1941 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1941?
- January 22, 1941 – World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
- January 27, 1941 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1941 – W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.
- March 29, 1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
- April 6, 1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
- April 16, 1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
- April 23, 1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
- June 1, 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
- June 27, 1941 – Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
- September 11, 1941 – Charles Lindbergh’s Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.
- September 27, 1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
- October 11, 1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
- October 17, 1941 – German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
- October 20, 1941 – World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre.
- December 13, 1941 – World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
- December 14, 1941 – World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand.
- December 15, 1941 – Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
- December 20, 1941 – World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the “Flying Tigers” in Kunming, China.
- December 23, 1941 – World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Japanese Imperial Army occupies Wake Island.
- December 25, 1941 – Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
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