{"id":829,"date":"2012-12-02T21:24:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T04:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/?p=829"},"modified":"2013-02-01T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T20:04:47","slug":"montana-history-calendar-1942-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/montana-history-calendar-1942-in-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana History Calendar 1942"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 1942<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 January 1 – A fire in downtown Missoula destroyed the Shapard Hotel, Gambles Auto Supply, and damaged Yandt’s Men’s Store and the Army induction center.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 January 2 – Manila captured by the Japanese.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 January 12 – Collie “Shep” killed at Fort Benton.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 January 23 – The Montana Grizzlies defeated Western Montana Normal 57 to 35.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 January 30 – The Montana Grizzlies defeated the Bobcats 47 to 44. The following day the Grizzlies again beat their arch-rivals, 44 to 43 on a free throw in the final seconds.<\/h4>\n

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February 1942<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 February 1 – Blackfeet tribal leader Mountain Chief died in Browning at age 94.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 February 8 – Burma was invaded by the Japanese.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 February 9 – “War Time” was instituted to save electricity.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 February 15 – Singapore fell to the Japanese.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 February 16 – The Third draft registration began.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 February 19 – Federal inspectors began to survey junkyards for usable scrap metal.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 February 20 – Delegates to the 1942 High School Week were introduced to the war\u2013time training available at Montana colleges.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 February 26 – Gary Cooper, originally from Helena, won an Academy award for his role in “Sergeant York.”<\/h4>\n

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March 1942<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 March 6 – Distribution of sugar rationing books began at local grade schools.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 March 8 – Japanese forces landed in New Guinea.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 March 13 – Washing machine production was halted, bicycle production was curtailed, and typewriters were rationed.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 March 14 – Abandoned Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Montana were turned over to the military.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 March 15 – The Missoula Spartans defeated Helena 53 to 22 in the Northern Division Basketball Championships.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 March 19 – The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth left San Francisco with Montana National Guardsmen aboard.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 March 21 – Two trains collided in Missoula.<\/h4>\n

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April 1942<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 April 1 – A mass evacuation of all people of Japanese ancestry was ordered on the west coast.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 April 5 – Great Falls native George Montgomery married actress Hedy Lamarr.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 April 7 – The 163rd Infantry Regiment, Montana National Guard, arrived in Australia.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 April 8 – The War Production Board announced that Montana was the largest chromium producer in the world, thanks to mines in Sweetgrass and Stillwater counties.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 April 9 – The Bataan Death March began in the Philippines.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 April 10 – The production of golf clubs and balls was halted.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 April 18 – The Doolittle Raiders bombed targets in Japan.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 April 23 – Sugar rationing stamps were introduced.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 April 29 – Price ceilings set on all food and clothing.<\/h4>\n

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May 1942<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 May 4 – U.S. and Japanese naval forces fought in the battle of the Coral Sea.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 May 6 – American defenders of Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 May 14 – 500 athletes from 77 schools arrived in Missoula for the Montana State High School Track championship. Two days later the Missoula Spartans won their fourth straight Interscholastic Track and Field title, edging out Butte.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 May 17 – Governor Ford proclaimed “I Am An American Day”<\/h4>\n

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June 1942<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 June 3 – The Japanese bombed Dutch Harbor, Alaska.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 June 4 – Four Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk during the battle of Midway.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 June 5 – Governor Ford commuted the sentence of 24 inmates at Montana State Prison so the men could enlist.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 June 7 – USS Yorktown was sunk by a Japanese submarine.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 June 10 – The Nazis destroyed the Czech town of Lidice.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 June 11 – Six drowned at Fort Peck Reservoir.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 June 12 – The Japanese occupied the Aleutian Islands of Attu and Kiska.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 June 21 – The Germans seized Tobruk, Libya from the British.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 June 25 – Governor Ford reduced the state speed limit to 40 miles per hour.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 June 28 – Doolittle Raiders David Thatcher and Edward Saylor were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in Washington, D.C.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 June 30 – A flying instructor and student were injured in a plane crash west of Billings.<\/h4>\n

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July 1942<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 July 2 – British General Bernard Montgomery halted a German offensive at El Alamein.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 July 7 – The Blue Fountain Room (soda fountain) opened at the Florence Hotel in Missoula.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 July 10 – Dave Thatcher was awarded the Silver Star in Billings.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 July 22 – Japanese-American students were denied entry to state universities in Montana. Japanese forces landed at Buna, New Guinea.<\/h4>\n

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August 1942<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 August 2 – Miners Field Day celebrated in Butte.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 August 7 – U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal. Vern Haugland, former reporter for the Missoulian, parachuted from a crippled bomber over New Guinea. The funeral for Frances Corbin, former UM literature professor and Dean of Women, was held in Missoula.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 August 9 – Japanese sank four American cruisers at Savo.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 August 17 – U.S. Marines raided Makin Island.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 August 19 – Allied and Canadian soldiers mounted an abortive raid against the French port of Dieppe.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 August 21 – Marines on Guadalcanal withstood a major Japanese attack across the Tenaru River.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 August 23 – Doolittle Raider E.J. Saylor of Brusett was the guest of honor at Missoula’s Heroes Day Parade.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 August 25 – Japanese forces landed at Milne Bay, New Guinea.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 August 26 – The Soviets counterattacked at Stalingrad.<\/h4>\n

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September 1942<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 September 1 \u2013 Five planes lifted off from Great Falls, bound for the U.S.S.R., where German troops were near the outskirts of Stalingrad.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 September 12 \u2013 The Japanese attacked “Bloody Ridge” on Guadalcanal.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 September 14 \u2013 The USS Helena rescued 400 survivors after the USS Wasp was sunk by a Japanese torpedo in the Solomons.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 September 15 \u2013 The search for reporter Vern Haugland was abandoned in New Guinea.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 September 16 \u2013 Australian troops in New Guinea halted Japanese forces only 30 miles from Port Moresby.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 September 23 \u2013 AP reporter Vern Haugland reached Port Moresby after 47 days lost in the New Guinea jungle.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 September 26 \u2013 The start of bird hunting season.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 September 27 \u2013 Brigham Young University football team defeated the Montana Grizzlies 12 to 6 in Missoula.<\/h4>\n

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October 1942<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 October 1 \u2013 A 35-mile-per-hour speed limit was implemented.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 October 4 \u2013 The St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series after defeating the New York Yankees four games to one.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 October 7 \u2013 The U.S. Marines began an offensive at the mouth of Matanikau River on Guadalcanal.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 October 8 \u2013 Gold mining in the state was halted in order to free up miners and materials for more vital mineral production.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 October 11 & 12 \u2013 The USS Helena played a crucial part during the night sea battle of Cape Esperance.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 October 14 \u2013 Five German divisions attacked Soviet troops holed up in the Tractor Factory at Stalingrad.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 October 23 \u2013 The British began an offensive at El Alamein.<\/h4>\n

\u2022 October 31 \u2013 The Idaho Vandal football team defeated the Montana Grizzlies 21 to 0.<\/h4>\n

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November 1942
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\u2022 November 2 \u2013 Arthur L. Higgins, fourth and last son of Missoula founder C.P.Higgins, died at age 69.
\n\u2022 November 7 \u2013 Montana Grizzly football team was defeated 33 to 0 by Oregon State.
\n\u2022 November 8 \u2013 U.S. troops landed in North Africa.
\n\u2022 November 12 \u2013 British troops retook Tobruk.
\n\u2022 November 13 \u2013 The USS Helena<\/em> fired first in a sea battle off Guadalcanal which prevented the Japanese from landing reinforcements.
\n\u2022 November 14 \u2013 Butte theaters reopened after a three-week strike. The Montana Grizzlies were defeated 13 to 0 by the California Golden Bears.
\n\u2022 November 18 \u2013 Gas rationing books were issued.
\n\u2022 November 21 \u2013 African-American soldiers arrived in Butte to work in the mines.<\/p>\n

December 1942<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 December 2 \u2013 The world’s first nuclear reaction occurred at the University of Chicago.
\n\u2022 December 5 \u2013 The Montana Grizzlies lost their final game of the season, 38 to 0 against UCLA.
\n\u2022 December 9 \u2013 The first Women Air Service Pilots (WASP) began ferrying planes into Great Falls.
\n\u2022 December 18 \u2013 The meat ration was cut to 35 ounces per week.
\n\u2022 December 21 \u2013 Two Army officers were killed in a crash of their light plane near Helena.
\n\u2022 December 24 \u2013 “The World’s Most Awful Battle” was underway on the outskirts of Stalingrad. Ralph “Red” Morrison of Helena, a pioneer of Montana aviation and a former state legislator, died in a plane crash at MacDill Field, Florida.
\n\u2022 December 27 \u2013 The 163rd Infantry Regiment, Montana National Guard, arrived at Port Moresby, New Guinea.
\n\u2022 December 28 \u2013 Military Policemen from the Great Falls Army Air Base were involved in a gunfight at a Black Eagle bar that wounded four civilians.
\n\u2022 December 30 \u2013 A B-17 crashed 11 miles south of Musselshell, killing all 12 aboard.<\/p>\n

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