The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

*" The Coming of the White Worm " — Stirring Science Stories, April 1941 LW2

In addition, thousands of political prisoners throughout Germany — and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree — simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody.

When released on May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane — based in part on the life of William Randolph Hearst — did not do much business at theaters ; Hearst owned numerous major newspapers, and forbade them to carry advertisements for the film.

" She was a graphic artist and a painter, and — under the name " Alice Bradley Davey " — an art critic for the Chicago Sun between 1941 and 1942.

* 1941 — Called by Mohammed Zahir Shah to approve neutrality in World War II.

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

* Blumhofer, Edith L. The Assemblies of God: A Chapter in the Story of America Pentecostalism, Volume 1 — To 1941.

* In the 1941 Noël Coward play Blithe Spirit poltergeist activity is due to the ghost of the central character's first wife — and later to the ghosts of both wives.

Two filmed sequels followed: Topper Takes a Trip in 1939 and Topper Returns in 1941 — this last film was not based on a book.

Henri Léon Lebesgue ForMemRS (; June 28, 1875 – July 26, 1941 ) was a French mathematician most famous for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th century concept of integration — summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis.

He was not allowed to paint — even in private — after 1941.

* Russian — Akhmatova, Anna: Poem without a Hero ( Part I: " The Year Nineteen Thirteen ", written 1941, pub.

Pueblo de Taos ( Ansel Adams — 1941 ).

Landscape with pueblo through native Populus deltoides | cottonwood trees ( Populus deltoides ) ( Ansel Adams — 1941 ).

After the outbreak of World War II, the state was recognised by Slovakia ( 1 June 1940 ), France ( 12 July 1940 ), Romania ( 1 December 1940 ), Bulgaria ( 10 May 1941 ), Finland ( 18 July 1941 ), Denmark ( August 1941 ), Croatia ( 2 August 1941 )— all controlled or influenced by Japan's ally Germany — as well as by the China's Wang Jingwei government ( 30 November 1940 ), Thailand ( 5 August 1941 ) and the Philippines ( 1943 )— all under Japanese control.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

In an effort to demonstrate peaceful intentions toward Germany, on 13 April 1941, Stalin oversaw the signing of a neutrality pact with Axis power Japan.

* 1941 – Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, ( Romania ), resulting in the murder of at least 13, 266 Jews.

In an effort to demonstrate peaceful intentions toward Germany, on 13 April 1941, the Soviets signed a neutrality pact with Axis power Japan.

* 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier sinks due to torpedo damage from the sustained on November 13.

U. S. Federal law approved by the President Harry S. Truman on June 27, 1952 declared all persons born in Puerto Rico on or after January 13, 1941 to be citizens of the U. S. at birth and all persons born in Puerto Rico between April 11, 1899, and January 12, 1941, and meeting certain other technical requirements, and not citizens of the United States under any other Act, were declared to be citizens of the U. S. as of January 13, 1941.

* February 13 – Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer ( b. 1941 )

* July 13 – WWII: Montenegro starts the second popular uprising in Europe against the Axis Powers, the first being the so-called February strike against deportation of Jews in Amsterdam and surroundings on February 25, 1941.

* March 13 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director ( b. 1941 )

* March 13 – Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer ( b. 1941 )

* September 13 – Sherwood Anderson, American writer ( d. 1941 )

* March 13 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian expressionist painter ( d. 1941 )

* March 13 – Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist ( d. 1941 )

* June 13 – The wreck of the German battleship Bismarck, which was sunk in 1941, is located west of Brest, France.

* November 13 – Louis Brandeis, U. S. Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1941 )

Raeder's last attempt at using a capital ship as a raider occurred in June 1941, when he ordered the pocket battleship Lützow into the North Atlantic ; she was badly damaged by an attack from British torpedo planes on 13 June 1941 that put her out of commission for six months.

Paul Frederic Simon ( born October 13, 1941 ) is an award-winning musician whose talents in composing, performing, and vocal harmony placed him at the forefront of the singer-songwriters on an international scale.

Ritchie Valens ( born Richard Steven Valenzuela ; May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959 ) was a Mexican-American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Early in 1941 they were assigned to a script titled Hot Nocturne.

so during the period approximately from 1941 to 1946, Patchen often used private detective stories as a myth reference, and the `` private eye '' as a myth hero.

`` The cannery '', said Mrs. Lewellyn Lundeen, an active booster of the cannery since its opening during the war and rationing years of 1941, to handle the `` victory garden '' produce, `` is a service to the taxpayer.

This agency accepted responsibility for medical services to a population ranging from 638,560 persons in 1941 to 840,503 in 1956 in the Kwango District and adjacent areas east of Leopoldville.

Each year from 1941 on, its medical staff had conducted intensive field investigations to determine changes in population structure and vital rates and, as its primary objective, the incidence of major diseases.

The West was now glad to propose the 1919 Curzon Line, which was substantially Russia's 1941 border, as the boundary between Russia and Poland.

In the Dunn-Atherton memorandum of February 4, 1942, the State Department had expected to be able to hold Russia in check by withholding agreement to her 1941 boundaries.

Volume 1, was completed in 1941 and published in 1944.

Work on Volume 2, was begun in 1941, interrupted by the war in 1942, and resumed in 1945.

The vision of a Lord Tennyson expressed in a poem 100 years ago took visible form over London in the air blitzes of 1941.

A veteran diplomat with an extraordinary knowledge of Russian language, history and literature, Kennan recalls how, at the time of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he penned a private note to a State Department official, expressing the hope that `` never would we associate ourselves with Russian purposes in the areas of eastern Europe beyond her own boundaries ''.

This method was used until the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began ; as a result, the Academy has used a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winners since 1941.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

Turkey's First Geography Congress in 1941 created two regions to the east of the Gulf of Iskenderun-Black Sea line named the Eastern Anatolia Region and the Southeastern Anatolia Region, the former largely corresponding to the western part of the Armenian Highland, the latter to the northern part of the Mesopotamian plain.

The provinces of Turkey are organized into 7 census-defined regions (), which were originally defined at the First Geography Congress in 1941.

In the last of Kurosawa's films as an assistant director, Horse ( Uma, 1941 ), Kurosawa took over most of the production, as Yamamoto was occupied with the shooting of another film.

In 1941, van Vogt decided to become a full-time writer, quitting his job at the Canadian Department of National Defence.

* 1941 – Hans W. Geissendörfer, German director

* 1871 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator ( d. 1941 )

* 1941 – Bobby Moore, English footballer ( d. 1993 )

* 1941 – Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer ( d. 2011 )

* 1908 – Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter ( d. 1941 )

* 1941 – Way Bandy, American make-up artist ( d. 1986 )