49 days before May 4, 1942

would be

March 16, 1942 (Monday)

Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)

• Day numbers: 75

• Week number: 12

• Leap year: 1942 is not a leap year

• Daylight Saving Time: Yes

Sunrise, Sunset Times for March 16, 1942 (Monday)

• Sunrise time: 07:43 am

• Sunset time: 07:40 pm

• Day length: 11h 56m

Moon Phase for March 16, 1942 (Monday)

• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent

• Illumination: 1%

• Moon Age: 29.51 day(s)

March 16, 1942 Holidays and National Days

1985

Associated Press newsman, Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut.

1984

Mozambique and South Africa sign a pact banning support for one another’s internal foes.

1968

U.S. troops in Vietnam destroy a village consisting mostly of women and children, the action is remembered as the My-Lai massacre.

1964

President Lyndon B. Johnson submits a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.

1954

CBS introduces The Morning Show hosted by Walter Cronkite to compete with NBC’s Today Show.

1945

Iwo Jima is declared secure by U.S. forces although small pockets of Japanese resistance still exist.

1939

Germany occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia.

1935

Adolf Hitler orders a German rearmament and violates the Versailles Treaty.

1928

The United States plans to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua.