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1941 Historical Event(s)
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.
May 30, 1941
– World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika.
June 1, 1941
– World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
June 27, 1941
– German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
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 31, 1941
– A fire in a clothing factory in Huddersfield, England kills 49.
November 14, 1941
– World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day.
December 8, 1941
– United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be “a date which will live in infamy”, after which the U.S. and the Republic of China declare war against Japan.
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.
Who Were Born On 1941?
January 25, 1941
– Buddy Baker, American race car driver
February 19, 1941
– David Gross, American physicist, Nobel laureate
February 23, 1941
– Ron Hunt, baseball player
April 23, 1941
– Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland 1995-2003
July 29, 1941
– David Warner, English actor
August 20, 1941
– Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
September 10, 1941
– Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
September 26, 1941
– Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor