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Events on the year of 1941 in history

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01 Jan 1941 Netherlands begins taxing wages
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01 Jan 1941 Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff
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02 Jan 1941 World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
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03 Jan 1941 Canada and US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
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03 Jan 1941 Italian counter offensive in Albania
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05 Jan 1941 British / Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia
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06 Jan 1941 United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
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08 Jan 1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
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09 Jan 1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
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09 Jan 1941 World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
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10 Jan 1941 World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
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10 Jan 1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
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10 Jan 1941 Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace" premieres in New York City NY
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11 Jan 1941 Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton
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16 Jan 1941 US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
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16 Jan 1941 War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
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17 Jan 1941 Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
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18 Jan 1941 World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
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19 Jan 1941 World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
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19 Jan 1941 British troops occupy Kassalaf Sudan
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19 Jan 1941 British offensive in Eritrea
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20 Jan 1941 A German officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
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21 Jan 1941 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, Texas
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21 Jan 1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
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21 Jan 1941 Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania, the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
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21 Jan 1941 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
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21 Jan 1941 Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
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22 Jan 1941 World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
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22 Jan 1941 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
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22 Jan 1941 British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
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23 Jan 1941 WOR-AM in Newark New Jersey moves to New York City
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23 Jan 1941 Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
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23 Jan 1941 Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center
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24 Jan 1941 British troops march into Abyssinia
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27 Jan 1941 Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreib
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28 Jan 1941 Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
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29 Jan 1941 Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
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30 Jan 1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya
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31 Jan 1941 Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands
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31 Jan 1941 Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
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01 Feb 1941 US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
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03 Feb 1941 Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage and Hour law, sets minimum wages and maximum hours
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04 Feb 1941 British tanks occupy Maus Libya
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04 Feb 1941 Former Dutch Premier De Geer flies to Berlin
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04 Feb 1941 United Service Organization (USO) founded
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04 Feb 1941 The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
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05 Feb 1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to the Netherlands
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05 Feb 1941 World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
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06 Feb 1941 Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19)
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06 Feb 1941 Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed
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06 Feb 1941 British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
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07 Feb 1941 Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey Orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me"
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08 Feb 1941 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
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09 Feb 1941 British troops conquer El Agheila
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10 Feb 1941 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Washington, DC to Harrisonburg, Virginia
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10 Feb 1941 Anti-Nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in the Netherlands
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11 Feb 1941 1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo)
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11 Feb 1941 Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
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11 Feb 1941 Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
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12 Feb 1941 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
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12 Feb 1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen
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13 Feb 1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council
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14 Feb 1941 Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
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14 Feb 1941 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
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14 Feb 1941 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel
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14 Feb 1941 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
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15 Feb 1941 Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
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17 Feb 1941 Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
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19 Feb 1941 Nazi police attacks and driven away from Koco Amsterdam (by young Jews)
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19 Feb 1941 Nazis raid Koco Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation
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20 Feb 1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
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20 Feb 1941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
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20 Feb 1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
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21 Feb 1941 US Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to Brigadier-General
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22 Feb 1941 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
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22 Feb 1941 German assault on El Agheila Libya
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22 Feb 1941 I G Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
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22 Feb 1941 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam
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22 Feb 1941 Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres
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22 Feb 1941 Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man" premieres
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23 Feb 1941 Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
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24 Feb 1941 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
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24 Feb 1941 Anti Nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
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25 Feb 1941 February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
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25 Feb 1941 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
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25 Feb 1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
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26 Feb 1941 2 fighters unable to continue slugfest, referee declares double KO
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26 Feb 1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)
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26 Feb 1941 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews
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26 Feb 1941 Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
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28 Feb 1941 British-Italian dogfight above Albania
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01 Mar 1941 "Captain America" appears in a comic book
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01 Mar 1941 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee
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01 Mar 1941 Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner
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01 Mar 1941 German troops invade Bulgaria
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01 Mar 1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp
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01 Mar 1941 W47NV begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S..
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01 Mar 1941 World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
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02 Mar 1941 World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
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04 Mar 1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
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04 Mar 1941 NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots
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04 Mar 1941 Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
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04 Mar 1941 World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.
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07 Mar 1941 3rd largest snowfall in NYC history (18.1")
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07 Mar 1941 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
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07 Mar 1941 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
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08 Mar 1941 1st baseball player drafted into WWII (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
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10 Mar 1941 Larry MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
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11 Mar 1941 World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
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11 Mar 1941 Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minnesota, to become wrestling champion
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11 Mar 1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
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12 Mar 1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in the Netherlands
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13 Mar 1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
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14 Mar 1941 Xavier Cugat and Orchestra record "Babalu"
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14 Mar 1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
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14 Mar 1941 Xavier Cugat & his Orchestraestra record "Babalu"
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15 Mar 1941 Blizzard in ND kills 151
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15 Mar 1941 Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
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15 Mar 1941 Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151
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16 Mar 1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
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16 Mar 1941 Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize
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16 Mar 1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington DC
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17 Mar 1941 In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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17 Mar 1941 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC opens
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19 Mar 1941 Jimmy Dorsey and Orchestra record "Green Eyes" and"Maria Elena"
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19 Mar 1941 World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the US Army Air Corps, is activated.
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19 Mar 1941 Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestraestra record "Green Eyes" & "Maria Elena"
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20 Mar 1941 Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn
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21 Mar 1941 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Mar 1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation
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24 Mar 1941 British troops defeat British Somalia
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24 Mar 1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya
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24 Mar 1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
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24 Mar 1941 Long Island University beats Ohio University 56-42 for NIT basketball championship
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24 Mar 1941 Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son" premieres in New York NY
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25 Mar 1941 The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
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25 Mar 1941 Carolina Paprika Mills, Dillon SC, incorporated
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27 Mar 1941 World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
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27 Mar 1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
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27 Mar 1941 Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
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27 Mar 1941 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
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28 Mar 1941 World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
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28 Mar 1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy
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29 Mar 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.
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29 Mar 1941 The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
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29 Mar 1941 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem"
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29 Mar 1941 3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Wisconsin beats Washington State 39-34
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29 Mar 1941 WPAT radio in New Jersey begins broadcasting (country music format)
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30 Mar 1941 German counter offensive in North-Africa
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31 Mar 1941 Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa
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31 Mar 1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco
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01 Apr 1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay)
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01 Apr 1941 Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq
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01 Apr 1941 A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
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01 Apr 1941 The Blockade Runner Badge for the German navy is instituted.
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01 Apr 1941 Fântâna Albă massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.
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02 Apr 1941 German occupier disallows Dutch Scouting Association
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02 Apr 1941 USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San Francisco
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03 Apr 1941 Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
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03 Apr 1941 Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
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03 Apr 1941 Waltons overture "Scapino, " premieres in Chicago
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04 Apr 1941 German troops conquer Banghazi
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05 Apr 1941 In SF, Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
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06 Apr 1941 Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)
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06 Apr 1941 British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa
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06 Apr 1941 German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
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06 Apr 1941 Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British and Ethiopian forces
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06 Apr 1941 World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
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08 Apr 1941 Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
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09 Apr 1941 PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
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10 Apr 1941 World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.
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10 Apr 1941 German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
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11 Apr 1941 Nazi occupiers in the Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets
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11 Apr 1941 Germany blitzes Conventry, England
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11 Apr 1941 Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazi's
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12 Apr 1941 Stanley Cup Boston Bruins sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
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12 Apr 1941 Vichy-France's head of government Admiral Dalan consults with Hitler
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13 Apr 1941 A Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
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13 Apr 1941 Heavy German assault on Tobruk
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13 Apr 1941 Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect
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14 Apr 1941 World War II: German general Erwin Rommel attacks Tobruk.
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14 Apr 1941 1st massive German raid in Paris France, 3,600 Jews rounded up
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14 Apr 1941 King Peter leaves Yugoslavia
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15 Apr 1941 1st helicopter flight of 1 hour duration, Stratford, Connecticut
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15 Apr 1941 In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
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16 Apr 1941 World War II: The Ustaše, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.
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16 Apr 1941 World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
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16 Apr 1941 Little Theater at Adelphi Strand closes
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17 Apr 1941 Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing)
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17 Apr 1941 World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
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17 Apr 1941 Office of Price Administration established (to handle rationing)
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17 Apr 1941 British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to Nazi's
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19 Apr 1941 Bertolt Brecht's "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder", premieres in Z
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19 Apr 1941 Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia
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19 Apr 1941 Milk rationed in Holland
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20 Apr 1941 100 German bombers attack Athens
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20 Apr 1941 Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps
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21 Apr 1941 Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece.
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21 Apr 1941 Greece surrenders to Nazi-Germany
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23 Apr 1941 World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
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23 Apr 1941 Greece Army surrenders to German Nazi's RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt
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24 Apr 1941 British army begins evacuation of Greece
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24 Apr 1941 Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
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25 Apr 1941 Operation Merkur Hitler orders conquest of Kreta
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26 Apr 1941 A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
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26 Apr 1941 Potatoes rationed in Holland
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27 Apr 1941 World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation.
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27 Apr 1941 World War II: German troops enter Athens.
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27 Apr 1941 German troops occupy Athens Greece
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28 Apr 1941 Last British troops in Greece surrenders
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30 Apr 1941 Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia
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01 May 1941 "Citizen Kane, " directed and starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York
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01 May 1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios
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01 May 1941 German assault on Tobruk
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01 May 1941 World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
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02 May 1941 FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1
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02 May 1941 Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists
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02 May 1941 Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in year he hit over .400
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02 May 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.
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05 May 1941 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
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05 May 1941 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
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05 May 1941 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
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06 May 1941 Joseph Stalin became Premier of Russia
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06 May 1941 The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
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06 May 1941 At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
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07 May 1941 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
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07 May 1941 Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
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07 May 1941 Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA
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08 May 1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean
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08 May 1941 The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby
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09 May 1941 English Army breaks German spy codes
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09 May 1941 World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
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10 May 1941 World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
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10 May 1941 World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
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10 May 1941 67th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 1:58.8
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10 May 1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland
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10 May 1941 England's House of Commons & Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz
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10 May 1941 Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason
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11 May 1941 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England
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12 May 1941 Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
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12 May 1941 Great British convoy marches into Alexandria
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13 May 1941 World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
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13 May 1941 Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany
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13 May 1941 Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins
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13 May 1941 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
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14 May 1941 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested
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15 May 1941 British attack Halfaya-pass and Fort Capuzzo in Egypt and Libya
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15 May 1941 Nazi occupiers in the Netherlands forbid Jewish music
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15 May 1941 First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied jet aircraft.
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15 May 1941 1st British turbojet flies
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15 May 1941 Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yankees win 13-1
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16 May 1941 Germans made their last major air attack on Britain
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16 May 1941 1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
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16 May 1941 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia
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16 May 1941 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
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16 May 1941 Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)
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17 May 1941 Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack
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18 May 1941 An Egyptian steamer sinks
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18 May 1941 Italian army under General Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia
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18 May 1941 Jewish veterans honor their dead
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19 May 1941 The Viet Minh, a communist coalition, formed at Cao Bằng Province, Vietnam.
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19 May 1941 German occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis
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19 May 1941 New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
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20 May 1941 Former Dutch Prime Minister Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence
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20 May 1941 World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.
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20 May 1941 Archer's "The Christian Calendar & the Gregorian Reform" published
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20 May 1941 Germany invades Crete
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20 May 1941 White Sox Taft Wright sets American League record of RBIs in 13 consecutive games
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21 May 1941 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
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21 May 1941 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
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21 May 1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
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22 May 1941 British troops attack Baghdad
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23 May 1941 Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
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23 May 1941 Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5)
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24 May 1941 World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
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24 May 1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive
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25 May 1941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
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25 May 1941 Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for 1st time in 1941
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26 May 1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Philadelphia
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26 May 1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck
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26 May 1941 German occupiers begin youth labor
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27 May 1941 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
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27 May 1941 World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
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27 May 1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta
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27 May 1941 FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
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27 May 1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
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28 May 1941 New York Yankees nip Washingston Senators 6-5 in 1st night game at Griffith Stadium
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28 May 1941 1st night game at Washington DC, Griffith Stadium (Yankees 6, Senators 5)
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28 May 1941 British army begins evacuation of Kreta
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30 May 1941 World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the Nazi swastika.
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30 May 1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
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30 May 1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
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30 May 1941 German capture Kreta
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31 May 1941 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
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31 May 1941 A Luftwaffe air raid on Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives.
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31 May 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.
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31 May 1941 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
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31 May 1941 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington KS (state record)
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31 May 1941 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
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31 May 1941 British troops vacate Kreta
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31 May 1941 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
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01 Jun 1941 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hr record)
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01 Jun 1941 British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq
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01 Jun 1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications
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01 Jun 1941 Germany occupies Kreta
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01 Jun 1941 New York Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR and his 1,500th RBI
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01 Jun 1941 World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
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01 Jun 1941 The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
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02 Jun 1941 World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
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03 Jun 1941 Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
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03 Jun 1941 Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn
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03 Jun 1941 German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
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03 Jun 1941 World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
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04 Jun 1941 Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z
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05 Jun 1941 Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ
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05 Jun 1941 World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
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06 Jun 1941 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
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06 Jun 1941 Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time
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07 Jun 1941 45th US Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Ft Worth
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07 Jun 1941 73rd Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway win in 2:31 (triple crown)
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08 Jun 1941 English and French troop overthrow pro-German Syria
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08 Jun 1941 World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
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09 Jun 1941 Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500
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09 Jun 1941 Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio
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11 Jun 1941 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
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11 Jun 1941 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews
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14 Jun 1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
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14 Jun 1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita, Kansas
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14 Jun 1941 June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
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16 Jun 1941 1st US federally owned airport opened Washington DC
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18 Jun 1941 Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
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18 Jun 1941 Turkey signs peace treaty with Nazi-Germany
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19 Jun 1941 US President Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act
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19 Jun 1941 Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal
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19 Jun 1941 Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani
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20 Jun 1941 German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US Battleship Texas
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21 Jun 1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
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21 Jun 1941 After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
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22 Jun 1941 Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation
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22 Jun 1941 Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states
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22 Jun 1941 Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WWII
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22 Jun 1941 Michael Gerasimov opens grave of Tamerlan "Lenk"
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22 Jun 1941 President Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights"
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22 Jun 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
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22 Jun 1941 The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
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22 Jun 1941 Finland invades Karelia
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22 Jun 1941 Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
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23 Jun 1941 Germany occupies Telz Lithuana
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23 Jun 1941 The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
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24 Jun 1941 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
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24 Jun 1941 Germans advanced into Russia and took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas
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25 Jun 1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission established
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25 Jun 1941 Finland declares war on Soviet Union
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25 Jun 1941 Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there
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25 Jun 1941 FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
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26 Jun 1941 Lithuanian fascist massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
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26 Jun 1941 World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
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26 Jun 1941 Finland enters WW II against Russia
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27 Jun 1941 Bialystok Poland falls to Germany
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27 Jun 1941 Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam
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27 Jun 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.
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27 Jun 1941 German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
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28 Jun 1941 German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
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28 Jun 1941 German troops occupy Galicia Poland
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29 Jun 1941 DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
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30 Jun 1941 Pro-Nazi group declares Ukraine independence
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01 Jul 1941 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) and WCBW (CBS), New York City
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01 Jul 1941 Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial
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01 Jul 1941 WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Jul 1941 WNBT TV (W2XBS, Now WNBC) channel 4 in NYC (NBC) begins broadcasting
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02 Jul 1941 Earthquake hits Palestine
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02 Jul 1941 Nazi mass murder in Lvov / Lemberg (7,000 dead)
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04 Jul 1941 Howard Florey and Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin
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04 Jul 1941 Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
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04 Jul 1941 Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes
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04 Jul 1941 Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
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04 Jul 1941 World War II, the Burning of the Riga synagogues: the Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga was burned with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
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05 Jul 1941 German occupiers disband political parties
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05 Jul 1941 World War II: Operation Barbarossa: German troops reach the Dnieper River.
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06 Jul 1941 New York Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield
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06 Jul 1941 Nazi Germany launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk.
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07 Jul 1941 Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania
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07 Jul 1941 US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
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07 Jul 1941 World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.
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07 Jul 1941 World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
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08 Jul 1941 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
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08 Jul 1941 All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star
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10 Jul 1941 Jedwabne Pogrom: The massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
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11 Jul 1941 German troops attack Dnjepr
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13 Jul 1941 24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills Country Club - Denver
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13 Jul 1941 Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder
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13 Jul 1941 World War II: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
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14 Jul 1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
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14 Jul 1941 Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon & Syria)
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14 Jul 1941 Jam rationed in Holland
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15 Jul 1941 Florey and Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin)
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16 Jul 1941 Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
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16 Jul 1941 100
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16 Jul 1941 Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game
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17 Jul 1941 Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak ends
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18 Jul 1941 SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
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19 Jul 1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
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19 Jul 1941 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicted (Tuskegee Ala)
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19 Jul 1941 British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
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19 Jul 1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
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20 Jul 1941 Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.
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20 Jul 1941 Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
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21 Jul 1941 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine
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21 Jul 1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp
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24 Jul 1941 FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
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24 Jul 1941 Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz Lithuania
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24 Jul 1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
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25 Jul 1941 FDR bans selling benzine / gasoline to Japan
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25 Jul 1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
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26 Jul 1941 "Camp Amersfoort" opened by Germany occupiers
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26 Jul 1941 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague
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26 Jul 1941 US embargo on oil-export to Japan
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26 Jul 1941 World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
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27 Jul 1941 German army enters Ukraine
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27 Jul 1941 Japanese forces land in Indo-China
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30 Jul 1941 German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU and SGP in the Netherlands
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31 Jul 1941 The 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."
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01 Aug 1941 Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
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01 Aug 1941 New York Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St. L 0)
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02 Aug 1941 German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman
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02 Aug 1941 Hungarian Ruthenia, expels Jews
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02 Aug 1941 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
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03 Aug 1941 Benzine sales limited in US
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03 Aug 1941 Gas sales limited in US
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03 Aug 1941 German troops conquer Roslavl USSR
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04 Aug 1941 Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd)
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04 Aug 1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US
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05 Aug 1941 World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.
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06 Aug 1941 Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning
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07 Aug 1941 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
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08 Aug 1941 20 divisions of Russian 6th / 12th Army surrender at Oeman
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09 Aug 1941 Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR
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11 Aug 1941 FRD and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter
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12 Aug 1941 French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
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13 Aug 1941 Red army evacuates Smolensk
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14 Aug 1941 World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
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14 Aug 1941 Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
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15 Aug 1941 Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto
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15 Aug 1941 Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
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17 Aug 1941 German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan
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18 Aug 1941 Concentration camp Amersfoort opens
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18 Aug 1941 Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
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19 Aug 1941 Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout
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20 Aug 1941 Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
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22 Aug 1941 Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
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25 Aug 1941 English and Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
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25 Aug 1941 German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad
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27 Aug 1941 Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi
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29 Aug 1941 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
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29 Aug 1941 Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
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30 Aug 1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
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30 Aug 1941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
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31 Aug 1941 World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
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31 Aug 1941 Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
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01 Sep 1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star
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02 Sep 1941 Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
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03 Sep 1941 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)
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03 Sep 1941 KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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03 Sep 1941 The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
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04 Sep 1941 New York Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season)
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04 Sep 1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652
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04 Sep 1941 Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 and clinch their 12th and earliest pennant
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04 Sep 1941 World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.
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05 Sep 1941 Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
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06 Sep 1941 55th US Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62)
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06 Sep 1941 61st US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)
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06 Sep 1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
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06 Sep 1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
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07 Sep 1941 61st US Mens Tennis: R L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)
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08 Sep 1941 Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins
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08 Sep 1941 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated
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08 Sep 1941 World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad.
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11 Sep 1941 Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels
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11 Sep 1941 Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
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11 Sep 1941 Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.
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11 Sep 1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "the British, the Jewish & the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into WW II
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11 Sep 1941 FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
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12 Sep 1941 1st German ship in WW2 captured by US ship (Busko)
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15 Sep 1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
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16 Sep 1941 German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine
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16 Sep 1941 Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed
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16 Sep 1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto
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16 Sep 1941 World War II: Concerned that Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, was about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
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17 Sep 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.
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17 Sep 1941 World War II: Soviet forces enter Teheran marking the end of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
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19 Sep 1941 1st meeting of partizans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
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19 Sep 1941 German army conquerors Kiev
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21 Sep 1941 US launches its 1st Liberty-ship, "Patrick Henry"
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22 Sep 1941 British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro
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22 Sep 1941 World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
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23 Sep 1941 General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London
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23 Sep 1941 German air raid on Russ naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)
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24 Sep 1941 9 Allied Governments pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter
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24 Sep 1941 Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
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25 Sep 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years
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27 Sep 1941 The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
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27 Sep 1941 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched
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28 Sep 1941 Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting average
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28 Sep 1941 The Drama Uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
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28 Sep 1941 Phillies lose club record 111th game
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28 Sep 1941 Ted Williams assures his .400 avg on last day with 6 hits
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29 Sep 1941 Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
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29 Sep 1941 Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade
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29 Sep 1941 Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union
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29 Sep 1941 World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
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29 Sep 1941 Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis KOs Lou Nova in 6
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30 Sep 1941 German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins
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30 Sep 1941 World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
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30 Sep 1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
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01 Oct 1941 D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow
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01 Oct 1941 H Martin / R Blanes musical "Best Foot Forward, " premieres in New York City
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01 Oct 1941 Yankees beat Dodgers 3-2 at Yankee Stadium in opener of World Series
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02 Oct 1941 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo
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02 Oct 1941 Germans launch attack on Moscow
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02 Oct 1941 World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
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03 Oct 1941 Adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" andwould "never rise again"
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03 Oct 1941 All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS
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04 Oct 1941 Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
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05 Oct 1941 Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yanks score 4 and win 7-4
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06 Oct 1941 German army occupies Briansk, USSR
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07 Oct 1941 German army occupies Viarma, USSR
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08 Oct 1941 Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built
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08 Oct 1941 World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
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09 Oct 1941 A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
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10 Oct 1941 German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney
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11 Oct 1941 1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front
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11 Oct 1941 Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
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12 Oct 1941 Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow
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14 Oct 1941 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk and Riga
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15 Oct 1941 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe
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15 Oct 1941 Japan Tojo regime forms
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15 Oct 1941 Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death
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16 Oct 1941 "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers
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16 Oct 1941 Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa Russia
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16 Oct 1941 Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow
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17 Oct 1941 World War II: a German submarine attacks an American ship for the first time in the war.
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17 Oct 1941 German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
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17 Oct 1941 1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland
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18 Oct 1941 Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo
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19 Oct 1941 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico
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20 Oct 1941 Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia
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20 Oct 1941 World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
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21 Oct 1941 World War II: In Kragujevac, Serbia, German Wehrmacht soldiers butcher about 7,000 citizens, including schoolchildren and professors.
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22 Oct 1941 World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
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23 Oct 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.
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23 Oct 1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
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25 Oct 1941 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa Ukraine
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25 Oct 1941 Germany attacks Moscow
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25 Oct 1941 Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia
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26 Oct 1941 2nd meeting partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
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26 Oct 1941 US savings bonds go on sale
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27 Oct 1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
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29 Oct 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".
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30 Oct 1941 World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
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30 Oct 1941 One thousand five hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
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30 Oct 1941 USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war
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31 Oct 1941 Mount Rushmore is completed
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31 Oct 1941 Prior to US in WWII, Germany torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James
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31 Oct 1941 After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.
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31 Oct 1941 World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.
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01 Nov 1941 Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki / Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor
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01 Nov 1941 American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
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05 Nov 1941 Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki / Maejima leave Pearl Harbor
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06 Nov 1941 Einsatz group kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
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06 Nov 1941 Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
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06 Nov 1941 USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
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07 Nov 1941 British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim and Ruhrgebied
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12 Nov 1941 WOV-AM andWNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
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12 Nov 1941 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
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12 Nov 1941 WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in New York City swap call letters
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13 Nov 1941 British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean
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13 Nov 1941 German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic
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14 Nov 1941 Governor-General Wouters of Dutch Antilles refuses Jews refugees
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15 Nov 1941 Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic Premier
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15 Nov 1941 Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
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16 Nov 1941 German troops conquer Kertsh (probably)
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18 Nov 1941 British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa
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20 Nov 1941 Adm Nomura and Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
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20 Nov 1941 German Q / pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia
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22 Nov 1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis
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22 Nov 1941 New Zealand troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya
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23 Nov 1941 German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow
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24 Nov 1941 "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, rest exterminated
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24 Nov 1941 Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar
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24 Nov 1941 US troops land on Suriname to protect bauxite mine
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25 Nov 1941 German Jews in the Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality)
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25 Nov 1941 Lou Boudreau, 24, becomes Cleveland Indians player / manager
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26 Nov 1941 British North African Commandant General Cunningham lay-offs
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26 Nov 1941 British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh and El Duda
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26 Nov 1941 Japanese carrier force left its base and moves east toward Pearl Harbor
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26 Nov 1941 Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
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26 Nov 1941 Lebanon gains independence from France
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27 Nov 1941 British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk
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27 Nov 1941 Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP
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27 Nov 1941 USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat
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28 Nov 1941 German troops vacate Rostov
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29 Nov 1941 29th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 18-16
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29 Nov 1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet
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30 Nov 1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano
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30 Nov 1941 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run
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01 Dec 1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python
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01 Dec 1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
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01 Dec 1941 US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
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01 Dec 1941 World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
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01 Dec 1941 World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
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02 Dec 1941 Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill, New York
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02 Dec 1941 Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul
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02 Dec 1941 New York Giants name Mel Ott as player-manager, replacing Bill Terry
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02 Dec 1941 Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor
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03 Dec 1941 Hitler views Poltava Ukraine
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04 Dec 1941 Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts
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05 Dec 1941 Football Writers Association of America organized
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05 Dec 1941 Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out Nazi army
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05 Dec 1941 Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved
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05 Dec 1941 US aircraft carrier Lexington / 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor
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05 Dec 1941 World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
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05 Dec 1941 World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
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06 Dec 1941 Dutch and British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
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06 Dec 1941 King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels
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06 Dec 1941 New York City Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
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06 Dec 1941 World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
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07 Dec 1941 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
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07 Dec 1941 Australian bombers land on Timor / Ambon
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07 Dec 1941 German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
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07 Dec 1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
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07 Dec 1941 Nacht and Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps
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07 Dec 1941 World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
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08 Dec 1941 Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
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08 Dec 1941 London: Dutch government declares Japan the war
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08 Dec 1941 Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo
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08 Dec 1941 San Francisco 1st blackout, at 6:15pm
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08 Dec 1941 US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WWII
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08 Dec 1941 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
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08 Dec 1941 World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)
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09 Dec 1941 1st US WWII bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines
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09 Dec 1941 300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ
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09 Dec 1941 7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB)
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09 Dec 1941 China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy
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09 Dec 1941 Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
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09 Dec 1941 Hitler orders US ships torpedoed
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09 Dec 1941 World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.
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09 Dec 1941 World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
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10 Dec 1941 World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
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10 Dec 1941 World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
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10 Dec 1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
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10 Dec 1941 Japanese troops land on northern Luzon in the Philippines
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10 Dec 1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam
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11 Dec 1941 World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
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11 Dec 1941 World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
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11 Dec 1941 Germany & Italy declare war on US
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11 Dec 1941 Japanese occupy Guam
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11 Dec 1941 Dutch government in London declares war on Italy
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11 Dec 1941 Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cardinals for 3 players & $50,000
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11 Dec 1941 Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WWII-landing)
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12 Dec 1941 World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.
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12 Dec 1941 World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island.
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12 Dec 1941 World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan.
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12 Dec 1941 Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery
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12 Dec 1941 German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
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12 Dec 1941 European reservists on Java mobilizes
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12 Dec 1941 Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk
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13 Dec 1941 World War II: The Kingdom of Hungary and Kingdom of Romania declare war on the United States.
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13 Dec 1941 German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherlands Union
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13 Dec 1941 Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die
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13 Dec 1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal
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14 Dec 1941 World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand.
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14 Dec 1941 1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14
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14 Dec 1941 Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York
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14 Dec 1941 U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea
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15 Dec 1941 The Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union.
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15 Dec 1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
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15 Dec 1941 Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland
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15 Dec 1941 German submarine U-127 sinks
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15 Dec 1941 Nazi's transfers 100 Czechoslovakian citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint
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15 Dec 1941 North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing
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16 Dec 1941 World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak.
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16 Dec 1941 Sarawak occupied by the Japanese
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17 Dec 1941 World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
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17 Dec 1941 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
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17 Dec 1941 Dutch & Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor
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17 Dec 1941 German submarine U-31 sunk
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18 Dec 1941 German submarine U-434 sinks
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18 Dec 1941 Japanse troops land on Hong Kong
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19 Dec 1941 World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-chief of the German Army.
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19 Dec 1941 World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
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19 Dec 1941 German submarine U-574 sinks
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19 Dec 1941 Hitler takes complete command of German Army
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19 Dec 1941 US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WWII
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20 Dec 1941 World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
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20 Dec 1941 Free France under Admiral Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miqu
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20 Dec 1941 Japanese troops lands on Mindanao
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21 Dec 1941 Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
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21 Dec 1941 Chicago bears win the NFL championship
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21 Dec 1941 Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears)
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21 Dec 1941 World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
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21 Dec 1941 Chicago Bears win the NFL championship, Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
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21 Dec 1941 David Diamond's 1st Symphony, premieres
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21 Dec 1941 German submarine U-567 sinks
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22 Dec 1941 Premier Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
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22 Dec 1941 Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington DC for a wartime conference
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22 Dec 1941 Japan's invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
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22 Dec 1941 Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
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23 Dec 1941 World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
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23 Dec 1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
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23 Dec 1941 British troops overrun Benghazi Libya
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23 Dec 1941 Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma
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24 Dec 1941 World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
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24 Dec 1941 1st ships of Admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor-fleet return to Japan
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25 Dec 1941 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
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25 Dec 1941 World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
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25 Dec 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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25 Dec 1941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
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25 Dec 1941 Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
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26 Dec 1941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"
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26 Dec 1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
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27 Dec 1941 Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
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27 Dec 1941 Siberia: Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 7th Symphony
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28 Dec 1941 World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.
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28 Dec 1941 State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia
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30 Dec 1941 Nazibezetters oblige artsen member to become of Artsenkamer
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30 Dec 1941 Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach
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30 Dec 1941 Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization
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30 Dec 1941 Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament
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31 Dec 1941 Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
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