Page 14: Historical Events In 1941

Jul 28   Riccardo Muti, Napoli Italy, conductor (Philadelphia Orch)   

Jul 29   James Stephenson, actor (Sea Hawk, River's End), dies at 52.   

Jul 30   Count Desmond, [Edward Benjamin], Binghamton NY, sword swallower   

Jul 30   German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU and SGP in Netherlands   

Jul 30   HMS CACHALOT, sunk after a collision NW of Benghazi, eastern Libya - rammed by Italian torpedo boat 'Papa'.   

Jul 30   Japanese aircraft bomb USS Tutuila (PR-4) at Chungking, China; inaugural Navy ship damaged by Axis during World War II   

Jul 31   Heydrich is appointed by Goering to carry out the Final Solution.   

Jul 31   U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94000 ton.   

Aug 01   Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia.   

Aug 02   German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman   

Aug 02   Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70.   

Aug 03   Benzine sales limited in US   

Aug 04   Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd)   

Aug 05   Leonid Denissovich Kizim, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-10, T-15)   

Aug 06   Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning.   

Aug 07   551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania.   

Aug 07   Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer, dies at 80.   

Aug 07   Thomas F Hartnett, (Rep-R-SC, 1981-86)   

Aug 08   20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman   

Aug 09   Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR   

Aug 10   FDR and Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland   

Aug 11   British PM Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter.   

Aug 12   Bobby Peel, cricketer (took 102 wickets for England), dies   

Aug 12   French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany   

Aug 12   Sikorski-Stalin Polish-Russian agreement allows many Polish Jews to be freed for Siberian labor camp.   

Aug 13   Australian Women's Army Service formed   

Aug 13   Red army evacuates Smolensk.   

Aug 14   Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London   

Aug 14   US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later is recorded as becoming 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 19   Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout   

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Jan 03   Shima iwashita: Actress (red lion, hara-kiri, double suicide)   

Jan 03   Van dyke parks: Alabama, actor/musician (bonino, billy crystal hour)   

Jan 04   John bennett perry: Williamstown mass, singer/actor (falcon crest)   

Jan 04   Maureen reagan: 1st daughter (ronald reagan)   

Jan 05   Bob cunis: Cricketer (new zealand pace bowler of the late 60's)   

Jan 05   Grady thomas: Us rock vocalist (parliaments, funkadelic, maggot brain)   

Jan 05   Mansur ali khan: Cricketer (nawab of pataudi, indian batsman & capt)   

Jan 05   Hayao miyazaki: Japanese film maker   

Jan 02   Mischa levitzki: Composer,   

Jan 04   Henri bergson: French philosopher (le rire, nobel 1928),   

Jan 05   Amy johnson: English aviator (b. 1903)   

Jan 06   Franz hessel: Writer,    

Jan 08   Robert baden-powell: Founder (boy scout movement),   

Jan 09   Ko boezeman: Dutch resistance fighter,    

Jan 10   Frank bridge: English violinist/composer (sea),   

Jan 11   Emanuel lasker: German chess player (b. 1868)