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1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1941st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 941st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1940s decade.
This is a timeline of events that stretched over the period of World War II in 1941, marked also by the beginning of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front.
June 21, 1941 (Saturday) The Battle of Damascus ended in Allied victory. Hitler sent Benito Mussolini a secret message informing him of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
Historical events from year 1941. Learn about 615 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 1941 or search by date or keyword.
May 17, 2024 · Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.
What happened and who was famous in 1941? Browse important and historic events, world leaders, famous birthdays and notable deaths from the year 1941.
Oct 29, 2009 · On December 7, 1941 the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor. The attack killed 2,403 service members and wounded 1,178 more, and sank or destroyed...
Oct 29, 2009 · On June 22, 1941, Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union, codenamed Operation Barbarossa. Though Soviet tanks and aircraft greatly outnumbered the Germans’, Russian aviation technology...
Jun 24, 2024 · Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, June 22, 1941. See all videos for this article. For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted almost 150 divisions containing a total of about 3,000,000 men.
12 April — German troops enter Belgrade. 27 April — German troops enter Athens. May. 9 May — The German submarine U-110 is captured by the British Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine, which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
