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The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million ...
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 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
The following events occurred in January 1941: ... The trial would become one of the most famous insanity defense cases in history. [27] Born: Faye Dunaway, ...
Above title bar: events during World War II (1939–1945): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching Omaha Beach on D-Day; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France; The Holocaust occurs as Nazi Germany carries out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews are killed; The Japanese attack on ...
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 ...
The following events occurred in September 1941: September 1, 1941 (Monday) ... marking the first time in history that a battleship was sunk by dive bombers.
Events from the year 1941 in the United Kingdom. The year was dominated by the Second World War. Incumbents ... [10] for the first time in British history, ...