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Jap transport and 2 supply ships sunk, 1 supply ship damaged by Allied submarine, southwest Pacific; thousands of Jap troops lost; Curtin reveals 4 Jap submarines tried to enter Sydney harbor; 1 raised; survivors of cargo ship sunk by Jap submarine, Tasman Sea, arrive, Australia
Support of coalition anti-Fish candidate sought by Dem leaders
RAF bombs Bremen; sets huge fires; raids Dieppe, enemy air bases, occupied France and Low Countries; mines enemy waters; Germans bomb Eng south coast dist; map
1942Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatoguinean lieutenant and politician, 2nd President of Equatorial Guinea[†]
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is an Equatoguinean politician, former military officer who has served as the second president of Equatorial Guinea since 1982. Previously, he was the Chairman of the Supreme Military Council from 1979 to 1982. As of 2025, he is the longest consecutively serving current non-royal national leader in the world, followed by Paul Biya of Cameroon.
1942World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.[†]
The Tsardom of Bulgaria, also known as the Third Bulgarian Tsardom, usually known in English as the Kingdom of Bulgaria, or simply Bulgaria, was a constitutional monarchy in Southeastern Europe, which was established on 5 October [O.S. 22 September] 1908, when the Bulgarian state was raised from a principality to a tsardom.