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Events on Wednesday 1 July 1942 3
1942First Battle of El AlameinBritish Eighth Army halts Rommel's advanceAuchinleck's Eighth Army stopped the German-Italian Panzer Army Africa at a defensive line near El Alamein, about 100 km from Alexandria. The fighting ended in stalemate. It stopped the Axis push toward the Suez Canal.
1942 – presentWim T. SchippersArtist, television maker, voice actor, 1942-2026Wim T. Schippers (1942-2026) — visual artist, television maker, playwright, songwriter and voice actor. Co-founder of the A-dynamic movement, creator of the Peanut Butter Floor and Sjef van Oekel, voice of Ernie and Kermit on Sesamstraat. One of the most original and influential figures in Dutch cultural history of the twentieth and twenty-first century.
1942Wim T. Schippers born in GroningenWillem Theodoor Schippers is born in Groningen, the Netherlands, into a musical family. He grows up in Bussum, North Holland, where his interest in art, language and absurdism begins to develop early.