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Male 1942 - 1945  (2 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1 1942 
  • 1942—1942:
    Invention of world's first programmable computer by Alan Turing in co-operation with Max Neumann - used to crack German codes
  • 1942—1942:
    Gilbert Murray founds Oxfam
  • 30 May 1942—30 May 1942:
    Over 1,000 allied bombers raid Cologne
  • 4 Jun 1942—4 Jun 1942:
    Battle of Midway
  • 19 Aug 1942—19 Aug 1942:
    Abortive raid on Dieppe, largely by Canadian troops
  • 6 Sep 1942—6 Sep 1942:
    Germans defeated at Stalingrad
  • 3 Oct 1942—3 Oct 1942:
    First successful launch of V2 rocket in Germany - first man-made object to reach space
  • 23 Oct 1942—23 Oct 1942:
    Battle of El Alamein - Montgomery defeats Rommel
  • 2 Dec 1942—2 Dec 1942:
    'Manhattan Project' - a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction
2 1943 
  • 1943—1943:
    Round-the-clock bombing of Germany begins
  • 16 May 1943—16 May 1943:
    'Dam Buster' raids on Ruhr dams by RAF
  • 24 Jul 1943—24 Jul 1943:
    Allies invade Italy - Benito Mussolini resigns as Italian Dictator, 24 July
3 1944 
  • 6 Apr 1944—6 Apr 1944:
    PAYE income tax begins
  • 4 Jun 1944—4 Jun 1944:
    Allies enter Rome
  • 6 Jun 1944—6 Jun 1944:
    D-Day invasion of Normandy
  • 12 Jun 1944—12 Jun 1944:
    First V1 flying bombs hit London
  • 8 Sep 1944—8 Sep 1944:
    First V2 rocket bombs hit London
  • 11 Sep 1944—11 Sep 1944:
    Allies enter Germany
  • 16 Dec 1944—16 Dec 1944:
    Battle of the Bulge: German counter-offensive
4 1945 
  • 1945—1945:
    SA - 34 people killed and 90 injured in explosion of the Grand Magazine in Pretoria.
  • 1945—1945:
    SA - Announcement made that as from the beginning of the war until 05 March 1945, more than 1500 South African soldiers were decorated, 2386 were mentioned in despatches and 330 were commended.
  • 1945—1945:
    SA - Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuked
  • 4 Feb 1945—4 Feb 1945:
    Yalta Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
  • 17 Mar 1945—1945:
    SA - South African Forces capture Monte Sole and Monte Caprara, which were barring entering into Bologna.
  • 29 Mar 1945—29 Mar 1945:
    Last V1 flying bomb attack
  • 25 Apr 1945—25 Apr 1945:
    Berlin surrounded by Russian troops
  • 30 Apr 1945—30 Apr 1945:
    Hitler commits suicide
  • 8 May 1945—8 May 1945:
    VE Day (Victory in Europe)
  • 9 May 1945—9 May 1945:
    Channel Islands liberated
  • 26 Jun 1945—26 Jun 1945:
    UN Charter signed in San Francisco
  • 16 Jul 1945—16 Jul 1945:
    First ever atomic bomb exploded in a test in New Mexico (although there were other forms of atomic device before that, such as the Pile at Stagg Field, first critical on 2nd Dec 1942)
  • 26 Jul 1945—26 Jul 1945:
    Labour win UK General Election - Churchill out of office
  • 29 Jul 1945—29 Jul 1945:
    BBC Light Programme starts
  • 6 Aug 1945—6 Aug 1945:
    Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
  • 9 Aug 1945—9 Aug 1945:
    Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
  • 15 Aug 1945—15 Aug 1945:
    VJ Day (Victory in Japan)
  • 2 Sep 1945—2 Sep 1945:
    Japanese surrender signed aboard USS Missouri
  • 24 Oct 1945—24 Oct 1945:
    United Nations Organisation comes into existence
  • 4 Nov 1945—4 Nov 1945:
    UNESCO founded

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