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| | 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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| 1942 |
| | Algerian nationalist Ferhat Abbas produces a manifesto demanding independence from France | |
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| 1942 |
| | French author Albert Camus creates an early anti-hero in his novel The Outsider (L'Étranger) | |
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| 1942 |
| | Mahatma Gandhi and nearly all the leaders of India's Congress party are arrested and will remain in prison until the end of the war | |
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| 1942 |
| | French author Marguerite Duras makes her name with her partly autobiographical novel The Sea Wall | |
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