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1941 Historical Event(s)
January 27, 1941
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
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.
April 16, 1941
– World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
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.
June 3, 1941
– World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
September 22, 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.
October 17, 1941
– German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
October 23, 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.
October 31, 1941
– A fire in a clothing factory in Huddersfield, England kills 49.
December 19, 1941
– World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers sink the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
Who Were Born On 1941?
February 13, 1941
– Andrea Conte, First Lady of Tennessee
March 22, 1941
– Billy Collins, American poet
March 27, 1941
– Ivan Gašparovič, Slovakian politician
April 25, 1941
– Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan
May 18, 1941
– Miriam Margolyes, British actress
August 19, 1941
– Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician (d. 2009)
September 15, 1941
– Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (d. 2011)
September 26, 1941
– Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor
November 5, 1941
– Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese Mecha anime creator
December 10, 1941
– Chad Stuart, English singer (Chad and Jeremy)