1941 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1941?
- January 10, 1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
- January 27, 1941 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- January 28, 1941 – French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
- February 4, 1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
- March 19, 1941 – World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.
- April 10, 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.
- May 9, 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
- May 13, 1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
- June 5, 1941 – Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
- June 30, 1941 – World War II: Operation Barbarossa – Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
- 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 30, 1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
- October 9, 1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
- October 17, 1941 – For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
- October 30, 1941 – 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
- October 31, 1941 – After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.
- November 7, 1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
- December 1, 1941 – Pacific War: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gave the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
- December 12, 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.
- December 17, 1941 – World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
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