Historical Events in 1941 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 615

• May 8 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean

• May 10 British House of Commons & Holborn Theatre damaged in an air raid

• May 11 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England
• May 12 British forces march into Alexandria, Egypt
• May 12 Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin

• May 13 Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Chancellery in Germany
• May 13 Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins
• May 13 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
• May 14 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested
• May 15 1st British turbojet flies
• May 15 English engineer Frank Whittle successfully tests his design for the first turbojet engine aboard a Gloster E.28/39 flying from RAF Cranwell [1]

• May 15 WWII: British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt and Libya
• May 15 WWII: Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music
• May 16 First US radio performance of Robert Russell Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
• May 16 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi, Ethiopia
• May 16 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
• May 16 Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)
• May 17 Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack
• May 18 Italian army in Ethiopia under general Aosta surrenders to Britain
• May 19 Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis
• May 19 New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
• May 20 Archer's "Christian Calendar & Gregorian Reform" published
• May 20 Former Dutch PM Hendrikus Colijn says Dutch Indies not ready for independence
• May 20 Germany begins airborne invasion of Crete
• May 20 White Sox Taft Wright sets AL record of RBIs in 13 consecutive games
• May 21 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme, Crete
• May 21 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
• May 21 SS Robin Moor becomes the first US ship sunk by a U-boat during World War II
• May 22 British troops attack Baghdad

• May 24 German athlete Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1,000m in 2:21.5 at Dresden, Germany
• May 24 German battleship Bismarck sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3 survive
• May 25 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India

• May 26 Aircraft from HMS Ark Royal sights German battleship Bismarck

• May 26 German occupiers begin youth labor

• May 27 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
• May 28 1st night game at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C. (NY Yankees pip the Senators 6-5)
• May 28 Allied troops begin evacuation of Crete
• May 30 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
• May 30 British Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
• May 31 -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record)
• May 31 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
• May 31 A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, in neutral Ireland, claims 38 lives
• May 31 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
• May 31 Nazi occupiers forbid Jews access to beaches and swimming pools in the Netherlands
• Jun 1 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, in Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record)
• Jun 1 British troops occupy Baghdad, Iraq

• Jun 1 Germany bans all Catholic publications
• Jun 1 Germany occupies Crete after Allied evacuation
• Jun 2 WWII: British Royal Navy captures U-110, its 1st German U-boat; after gathering valuable code machinery, they sink the vessel
• Jun 3 Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
• Jun 3 German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
• Jun 4 Republic of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z
• Jun 5 German ammunition depot at medieval Smederovo Fortress, near Belgrade, Serbia explodes; kills close to 2,000

• Jun 5 World War II: At least 4,000 people who hid in a tunnel die after a Japanese air attack on the Chinese city of Chongqing
• Jun 6 1st US Navy vessel constructed as mine layer, USS Terror (CM-5) launched from the Philadelphia Navy Yard
• Jun 6 MLB New York Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time

• Jun 8 British & French troops overthrow pro-German Syria
• Jun 9 Archbishop De Young bans priests cooperating with Rijks radio
• Jun 11 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
• Jun 11 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews
• Jun 14 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia

• Jun 16 1st US federally owned airport opened Washington, D.C.
• Jun 18 In his 18th world heavyweight title defence Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13th round in front of a crowd of 54,487 at the Polo Grounds, NYC
• Jun 18 Turkey signs peace treaty with Nazi Germany
• Jun 19 Romania orders Jewish evacuation of Darabani
• Jun 19 Soviet anthropologist Michael Gerasimov opens tomb of Timurid Empire founder Timur and allegedly finds the inscription that whoever opens the tomb shall "unleash an invader more terrible than I." Three days later Germany invades Russia.
• Jun 19 US President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act - increases the size of US Navy by 70%
• Jun 20 German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas
• Jun 21 2nd French troops occupies Damascus, Syria
• Jun 22 June Uprising in Lithuania begins, resulting in the collapse of the Soviet occupation, but replaced with invading German forces shortly after

• Jun 22 Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group
• Jun 23 Germany occupies Telz, Lithuania
• Jun 24 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy, Lithuania, exterminated
• Jun 24 Germans advance into Russia and take Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas
• Jun 25 -26] Soviet counterattack at Rovno, Ukraine
• Jun 25 Fair Employment Practices Commission established
• Jun 25 Finland declares war on Soviet Union
• Jun 25 Finland enters WW2 against the USSR following a massive airstrike the previous day
• Jun 25 Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there

• Jun 25 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802, which forbids racial discrimination in the defense industry
• Jun 26 Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
• Jun 27 Bialystok Poland falls to Germany
• Jun 27 Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam
• Jun 28 German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
• Jun 28 German troops occupy Galicia, Poland
• Jun 29 DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
• Jun 30 Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) declare Ukraine independent
• Jun 30 World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine
• Jul 1 1st commercial TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
• Jul 1 Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial
• Jul 1 NY outfielder Joe DiMaggio, on way to a record 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game MLB hit streak in a 9-2 win over Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium
• Jul 1 WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Jul 1 WNBT TV (W2XBS, Now WNBC) channel 4 in NYC (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Jul 2 Joe DiMaggio hits a 3-run homer off Boston's Dick Newsome to pass Willie Keeler's MLB record 44 game hitting streak
• Jul 2 Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)

• Jul 4 Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
• Jul 4 Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes
• Jul 5 German occupiers disband political parties

• Jul 7 Nazis execute 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania
• Jul 7 US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
• Jul 7 World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops
• Jul 8 All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star
• Jul 9 Dutch-American Physicist Abraham Pais is awarded his Ph.D. in Holland five days before a Nazi deadline banning Jews from receiving degrees
• Jul 10 Continuation War: Finland invades East Karelia as hostilities with the Soviet Union resume following the German invasion in June
• Jul 10 Jedwabne Pogrom: massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne, Poland
• Jul 13 Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of umpire Ray Snyder
• Jul 13 World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
• Jul 14 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
• Jul 14 Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon & Syria)
• Jul 14 Jam rationed in Holland

• Jul 15 Howard Florey and Norman Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin)
• Jul 16 100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle, Washington
• Jul 16 Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game
• Jul 17 NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland
• Jul 18 SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
• Jul 19 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee, Alabama)

• Jul 19 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC)

• Jul 20 Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
• Jul 21 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine

• Jul 24 FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
• Jul 24 Nazis kill entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania
• Jul 25 41-year-old Lefty Grove wins his 300th and final MLB career game as the Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 10-6 at Fenway Park
• Jul 25 FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
• Jul 26 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague
• Jul 26 US embargo on oil-export to Japan
• Jul 27 103°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
• Jul 27 German army enters Ukraine
• Jul 27 Japanese forces land in Indo-China
• Jul 30 German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands
• Jul 31 U-boats sink and damage 21 allied ships this month (80,521 tons)
• Aug 1 Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
• Aug 1 NY Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez sets MLB record for most walks in a shutout, issuing 11 in 9-0 win v St. Louis Browns
• Aug 1 The first Jeep is produced
• Aug 2 German 11st Army surrounds 20 Soviet divisions at Oeman
• Aug 2 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
• Aug 3 Gas (petroleum) sales limited in US
• Aug 3 German troops conquer Roslavl USSR
• Aug 3 Joe DiMaggio goes 0-4 in Yankees 6-2 loss v St. Louis Browns, ending his on-base streak of 74 games, 2nd in MLB history
• Aug 4 Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Mickey Owen becomes 1st MLB player to take 3 foul pop-ups in one inning (3rd) in 11-6 win v NY Giants
• Aug 4 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US
• Aug 6 Detroit Tigers pitcher Al Benton collects 2 sacrifices in an inning, a MLB record; wins 11-2 vs Cleveland Indians
• Aug 7 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
• Aug 8 20 divisions of Soviet 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman
• Aug 9 Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for talks with FDR
• Aug 10 FDR & Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia, Newfoundland

• Aug 13 Red army evacuates Smolensk, Russia, as the German army advances
• Aug 14 US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic Charter
• Aug 15 Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto
• Aug 16 HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
• Aug 17 German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan
• Aug 18 German concentration camp Amersfoort opens
• Aug 18 Phillies commit 8 errors in a baseball game

• Aug 19 Romania annexes the Transnistria territory from the Soviet Union after Operation Barbarossa
• Aug 20 Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
• Aug 22 Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
• Aug 25 British & Soviet troops attack pro-German Iran
• Aug 25 German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad

• Aug 27 WWII: British Royal Navy captures German U-boat U-570 on its maiden voyage; it is re-flagged as HMS Graph, and used by the British for nearly 2 years
• Aug 28 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
• Aug 28 Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves
• Aug 29 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
• Aug 30 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0
• Aug 30 Winston Churchill approves a nuclear program (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so
• Aug 31 Radio program "Great Gildersleeve," a spin-off of "Fibber McGee & Molly", debuts on NBC
• Sep 1 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David
• Sep 2 Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
• Sep 3 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) [1]
• Sep 3 KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Sep 4 New York Yankees clinch their 3rd straight AL pennant; beat the Red Sox, 6-3; earliest date in baseball history a team has captured a flag
• Sep 4 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652

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