Historical Events In 1941

Sep 06 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star

Sep 15 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania

Sep 23 First gassing experiments are made at Auschwitz.

Sep 12 The birth of Linda Gray, American actress

Sep 11 Charles Lindbergh, charges "the British, the Jewish & the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into WW II

Sep 19 HMCS Levis (Corvette) torpedoed

Sep 06 German jewish citizens forced to wear yellow stars of David on their clothes

Sep 30 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine

Sep 27 33,771 Jews are killed by Germans and Ukranians at Babi Yar outside Kiev.

Sep 01 Jews in all of the Third Reich are required to wear the yellow Star of David.

Sep 06 Jews of Vilna Poland are confined to a ghetto

Sep 12 First German ship in WW2 captured by US ship (Busko)

Sep 27 First WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched

Sep 01 Yellow star becomes obligatory for Jews in the Reich to wear

Sep 29 Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis KOs Lou Nova in 6

Sep 24 9 Allied govts pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter

Sep 11 FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight

Sep 08 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated

Jun 01 HMS CALCUTTA (AA)sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean, north west of Alexandria, Egypt by 2 bombs from German Ju88 bombers.255 survivors

Jun 25 FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination

Jun 07 Palmach units take part in an Allied invasion in Syria.

Jun 22 Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II

Jun 21 Allied troops, including Australians, occupy Damascus

Jun 01 31.98 cm (12.59") rainfall, Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record)

Jun 05 Cyprus reinforced by Australian troops

Jun 10 Recruitment commenced for the Torres Strait Defence Force to be drawn from the indigenous population of the Torres Strait Islands The Force included the Torres Strait Regiment

Jun 22 Battle of Britain - the RAF shoots down 26 Nazi planes during the day

Jun 08 Allied forces (largely Australian) enter Syria

Jun 01 Germany bans all Catholic publications

Jun 16 The first US federally owned airport opened Wash DC

Jun 30 HMAS Waterhen sunk on Tobruk run

Jun 09 7th Division crosses Litani River

Jun 20 The birth of Stephen Frears, English born film director

Jun 30 HMAS WATERHEN (RAN), lost in the Eastern Mediterranean off Bardia, east Libya by German divebombers on the 29th June.

Jun 22 Finland invades Karelia

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