The Allied victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein
Time: Wednesday Nov 11, 1942
Place: Egypt
Details: The thousand-bomber raid on Cologne (May 1942), the Allied victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein.
‹ Earlier in historyEnd of the beginningTuesday Nov 10, 1942 Later in history ›Jews were subjected to forced labor in TunisiaNov, 1942
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Wednesday Jul 1, 1942 - El Alamein, Egypt
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Friday Oct 23, 1942 - El Alamein, Egypt
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On This Day - 11 November
Roman Empire-Galerius appoint Licinius to be Augustus in place of Severus
Wednesday Nov 11, 308 - Roman Empire
Roman Empire-Galerius elevated Licinius to the rank of Augustus
Wednesday Nov 11, 308 - Roman Empire
Crusades-Innocent III called for another Crusade at the Fourth Lateran Council
Wednesday Nov 11, 1215 - Rome
Benito Mussolini-Benito Mussolini's father
Saturday Nov 11, 1854 - Italy
Xinhai Revolution-Fujian Independence
Saturday Nov 11, 1911 - Fujian, China
Xinhai Revolution-The United Army Headquarters Was Established In Zhenjiang
Saturday Nov 11, 1911 - Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China
Harry S. Truman-WWI ends
Monday Nov 11, 1918 - France
Adolf Hitler-World War I Ended
Monday Nov 11, 1918 - Germany
Weimar Republic-Germany After World War I
Monday Nov 11, 1918 - Germany
World War 1-Astro-Hungarian Surrender
Monday Nov 11, 1918 - Austria
Weimar Republic-Armistice of 11 November 1918
Monday Nov 11, 1918 - Germany
Weimar Republic-A part of Germany was occupied
Monday Nov 11, 1918 - Germany
Spanish Flu-WWI End
Monday Nov 11, 1918 - U.S.
World War II-World War I ended
Tuesday Nov 11, 1919 - Europe
Red Summer-Lynching of Jordan Jameson
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Adolf Hitler-Arrested
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World War II-Battle of Taranto
Monday Nov 11, 1940 - Taranto, Italy
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Sunday Nov 11, 2007 - Bangladesh, India
Pope Francis-For 2nd time President of the Argentine Episcopal Conference
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Kobe Bryant-Youngest player in NBA history to reach 26,000 career points
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Joe Biden-Biden chose Ron Klain as his White House Chief of Staff
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Invasion of Prince William III to England in 1688
Thursday Nov 11, 1688 - England
Pilgrims First Landing Spot
Wednesday Nov 11, 1620 - Provincetown Harbor
Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus
Saturday Nov 11, 1493 - Saba
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Bernardo Tasso Brith
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November 1942
Alan Turing-Turing traveled to the United States
Nov, 1942 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower was also appointed Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force of the North African Theater of Operations (NATOUSA)
Nov, 1942 - United Kingdom
World War II-Operation Torch
Sunday Nov 8, 1942 - French Morocco and French Algeria
World War II-Case Anton
Tuesday Nov 10, 1942 - Vichy France
Winston Churchill-End of the beginning
Tuesday Nov 10, 1942 - London, England, United Kingdom
The Holocaust-Jews were subjected to forced labor in Tunisia
Nov, 1942 - Tunisia
The Holocaust-A lot bodies were dug up and burned
Nov, 1942 - Poland
World War II-Battle of Buna–Gona
Monday Nov 16, 1942 - Buna and Gona, Territory of Papua
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels appointed the Reich Defense Commissioner for his Gau
Monday Nov 16, 1942 - Germany
Christmas Island-The Torpedoing of The Nissei Maru at The Wharf
Tuesday Nov 17, 1942 - Christmas Island
World War II-Operation Uranus
Thursday Nov 19, 1942 - Stalingrad, U.S.S.R. (Present Day Volgograd, Russia)
Joe Biden-Birth
Friday Nov 20, 1942 - Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
World War II-Operation Mars
Wednesday Nov 25, 1942 - Rzhev and Velikie Luki, U.S.S.R.
Josip Broz Tito-The Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ)
Thursday Nov 26, 1942 - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Yugoslavia)
The Holocaust-532 Jews were taken by police officers to Oslo harbor
Thursday Nov 26, 1942 - Oslo, Norway
World War II-Scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon
Friday Nov 27, 1942 - Toulon, France
Penicillin-Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston
Saturday Nov 28, 1942 - Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
1942
Pope John Paul II-Study for the priesthood
1942 - Karkow, Poland
Computer-The First "automatic electronic digital computer"
1942 - Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.
Antibiotic-The penicillin G
1942 - United Kingdom
Antibiotic-The Chemical Structure of Penicillin was First Proposed
1942 - United Kingdom
Atlantic Charter-Declaration by United Nations
Thursday Jan 1, 1942 - U.S.
Antibiotic-The Term Antibiotic was First Used
1942 - U.S.
Warren Buffett-Education
1942 - Rose Hill Elementary School, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
World War II-Declaration by United Nations
Thursday Jan 1, 1942 - U.S.
United Nations-United Nations Declaration
Thursday Jan 1, 1942 - U.S.
World War II-German first
Jan, 1942 - U.S., United Kingdom and U.S.S.R.
World War II-Operation Sledgehammer
1942 - U.S.
The Holocaust-Vyacheslav Molotov sent out diplomatic notes about German atrocities
Tuesday Jan 6, 1942 - Moscow, U.S.S.R.
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle created the Normandie-Niemen squadron
1942 - France
World War II-100-250 km from Moscow
Wednesday Jan 7, 1942 - Moscow, U.S.S.R.
Stephen Hawking-Birth
Thursday Jan 8, 1942 - Oxford, England
Shep (American dog)-Shep was run over by a train
Monday Jan 12, 1942 - Fort Benton, Montana, U.S.
Hirohito-The Emperor pressed Sugiyama four times to launch an Attack on Bataan
Tuesday Jan 13, 1942 - Tokyo, Japan
Muhammad Ali Clay-Birth
Saturday Jan 17, 1942 - Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Frank Sinatra-Dorsey Eventually relented
Monday Jan 19, 1942 - U.S.
Adolf Hitler-The records of the Wannsee Conference
Tuesday Jan 20, 1942 - Germany
Christmas Island-The First Attack by The Japanese on The Island
Tuesday Jan 20, 1942 - West White Beach, Christmas Island
Heinrich Himmler-Himmler in charge of Jews Extermination
Tuesday Jan 20, 1942 - Germany
The Holocaust-Wannsee Conference
Tuesday Jan 20, 1942 - Berlin, Germany
Stan Lee-Joining the army
1942 - U.S.
World War II-Battle of Rabaul
Friday Jan 23, 1942 - Rabaul, New Britain
Second Sino-Japanese War-Mission 204
Feb, 1942 - China
World War II-Battle of Singapore
Sunday Feb 8, 1942 - Singapore
The Holocaust-Szlama Ber Winer escaped from the Chełmno concentration camp
Feb, 1942 - Poland
World War II-The Bombing of Darwin
Thursday Feb 19, 1942 - Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
World War II-Battle of the Java Sea
Friday Feb 27, 1942 - Java Sea
Josip Broz Tito-The Second Proletarian Brigade
Sunday Mar 1, 1942 - Yugoslavia
Christmas Island-A Japanese Naval Group Shelled The Island
Saturday Mar 7, 1942 - Christmas Island
Christmas Island-The Mutiny of The Indian Troops
Tuesday Mar 10, 1942 - Christmas Island
Labor day-Significant workers' strike
1942 - Bahamas
Penicillin-The first patient was treated for streptococcal sepsis with US-made penicillin produced by Merck & Co.
Saturday Mar 14, 1942 - U.S.
Indira Gandhi-Marriage
Wednesday Mar 25, 1942 - Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Christmas Island-The Island Surrendered To The Japanese Fleet
Tuesday Mar 31, 1942 - Christmas Island
World War II-Indian Ocean raid
Tuesday Mar 31, 1942 - Indian Ocean and Ceylon
Desmond Doss: Hacksaw Ridge-World War II service
Wednesday Apr 1, 1942 - Virginia, U.S.
Penicillin-People began using it to treat infections
1942 - U.S.
Penicillin-The chemical structure of penicillin was first proposed
1942 - Oxford, England, United Kingdom
World War II-Battle of Yenangyaung
Saturday Apr 11, 1942 - Yenangyaung, Burma
Second Sino-Japanese War-The Battle of Yenangyaung
Wednesday Apr 15, 1942 - Yenangyaung, Burma
Anna May Wong-New Chinese Recipes
1942 - U.S.
Anna May Wong-Anti-Japanese propaganda
1942 - U.S.
World War II-Doolittle Raid
Saturday Apr 18, 1942 - Greater Tokyo Area, Japan
Ronald Reagan-National Duty
Saturday Apr 18, 1942 - U.S.
John F. Kennedy-PT-109
Friday Apr 24, 1942 - Tulagi Island, Solomon Islands
World War II-Japan's next plan
Apr, 1942 - Japan
World War II-Battle of the Coral Sea
Tuesday May 5, 1942 - Coral Sea
World War II-Battle of Madagascar
Tuesday May 5, 1942 - Madagascar
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold
May, 1942 - London, England, United Kingdom
World War II-Operation Fredericus
Tuesday May 12, 1942 - Izium and Barvinkove, Kharkov Oblast, U.S.S.R.
Second Sino-Japanese War-The Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign
Friday May 15, 1942 - Zhejiang, China - Jiangxi, China
World War II-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign
Friday May 15, 1942 - Zhejiang, Jiangxi, China
Audrey Hepburn-Uncle's execution
1942 - Netherlands
Winston Churchill-Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in London
Wednesday May 20, 1942 - London, England, United Kingdom
Ted Kaczynski-Kaczynski birth
Friday May 22, 1942 - Illinois, Chicago, U.S.A
Joseph Goebbels-The German city of Cologne was bombed
May, 1942 - Cologne, Germany
World War II-Battle of Gazala
Tuesday May 26, 1942 - Gazala, near Tobruk, Libya
Winston Churchill-Churchill contacted Roosevelt
Wednesday May 27, 1942 - United Kingdom
John Maynard Keynes-Rewarded for his service with a hereditary peerage
Jun, 1942 - England
World War II-Aleutian Islands Campaign
Wednesday Jun 3, 1942 at 07:50:00 AM - Aleutian Islands, Territory of Alaska, U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower returned to Washington
Wednesday Jun 3, 1942 - Washington D.C., U.S.
World War II-Battle of Midway
Thursday Jun 4, 1942 - Midway Atoll, U.S.
Hirohito-The Battle of Midway
Thursday Jun 4, 1942 - Midway Atoll
Penicillin-Just enough US penicillin was available to treat ten patients
Jun, 1942 - U.S.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip was flotilla leader HMS Wallace
Jun, 1942 - United Kingdom
Shep (American dog)-Funeral
Jun, 1942 - Fort Benton, Montana, U.S.
Richard Nixon-Lieutenant Junior Grade In The U.S Naval Reserve
Monday Jun 15, 1942 - U.S.
Winston Churchill-Churchill had returned to Washington
Wednesday Jun 17, 1942 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Marilyn Monroe-1st Marriage
Friday Jun 19, 1942 - Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower returned to London as Commanding General, European Theater of Operations
Tuesday Jun 23, 1942 - London, England, United Kingdom
Winston Churchill-Churchill returned to Britain
Thursday Jun 25, 1942 - United Kingdom
Fido (dog)-Central square of Luco di Mugello
1942 - Central square of Luco di Mugello, Tuscany, Italy
World War II-Case Blue
Sunday Jun 28, 1942 - Voronezh and Rostov to Stalingrad, Kuban, Caucasus, U.S.S.R.
Heinrich Himmler-Generalplan Ost
Jul, 1942 - Germany
Turingery
Jul, 1942 - England
Alan Turing-Turing Devised a Technique Termed Turingery
Jul, 1942 - Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
World War II-First Battle of El Alamein
Wednesday Jul 1, 1942 - El Alamein, Egypt
John Maynard Keynes-Baron Keynes, of Tilton, in the County of Sussex
Tuesday Jul 7, 1942 - England
The Holocaust-Over 107,000 Dutch Jews were deported
Jul, 1942 - Netherlands
John F. Kennedy-First Command
Sunday Jul 12, 1942 - U.S.
The Holocaust-Resistance groups were formed
Jul, 1942 - Poland
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Promotion to lieutenant
Thursday Jul 16, 1942 - United Kingdom
The Holocaust-Polish leaders in Warsaw had learned about the mass killing of Jews in Auschwitz
Jul, 1942 - Poland
Hirohito-The American advance through the Solomon Islands
Aug, 1942 - Solomon Islands
World War II-Operation Pedestal
Monday Aug 3, 1942 - Mediterranean Sea near Malta
World War II-Operation Watchtower
Friday Aug 7, 1942 - Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-The Quit India speech
Saturday Aug 8, 1942 - Mumbai, India
Winston Churchill-Churchill was in Moscow
Wednesday Aug 12, 1942 - Moscow, U.S.S.R. (Present-Day Moscow, Russia)
The Holocaust-Germans began building additional camps and gas chambers
1942 - Poland
Desmond Doss: Hacksaw Ridge-Marriage
Monday Aug 17, 1942 - Virginia, U.S.
Winston Churchill-Churchill returned to Cairo
Monday Aug 17, 1942 - Cairo, Egypt
Operation Mincemeat- Battle of Alam el Halfa
Aug, 1942 - Egypt
World War II-Dieppe Raid
Wednesday Aug 19, 1942 - Dieppe, France
Adolf Hitler-Battle of Stalingrad
Sunday Aug 23, 1942 - Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (Then Volgograd, Russia)
World War II-Battle of Stalingrad
Sunday Aug 23, 1942 - Stalingrad, U.S.S.R. (Present Day Volgograd, Russia)
Benito Mussolini-Mussolini's older son was murdered
Wednesday Aug 26, 1942 - Italy
Hong Kong independence-First Opium War
Saturday Aug 29, 1942 - Hong Kong, China