Timeline Thursday 4 June 1942

Events on Thursday 4 June 1942 4

• 1904 – 1942 Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) Died 4 June 1942, aged 38 Reinhard Heydrich was a senior SS officer, head of the Reich Security Main Office and Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. He was one of the main architects of the Holocaust and chaired the Wannsee Conference. He died of wounds from an attack by Czechoslovak parachutists in Prague.
• 1942 Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich Czechoslovak parachutists attack the Reich Protector Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, trained in Britain for Operation Anthropoid, ambushed Heydrich's car in Prague on 27 May. Heydrich died of his wounds on 4 June. He was the most senior Nazi official assassinated during the war.
• 1942 Battle of Midway Turning point in the Pacific War The Battle of Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942, was a decisive US victory in which four Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk. It ended Japanese naval supremacy in the Pacific and is considered the turning point of the Pacific War.
• 1942 Battle of Midway US Navy sinks four Japanese carriers American codebreakers found out about Japan's plan to take Midway Atoll, and US carriers ambushed the Japanese fleet. Dive bombers sank the carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu, while the US lost the Yorktown. The battle turned the Pacific War in the Allies' favour.