
The only song to spend multiple consecutive weeks at number one in 1942 was " White Christmas" by Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and his orchestra, which reached the top spot in the December 19 issue of Billboard and remained there the following week. The first chart-topper was "Take It and Git" by the tuba player and bandleader Andy Kirk and his band the Twelve Clouds of Joy, which occupied the top spot for a single week. Most of 1942's number ones were in the genres of jazz and swing, which were among the most popular styles of music in the early 1940s. It is considered to be the start of the lineage of the magazine's R&B chart. The chart was based on a survey of record stores primarily in the Harlem district of New York City. Launched by Billboard in the same year, it ranked the "most popular records in Harlem". Six songs reached number one on the Harlem Hit Parade chart in 1942. that the play-by-mail game Victory! The Battle for Europe takes about three years to play? that a billion dollars' worth of coal power in Turkey could be stranded? that Kate Foster is the British ambassador to Somalia, but there are no consular services at the embassy in Mogadishu? that in 1951, 22 Greenlandic children were sent to foster families in Denmark to be re-educated as "little Danes"? that American musician Kenneth Kilgore, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, had a bridge posthumously named after him? that staff at the vegan food brand VFC interact with internet trolls on social media platforms to grow their online brand? that in 1887, after spending three nights on the summit of Mont Blanc, scientist Joseph Vallot and his party were greeted with flowers by the mayor and all the inhabitants of Chamonix? that a 40-foot-tall (12 m) mural outside Broadway's St. James Theatre (pictured) was painted over due to a broken foot? To replace Challenger, the construction of Endeavour was approved in 1987, and the new orbiter first flew in 1992. There was a 32-month hiatus in the Space Shuttle program. President Ronald Reagan created the Rogers Commission to investigate the accident it criticized NASA's organizational culture and decision-making processes that had contributed to the accident. Several crew members are known to have survived the initial breakup of the spacecraft, but the impact of the crew compartment at terminal velocity with the ocean surface was too violent to be survivable, and the orbiter had no escape system. The disaster was caused by the failure of the two O-ring seals in a joint in the Space Shuttle's right solid rocket booster in record-low temperatures. EST (16:39 UTC), 73 seconds into its flight. Challenger disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 a.m. The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members aboard. Challenger breaking up after the explosion
