1941 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1941?
- January 27, 1941 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 25, 1941 – February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
- March 2, 1941 – World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
- March 11, 1941 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
- March 29, 1941 – The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
- April 1, 1941 – A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali as Prime Minister.
- April 13, 1941 – Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
- May 13, 1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
- June 8, 1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
- June 30, 1941 – World War II: Operation Barbarossa – Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
- July 31, 1941 – 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.”
- September 30, 1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
- October 8, 1941 – World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
- October 9, 1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
- October 11, 1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
- October 31, 1941 – A fire in a clothing factory in Huddersfield, England kills 49.
- November 14, 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the GS U-81 sustained on November 13.
- December 10, 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.
- December 14, 1941 – World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand.
- December 15, 1941 – Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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