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Strike Up the Band
Sep 29 Musical film "Strike Up the Band" starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland opens
- Sep 30 47 German aircraft shot down above England
- Oct 1 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens
- Oct 2 17 German aircraft shot down over England
- Oct 2 British Council receives Royal Charter
- Oct 2 British liner Empress, loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
- Oct 3 France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status
- Oct 3 US forms parachute troops
- Oct 4 12 German aircraft shot down above England
Hitler Meets Mussolini
Oct 4 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps
- Oct 4 French Vichy regime proclaims end of "Statute of the Jews"
- Oct 6 Zoological Gardens opens at Sloat & Skyline Boulevards in San Francisco, California
- Oct 7 World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
- Oct 8 German troops occupies Romania
'Hitler Will Have to Break Us or Lose the War'
Oct 14 Balham tube station in London is bombed by the German Luftwaffe during the Blitz, killing 64-66 people
The Great Dictator
Oct 15 "The Great Dictator", a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin released
- Oct 15 -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed
- Oct 15 London's Waterloo Station bombed by German luftwaffe
- Oct 16 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. is promoted to brigadier general, the first African-American person to become a general in the US military
Warsaw Ghetto
Oct 16 Warsaw Ghetto is formed by German Governor-General Hans Frank
Hitler Meets Petain
Oct 24 Adolf Hitler meets the Head of the French State Marshal Philippe Pétain
- Oct 24 Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
- Oct 24 Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants
- Oct 24 US Fair Labor Standards of 1938 comes into effect - minimum wage, 44 hr week
- Oct 25 Benjamin O Davis Sr. becomes 1st African American general in US Army
- Oct 26 The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
- Oct 28 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
- Oct 28 Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Florence, Italy
- Oct 29 Secretary of War Henry L Stimson draws the 1st number - #158 - in the 1st peacetime military draft in US history
- Oct 31 Battle of Britain, fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the English Channel and southern England, ends with a British victory
Warsaw Ghetto
Oct 31 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto
- Nov 1 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
- Nov 1 Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM)
- Nov 4 Eggs & cake rationed in Netherlands
- Nov 5 Allied convoy of 38 ships encounters German cruiser Admiral Scheer in the north Atlantic, its escort HMS Jervis Bay sacrifices itself with the loss of 190 lives, five other convoy ships sunk
- Nov 5 Dutch submarine departs Dundee
Walter Johnson's Loss
Nov 5 Former baseball play for the Washington Senators, Walter Johnson loses Maryland congressional race (R)
FDR Re-elected
Nov 5 Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for an unprecedented third term, defeating Republican candidate Wendell Willkie
- Nov 6 Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected US President
- Nov 7 Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago
- Nov 7 Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash
Munich Bombed
Nov 8 RAF bombs Munich, Adolf Hitler promises "an attack on the capital of the Nazi movement would not go unpunished"
- Nov 10 Pittsburgh Steelers & Philadelphia Eagles play one of only 4 penalty free games in NFL history; Steelers win 7-3 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
Walt Disney FBI Informer
Nov 10 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
- Nov 11 Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
- Nov 11 British Fleet Air Arm attack destroys half of Italian fleet at Taranto
- Nov 11 Thousands of Paris students lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Soldier
- Nov 11 Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")
- Nov 12 Blizzard strikes North American midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
- Nov 13 Walt Disney's animated film "Fantasia", starring Leopold Stokowski, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Mickey Mouse, and ballet dancing hippopotamuses, premieres at the Broadway Theatre, New York City
- Nov 14 During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England
- Nov 15 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
- Nov 15 NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
- Nov 16 World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
- Nov 17 Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
- Nov 18 George Matesky, New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
- Nov 19 Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
- Nov 19 First major German air raid on Birmingham - about 440 bombers kill 450
- Nov 20 World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers
- Nov 21 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
- Nov 22 500 students in Delft demonstrate against Nazis
- Nov 23 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes
- Nov 23 Romania signs Tripartite Pact
- Nov 24 The Blitz: Luftwaffe bombs Bristol city centre, killing 200 people in the first German raid on the city
- Nov 25 First flights of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
Tom Harmon's
Nov 25 Football team University of Michigan retires Tom Harmon's #98
- Nov 25 Nazi Intelligence agency Sicherheitsdienst (SD) arrests Dutch resistance fighter Bernard Ijzerdraat, founder of De Geuzen
- Nov 25 SS Patria carrying illegal immigrants sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
- Nov 25 Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
- Nov 26 Leidse students strike
- Nov 26 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
- Nov 27 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB)
- Nov 28 Dutch law professor Rudolph Cleveringa arrested by Nazis
- Dec 1 Four sets of brothers play in one NHL game when Chicago Blackhawks beat NY Rangers, 4-1; Lynn & Muzz Patrick and Neil & Mac Colville (Rangers); Max & Doug Bentley and Bob & Bill Carse (Chicago)
- Dec 6 Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst
Pietro Badoglio Resigns
Dec 6 Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia
- Dec 7 North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor
- Dec 7 The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew
- Dec 9 British assault on Benghazi, Libya: first major allied offensive in North Africa
- Dec 9 Illegal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
- Dec 10 1941 NFL Draft: Tom Harmon from University of Michigan first pick by Chicago Bears
- Dec 10 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
Warning of German Assault
Dec 11 Russian general Georgy Zhukov warns of German assault
- Dec 17 British troops occupy Sollum, Egypt
Connie Mack Acquires Athletics
Dec 20 Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000
- Dec 22 World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
Old Acquaintance
Dec 23 John Van Druten's play "Old Acquaintance" premieres on Broadway in NYC
"The Philadelphia Story"
Dec 26 "The Philadelphia Story" film directed by George Cukor, based on the Broadway play of the same name, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart, is released (Academy Awards Best Actor 1941)
- Dec 26 JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in NYC
- Dec 28 Cricketer Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
- Dec 29 Worst German air raid on London as over 10,000 bombs including the 1st incendiary bombs are dropped on the city as part of the Blitz
- Dec 30 California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens
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