Born in July 1942 - Zodiac Signs, Personality and Horoscopes

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What happened in July 1942

• July 1, 1942: British forces halted Axis advance into Egypt, reducing German Afrika Korps' panzer strength to 26 vehicles.
• July 3, 1942: Japanese Naval force occupied Guadalcanal to construct an airfield.
• July 4, 1942: German bombers and submarines sank 24 ships in Convoy PQ 17 to the Soviet Union.
• July 5, 1942: German 4th Panzer Army reached Don River near Voronezh, engaging in the battle to capture the city.
• July 6, 1942: Anne Frank's family went into hiding in an attic above her father's office to escape the Holocaust.
• July 7, 1942: German 4th Panzer Army reached Voronezh outskirts, but faced a successful Soviet counterattack.
• July 8, 1942: Turkish Prime Minister Refik Saydam died in office, succeeded briefly by Ahmet Fikri Tüzer.
• July 9, 1942: Şükrü Saracoğlu formed the new Turkish government.
• July 13, 1942: U-boats sank three merchant ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence during WWII.
• July 14, 1942: Bastille Day Gaullist demonstrations in Vichy France resulted in the shooting of two women by fascist French Popular Party members.
• July 16, 1942: Vichy France police, under Pierre Laval's orders, rounded up 13,000–20,000 Jews and imprisoned them in the Winter Velodrome during the Holocaust.
• July 18, 1942: Germans conducted the first test flight of the Messerschmitt Me 262 using only its jet engines during WWII.
• July 19, 1942: German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz ordered the withdrawal of U-boats from the United States Atlantic coast due to an effective American convoy system during WWII.
• July 21, 1942: Japanese established a beachhead in New Guinea, leading to a rearguard action by Australian forces in the Kokoda Track campaign during WWII.
• July 22, 1942: Systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto began during the Holocaust.
• July 23, 1942: Adolf Hitler issued Directive 45, aiming to seize the Black Sea coast and capture oilfields in Maikop, Grozny, and Baku during WWII.
• July 25, 1942: German 6th Army under General Friedrich Paulus attacked the Stalingrad Front, encircling part of the Soviet 62nd and 64th armies in the Kalach Pocket during WWII.
• July 29, 1942: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union established the Order of Suvorov, Order of Kutuzov, and reinstated the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
• July 30, 1942: WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), the United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve), was signed into law.
• July 31, 1942: The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam) was founded in England.