1941 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1941?
- January 25, 1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
- January 27, 1941 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 23, 1941 – Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
- March 29, 1941 – The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
- April 6, 1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
- May 1, 1941 – World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
- May 5, 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots’ Victory Day.
- May 10, 1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
- July 16, 1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
- July 26, 1941 – World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
- September 29, 1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kyiv, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babyn Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
- October 9, 1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
- October 31, 1941 – After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.
- December 1, 1941 – Pacific War: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gave the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
- December 5, 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.
- December 6, 1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
- December 10, 1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
- December 11, 1941 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans’ declaration of war on Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on Germany and Italy.
- December 12, 1941 – Adolf Hitler announces extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery
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