Historical Events In 1941

Sep 29   In the year 1941 joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title  

Sep 30   In the year 1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine  

Sep 30   On this day in history 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine  

Oct 02   6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo on this day in history.  

Oct 02   6 Parisian synagogues are bombed in the year 1941.  

Oct 03   On this day in history adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" & would "never rise again"  

Oct 03   The birth of Chubby Checker, American rock singer in the year 1941.  

Oct 03   Wilhelm Kienzl, Austria composer (Kuhreigen), dies at 84 in the year 1941.  

Oct 05   Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84 on this day in history.  

Oct 05   On this day in history mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely  

Oct 05   On this day in history supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis dies.  

Oct 06   German army occupies Briansk, USSR in the year 1941.  

Oct 07   On this day in history german army occupies Viarma, USSR  

Oct 08   Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built on this day in history.  

Oct 08   On this day in history the birth of Jesse Jackson, American civic leader and clergyman  

Oct 09   A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president in the year 1941.  

Oct 10   German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney on this day in history.  

Oct 10   On this day in history the resienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia is established.  

Oct 11   On this day in history 1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front  

Oct 12   Germans approach Moscow, partial evacuation of the city in the year 1941.  

Oct 12   Russian govt moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow in the year 1941.  

Oct 13   In the year 1941 gJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies  

Oct 13   On this day in history nazi's kill 11,000 Jewish children/old people  

Oct 14   1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk & Riga on this day in history.  

Oct 15   In the year 1941 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe  

Oct 15   Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death on this day in history.  

Oct 16   On this day in history "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers  

Oct 16   "Gordo" comic strip first appears in newspapers on this day in history.  

Oct 16   In the year 1941 general Hideki Tojo takes over as Japanese Premier.  

Oct 16   Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow on this day in history.  

Oct 17   In the year 1941 1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland  

Oct 17   First US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland on this day in history.  

Oct 17   In the year 1941 john S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies  

Oct 18   Dirk Fock, governor-general van/of Neth-Indies 1921-6, dies at 83 in the year 1941.  

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Jan 03   On this day in history birth of shima Iwashita, actress (Red Lion, Hara-Kiri, Double Suicide)  

Jan 03   Van Dyke Parks, Alabama, actor/musician (Bonino, Billy Crystal Hour) was born in the year 1941.  

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of john Bennett Perry, Williamstown Mass, singer/actor (Falcon Crest)  

Jan 04   In the year 1941 birth of maureen Reagan, 1st daughter (Ronald Reagan)  

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of bob Cunis, cricketer (New Zealand pace bowler of the late 60's)  

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of grady Thomas, US rock vocalist (Parliaments, Funkadelic, Maggot Brain)  

Jan 05   Mansur Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, Indian batsman & capt) was born in the year 1941.  

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker  

Jan 02   Mischa Levitzki, composer, dies at 42 in the year 1941.  

Jan 04   In the year 1941 henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81  

Jan 05   Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903) died on this day in history.  

Jan 06   On this day in history franz Hessel, writer, dies at 60  

Jan 08   Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement), dies at 83 in the year 1941.  

Jan 09   In the year 1941 ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies  

Jan 10   Frank Bridge, English violinist/composer (Sea), dies at 61 on this day in history.  

Jan 11   Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868) died in the year 1941.