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February 2, 1942

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Notable Births

Graham Nash

1942Graham Nash, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]

Graham William Nash is a British and American musician, singer and songwriter. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Notable Deaths

Ado Birk

1942Ado Birk, Estonian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (born 1883)[†]

Ado Birk, was an Estonian politician who was the Estonian Prime Minister for the shortest time.

Daniil Kharms

1942Daniil Kharms, Russian poet and playwright (born 1905)[†]

Daniil Ivanovich Kharms was a Russian avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist in the early Soviet era.

Hugh D. McIntosh

1942Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (born 1876)[†]

Hugh Donald "Huge Deal" McIntosh was an Australian theatrical entrepreneur, sporting promoter and newspaper proprietor

Historical Events

1942The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.[†]

The Osvald Group was a Norwegian organisation that was the most active World War II resistance group in Norway from 1941 to the summer of 1944. Numbering more than 200 members, it committed at least 110 acts of sabotage against Nazi occupying forces and the collaborationist government of Vidkun Quisling. The organisation is perhaps best known for conducting the first act of resistance against the German occupation of Norway, when on 2 February 1942, it detonated a bomb at Oslo East Station in protest against Quisling's inauguration as Minister-President.