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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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| 1942 |
| | | French music student Pierre Boulez joins a harmony class taught by Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Italian director Luchino Visconti's first film, Obsession, brings neorealism to the cinema | |
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| c. 1942 |
| | | US poet Ezra Pound, in Italy during the war, broadcasts Fascist propaganda aimed at the United States | |
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| 1942 |
| | | US poet Randall Jarrell publishes his first collection, Blood for a Stranger | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Michael Curtiz directs Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca | |
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| 1942 |
| | | James Cagney stars in the screen musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, directed by Michael Curtiz | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star in the first of many films together, Woman of the Year | |
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| 1942 |
| | | A rich hoard of Roman silver is unearthed near Mildenhall, in Suffolk | |
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