This is a well-documented comparison between historical events of 1942 and 1988 and planetary positions corresponding to those dates, which seems to be beyond coincidence. Such relationship led to a heuristic theory that the continuing multitudinous alignments and geometric configurations continually formed as the planets and Earth revolve about the sun interfere with the interplanetary electromagnetic field surrounding the earth in a cyclical fashion, albeit appearing to be random. The theory was derived from considerations of Tesla, Velikovsky, and another article relating interruptions of radio communications to planetary positions.