Page 15: Historical Events In 1941

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   

Aug 20   Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4000+ Jewish males.   

Aug 22   Nazi troops reach Lenningrad.   

Aug 23   Jack O'Connor, cricketer (four Tests for Aust 1908-09, 13 wkts), dies.   

Aug 25   English and Russian troops attack pro-German Iran   

Aug 27   Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi   

Aug 28   8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98203).   

Aug 28   The Dominion Observatory time is recorded as becoming Canada's official time at 1 pm on this day   

Aug 29   German Einsatzkommando in Russia results in the deaths of 1469 Jewish children   

Aug 29   Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40   

Aug 30   Nazi forces take the city of Mga as the siege of Leningrad begins during WWII.   

Aug 30   Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II   

Aug 31   23 U-boats sunk this month (80000 ton).   

Aug 31   Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on NBC.   

Aug 31   Marian Zwetajewa, writer, dies.   

Sep 01   Benjamin Dwight, US tennis championship umpire, dies.   

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

Sep 01   Yellow star is recorded as becoming obligatory for Jews in the Reich to wear.   

Sep 02   Academy copyrights Oscar statuette.   

Sep 02   Tommy Aycock, Edinburg TX, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas Senior-5th).   

Sep 04   NY Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season)   

Sep 06   55th US Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62)   

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

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

Sep 06   Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81.   

Sep 06   Jews of Vilna Poland are confined to a ghetto.   

Sep 07   61st US Mens Tennis: R L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)   

Sep 08   Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins.   

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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)