Events Date 1941 P 4 | History by KabAstro

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First Proletarian Brigade

Dec 22 Tito establishes first Proletarian Brigade, an elite fighting partisan unit, in Yugoslavia

President of Yugoslavia and Revolutionary Josip Broz Tito

Churchill in Washington

Dec 22 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. for a wartime conference

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Dec 23 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
Dec 23 British troops overrun Benghazi, Libya
Dec 23 Japan begins assault on Rangoon, Burma

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Dec 24 First ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan

Dec 25 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
Dec 25 Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
Dec 26 Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of the US Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"

Shostakovich's 7th Symphony

Dec 27 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 7th Symphony in Siberia

Dec 27 Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
Dec 28 State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia and Moravia

Dec 30 In an emotional speech to the Canadian Parliament Winston Churchill states Britain will never surrender to "Hitler and his Nazi gang" and that "they have asked for total war. Let us make sure they get it". Afterwards Yousef Karsh captures him in his famous photograph, "The Roaring Lion".