa age 31
George H. W. Bush age 17
Jawaharlal Nehru age 52
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 51
Richard Nixon age 28
Alan Turing age 29
John Maynard Keynes age 58
Simone de Beauvoir age 33
Niels Bohr age 56
John Lennon age 1
Muhammad Ali born 1942-01-17
Max Planck age 83
Kofi Annan age 3
Gerald Ford age 28
Indira Gandhi age 24
Saddam Hussein age 4
Enrico Fermi age 40
Nikita Khrushchev age 47
14th Dalai Lama age 6
Silvio Berlusconi age 5
Herbert Hoover age 67
Mahathir Mohamad age 16
Boris Yeltsin age 10
Ali Khamenei age 2
Jacques Chirac age 9
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 23
Kwame Nkrumah age 32
Yasser Arafat age 12
Ho Chi Minh age 51
Konrad Adenauer age 65
Henry Kissinger age 18
Václav Havel age 5
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 14
Georges Pompidou age 30
Joseph Goebbels age 44
Leonid Brezhnev age 34
Robert Mugabe age 17
Hosni Mubarak age 13
Golda Meir age 43
John XXIII age 60
Ferdinand Marcos age 24
Malcolm X age 16
François Mitterrand age 25
Alexander Fleming age 60
David Ben-Gurion age 55
Milton Friedman age 29
Ruhollah Khomeini age 39
Valentina Tereshkova age 4
Pol Pot age 16
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 3
Akihito age 7
Josip Broz Tito age 49
Helmut Kohl age 11
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 37
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 23
Rosa Parks age 28
Shimon Peres age 18
Sukarno age 40
John Paul I age 29
Anwar Sadat age 22
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 3
Paul VI age 44
Willy Brandt age 27
Dag Hammarskjöld age 36
Salvador Allende age 33
John von Neumann age 37
Augusto Pinochet age 26
Lee Kuan Yew age 18
Suharto age 20
Ariel Sharon age 13
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 23
Desmond Tutu age 10
Sergio Mattarella age 4 months
Manmohan Singh age 9
Yuri Andropov age 27
Buzz Aldrin age 11
Patrice Lumumba age 16
Yitzhak Rabin age 19
Rosalind Franklin age 21
Andrei Sakharov age 20
Dick Cheney age 10 months
Douglas MacArthur age 61
Raúl Castro age 10
Giorgio Napolitano age 16
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 1
Idi Amin age 16
Erwin Rommel age 50
Helmut Schmidt age 22
Margrethe II of Denmark age 1
Rachel Carson age 34
Corazon Aquino age 8
Edward VIII age 47
Madeleine Albright age 4
José Mujica age 6
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 17
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 64
Wernher von Braun age 29
Eva Perón age 22
Harald V of Norway age 4
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 4
Slobodan Milošević age 3 months
Enver Hoxha age 33
Martti Ahtisaari age 4
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 5
Konstantin Chernenko age 30
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 10
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 3
Jiang Zemin age 15
Zhou Enlai age 43
Eduard Shevardnadze age 13
Romano Prodi age 2
Robert F. Kennedy age 16
Pranab Mukherjee age 5
Park Chung-hee age 24
Vyacheslav Molotov age 51
Joachim Gauck age 1
Menachem Begin age 28
Erich Honecker age 29
Hafez al-Assad age 11
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 2
Islam Karimov age 3
Harold Wilson age 25
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 21
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 277
James Callaghan age 29
Pratibha Patil age 6
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 13
Eva Braun age 29
Juan Perón age 46
Heydar Aliyev age 18
Kim Dae-jung age 17
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 19
Aldo Moro age 25
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 1
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 35
F. W. de Klerk age 5
Ludwig Erhard age 44
Kurt Waldheim age 22
Mobutu Sese Seko age 11
Jomo Kenyatta age 48
Julius Nyerere age 19
Saparmurat Niyazov age 1
Leonid Kuchma age 3
Donald Rumsfeld age 9
Olof Palme age 14
Süleyman Demirel age 17
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 25
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 48
Jonas Salk age 27
Karl Dönitz age 50
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 8
Pierre Trudeau age 22
Fulgencio Batista age 40
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 74
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 53
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 18
Syngman Rhee age 66
Junichiro Koizumi born 1942-01-08
Tarō Asō age 1
U Thant age 32
Rudolf Hess age 47
George S. Patton age 56
Colin Powell age 4
Giulio Andreotti age 22
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 5
Alexander Dubček age 20
Václav Klaus age 5 months
Francesco Cossiga age 13
Leonid Kravchuk age 7
Puyi age 35
Ahmed Ben Bella age 24
Heinz Fischer age 3
Michael D. Higgins age 7 months
Alberto Fujimori age 3
Bernard Montgomery age 54
Richard von Weizsäcker age 21
Albert Speer age 36
Reza Shah age 63
Albert II of Belgium age 7
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 7
John Howard age 2
Rajendra Prasad age 57
Alexander Kerensky age 60
Turgut Özal age 14
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 66
Eisaku Satō age 40
Georgy Malenkov age 39
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 20
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 21
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 35
Michel Temer age 1
Sergei Korolev age 34
Reinhard Heydrich age 37
Edward Heath age 25
Walter Mondale age 13
Paul Biya age 8