1941

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1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes

Events

• January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
• January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the United States Congress.
• January 19 - British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea.
• January 21 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
• January 22 - World War II: British troops capture Tobruk from the Germans.
• January 23 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the United States Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
• February 3 - World War II: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France.
• February 4 - World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
• February 11 - World War II: Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli.
• March 1 - World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact thus joining the Axis powers.
• March 1 - W47NV begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station.
• March 11 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
• March 17 - In Washington, DC, the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• March 22 - Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
• March 25 - World War II: Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Vienna joins the Axis powers
• March 27 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.
• March 29 - World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan - Off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean, British naval forces defeat those of Italy sinking five warships. Battle started on March 27.
• April 6 - World War II: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
• April 17 - World War II: Yugoslav Royal Army capitulates.
• April 21 - World War II: Greece capitulates. British troops retract to Crete.
• April 27 - World War II: German troops enter Athens.
• April - Russia and Japan sign a neutrality pact.
• May 6 - At California's March Field Bob Hope performs his first USO Show.
• May 9 - World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the British Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptergraphers later use to break coded German messages.
• May 10 - World War II: The United Kingdom's House of Commons is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
• May 10 - World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland claiming to be on a peace mission.
• May 20 - World War II: Battle of Crete - German troops invade Crete.
• May 21 - World War II: 950 miles off the coast of Brazil, the freighter SS Robin Moor becomes the first United States ship sunk by a German U-boat.
• May 24 - World War II: In the North Atlantic, the German battleship Bismarck sinks the HMS Hood killing all but three crewman on what was the pride of the Royal Navy.
• May 26 - World War II: In the North Atlantic, Swordfish planes from the carrier HMS Ark Royal fatally cripple the German battleship Bismarck in torpedo attack.
• May 27 - World War II: President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency."
• May 27 - World War II: German battleship Bismarck is sunk in North Atlantic killing 2,300.
• June 1 - World War II: Crete capitulates to Germany.
• June 8 - World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
• June 9 - World War II: Finland initiate mobilization and put some units under German command.
• June 14 - Mass deportations by Soviet Union authorities take place in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• June 22 - World War II: Germany attacks the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa
• June 25 - World War II: Finland attacked by the Soviet Union seeks the opportunity of revanche in the Continuation War.
• July 4 - Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers, committed by Nazi Germans in captured Polish city of Lvov.
• July 5 - World War II: German troops reach the Dniepr River.
• July 7 - World War II: American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by the Nazis.
• July 26 - World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
• July 31 - Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
• August - Formation of the Political Warfare Executive in the United Kingdom
• August 18 - Holocaust: Adolf Hitler orders an end to the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests within Germany.
• September 6 - Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
• September 8 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins - German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad.
• September 16 - Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran is forced to resign in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran under pressure from the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.
• October 2 - World War II: Operation Typhoon - Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
• October 8 - World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
• October 21 - World War II: Germans rampage in Yugoslavia, killing thousands of civilians.
• October 30 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
• October 31 - After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.
• October 31 - World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.
• November 6 - World War II: Soviet leader Josef Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule (the first time was earlier that year on July 2). He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a gross exaggeration) and that Soviet victory was near.
• November 12 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
• November 13 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is hit by German U-boat U-81
• November 14 - World War II: HMS Ark Royal capsizes and sinks, having been torpedoed by U 81.
• November 17 - World War II: Source | Copyright

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