aiding the Chetniks) October 4, 1942 (Sunday) The German XIV Panzer Corps attacked the Stalingrad Tractor Factory. Hermann Göring made a speech in the Berlin Sportpalast to mark the end of the harvest season. He announced that Germany's food situation "will continue to get better since we now possess huge stretches of fertile land." Born: Bernice Johnson Reagon, singer, composer, scholar and social activist, in Dougherty County, Georgia October 5, 1942 (Monday) Operation Wunderland ended in German success. German submarines U-582 and U-619 were depth charged and sunk southwest of Iceland by an American Catalina and a British Lockheed Hudson, respectively. German submarine U-336 was sunk in the Denmark Strait by a Lockheed Hudson of No. 269 Squadron RAF. German submarine U-359 was commissioned. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the New York Yankees 4-2 to win the World Series four games to one. Died: Dorothea Klumpke, 81, American astronomer October 6, 1942 (Tuesday) The second Actions along the Matanikau began around the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal. German Army Group A took the oil city of Malgobek. Reichskommissar for Norway Josef Terboven declared a state of emergency in and around Trondheim because of recent acts of sabotage. Execution of 34 Norwegians would follow until the state of emergency was lifted six days later. Japanese submarine I-22 was depth charged and sunk in the Coral Sea by an American Catalina aircraft. A law was passed in Nazi-occupied Belgium equivalent to the one passed in Vichy France on September 4, obligating able-bodied citizens to do work for the government if ordered to. Born: Britt Ekland, actress and singer, in Stockholm, Sweden; Fred Travalena, comedian and impressionist, in the Bronx, New York (d. 2009) Died: Siegmund Glücksmann, 58, German-Jewish socialist politician (typhoid) October 7, 1942 (Wednesday) As part of Operation Alfa, Italian forces heavily bombed and shelled the Croatian town of Prozor to drive out the communist Partisans there. The Soviet 62nd Army withdrew from the Orlovka gully in Stalingrad but fighting continued to rage around the tractor factory, Red October factory and sports stadium. The anti-Nazi Home Army carried out Operation Wieniec overnight, targeting rail infrastructure near Warsaw. German submarines U-272 and U-469 were commissioned. The play The Eve of St. Mark by Maxwell Anderson premiered at the Cort Theatre on Broadway. Born: Ronald Baecker, computer scientist, in Kenosha, Wisconsin; Joy Behar, comedian, actress and television personality, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York October