✦ History

Explore August 24, 1942 – August 25, 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
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Battle of the Eastern Solomons 1942-08-24 - 1942-08-25

People

Siad Barre age 22
Mary of Teck age 75
Yoshirō Mori age 5
Hjalmar Schacht age 65
Rodion Malinovsky age 43
Lázaro Cárdenas age 47
Bob Hawke age 12
Makarios III age 29
Gulzarilal Nanda age 44
Moshe Sharett age 47
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 2
Joaquim Chissano age 2
Sam Nujoma age 13
Juvénal Habyarimana age 5
Abdoulaye Wade age 16
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 24
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 15
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 82
P. W. Botha age 26
Semyon Timoshenko age 47
Lee Teng-hui age 19
Thomas Klestil age 9
Paul-Henri Spaak age 43
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 18
Konstantin Päts age 68
Pál Schmitt age 3 months
Zail Singh age 26
Amintore Fanfani age 34
Willem Drees age 56
Viktor Zubkov age 11 months
Tomiichi Murayama age 18
Nikolai Bulganin age 47
João Goulart age 23
Jean Monnet age 53
Li Peng age 13
John Foster Dulles age 54
Ferhat Abbas age 43
Tassos Papadopoulos age 8
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 77
João Bernardo Vieira age 3
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 24
Chaim Herzog age 23
Giuseppe Saragat age 43
Lamberto Dini age 11
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 5
Algirdas Brazauskas age 9
Prem Tinsulanonda age 22
Roh Tae-woo age 9
Lin Biao age 34
Fedor von Bock age 61
Egon Krenz age 5
Jacobo Árbenz age 28
Ramiz Alia age 16
Leopoldo Galtieri age 16
Bruno Kreisky age 31
Festus Mogae age 3
Seretse Khama age 21
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 18
Lennart Meri age 13
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 29
Giovanni Gronchi age 54
Wim Kok age 3
Antanas Smetona age 68
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 4
Agatha Barbara age 19
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 37
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 42
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 6
Bolesław Bierut age 50
Joseph Estrada age 5
Jean Casimir-Perier age 94
Baldur von Schirach age 35
Dean Acheson age 49
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 80
Andreas Papandreou age 23
Chandra Shekhar age 15
Fuad Masum age 4
Hage Geingob age 1
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 2
Jerzy Buzek age 2
Walter Model age 51
Shigeru Yoshida age 63
Kakuei Tanaka age 24
James Baker age 12
Chiang Ching-kuo age 32
Antonin Scalia age 6
Babrak Karmal age 13
Hafizullah Amin age 13
Alfred Moisiu age 12
Kurt Schuschnigg age 44
Zillur Rahman age 13
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 35
Inder Kumar Gujral age 22
V. P. Singh age 11
Than Shwe age 9
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 66
Albert Kesselring age 56
Joseph Wirth age 63
Wilhelm Marx age 79
Hans Luther age 63
Édouard Herriot age 70
Javier Solana age 1 month
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 17
Lansana Conté age 7
Sveinn Björnsson age 61
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 28
Talal I of Jordan age 33
Ruud Lubbers age 3
Bounnhang Vorachit age 5
Vladimir Voronin age 1
Kiro Gligorov age 25
Jorge Sampaio age 2
Franz Halder age 58
Nobusuke Kishi age 45
Toshiki Kaifu age 11
Kiichi Miyazawa age 22
Tsutomu Hata age 7
Édouard Balladur age 13
Zhu De age 55
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 33
Eduardo Duhalde age 10 months
Malcolm Fraser age 12
Artur Rasizade age 7
John Diefenbaker age 46
Ricardo Lagos age 4
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 16
Gyula Horn age 10
Kārlis Ulmanis age 65
Modibo Keïta age 27
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 16
Goh Chok Tong age 1
Michael Sata age 5
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 3
Diosdado Macapagal age 31
Ramon Magsaysay age 35
Gustav Bauer age 72
Heinrich Brüning age 56
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 5
José Sarney age 12
Abbas II of Egypt age 68
Walther Funk age 52
Fritz Sauckel age 47
George Shultz age 21
Billy Hughes age 79
Harold Holt age 34
Ziaur Rahman age 6
Emilio Colombo age 22
Choummaly Sayasone age 6
Plutarco Elías Calles age 64
José López Portillo age 22
Milovan Đilas age 31
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 7
Girija Prasad Koirala age 18
Abdou Diouf age 6
Milan Kučan age 1
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 1
Carol II of Romania age 48
Fumimaro Konoe age 50
Michel Rocard age 12
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 44
Alain Poher age 33
Abulfaz Elchibey age 4
Zhelyu Zhelev age 7
Hissène Habré age 0 months
Georgios Papadopoulos age 23
Ferenc Mádl age 11
Árpád Göncz age 20
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 40
Ingvar Carlsson age 7
Rómulo Gallegos age 58
Maurice Gamelin age 69
Hayato Ikeda age 42
Noboru Takeshita age 18
Keizō Obuchi age 5
Hu Yaobang age 26
Robert Menzies age 47
Iajuddin Ahmed age 11
Costas Simitis age 6
Abdul Salam Arif age 21
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 27
Ezer Weizman age 18
Isaac Navon age 21
Dries van Agt age 11
Émile Lahoud age 6
Jacques Santer age 5
Luis Echeverría age 20
Ne Win age 31
Benjamin Mkapa age 3
Francisco Largo Caballero age 72
C. Rajagopalachari age 63
Günther von Kluge age 59
Ichirō Hatoyama age 59
Takeo Fukuda age 37
Morihiro Hosokawa age 4
Ivanoe Bonomi age 68
Hendrik Verwoerd age 40
João Figueiredo age 24
Warren Christopher age 16
Reynaldo Bignone age 14
Ayaz Mutallibov age 4