What day of the week was January 1, 1942?

The day of the week January 1st, 1942 fell on was a Thursday.

Dennis Archer the American lawyer and politician, 67th Mayor of Detroit was born on 01 January in 1942. As was Anthony Hamilton-Smith the 3rd Baron Colwyn, English dentist , Al Hunt the American journalist , Country Joe McDonald the American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish) , Alassane Ouattara the Ivorian politician, President of the Ivory Coast , Gennadi Sarafanov the Russian astronaut (d. 2005) , Judy Stone the Australian singer .

Otto Liiv the Estonian historian and archivist (b. 1905) died on this day in 1942.

The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.