1941 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1941?
- January 27, 1941 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 25, 1941 – February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
- April 17, 1941 – World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
- April 27, 1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
- May 6, 1941 – The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
- May 10, 1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
- May 20, 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete.
- May 31, 1941 – Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
- June 8, 1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
- July 4, 1941 – Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
- August 24, 1941 – Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany’s systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
- September 11, 1941 – Charles Lindbergh’s Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.
- September 29, 1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kyiv, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babyn Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
- October 20, 1941 – World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre.
- October 23, 1941 – World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
- October 31, 1941 – After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.
- December 1, 1941 – Pacific War: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gave the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
- December 7, 1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States. Japan also invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines at the same time (December 8 in Asia).
- December 12, 1941 – World War II: USMC F4F “Wildcats” sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island.
- December 19, 1941 – World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
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