Page 17: Historical Events In 1941

Oct 03   Wilhelm Kienzl, Austria composer (Kuhreigen), dies at 84.   

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

Oct 05   Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely   

Oct 05   Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis dies.   

Oct 06   German army occupies Briansk, USSR.   

Oct 07   German army occupies Viarma, USSR.   

Oct 08   Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built   

Oct 08   Jesse Jackson, American civic leader and clergyman is born   

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

Oct 10   German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney   

Oct 10   The resienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia is established   

Oct 11   1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front   

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

Oct 12   Russian govt moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow   

Oct 13   GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies   

Oct 13   Nazi's kill 11000 Jewish children/old people.   

Oct 14   1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk and Riga   

Oct 15   1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe   

Oct 15   Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death   

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

Oct 16   "Gordo" comic strip inaugural appears in newspapers   

Oct 16   General Hideki Tojo takes over as Japanese Premier   

Oct 16   Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow.   

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

Oct 17   inaugural US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland.   

Oct 17   John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies.   

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

Oct 18   Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo.   

Oct 19   1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico   

Oct 20   Ken Farnes (WWII) 15 Tests for England, cricketer (60 wickets), dies.   

Oct 20   Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia   

Oct 21   Marina Ripa, Rome Italy, countess/writer (My inaugural 40 Years)   

Oct 22   Maxwell Anderson's "Candle in the Wind," premieres in NYC.   

Oct 23   Colin Milburn, cricketer (England bat whose career was cut short)   

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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)