1941 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1941?
- January 20, 1941 – A Nazi officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
- January 27, 1941 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 4, 1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
- March 1, 1941 – World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
- April 13, 1941 – Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
- May 2, 1941 – Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power.
- May 9, 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
- June 1, 1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
- June 26, 1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
- June 27, 1941 – German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
- July 13, 1941 – World War II: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak), the first in Axis-controlled countries.
- August 15, 1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7:12 am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.
- September 17, 1941 – World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued
- October 4, 1941 – Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
- October 8, 1941 – World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
- October 29, 1941 – The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the “Great Action”.
- December 8, 1941 – Japanese forces simultaneously invade Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines. These happen concurrently with the Attack on Pearl Harbor, which was on December 7 in the United States.
- December 12, 1941 – World War II: USMC F4F “Wildcats” sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island.
- December 25, 1941 – Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
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