About the day » Tuesday November 10, 1942Calender converter

• Anoepsingh Nanhkoesingh, Suriname († 1979)
• Halene Alton, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma († 2003)
• Carl Eugene Brown, Sainte Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States of America († 2009)
• Jacobus Bruinstroop († 2015)
• Gerrit Pieter van Oudheusden, Rozenburg († 2000)
• Cor van Kooten, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Dennis Allen Martz († 1981)
• Eugène Ferdinand Berfelo, Malang, Indonesië († 2000)
• Harry Postema, Bolsward († 2019)
• Geertruida Gerarda Maria Kneppers, Zoetermeer († 2011)

• Apolonia de RUITER (61), Dubbeldam
• Ada Evelyn Redding (66)
• Anna Maria Smit (85), Nieuwkoop, Nederland
• Andreas Leonardus Dircks (10), Echterbosch, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Smit (85), Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Andreas Koopmans (77), Brooklyn, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Bley (69), Theresienstadt Ghetto
• Adriana Janna Verplanke (80), Sluis, ZL.NL
• apolonia de RUITER (61), dubbeldam
• Catharina Elizabeth ONTROP (77), Rotterdam

• 1940 » Richard Cotton, Australian geneticist and academic († 2015)
• 1940 » Screaming Lord Sutch, English singer-songwriter and politician († 1999)
• 1941 » John Geoghegan, American lieutenant († 1965)
• 1942 » Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss lawyer and politician, 92nd President of the Swiss Confederation
• 1942 » James Hood, American activist († 2013)
• 1942 » Robert F. Engle, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 » Ross Warner, Australian rugby league player
• 1943 » Saxby Chambliss, American lawyer and politician
• 1944 » Askar Akayev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician, 1st President of Kyrgyzstan
• 1944 » Mark E. Neely, Jr., American historian, author, and academic

• 1917 » Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (b. 1866)
• 1928 » Anita Berber, German dancer (b. 1899)
• 1936 » Louis Gustave Binger, French general and explorer (b. 1856)
• 1938 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish field marshal and statesman, 1st President of Turkey (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Carrie Derick, Canadian botanist and geneticist (b. 1862)
• 1946 » Louis Zutter, Swiss gymnast (b. 1856)
• 1956 » Gordon MacQuarrie, American author and journalist (b. 1900)
• 1962 » Julius Lenhart, Austrian gymnast and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian-American computer scientist (b. 1911)
• 1971 » Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American author and academic (b. 1909)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
• March 22 » World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
• April 18 » World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
• June 26 » The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
• September 5 » World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
• November 26 » Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City.
• December 7 » World War II: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.

The temperature on November 10, 1942 was between 0.5 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.