Timeline: Carol Anne CLARK: Mills/Rushton Family History

1942 - 1942 (0 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1942	1942: Invention of world's first programmable computer by Alan Turing in co-operation with Max Neumann – used to crack German codes 1942: Gilbert Murray founds Oxfam 30 May 1942: Over 1,000 allied bombers raid Cologne 4 Jun 1942: Battle of Midway 19 Aug 1942: Abortive raid on Dieppe, largely by Canadian troops 6 Sep 1942: Germans defeated at Stalingrad 3 Oct 1942: First successful launch of V2 rocket in Germany – first man-made object to reach space 23 Oct 1942: Battle of El Alamein – Montgomery defeats Rommel 2 Dec 1942: 'Manhattan Project' – a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction