Timeline Sunday 8 March 1942

Events on Sunday 8 March 1942 3

• 1888 – 1942 José Raúl Capablanca Cuban chess genius and World Champion José Raúl Capablanca was World Chess Champion from 1921 to 1927 and became famous for his exceptional endgame skill and intuitive positional play.
• 1942 Dutch East Indies surrender to Japan Dutch colonial rule in the Indies collapses Dutch and Allied forces on Java capitulated to the Japanese army at Kalijati. The surrender ended organised resistance in the Dutch East Indies and gave Japan the oil fields it had gone to war to secure. The Japanese occupation lasted until 1945.
• 1942 Japanese capture Rangoon Burma's capital falls British forces abandoned Rangoon, and Japanese troops entered the city. Losing the port cut the main supply route to Allied forces in Burma and to China. British and Chinese armies then began a long retreat toward India.