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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Another interesting fact about the family who couldn't sleep comes from Redditor u/Potatoe_expert. ... TIL In 1941, prior to widespread fluoridation of drinking water, almost 10% of US military ...
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 ...
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
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
Events from the year 1941 in the United Kingdom. The year was dominated by the Second World War. Incumbents. Monarch – George VI;