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September 3, 1942

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Notable Births

Al Jardine

1942Al Jardine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]

Alan Charles Jardine is an American musician who co-founded the Beach Boys. He is best known as the band's rhythm guitarist, background vocalist, and for occasionally singing lead vocals on singles such as number-one hit "Help Me, Rhonda" (1965), "Then I Kissed Her" (1965), "Cottonfields" (1970), and a cover of the Del-Vikings' "Come Go with Me" (1981). His song "Lady Lynda" was also a UK top 10 hit for the group in 1979. Other Beach Boys songs that feature Jardine on lead include "I Know There's an Answer" (1966), "Vegetables" (1967), a cover of Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue" (1978), and "From There to Back Again" (2012).

Notable Deaths

Will James (artist)

1942Will James, Canadian-American author and illustrator (born 1892)[†]

William Roderick James was a Canadian-American artist and writer of the American West. He is known for writing Smoky the Cowhorse, for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal, and numerous "cowboy" stories for adults and children. His artwork, which predominantly involved cowboy and rodeo scenes, followed "in the tradition of Charles Russell", and much of it was used to illustrate his books. In 1992, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

Séraphine Louis

1942Séraphine Louis, French painter (born 1864)[†]

Séraphine Louis, known as Séraphine de Senlis, was a French painter and artist. Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows and other religious art.

Historical Events

Łachwa Ghetto

1942World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva (present-day Belarus).[†]

Łachwa Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto in Łachwa, Nazi German-occupied Poland during World War II. The ghetto was created with the aim of persecution and exploitation of the local Jews. The ghetto existed until September 1942. One of the first Jewish ghetto uprisings had happened there.