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   In the year 1941 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 04   John Bennett Perry, Williamstown Mass, singer/actor (Falcon Crest) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Maureen Reagan, 1st daughter (Ronald Reagan) was born in the year 1941.   

Jan 05   Bob Cunis, cricketer (New Zealand pace bowler of the late 60's) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   In the year 1941 birth of grady Thomas, US rock vocalist (Parliaments, Funkadelic, Maggot Brain)   

Jan 05   In the year 1941 birth of mansur Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, Indian batsman & capt)   

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

Jan 02   On this day in history mischa Levitzki, composer, dies at 42   

Jan 04   On this day in history 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   In the year 1941 franz Hessel, writer, dies at 60   

Jan 08   On this day in history robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement), dies at 83   

Jan 09   Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in the year 1941.   

Jan 10   On this day in history frank Bridge, English violinist/composer (Sea), dies at 61   

Jan 11   On this day in history death of emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)