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The two measures recorded during the 1941 campaign both stand to this day and are regarded by practically all to be unattainable in the game today. 1941 saw the great Joltin' Joe DiMaggio step up to the plate in 56 consecutive baseball games and hit safely to break a record that had stood since 1897 when Wee Willie Keeler totaled 45 consecutive ...
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 ...
The state of the Allies and Axis powers in March 1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (1941). 1 March Hitler gives orders for the expansion of Auschwitz prison camp, to be run by Commandant Rudolf Höss. Bulgaria officially signs the Tripartite Pact. 4 March
Nazi Germany invades Poland, Denmark, Norway, Benelux, and the French Third Republic from 1939 to 1941. Soviet Union invades Poland, Finland, occupies Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Romanian region of Bessarabia from 1939 to 1941. Germany faces the United Kingdom in the Battle of Britain (1940). It was the first major campaign to be fought ...
The USS Arizona, aflame and sinking, on December 7, 1941. 1940 – Selective Service Act, establishing the first peacetime draft in U.S. history; 1940 – Alien Registration (Smith) Act; 1940 – Oldsmobile becomes the first car maker to offer a fully automatic transmission; 1940 – Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry and Woody Woodpecker make their ...
Battle of Sidon (1941) Operation Silver Fox; Bombing of Singapore (1941) Sinking of HMAS Sydney; Sinyavino offensive; First Battle of Sirte; Battle of Sjenica (1941) Operation Skorpion; Battle of Smolensk (1941) Operation Sonnenblume; Raid on Souda Bay; Battle of South Henan; Battle of South Shanxi; Submarine warfare in the Black Sea campaigns ...
President Roosevelt made the Infamy Speech (with its famous opening line "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy,") to a Joint session of Congress. Within one hour the United States declared war on Japan. Lifelong pacifist Jeannette Rankin was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war.
January 3, 1941: Australian troops fight the Battle of Bardia in Egypt against the Axis Powers in first major Australian involvement in World War II. January 23, 1941: Surviving members of Romania's Fascist organization, the Iron Guard, are arrested following massacre of 125 Jewish civilians in Bucharest.