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| | | Harold Macmillan moves to the Colonial Office, as under-secretary | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Yitzhak Shamir becomes leader of the terrorist Stern gang in Palestine | |
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| 1942 |
| | | A report by UK economist William Beveridge proposes a wide-ranging social security programme for postwar Britain | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Dmitry Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, mainly written during the siege of Leningrad, has its premiere in Kuybishev | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Leslie Howard directs and stars in The First of the Few, about the creator of the Spitfire, with music by William Walton | |
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| 1942 |
| | | US choreographer Merce Cunningham begins a long creative partnership with the composer John Cage | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Aaron Copland's ballet Rodeo has choreography by Agnes de Mille | |
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| 1942 |
| | | David Lean and Noel Coward create a classic wartime film, In Which We Serve about the crew of a naval destroyer | |
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| 1942 |
| | | A Jewish girl in Amsterdam, Anne Frank, is given a diary for her thirteenth birthday | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi launches the Quit India Movement, calling on a large crowd in Bombay to 'do or die' in the struggle to expel the British | |
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