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 Bronze Star Medal ( without the " V " device ) may be awarded to each member of the Armed Forces of the United States who, after 6 December 1941, was cited in orders or awarded a certificate for exemplary conduct in ground combat against an armed enemy after 7 December 1941.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

From July 1, 1941 to June 6, 1969, when the Army stopped publishing awards of the DSM in Department of the Army General Orders, over 2, 800 further awards were made.

The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941.

That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb .— Franklin D. Roosevelt, excerpted from the State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941

** Master Mixed Teams ( 6 ) 1938, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1948, 1954

In the meantime, Adolf Hitler was reluctantly forced to divert German troops to rescue Mussolini from defeat, and attacked Greece through Yugoslavia and Bulgaria on 6 April 1941.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (; born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, ; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953 ) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 until his death in 5 March 1953.

Poglavnik Ante Pavelić of the Independent State of Croatia and Joachim von Ribbentrop in Salzburg, 6 June 1941

Reflecting his displeasure with the German Legation in Belgrade, which had advised against pressuring Yugoslavia into signing the Tripartite Pact, when the Bombing of Belgrade took place on 6 April 1941, Ribbentrop refused to have the staff of the German Legation withdrawn in advance, who were thus left to survive the fire-bombing of Belgrade as best they could.

On 6 April 1941, German, Italian and Hungarian forces launched an invasion of Yugoslavia.

Forty years later, in the 1941 Census of British India, Muslims accounted for 93. 6 % of the population of the Kashmir Valley and the Hindus for 4 %.

Mainly issued to the Home Guard as an anti-tank weapon, it was produced in vast numbers ; by August 1941 well over 6, 000, 000 had been manufactured.

In 1930, 23. 6 percent of all agriculture was collectivized ; by 1941, 98 percent of all agriculture was collectivized.

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* 1941 — 13. 6 million

* 1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6, 000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine.

The 1st Geography Congress, held in Ankara between 6 – 21 June 1941, divided Turkey into seven regions after long discussions and work.

* Alla Berdy Berdieyv ( 1941 – 6 March 1948 )

Hitler then decided to attack Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941, followed immediately by an invasion of Greece where Mussolini had previously been repelled.

At 5: 12 am on 6 April 1941, German, Italian and Hungarian forces attacked Yugoslavia.

* May 6 – WWII: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops ( the first was on December 11, 1941 ).

* February 6 – Elias Disney, American farmer and father of Walt Disney ( d. 1941 )

He took the name of Victor Borge, and, in 1941, he started on Rudy Vallee's radio show, but was hired soon after by Bing Crosby for his Kraft Music Hall.

The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and also featured other performances by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, who would appear with Miller again in two movies for Twentieth Century Fox in 1941 and 1942.

From 1941 to 1947, the USO presented more than 400, 000 performances, featuring entertainers such as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel, Eubie Blake, Ann Sheridan, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Larry Adler, Ossy Renardy, Zero Mostel, James Cagney, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Doraine and Ellis, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, The Rockettes, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Curly Joe DeRita, The Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Brown, Joe E. Lewis, Ray Bolger, Lucille Ball, Glenn Miller, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, Betty Hutton, Dinah Shore, and most famously, Bob Hope.

The Bing Crosby musical Birth of the Blues featured the song in 1941.

Some of Lamour's other notable films include John Ford's The Hurricane ( 1937 ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with George Raft, Henry Fonda, and John Barrymore ), Disputed Passage ( 1939 ), Johnny Apollo ( 1940 ; with Tyrone Power ), Aloma of the South Seas ( 1941 ), Beyond the Blue Horizon ( 1942 ), Dixie ( 1943 ; with Bing Crosby ),

Hamilton appeared in the March Milastaire number in the film You'll Never Get Rich ( 1941 ) as part of the backing group supporting Fred Astaire, and performed on the soundtrack of the Bing Crosby / Bob Hope film Road to Bali.

Other memorable roles included Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith in the Preston Sturges film The Lady Eve ( 1941 ) with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, a small part as Charles Kimble in the second of the seven Bing Crosby-Bob Hope " Road " films, Road to Zanzibar ( 1941 ), and from 1940 to 1947 in eleven Lone Wolf films as Jamison the butler.

* 1941 – David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and CPR )

Crosby served in Nebraska's unicameral legislature from 1941 to 1945.

As the elements in no way have the shape of a globe, Foix and Nicolesco ( 1925 ), the Vogts ( 1941 ), Crosby et al.

By 1941, having divorced Bert, Caresse moved to live in Washington D. C. full-time where she owned a home at 2008 Q Street NW from 1937 to 1950, and she opened the Caresse Crosby Modern Art Gallery, what was then the city's only modern art gallery, at 1606 Twentieth Street, near Dupont Circle.

The new facility came into operation in February 1941, the station designated as RAF Crosby on Eden which, following its wartime service, today serves as Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Her sister, Liz Tilton, also seen in Soundies, sang with Ken Baker ( mid-1930s ), Buddy Rogers, Bob Crosby ( 1941 ), and Jan Garber ( 1942 ).

* 1941 Ohio Open, Seminole Pro-Am

* Kiddle M., The Revelation of St. John ( The Moffat New Testament Commentary ), New York – London 1941.

* Two Max Fleischer features, Gulliver's Travels ( 1939 ) and Hoppity Goes to Town ( 1941 ) were previously sold to NTA along with a few independent productions released by Paramount like One Third of a Nation ( 1939 ), as well as some features acquired by the studio after their theatrical release, including The Bells of St. Mary's ( 1945 ) and Good Sam ( 1947 ) ( both originally distributed by RKO Radio Pictures ).

* 1941 – Alex St. Clair, American guitarist and songwriter ( d. 2006 )

After this setback, and the 1941 death of his Quebec lieutenant Ernest Lapointe, King sought out the reluctant Louis St. Laurent, a leading Quebec lawyer, to take over Lapointe's role, and eventually persuaded St. Laurent to serve in government.

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

* May 10 – The Boston Bruins win their first Stanley Cup since 1941 when Bobby Orr scores a goal 40 seconds into overtime for a 4-3 victory which completed a four-game sweep of the St. Louis Blues.

* T. Jalland, The Life and Times of St. Leo the Great, ( London, 1941 ).

Peter Phillip Bonetti ( born 27 September 1941 in Putney, London of Swiss parents from Canton Ticino ) is a former football goalkeeper for Chelsea, the St. Louis Stars, Dundee United and England.

In 1941, she completed oil panels on the subject of the seven sacraments for the baptismal font at St. Andrew's, South Croydon.

There was originally a cable car line with large double-ended cable cars that ran along Castro Street from Market Street to 29th St. until the tracks were dismantled in 1941 and it was replaced by the 24 bus.

In the end Nash only built two churches for the Commission, the classical All Souls Church, Langham Place ( 1822 – 24 ) terminating the northern end of Regent Street, and the gothic St. Mary's Haggerston ( 1825 – 27 ), bombed during The Blitz in 1941.

An article in the Stamford Advocate from 1941 ( Tercentenary Edition ) stated that on March 22, 1912, the city's first Boy Scout Troop was being formed at the St. John's Episcopal Church.

The concentration of Latter-day Saints was high enough in St. David that a stake was created there in 1941, 5 years prior to one being established in Mesa, even though a temple had been built in Mesa in 1927.

Played primarily second base for the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1933 – 1935 ), New York Giants ( 1936 – 1941 ), and Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1946 ).

* Reed, S. G. ( 1941 ) A History of the Texas Railroads, St. Clair, Houston ; rpt.

Fire of anti-aircraft guns deployed in the neighborhood of St. Isaac's cathedral during the defense of Leningrad ( former Petrograd, now called St. Petersburg, ) in 1941.

Lynch won his second county football medal with " St. Nick ’ s " in 1941.

Sim appeared with Cole in the films Cottage to Let ( 1941 ), The Happiest Days of Your Life ( 1950 ), Scrooge ( 1951 ), Laughter in Paradise ( 1951 ), The Belles of St. Trinian's ( 1954 ), An Inspector Calls ( 1954 ), The Green Man ( 1956 ) and Blue Murder at St. Trinian's ( 1957 ).

The Proms continued though, under private sponsorship, until the Queen's Hall was gutted by an air raid in 1941 ( its site is now the St George's Hotel and BBC Henry Wood House ).

Christie was born on 14 April 1941 in Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, British India, the elder child of Rosemary ( née Ramsden ), a painter, and Francis " Frank " St. John Christie.