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|} 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ==Events== ===January-February=== * January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms in the State of the Union Address. * January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the Congress of the United States. * January 19 - United Kingdom troops attack Italy-held Eritrea. * January 21 - World War II: Australian and United Kingdom forces attack Battle of Tobruk, Libya. * January 22 - World War II: British troops capture Tobruk from the Italians. * January 23 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the Congress of the United States 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 United States troops. * February 11 - World War II: Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli. * February 11 - James Wong, famous composer of Hong Kong (d. November 23, 2004.) ===March=== * 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 1 - Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the United States Navy's Support Force, Atlantic Fleet * March 11 - World War II: President of the United States 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 Delano Roosevelt. * March 17 - British Minister of Labour, Ernest Bevin, calls for women to fill vital jobs * 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, Royal Navy defeat those of Italy sinking five warships. Battle started on March 27. ===April=== * April 6 - World War II: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece. * April 9 - Slavomir Rawicz and six others escape from a Soviet prison camp in Yakutsk - they begin 6500 km long walk to India * 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: Germany troops enter Athens. *April - Russia and Japan sign a neutrality pact. ===May=== * May 1 - Breakfast cereal Cheerios is introduced as CheeriOats by General Mills * May 1 - Orson Welles' screenplay, Citizen Kane, premieres in New York City * May 5 - Emperor Haile Selassie enters Addis Ababa, which had been liberated from Italy forces; this date has been since commemorated as Liberation Day in Ethiopia. * May 6 - At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first United Service Organizations. * May 9 - World War II: The Germany submarine U-110 is captured by the British Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. * May 10 - World War II: The United Kingdom's British 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 - Germany 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 Germany battleship ''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, Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the carrier HMS Ark Royal fatally cripple the German battleship Bismarck in torpedo attack. * May 27 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency." * May 27 - World War II: German battleship ''German battleship Bismarck'' is sunk in North Atlantic killing 2,300. ===June=== * 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 revenge in the Continuation War. ===July-August=== * July 4 - Massacre of Lwów professors, committed by Nazi Germany in captured Poland city of Lwów. * July 5 - World War II: Germany troops reach the Dnipro River. * July 5-July 19 - War between Peru and Ecuador * July 7 - World War II: United States 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 Delano 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 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany systematic euthanasia of mental illness and handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program were then transferred to concentration camp, where they continued in their trade. ===September-October=== * 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 Germany-occupied areas. * September 8 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins - Germany forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. *September 16 - Reza Pahlavi of Iran , 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: Germany rampage in Yugoslavia, killing thousands of civilians * October 24 - Franz von Werra disappears during a flight over North Sea * 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 (DD-245) is torpedoed by a Germany U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors. ===November=== USS_Arizona_(BB-39)_ablaze_after_the_Japanese_attack_on_Pearl_Harbour">Image:USSArizonaPearlHarbor.jpg|thumb|300px|The USS Arizona (BB-39) ablaze after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour * 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 Germany 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:Battle of Moscow: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° Celsius and the Soviet Union launches Ski warfare for the first time against the freezing Germany forces near the city. * November 13 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (91) is hit by German U-boat Unterseeboot 81 * November 14 - World War II: HMS Ark Royal (91) capsizes and sinks, having been torpedoed by Unterseeboot 81. * November 17 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the United States Department of State that Japan had plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable was ignored). * November 19 - World War II: The Australian war cruiser HMAS Sydney sinks off the coast of Western Australia, killing 645 sailors. * November 21 - The radio program ''King Biscuit Time'' is broadcast for the first time (it would later become the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program). * November 24 - World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French. * November 26 - US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States (this partly reversed a 1939 action by Roosevelt that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November). * November 26 - World War II: The Hull note ultimatum is delivered to Japan by the United States. * November 26 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - A fleet of six aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence. * November 27 - A group of young men stop traffic on highway US 99 south of Yreka, California, handing out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the State of Jefferson. * November 27 - World War II: Battle of Moscow - Germans reach their closest approach to Moscow. They are subsequently frozen by cold weather and attacks by the Soviets. ===December=== * December 1 - World War II: Former mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia, and the director of the Office of Civilian Defense, sign an order creating the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) as the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (in April 1943 the CAP was placed under the jurisdiction of the United States Army Air Force). * December 7, December 6 (in Japan standard time) - Japan navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Attack on Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II. * December 8 - World War II: The United States officially declares war on Japan. * December 11 - World War II: Germany declares war on the United States. * December 25 - World War II: British and Canadians are defeated by the Japanese at Hong Kong. * December 27 - World War II: British Commandos raid the Norway port of Vaagso, causing Hitler to reinforce the garrison and defenses ===Unknown dates=== * John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry developed the Atanasoff Berry Computer. * Ives and Stilwell prove that ions radiate at Frequency affected by their motion. * In Sweden, Victor Hasselblad forms the Hasselblad camera company. * The Pinnacle Commune, a Rastafarian community, is destroyed by Jamaican authorities * Indochina Communist party, led by Ho Chi Minh, combines with Nationalist party to form the Vietminh. ===Ongoing events=== * Sino-Japanese_War_(1937-1945) (1937-1945) (which may or may not be a part of World War II, depending on who's telling the tale) * World War II (1939-1945) ==Year in topic== * 1941 in film **May 1 - ''Citizen Kane'', starring Orson Welles **October 3 - ''The Maltese Falcon'', starring Humphrey Bogart ** Alfred Hitchcock's ''Suspicion'' **''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner * 1941 in literature **''The Screwtape Letters'' by C.S. Lewis **''Darkness at Noon'' by Arthur Koestler **''Call It Courage'' by Armstrong Sperry * 1941 in music **February 11 - 1st Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for ''Chattanooga Choo Choo''. * 1941 in rail transport ** Heisler Locomotive Works produces the last Heisler locomotive. ** The ''Hollywood'', a lounge car built for use on the ''City of Los Angeles'' train, becomes the first passenger car whose interior is built entirely out of synthetic materials. The car's interior featured the newly invented materials of formica and naugahyde. * 1941 in sports **May 15 - Joe DiMaggio starts his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak. **One of the greatest race horses of his time, Epinard, was taken during the Germany occupation of France and used as a delivery wagon horse. * 1941 in television **April 30 - The Federal Communications Commission approves the NTSC standards of 525 lines and 30 frames per second, and authorizes commercial TV to begin on July 1. **May 2 - 10 television stations were granted commercial TV licenses (effective July 1). These stations were required to broadcast 15 hours per week. Bulova, Sun Oil Co., Lever Bros. Co. and Procter & Gamble sign on as sponsors of the first commercial telecasts from WNBT in New York. **July 1 - Commercial TV authorized by the FCC. **July 1 - Ralph Edwards hosted the first game show broadcast on television, ''Truth Or Consequences'', simulcast on radio and TV and sponsored by Ivory Soap. The first legal television commercial in the United States for Bulova watches occurs at 2:29, superimposed over a test pattern. ==Births== ===January=== * January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, musician * January 5 - Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese film maker * January 5 - Grady Thomas, singer (P-Funk) * January 7 - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate * January 8 - Graham Chapman, comedian * January 9 - Joan Baez, singer, activitist * January 14 - Faye Dunaway, actress * January 14 - Milan Kucan, Slovenian politician and statesman * January 15 - Captain Beefheart, singer * January 18 - David Ruffin, singer (d. 1991) * January 21 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor * January 21 - Richie Havens, American musician * January 26 - Scott Glenn, actor * January 26 - Henry Jaglom, director * January 30 - Dick Cheney, American politician * January 31 - Dick Gephardt, American politician ===February=== * February 5 - Kaspar Villiger, member of the Swiss Federal Council * February 6 - Howard Phillips, founding member of the United States Constitution Party * February 8 - Nick Nolte, actor * February 10 - Michael Apted, director * February 11 - Jeremy Mackenzie, general * February 11 - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman * February 13 - Sigmar Polke, painter * February 17 - Julia McKenzie, actress * February 17 - Gene Pitney, American singer * February 20 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, American singer * February 26 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972) * February 27 - Paddy Ashdown, British politician ===March-May=== * March 3 - Jutta Hoffmann, actress * March 4 - Adrian Lyne, director * March 5 - Nona Gaprindashvili - former Women's World Chess Champion * March 6 - Willie Stargell, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2001) * March 14 - Wolfgang Petersen, film director * March 15 - Mike Love, musician (The Beach Boys) * March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci, film director * March 18 - Wilson Pickett, singer * March 26 - Richard Dawkins, British scientist * March 28 - Jim Turner (football player), American football player * March 30 - Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan * April 3 - Philippe Wynne, musician (d. 1984) * April 6 - Hans W. Geissendörfer, German film director * April 14 - Pete Rose, baseball star * April 23 - Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland * April 24 - John Williams (guitarist), Australian guitarist * April 27 - Lee Roy Jordan, American football player * April 28 - K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate * May 5 - Alexander Ragulin, hockey player (d. 2004) * May 13 - Senta Berger, Swedish actress * May 13 - Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959) * May 15 - K.T. Oslin, country musician * May 19 - Nora Ephron, screenwriter * May 24 - Bob Dylan, American poet and musician ===June=== * June 5 - Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist **Spalding Gray, actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (d. 2004) * June 8 - Fuzzy Haskins, musician (P-Funk) * June 10 - Mickey Jones, American actor and musician * June 24 - Bill Reardon, American politician and educator * June 27 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish film director (d. 1996) ===July=== * July 14 - Maulana Karenga, author and activist * July 19 - Vikki Carr, singer * July 28 - Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor * July 31 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, politician ===August-September=== * August 3 - Martha Stewart, television and magazine personality * August 22 - Bill Parcells, American football coach * September 4 - Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician * September 9 - Otis Redding, musician (d. 1967) * September 9 - Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist * September 10 - Christopher Hogwood, English conductor * September 14 - Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician * September 15 - George Saimes, American football player * September 17 - Bob Matsui U.S. Senator from Hawaii (d. 2005) * September 19 - Cass Elliott, American singer (d. 1974) ===October-November=== * October 4 - Anne Rice, writer * October 5 - Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina * October 16 - Tim McCarver, baseball commentator * November 6 - Doug Sahm, American musician (d. 1999) * November 29 - Bill Freehan, baseball player ===December=== * December 9 - Beau Bridges, actor * December 10 - Colin Kelly, American airman * December 13 - John Davidson (game show host), singer and actor * December 18 - His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester * December 23 - Tim Hardin, musician * December 30 - Mel Renfro, American football player ===Unknown dates=== * T S Krishnamurthy, Chief Election Commissioner of India * Peter Sarstedt, singer and songwriter * Thom Bell, record producer * Beatrice Tinsley, English people astronomer ==Deaths== * January 4 - Henri Bergson, French philiosopher (b. 1859) * January 5 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903) * January 8 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier, founder of Scouting (b. 1847) * January 10 - Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879) * January 10 - Joe Penner, comedian and actor * January 13 - James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882) * February 11 - Rudolf Hilferding, German economist, Minister of Finance (b. 1877) * February 28 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886) * March 6 - Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (b. 1867) * March 8 - Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876) * March 15 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864) * March 28 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (b. 1882) * April 13 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863) * May 16 - Minnie Vautrin, American missionary and heroine of the Nanjing Massacre * June 2 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player (b. 1903) * June 6 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile builder and race car driver (b. 1878) * June 29 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860) * July 10 - Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1890) * July 11 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (b. 1851) * July 26 - Henri Lebesgue, mathematician * August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, author * August 13 - J. Stuart Blackton , American film producer * August 14 - Paul Sabatier (chemist), French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) * August 31 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (suicide) * September 13 - Elias Disney, American farmer and father of Walt Disney. * October 26 - Arkady Gaidar, Soviet/Russian children's writer, dies in combat (b. 1904) * November 18 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) * November 18 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia * December 3 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (b. 1856) * December 30 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890) ==Fiction== * Sometime in this year, events of the ''Doctor Who'' episodes ''The Empty Child'' and ''The Doctor Dances'' take place. ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize/Physics - not awarded * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - not awarded * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - not awarded * Nobel Prize in literature - not awarded * Nobel Prize/Peace - not awarded 1941 1940s ang:1941 bs:1941 ka:1941 la:1941 os:1941 se:1941 sq:1941 simple:1941
I thought the Reuben James was the first US boat sunk in WWII, otherwise what is Joan Baez singing about?User:Ping 08:29 23 May 2003 (UTC) I have put a general comment on year layout on my talk page, particularly on the way year by topic is dealt with. There are three different variants and I would like agreement to standardise. User:BozMoUser talk:BozMo
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:''1941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film).'' {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
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|} 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ==Events== ===January-February=== * January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms in the State of the Union Address. * January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the Congress of the United States. * January 19 - United Kingdom troops attack Italy-held Eritrea. * January 21 - World War II: Australian and United Kingdom forces attack Battle of Tobruk, Libya. * January 22 - World War II: British troops capture Tobruk from the Italians. * January 23 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the Congress of the United States 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 United States troops. * February 11 - World War II: Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli. * February 11 - James Wong, famous composer of Hong Kong (d. November 23, 2004.) ===March=== * 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 1 - Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the United States Navy's Support Force, Atlantic Fleet * March 11 - World War II: President of the United States 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 Delano Roosevelt. * March 17 - British Minister of Labour, Ernest Bevin, calls for women to fill vital jobs * 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, Royal Navy defeat those of Italy sinking five warships. Battle started on March 27. ===April=== * April 6 - World War II: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece. * April 9 - Slavomir Rawicz and six others escape from a Soviet prison camp in Yakutsk - they begin 6500 km long walk to India * 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: Germany troops enter Athens. *April - Russia and Japan sign a neutrality pact. ===May=== * May 1 - Breakfast cereal Cheerios is introduced as CheeriOats by General Mills * May 1 - Orson Welles' screenplay, Citizen Kane, premieres in New York City * May 5 - Emperor Haile Selassie enters Addis Ababa, which had been liberated from Italy forces; this date has been since commemorated as Liberation Day in Ethiopia. * May 6 - At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first United Service Organizations. * May 9 - World War II: The Germany submarine U-110 is captured by the British Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. * May 10 - World War II: The United Kingdom's British 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 - Germany 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 Germany battleship ''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, Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the carrier HMS Ark Royal fatally cripple the German battleship Bismarck in torpedo attack. * May 27 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency." * May 27 - World War II: German battleship ''German battleship Bismarck'' is sunk in North Atlantic killing 2,300. ===June=== * 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 revenge in the Continuation War. ===July-August=== * July 4 - Massacre of Lwów professors, committed by Nazi Germany in captured Poland city of Lwów. * July 5 - World War II: Germany troops reach the Dnipro River. * July 5-July 19 - War between Peru and Ecuador * July 7 - World War II: United States 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 Delano 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 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany systematic euthanasia of mental illness and handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program were then transferred to concentration camp, where they continued in their trade. ===September-October=== * 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 Germany-occupied areas. * September 8 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins - Germany forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. *September 16 - Reza Pahlavi of Iran , 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: Germany rampage in Yugoslavia, killing thousands of civilians * October 24 - Franz von Werra disappears during a flight over North Sea * 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 (DD-245) is torpedoed by a Germany U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors. ===November=== USS_Arizona_(BB-39)_ablaze_after_the_Japanese_attack_on_Pearl_Harbour">Image:USSArizonaPearlHarbor.jpg|thumb|300px|The USS Arizona (BB-39) ablaze after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour * 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 Germany 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:Battle of Moscow: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° Celsius and the Soviet Union launches Ski warfare for the first time against the freezing Germany forces near the city. * November 13 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (91) is hit by German U-boat Unterseeboot 81 * November 14 - World War II: HMS Ark Royal (91) capsizes and sinks, having been torpedoed by Unterseeboot 81. * November 17 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the United States Department of State that Japan had plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable was ignored). * November 19 - World War II: The Australian war cruiser HMAS Sydney sinks off the coast of Western Australia, killing 645 sailors. * November 21 - The radio program ''King Biscuit Time'' is broadcast for the first time (it would later become the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program). * November 24 - World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French. * November 26 - US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States (this partly reversed a 1939 action by Roosevelt that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November). * November 26 - World War II: The Hull note ultimatum is delivered to Japan by the United States. * November 26 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - A fleet of six aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence. * November 27 - A group of young men stop traffic on highway US 99 south of Yreka, California, handing out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the State of Jefferson. * November 27 - World War II: Battle of Moscow - Germans reach their closest approach to Moscow. They are subsequently frozen by cold weather and attacks by the Soviets. ===December=== * December 1 - World War II: Former mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia, and the director of the Office of Civilian Defense, sign an order creating the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) as the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (in April 1943 the CAP was placed under the jurisdiction of the United States Army Air Force). * December 7, December 6 (in Japan standard time) - Japan navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Attack on Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II. * December 8 - World War II: The United States officially declares war on Japan. * December 11 - World War II: Germany declares war on the United States. * December 25 - World War II: British and Canadians are defeated by the Japanese at Hong Kong. * December 27 - World War II: British Commandos raid the Norway port of Vaagso, causing Hitler to reinforce the garrison and defenses ===Unknown dates=== * John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry developed the Atanasoff Berry Computer. * Ives and Stilwell prove that ions radiate at Frequency affected by their motion. * In Sweden, Victor Hasselblad forms the Hasselblad camera company. * The Pinnacle Commune, a Rastafarian community, is destroyed by Jamaican authorities * Indochina Communist party, led by Ho Chi Minh, combines with Nationalist party to form the Vietminh. ===Ongoing events=== * Sino-Japanese_War_(1937-1945) (1937-1945) (which may or may not be a part of World War II, depending on who's telling the tale) * World War II (1939-1945) ==Year in topic== * 1941 in film **May 1 - ''Citizen Kane'', starring Orson Welles **October 3 - ''The Maltese Falcon'', starring Humphrey Bogart ** Alfred Hitchcock's ''Suspicion'' **''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner * 1941 in literature **''The Screwtape Letters'' by C.S. Lewis **''Darkness at Noon'' by Arthur Koestler **''Call It Courage'' by Armstrong Sperry * 1941 in music **February 11 - 1st Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for ''Chattanooga Choo Choo''. * 1941 in rail transport ** Heisler Locomotive Works produces the last Heisler locomotive. ** The ''Hollywood'', a lounge car built for use on the ''City of Los Angeles'' train, becomes the first passenger car whose interior is built entirely out of synthetic materials. The car's interior featured the newly invented materials of formica and naugahyde. * 1941 in sports **May 15 - Joe DiMaggio starts his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak. **One of the greatest race horses of his time, Epinard, was taken during the Germany occupation of France and used as a delivery wagon horse. * 1941 in television **April 30 - The Federal Communications Commission approves the NTSC standards of 525 lines and 30 frames per second, and authorizes commercial TV to begin on July 1. **May 2 - 10 television stations were granted commercial TV licenses (effective July 1). These stations were required to broadcast 15 hours per week. Bulova, Sun Oil Co., Lever Bros. Co. and Procter & Gamble sign on as sponsors of the first commercial telecasts from WNBT in New York. **July 1 - Commercial TV authorized by the FCC. **July 1 - Ralph Edwards hosted the first game show broadcast on television, ''Truth Or Consequences'', simulcast on radio and TV and sponsored by Ivory Soap. The first legal television commercial in the United States for Bulova watches occurs at 2:29, superimposed over a test pattern. ==Births== ===January=== * January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, musician * January 5 - Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese film maker * January 5 - Grady Thomas, singer (P-Funk) * January 7 - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate * January 8 - Graham Chapman, comedian * January 9 - Joan Baez, singer, activitist * January 14 - Faye Dunaway, actress * January 14 - Milan Kucan, Slovenian politician and statesman * January 15 - Captain Beefheart, singer * January 18 - David Ruffin, singer (d. 1991) * January 21 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor * January 21 - Richie Havens, American musician * January 26 - Scott Glenn, actor * January 26 - Henry Jaglom, director * January 30 - Dick Cheney, American politician * January 31 - Dick Gephardt, American politician ===February=== * February 5 - Kaspar Villiger, member of the Swiss Federal Council * February 6 - Howard Phillips, founding member of the United States Constitution Party * February 8 - Nick Nolte, actor * February 10 - Michael Apted, director * February 11 - Jeremy Mackenzie, general * February 11 - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman * February 13 - Sigmar Polke, painter * February 17 - Julia McKenzie, actress * February 17 - Gene Pitney, American singer * February 20 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, American singer * February 26 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972) * February 27 - Paddy Ashdown, British politician ===March-May=== * March 3 - Jutta Hoffmann, actress * March 4 - Adrian Lyne, director * March 5 - Nona Gaprindashvili - former Women's World Chess Champion * March 6 - Willie Stargell, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2001) * March 14 - Wolfgang Petersen, film director * March 15 - Mike Love, musician (The Beach Boys) * March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci, film director * March 18 - Wilson Pickett, singer * March 26 - Richard Dawkins, British scientist * March 28 - Jim Turner (football player), American football player * March 30 - Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan * April 3 - Philippe Wynne, musician (d. 1984) * April 6 - Hans W. Geissendörfer, German film director * April 14 - Pete Rose, baseball star * April 23 - Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland * April 24 - John Williams (guitarist), Australian guitarist * April 27 - Lee Roy Jordan, American football player * April 28 - K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate * May 5 - Alexander Ragulin, hockey player (d. 2004) * May 13 - Senta Berger, Swedish actress * May 13 - Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959) * May 15 - K.T. Oslin, country musician * May 19 - Nora Ephron, screenwriter * May 24 - Bob Dylan, American poet and musician ===June=== * June 5 - Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist **Spalding Gray, actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (d. 2004) * June 8 - Fuzzy Haskins, musician (P-Funk) * June 10 - Mickey Jones, American actor and musician * June 24 - Bill Reardon, American politician and educator * June 27 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish film director (d. 1996) ===July=== * July 14 - Maulana Karenga, author and activist * July 19 - Vikki Carr, singer * July 28 - Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor * July 31 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, politician ===August-September=== * August 3 - Martha Stewart, television and magazine personality * August 22 - Bill Parcells, American football coach * September 4 - Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician * September 9 - Otis Redding, musician (d. 1967) * September 9 - Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist * September 10 - Christopher Hogwood, English conductor * September 14 - Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician * September 15 - George Saimes, American football player * September 17 - Bob Matsui U.S. Senator from Hawaii (d. 2005) * September 19 - Cass Elliott, American singer (d. 1974) ===October-November=== * October 4 - Anne Rice, writer * October 5 - Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina * October 16 - Tim McCarver, baseball commentator * November 6 - Doug Sahm, American musician (d. 1999) * November 29 - Bill Freehan, baseball player ===December=== * December 9 - Beau Bridges, actor * December 10 - Colin Kelly, American airman * December 13 - John Davidson (game show host), singer and actor * December 18 - His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester * December 23 - Tim Hardin, musician * December 30 - Mel Renfro, American football player ===Unknown dates=== * T S Krishnamurthy, Chief Election Commissioner of India * Peter Sarstedt, singer and songwriter * Thom Bell, record producer * Beatrice Tinsley, English people astronomer ==Deaths== * January 4 - Henri Bergson, French philiosopher (b. 1859) * January 5 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903) * January 8 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier, founder of Scouting (b. 1847) * January 10 - Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879) * January 10 - Joe Penner, comedian and actor * January 13 - James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882) * February 11 - Rudolf Hilferding, German economist, Minister of Finance (b. 1877) * February 28 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886) * March 6 - Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (b. 1867) * March 8 - Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876) * March 15 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864) * March 28 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (b. 1882) * April 13 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863) * May 16 - Minnie Vautrin, American missionary and heroine of the Nanjing Massacre * June 2 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player (b. 1903) * June 6 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile builder and race car driver (b. 1878) * June 29 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860) * July 10 - Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1890) * July 11 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (b. 1851) * July 26 - Henri Lebesgue, mathematician * August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, author * August 13 - J. Stuart Blackton , American film producer * August 14 - Paul Sabatier (chemist), French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) * August 31 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (suicide) * September 13 - Elias Disney, American farmer and father of Walt Disney. * October 26 - Arkady Gaidar, Soviet/Russian children's writer, dies in combat (b. 1904) * November 18 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) * November 18 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia * December 3 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (b. 1856) * December 30 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890) ==Fiction== * Sometime in this year, events of the ''Doctor Who'' episodes ''The Empty Child'' and ''The Doctor Dances'' take place. ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize/Physics - not awarded * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - not awarded * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - not awarded * Nobel Prize in literature - not awarded * Nobel Prize/Peace - not awarded 1941 1940s ang:1941 bs:1941 ka:1941 la:1941 os:1941 se:1941 sq:1941 simple:1941
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I thought the Reuben James was the first US boat sunk in WWII, otherwise what is Joan Baez singing about?User:Ping 08:29 23 May 2003 (UTC) I have put a general comment on year layout on my talk page, particularly on the way year by topic is dealt with. There are three different variants and I would like agreement to standardise. User:BozMoUser talk:BozMo
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