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1942Hissène Habré, Chadian politician and war criminal, 5th president of Chad (died 2021)[†]
Hissène Habré, also spelled Hissen Habré, was a Chadian politician and convicted war criminal who served as the fifth president of Chad from 1982 until he was deposed 1990.
1942Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.[†]
Eugene Reybold was distinguished as the World War II Chief of Engineers who directed the largest United States Army Corps of Engineers in the nation's history.
Ger reinforcements reach Gen Field Marshal von Bock forces, Don bend
RAF raids Mainz factories and chem plants, Coblenz, Havre docks and Low Countries airfields; 16 Brit bombers lost; Brit repts on bomb tonnage dropped on Ger targets, June-July and on number of raids, Ger, July 12-Aug 12; Ger raiders kill 10 in scattered raids, Brit; Gers raid London outskirts; Goebbels admits RAF wounds; Ger rept on Salisbury and Deal raids
Wilson '18 appeal to Smith & Wesson strikers before govt seizure of plant recalled
raid Jap shipping and island bases, Banda Sea
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. 12 -- A naval battle is believed near in the South Atlantic because a fast Allied cruiser, probably American, .is pursuing a German raider, sighted this morning about Lat. 20S., Long. 24:44W., 1000 miles east of Rio de Janeiro.
fast Allied cruiser, probably US, pursuing Ger raider after saving ship; London sees start of Ger offensive in South Atlantic in repts and Axis claims on Egypt-bound ships sunk off Amer and West African coasts
Allied raids on Formosa reptd
Repts attempted assassination of Jap Premier
findings of US reconnaissance flights over Solomons prior to battle reptd
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Attack on Laval's home, Chateldon, foiled