Notable Historical Events - 1941
1941 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Netherlands begins taxing wages |
Jan 1 |
Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff |
Jan 2 |
World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales. |
Jan 2 |
World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort. |
Jan 3 |
Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease) |
Jan 3 |
Italian counter offensive in Albania |
Jan 3 |
Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia |
Jan 4 |
Resistance fighters counter d'Estienne d'Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st meet |
Jan 5 |
British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia |
Jan 6 |
President Franklin Roosevelt's "4 Freedoms" speech (freedom from speech, worship, want and fear) during US State of Union address |
Jan 9 |
6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania |
Jan 9 |
Maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane |
Jan 10 |
Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in NYC |
Jan 10 |
Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews |
Jan 10 |
World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura. |
Jan 11 |
Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton |
Jan 16 |
US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor |
Jan 16 |
War Dept forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets |
Jan 17 |
Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-Shek open fire at communist forces, resuming the Chinese Civil War after World War II. |
Jan 19 |
British offensive in Eritrea |
Jan 19 |
British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan |
Jan 20 |
Bela Bartok's 6th string quartet, premieres in NYC |
Jan 21 |
1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria |
Jan 21 |
1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX |
Jan 21 |
Australian and British troops attack Tobruk, Libya |
Jan 21 |
British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned |
Jan 22 |
1st mass killing of Jews in Romania |
Jan 22 |
British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians |
Jan 23 |
Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center |
Jan 23 |
WOR-AM in Newark NJ moves to NYC |
Jan 24 |
British troops march into Abyssinia |
Jan 25 |
Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. |
Jan 27 |
Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor |
Jan 28 |
French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day. |
Jan 30 |
Australian troops conquer Derna, Libya |
Jan 31 |
21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton) |
Jan 31 |
Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands |
Jan 31 |
Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jan 31 |
Layforce set sail. |
Feb 1 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn |
Feb 1 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner |
Feb 3 |
Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages & max hrs |
Feb 4 |
British tanks occupy Maus, Libya |
Feb 4 |
Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin |
Feb 4 |
United Service Organization (USO) founded |
Feb 5 |
Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands |
Feb 6 |
Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19) |
Feb 6 |
Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed |
Feb 6 |
British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya |
Feb 7 |
Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me" |
Feb 8 |
NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio |
Feb 9 |
British troops conquer El Agheila |
Feb 9 |
Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe) |
Feb 10 |
1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA |
Feb 10 |
Anti-nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands |
Feb 11 |
1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo) |
Feb 11 |
Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli |
Feb 11 |
Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments |
Feb 12 |
Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen |
Feb 12 |
Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome" |
Feb 13 |
Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council |
Feb 14 |
One millionth vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel |
Feb 14 |
Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published |
Feb 14 |
Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street |
Feb 14 |
German Afrika Korps lands in Tripoli, Libya |
Feb 15 |
Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train" |
Feb 17 |
Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
Feb 19 |
Nazi police attacked & driven away from Koco, Amsterdam (by young Jews) |
Feb 19 |
Nazi raid Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation |
Feb 20 |
1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland |
Feb 20 |
Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation |
Feb 20 |
Romania breaks relations with Netherlands |
Feb 21 |
Omar Bradley is promoted to the rank of brigadier general |
Feb 22 |
Arthur "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal |
Feb 22 |
German assault on El Agheila Libya |
Feb 22 |
IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
Feb 22 |
Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam |
Feb 22 |
Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres |
Feb 22 |
Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres |
Feb 23 |
Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg. |
Feb 24 |
43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague |
Feb 24 |
Anti nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam |
Feb 25 |
Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8) |
Feb 25 |
February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam |
Feb 26 |
2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declares double KO |
Feb 26 |
Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California) |
Feb 26 |
Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews |
Feb 26 |
Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory |
Feb 27 |
13th Academy Awards - "Rebecca," James Stewart & Ginger Rogers win |
Feb 28 |
39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month |
Feb 28 |
British-Italian dogfight above Albania |
Mar 1 |
"Captain America" appears in a comic book |
Mar 1 |
1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tenn |
Mar 1 |
Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner |
Mar 1 |
German troops invade Bulgaria |
Mar 1 |
Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp |
Mar 2 |
World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact. |
Mar 3 |
Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Hermann Goering in Berlin |
Mar 4 |
18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague |
Mar 4 |
NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots |
Mar 4 |
Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler |
Mar 4 |
The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II. |
Mar 7 |
3rd largest snowfall in NYC history (18.1") |
Mar 7 |
50,000 British soldiers land in Greece |
Mar 7 |
British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
Mar 8 |
1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies) |
Mar 10 |
Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets |
Mar 11 |
Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ |
Mar 11 |
FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain) |
Mar 12 |
German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands |
Mar 13 |
A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand) |
Mar 14 |
Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies |
Mar 14 |
Xavier Cugat & orchestra record "Babalu" |
Mar 15 |
Blizzard in ND kills 151 |
Mar 16 |
Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60 |
Mar 16 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize |
Mar 16 |
National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC |
Mar 19 |
Jimmy Dorsey & orchestra record "Green Eyes" & "Maria Elena" |
Mar 20 |
Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn |
Mar 21 |
Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 22 |
Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation |
Mar 22 |
Jimmy Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II |
Mar 24 |
British troops defeat British Somalia |
Mar 24 |
German troops occupy El Agheila Libya |
Mar 24 |
Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox |
Mar 24 |
LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship |
Mar 24 |
Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son" premieres in NYC |
Mar 25 |
Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon, SC, incorporated |
Mar 27 |
Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years |
Mar 27 |
Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia) |
Mar 27 |
Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul |
Mar 28 |
Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy |
Mar 29 |
1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Requiem Symphony" |
Mar 29 |
3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Wisconsin beats Wash State 39-34 |
Mar 29 |
WPAT radio in NJ begins broadcasting (country music format) |
Mar 30 |
German counter offensive in North-Africa |
Mar 31 |
Ground broken for Union Square Garage, SF |
Apr 1 |
Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine" premieres in NYC |
Apr 1 |
Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay) |
Apr 1 |
Nazis forbid Jews access to cafés |
Apr 1 |
Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq |
Apr 1 |
The Blockade Runner Badge for German Kriegsmarine is instituted. |
Apr 2 |
German occupier disallows Dutch scouting association |
Apr 3 |
Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion |
Apr 3 |
Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq |
Apr 3 |
Walton's overture "Scapino" premieres in Chicago |
Apr 4 |
German troops conquer Banghazi |
Apr 5 |
In SF, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses |
Apr 6 |
8th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Wood wins, shooting a 280 |
Apr 6 |
Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die) |
Apr 6 |
British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa |
Apr 6 |
German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes) |
Apr 6 |
Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British & Ethiopian forces |
Apr 7 |
British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa |
Apr 8 |
Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title |
Apr 9 |
PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame |
Apr 10 |
German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica |
Apr 11 |
Germany blitzes Conventry, England |
Apr 11 |
Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis |
Apr 11 |
Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets |
Apr 12 |
Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games |
Apr 12 |
Vichy-France's head of government Admiral Dalarn consults with Hitler |
Apr 13 |
Heavy German assault on Tobruk |
Apr 13 |
Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. |
Apr 14 |
1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up |
Apr 14 |
King Peter leaves Yugoslavia |
Apr 15 |
1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct |
Apr 16 |
Little Theater at Adelphi Strand closes |
Apr 17 |
British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis |
Apr 17 |
Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing) |
Apr 17 |
World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. |
Apr 19 |
45th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:30:38 |
Apr 19 |
B Brecht's "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder" premieres in Zurich |
Apr 19 |
Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia |
Apr 19 |
Milk rationed in Holland |
Apr 20 |
100 German bombers attack Athens |
Apr 20 |
Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps |
Apr 21 |
Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany |
Apr 23 |
Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt |
Apr 24 |
British army begins evacuation of Greece |
Apr 24 |
Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot |
Apr 25 |
Operation Merkur: Hitler orders conquest of Kreta |
Apr 26 |
A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs) |
Apr 26 |
Potatoes rationed in Holland |
Apr 27 |
German troops occupy Athens Greece |
Apr 28 |
Last British troops in Greece surrender |
Apr 30 |
Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia |
May 1 |
"Citizen Kane", directed & starring Orson Welles, premieres in NY |
May 1 |
General Mills introduces Cheerios |
May 1 |
German assault on Tobruk |
May 2 |
FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1 |
May 2 |
Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy |
May 2 |
Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists |
May 2 |
Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in year he hit over .400 |
May 3 |
-4] German air raid on Liverpool |
May 3 |
67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4 |
May 5 |
2 Fokker's employees flee Nazi occupied Netherlands to England |
May 5 |
Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa |
May 5 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night) |
May 5 |
First modern perfume Chanel No. 5 released. |
May 6 |
Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia |
May 6 |
At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show. |
May 7 |
British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3) |
May 7 |
Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid |
May 7 |
Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA |
May 8 |
German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean |
May 9 |
British Army breaks German spy codes |
May 9 |
Louis Buchalter is arraigned in New York state court on the 1936 Joseph Rosen murder along with three other murders |
May 10 |
67th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 1:58.8 |
May 10 |
Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland |
May 10 |
British House of Commons & Holborn Theatre damaged in an air raid |
May 10 |
Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason |
May 11 |
1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England |
May 12 |
British forces march into Alexandria |
May 12 |
Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. |
May 13 |
Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Chancellery in Germany |
May 13 |
Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins |
May 13 |
Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland |
May 14 |
3,600 Parisian Jews arrested |
May 15 |
1st British turbojet flies |
May 15 |
British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya |
May 15 |
Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks lose 13-1 |
May 15 |
Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music |
May 16 |
1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers" |
May 16 |
Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia |
May 16 |
Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham) |
May 16 |
Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT) |
May 17 |
Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack |
May 18 |
An Egyptian steamer sinks |
May 18 |
Italian army in Ethiopia under general Aosta surrenders to Britain |
May 18 |
Jewish veterans honor their dead |
May 19 |
Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis |
May 19 |
New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland |
May 20 |
Archer's "Christian Calendar & Gregorian Reform" published |
May 20 |
Former Dutch PM Colijn says Neth Indies not ready for independence |
May 20 |
Germany invades Crete |
May 20 |
White Sox Taft Wright sets AL record of RBIs in 13 consecutive games |
May 21 |
SS Robin Moore is first US ship sunk by a U-boat |
May 21 |
German airforce occupies airport at Maleme, Crete |
May 21 |
Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp |
May 22 |
British troops attack Baghdad |
May 23 |
Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 23 |
Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5) |
May 24 |
Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3 survive |
May 25 |
5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India |
May 25 |
Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for 1st time in 1941 |
May 26 |
American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila |
May 26 |
Aircraft from HMS Ark Royal sights German battleship Bismarck |
May 26 |
German occupiers begin youth labor |
May 27 |
Allied troops begin evacuating Crete |
May 27 |
FDR declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor |
May 27 |
German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force |
May 28 |
1st night game at Wash DC, Griffith stadium (Yanks 6, Senators 5) |
May 28 |
British army begins evacuation of Crete |
May 28 |
NY Yankees nip Wash Senators 6-5 in 1st night game at Griffith Stadium |
May 30 |
1st anti semitic measures in Serbia |
May 30 |
British Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government |
May 30 |
Germans capture Crete |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Floyd Davis/Mauri Rose wins in 4:20:36.266 (185.263 km/h) |
May 31 |
-June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record) |
May 31 |
1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale |
May 31 |
41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton) |
May 31 |
British troops vacate Crete |
May 31 |
German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools |
May 31 |
A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland claims 38 lives. |
Jun 1 |
12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, in Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record) |
Jun 1 |
British troops occupy Bagdad, Iraq |
Jun 1 |
Germany bans all Catholic publications |
Jun 1 |
Germany occupies Crete |
Jun 1 |
NY Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR & his 1,500th RBI |
Jun 3 |
Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol |
Jun 3 |
German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports |
Jun 4 |
Nazis forbid Jews access to beaches & swimming pools |
Jun 4 |
Republic of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z |
Jun 5 |
Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ |
Jun 6 |
1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched |
Jun 6 |
Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time |
Jun 7 |
45th US Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Fort Worth |
Jun 7 |
73rd Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway win in 2:31 (triple crown) |
Jun 7 |
Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and Richard L. M. Synge give the first demonstration of partition chromatography (separation of mixtures) at a meeting of the Biochemical Society held at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead |
Jun 8 |
British & French troops overthrow pro-German Syria |
Jun 9 |
Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500 |
Jun 9 |
Archbishop De Young bans priests cooperating with Rijks radio |
Jun 11 |
2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam |
Jun 11 |
Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews |
Jun 14 |
Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS |
Jun 14 |
Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia |
Jun 16 |
1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC |
Jun 18 |
Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 18 |
Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany |
Jun 19 |
Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal |
Jun 19 |
Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani |
Jun 19 |
US President Franklin Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act |
Jun 20 |
German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas |
Jun 21 |
2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria |
Jun 21 |
After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns |
Jun 22 |
Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation |
Jun 22 |
Finland invades Karelia |
Jun 22 |
Germany attacks the Soviet Union & occupies the Baltic states |
Jun 22 |
Germany, Italy & Romania declare war on Soviet Union |
Jun 22 |
Michael Gerasimov opens grave of Tamerlan "Lenk" |
Jun 22 |
The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins. |
Jun 22 |
Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group. |
Jun 23 |
Germany occupies Telz, Lithuana |
Jun 24 |
Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated |
Jun 24 |
Germans advanced into Russia & took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk & Kaunas |
Jun 25 |
-26] Russian counter attack at Rovno |
Jun 25 |
FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination |
Jun 25 |
Fair Employment Practices Commission established |
Jun 25 |
Finland declares war on Soviet Union |
Jun 25 |
Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there |
Jun 26 |
Finland enters WW II against Russia |
Jun 26 |
Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno |
Jun 27 |
Bialystok Poland falls to Germany |
Jun 27 |
Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam |
Jun 28 |
German & Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev |
Jun 28 |
German troops occupy Galicia, Poland |
Jun 29 |
DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record |
Jun 30 |
61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month |
Jun 30 |
Pro-Nazi group declares Ukraine independence |
Jun 30 |
World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine. |
Jul 1 |
1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC |
Jul 1 |
Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial |
Jul 1 |
Joe DiMaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak |
Jul 1 |
WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jul 1 |
WNBT TV (W2XBS, Now WNBC) channel 4 in NYC (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 2 |
DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56) |
Jul 2 |
Earthquake hits Palestine |
Jul 2 |
Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead) |
Jul 2 |
Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" premieres in London |
Jul 4 |
Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead |
Jul 4 |
Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes |
Jul 4 |
Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin |
Jul 5 |
German occupiers disband political parties |
Jul 6 |
NY Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield |
Jul 7 |
Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania |
Jul 7 |
US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion |
Jul 7 |
World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops. |
Jul 8 |
9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit |
Jul 8 |
All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star |
Jul 9 |
Dutch-American Physicist Abraham Pais is awarded his Ph.D. in Holland five days before a Nazi deadline banning Jews from receiving degrees |
Jul 10 |
Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. |
Jul 11 |
German troops attack Dnjepr |
Jul 13 |
24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills CC Denver |
Jul 13 |
Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder |
Jul 13 |
World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak). |
Jul 14 |
6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp |
Jul 14 |
Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon & Syria) |
Jul 14 |
Jam rationed in Holland |
Jul 15 |
Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin) |
Jul 16 |
100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash |
Jul 16 |
Joe DiMaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game |
Jul 17 |
NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland |
Jul 18 |
SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia |
Jul 19 |
1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala) |
Jul 19 |
BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) ("...-" in Morse code) (opening of Beethoven's 5th symphony) |
Jul 19 |
British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign |
Jul 19 |
President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee |
Jul 20 |
Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17 |
Jul 21 |
200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine |
Jul 21 |
Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp |
Jul 24 |
FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China |
Jul 24 |
Nazis kill entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania |
Jul 24 |
Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game |
Jul 25 |
FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan |
Jul 25 |
Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory) |
Jul 26 |
1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague |
Jul 26 |
US embargo on oil-export to Japan |
Jul 27 |
103°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July |
Jul 27 |
German army enters Ukraine |
Jul 27 |
Japanese forces land in Indo-China |
Jul 30 |
German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands |
Jul 31 |
U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton |
Aug 1 |
Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division |
Aug 1 |
NY Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St L 0) |
Aug 1 |
The first Jeep is produced. |
Aug 2 |
German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman |
Aug 2 |
Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia |
Aug 3 |
Gas (petroleum) sales limited in US |
Aug 3 |
German troops conquer Roslavl USSR |
Aug 3 |
Browns pitcher Johnny Niggling gets Joe DiMaggio in 4 at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base |
Aug 4 |
Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd) |
Aug 4 |
Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US |
Aug 6 |
Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning |
Aug 7 |
551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania |
Aug 8 |
20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman |
Aug 9 |
Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for talks with FDR |
Aug 10 |
FDR & Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland |
Aug 12 |
French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany |
Aug 13 |
Red army evacuates Smolensk |
Aug 14 |
US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes 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 18 |
Phillies commit 8 errors in a game |
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 4,000+ Jewish males |
Aug 22 |
Nazi troops reach Lenningrad |
Aug 25 |
British & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran |
Aug 25 |
German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad |
Aug 27 |
Shah of Iran abdicates throne favour of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
Aug 28 |
8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203) |
Aug 28 |
Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves |
Aug 29 |
German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children |
Aug 30 |
Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II |
Aug 30 |
St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0 |
Aug 31 |
23 U-boats sunk this month (80,000 ton) |
Aug 31 |
Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC |
Sep 1 |
Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David |
Sep 2 |
Academy copyrights Oscar statuette |
Sep 3 |
1First use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) |
Sep 3 |
KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 4 |
NY Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season) |
Sep 4 |
US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652 |
Sep 4 |
Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 & clinch their 12th & earliest pennant |
Sep 6 |
55th US Women's Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62) |
Sep 6 |
61st US Men's Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 5-7 6-1 6-3 6-3) |
Sep 6 |
All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star |
Sep 6 |
Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto |
Sep 8 |
Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins |
Sep 8 |
Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated |
Sep 11 |
FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot at on sight |
Sep 11 |
Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish & Roosevelt administration" are trying to get US into WW II |
Sep 11 |
World War II: The U.S. Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats. |
Sep 11 |
Construction of the Pentagon begins (completed 15 Jan 1943) |
Sep 12 |
1st German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko) |
Sep 15 |
Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania |
Sep 16 |
German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine |
Sep 16 |
Hitler orders for every dead German 100 Yugoslavians to be killed |
Sep 16 |
Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto |
Sep 17 |
Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4 |
Sep 17 |
World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued |
Sep 17 |
The New Zealand Labour Party abolish the death penalty (It is reintroduced by the National government in 1950 before being finally removed from the statute book in 1961) |
Sep 19 |
1st meeting of partisan leaders Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia |
Sep 19 |
German army conquerors Kiev |
Sep 19 |
Nazis force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars |
Sep 21 |
US launches its 1st Liberty-ship, "Patrick Henry" |
Sep 22 |
British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro |
Sep 23 |
General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London |
Sep 23 |
German air raid on Russian naval base at Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks) |
Sep 23 |
The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. concentration camp |
Sep 24 |
Nine Allied governments pledge adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the Atlantic Charter |
Sep 24 |
Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev |
Sep 25 |
Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years |
Sep 26 |
Nazis slaughter about 34,000 Jews of Kiev |
Sep 27 |
1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched |
Sep 28 |
Phillies lose club record 111th game |
Sep 28 |
Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg |
Sep 29 |
Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 29 |
Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade |
Sep 29 |
Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union |
Sep 30 |
3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine |
Sep 30 |
53 U-boats sunk this month (202,000 tons) |
Sep 30 |
German assault on Moscow, Operation Typhoon, begins |
Oct 1 |
D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow |
Oct 1 |
H Martin/R Blane's musical "Best Foot Forward" premieres in NYC |
Oct 1 |
Yankees beat Dodgers 3-2 at Yankee Stadium in opener of World Series |
Oct 2 |
6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo |
Oct 2 |
Germans launch attack on Moscow |
Oct 3 |
Adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" & would "never rise again" |
Oct 3 |
All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS |
Oct 3 |
Nazis blow up 6 synagoges in Paris |
Oct 5 |
Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yanks score 4 & win 7-4 |
Oct 6 |
German army occupies Briansk, USSR |
Oct 6 |
NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series |
Oct 7 |
German army occupies Viarma, USSR |
Oct 8 |
Building at Concentration Camp Birkenau begins |
Oct 9 |
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 |
RAF bombs Piraeus to prevent German heavy armor advancement |
Oct 11 |
1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front |
Oct 12 |
Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow |
Oct 13 |
Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children/old people |
Oct 14 |
1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk & Riga |
Oct 15 |
1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe |
Oct 15 |
Japan Tojo regime forms |
Oct 15 |
Jews caught outside Nazi Ghetto walls in occupied Poland could be put to death |
Oct 16 |
"Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers |
Oct 16 |
Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow |
Oct 16 |
Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa, Russia |
Oct 17 |
1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland |
Oct 18 |
Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo |
Oct 19 |
1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico |
Oct 20 |
Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia |
Oct 22 |
Maxwell Anderson's "Candle in the Wind" premieres in NYC |
Oct 23 |
Walt Disney's animation "Dumbo" released |
Oct 25 |
16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa Ukraine |
Oct 25 |
Germany attacks Moscow |
Oct 25 |
Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia |
Oct 26 |
2Second meeting of partisans Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia |
Oct 26 |
US savings bonds go on sale |
Oct 27 |
Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan |
Oct 27 |
Nazi's directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade |
Oct 29 |
Cole Porter's musical "Let's Face It" premieres in New York City |
Oct 30 |
USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war |
Oct 31 |
13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton) |
Oct 31 |
Mount Rushmore Monument is completed |
Oct 31 |
Prior to US joining WW II, Germany torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James |
Oct 31 |
Clothing factory fire in Huddersfield, England kills 49 |
Nov 1 |
Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia |
Nov 1 |
Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor |
Nov 2 |
German troops occupy Rostov |
Nov 3 |
Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails |
Nov 5 |
Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor |
Nov 6 |
Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine |
Nov 6 |
Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor |
Nov 6 |
USA lends Soviet Union $1 million |
Nov 7 |
British air attacks on Berlin, Mannheim & Ruhrgebied |
Nov 8 |
The Albanian Communist Party is founded. |
Nov 9 |
Hitler threatens Clemens August, Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster |
Nov 11 |
Czech premier general Eliasj arrested by Nazis |
Nov 12 |
Germany's drive to take Moscow halted |
Nov 12 |
WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters |
Nov 12 |
Alma Heflin, the first American female test pilot for commercial aircraft, made her first test flight for the Piper Aircraft Corporation, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania |
Nov 13 |
German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic |
Nov 14 |
British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean, having been torpedoed by a German submarine the day before |
Nov 14 |
Gov-Gen Wouters of Dutch Antilles refuses Jews refuge |
Nov 15 |
Cow Palace opens in San Francisco |
Nov 15 |
Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier |
Nov 16 |
German troops conquer Kertsh (probably) |
Nov 17 |
Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
Nov 18 |
British troops open attack on Tobruk, North Africa |
Nov 18 |
Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields' "Junior Miss" premieres in NYC |
Nov 18 |
Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia |
Nov 20 |
Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note |
Nov 20 |
German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia |
Nov 22 |
British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis |
Nov 22 |
NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya |
Nov 23 |
German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow |
Nov 24 |
"Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, the rest are exterminated |
Nov 24 |
Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar |
Nov 24 |
US troops land on Suriname to protect bauxite mine |
Nov 25 |
German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality) |
Nov 25 |
Lou Boudreau, 24, becomes Cleveland Indians player/manager |
Nov 25 |
Finland joined the Anti-Komintern Pact. |
Nov 26 |
Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro |
Nov 26 |
General Alan Cunningham relieved of command of British 8th Army in North Africa |
Nov 26 |
British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda |
Nov 26 |
Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor |
Nov 26 |
Lebanon independence first proclaimed by France |
Nov 27 |
British 13th Army Corps reaches Tobruk |
Nov 27 |
Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP |
Nov 27 |
USSR begins a counter offensive, causes Germany to retreat |
Nov 28 |
German troops vacate Rostov |
Nov 29 |
29th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 18-16 |
Nov 29 |
Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Jap war fleet |
Nov 30 |
101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run |
Nov 30 |
13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton) |
Nov 30 |
Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada & Nagano |
Dec 1 |
British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python |
Dec 1 |
Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war |
Dec 1 |
Last day of first-class cricket in Australia for 4 years |
Dec 1 |
US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes |
Dec 2 |
Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill NY |
Dec 2 |
NY Giants name Mel Ott as player-manager, replacing Bill Terry |
Dec 2 |
Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul |
Dec 2 |
Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor |
Dec 2 |
American mobster Louis Buchalter is sentenced to death along with his lieutenants Emanuel Weiss and Louis Capone |
Dec 3 |
Hitler views Poltava, Ukraine |
Dec 4 |
Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts |
Dec 5 |
Football Writers Association of America organized |
Dec 5 |
Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street" premieres in NYC |
Dec 5 |
Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army |
Dec 5 |
Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved |
Dec 5 |
US aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor |
Dec 6 |
Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore |
Dec 6 |
NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens |
Dec 7 |
Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon |
Dec 7 |
Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu |
Dec 7 |
German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends |
Dec 7 |
Japanese attack on the US at Pearl Harbour Naval Base, Hawaii |
Dec 7 |
Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps |
Dec 7 |
1st Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward) |
Dec 8 |
Destruction Camp Chelmo opens |
Dec 8 |
London: Dutch government declares war on Japan |
Dec 8 |
Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo |
Dec 8 |
SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM |
Dec 8 |
US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II |
Dec 8 |
President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbour |
Dec 9 |
1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines |
Dec 9 |
300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ |
Dec 9 |
7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB) |
Dec 9 |
China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy |
Dec 9 |
Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester" |
Dec 9 |
Hitler orders US ships torpedoed |
Dec 10 |
British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore |
Dec 10 |
Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines |
Dec 10 |
Japanese troops overrun Guam |
Dec 11 |
Dutch government in London declares war on Italy |
Dec 11 |
Germany & Italy declare war on US |
Dec 11 |
Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players & $50,000 |
Dec 11 |
Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing) |
Dec 11 |
Japanese occupy Guam |
Dec 12 |
European reservists on Java mobilize |
Dec 12 |
German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews |
Dec 12 |
Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk |
Dec 13 |
German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union |
Dec 13 |
Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die |
Dec 13 |
U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal |
Dec 14 |
1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14 |
Dec 14 |
Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York |
Dec 14 |
U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea |
Dec 15 |
Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland |
Dec 15 |
German submarine U-127 sinks |
Dec 15 |
Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint |
Dec 15 |
North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing |
Dec 15 |
USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship |
Dec 15 |
The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries. |
Dec 16 |
Sarawak occupied by Japanese |
Dec 17 |
Dutch & Australian troops lands on Portuguese Timor |
Dec 17 |
German submarine U-31 sunk |
Dec 17 |
German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa |
Dec 17 |
World War II: Beginning of the Siege of Sebastopol. |
Dec 18 |
German submarine U-434 sinks |
Dec 18 |
Japanse troops land on Hong Kong |
Dec 19 |
German submarine U-574 sinks |
Dec 19 |
Hitler takes complete command of German Army |
Dec 19 |
US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II |
Dec 20 |
Free France under adm Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon |
Dec 20 |
Japanese troops lands on Mindanao |
Dec 20 |
World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China. |
Dec 21 |
Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point |
Dec 21 |
Chicago bears win the NFL championship |
Dec 21 |
David Diamond's 1st Symphony premieres |
Dec 21 |
German submarine U-567 sinks |
Dec 21 |
Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears) |
Dec 22 |
Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines |
Dec 22 |
Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia |
Dec 22 |
Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, DC for a wartime conference |
Dec 23 |
American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese |
Dec 23 |
British troops overrun Benghazi Libya |
Dec 23 |
Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma |
Dec 24 |
1st ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan |
Dec 25 |
Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong |
Dec 25 |
Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan |
Dec 26 |
Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" |
Dec 27 |
Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city" |
Dec 27 |
Siberia: Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 7th Symphony |
Dec 28 |
State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia |
Dec 30 |
Nazibezetters oblige artsen member to become of Artsenkamer |
Dec 30 |
Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization |
Dec 30 |
Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament |
Dec 31 |
Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young |
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