* The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) the third version, considered to be a film noir classic, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet.

Left to right: Sydney Greenstreet and Lorre in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 film ) | The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), the first of nine films together.

Lorre also branched out ( without Greenstreet ) into comedy with the role of Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace, filmed by director Frank Capra in 1941, released in 1944, and starring Cary Grant and Raymond Massey.

Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 film ) | The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 )

* In John Huston's 1941 film The Maltese Falcon Kasper Gutman played by Sydney Greenstreet says " These are facts, historical facts, not schoolbook history, not Mr. Wells ' history, but history nevertheless.

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.

For example, during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941 – 1942, after all birds, rats and pets were eaten by survivors.

This imbalance began to change with the founding of Centro Esportivo de Capoeira Angola ( CECA ), in 1941, by Vicente Ferreira Pastinha.

In 1941 she met Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters, a London surgeon with whom she began a relationship.

He began dating Blair, and they married on October 16, 1941.

After initial successes ( mainly the conquest of western Poland, much of Scandinavia, France and the Balkans before 1941 ) the Axis powers began to over-extend themselves in 1941.

In 1941 Hawks began work on the Howard Hughes produced ( and later directed ) film The Outlaw, based on the life of Billy the Kid and starring Jane Russell.

RCA Victor began recording performances by several orchestras on optical sound around 1941, resulting in higher-fidelity masters for 78-rpm discs.

The first intercepts of Lorenz messages began in 1941.

In September 1941, through the " Action Lauterbacher " plan, a ghettoisation of the remaining Hanoverian Jewish families began.

*:: 1947: Hans Peter Luhn ( research engineer at IBM since 1941 ) began work on a mechanized punch card-based system for searching chemical compounds.

During the early morning of 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler broke the pact by implementing Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Soviet held territories and the Soviet Union that began the war on the Eastern Front.

In June 1941, weeks after the German invasion began, Stalin also directed employing a scorched earth policy of destroying the infrastructure and food supplies of areas before the Germans could seize them, and that partisans were to be set up in evacuated areas.

Despite his opposition to Operation Barbarossa and a preference for focusing the war effort against Britain, on 28 June 1941, Ribbentrop began a sustained effort to have Japan attack the Soviet Union without bothering to inform Hitler first.

Despite Ribbentrop's best efforts, Matsuoka was sacked as Foreign Minister later in July 1941, and the Japanese-American talks began.

Recognising the need for an even larger craft capable of landing both tanks and infantry onto a hostile shore, the Navy began development of the 220-ton Marinefährprahm ( MFP ) but these too were unavailable in time for a landing on English soil in 1940, the first of them not being commissioned until April 1941.

As both sides began colliding with each other in Eastern Europe, conflict appeared more likely, though they signed a border and commercial agreement addressing several open issues in January 1941.

Beginning with Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1941, pulp magazines began to switch to digest size ; smaller, thicker magazines.

After the United States entered the war in 1941 Hollywood began to mass-produce war films.

* January 25 – Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941.

NBC had earlier demonstrated an inter-city television broadcast on February 1, 1940, from its station in New York City to another in Schenectady, New York by General Electric relay antennas, and began transmitting some programs on an irregular basis to Philadelphia and Schenectady in 1941.

The German invasion began on 6 April 1941.

Hostilities between the Iraqi and British forces began on 2 May 1941, with heavy fighting at the RAF air base in Habbaniyah.

In 1941 he began studying at the Institute of Natural Science ( the former Beijing Institute of Technology ) in Yan ' an.

He said of the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 1944 ): " Those who consumed human flesh, or dealt with the human liver trading from dissecting rooms ... were accounted as the political criminals ..." And of the building of Northern Railway Prisoners Camp (" SevZhelDorLag ") Solzhenitsyn reports, " An ordinary hard working political prisoner almost could not survive at that penal camp.

Years earlier, working at Warner Bros., Hellinger had produced three films for Raoul Walsh, the proto-noirs They Drive by Night ( 1940 ) and Manpower ( 1941 ), and High Sierra ( 1941 ), now regarded as a key work in noir's development.

By September 1941, Philby was working for Section V of MI6, responsible for offensive counter-intelligence.

As Fuchs later testified, after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 he concluded that the Soviets had a right to know what the United Kingdom ( and later the United States ) were working on in secret.

* 1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.

Friedman spent 1941 – 43 working on wartime tax policy for the Federal Government, as an advisor to senior officials of the United States Department of the Treasury.

Shafer ( 1941 ) also rejected the division of the family into Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman branches, but instead placed Sinitic on the same level as other branches as working hypotheses:

When working on I Wanted Wings ( 1941 ), with Brian Donlevy and William Holden, he went up with a pilot to test a plane for filming.

After working exclusively in dramatic films, Garbo turned to comedy with Ninotchka ( 1939 ), which earned her a fourth Academy Award nomination, and Two-Faced Woman ( 1941 ).

* The German Z3 ( shown working in May 1941 ) was designed by Konrad Zuse.

* The American Atanasoff – Berry Computer ( ABC ) ( shown working in summer 1941 ) was the first electronic computing device.

Travis describes the ENIAC project at the University of Pennsylvania ( 1941 – 46 ), the technical and leadership abilities of chief engineer Eckert, the working relations between John Mauchly and Eckert, the disputes over patent rights, and their resignation from the university.

Shortly after his play Blithe Spirit opened in the West End in July 1941, Noël Coward was approached by Anthony Havelock-Allan, who was working with the production company Two Cities Films.

The chain ferry ceased working in 1941, but some small vestiges remain at the Walberswick slipway.

While working at a local cannery from 1912 to 1941, Seiki Kayamori extensively photographed Yakutat and its area.

In 1939, working alongside the electrical firms A. C. Cossor and Pye, a 60 MHz radar was developed, and from 1941 to 1943 the H2S radar system.

He was elevated to the House of Lords with the title of Viscount Stansgate in 1941 ; the new wartime coalition government was short of working Labour peers in the upper house.

After working as Allen's summer replacement, Abbott and Costello joined Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on The Chase and Sanborn Hour in 1941, while two of their films ( Buck Privates and Hold That Ghost ) were adapted for Lux Radio Theater.

He followed William Powell and Basil Rathbone portraying the series detective Philo Vance, a cosmopolitan New Yorker, once in 1935 in The Casino Murder Case, but his major role came in 1943's Watch on the Rhine, when he played a man working against the Nazis ( he had played the same role on Broadway in 1941 ).

In 1941, he was a featured act at the Paramount Theatre in New York, working with the Harry James Band.

During March 1941, some citizens of Mesa, Arizona were actively working on obtaining an Air Corps facility located near their city.

Most of the strikers were in-betweeners, cel painters, and other less-well paid employees, who in 1941 began industrial action in pursuit of better working conditions.

On December 7, 1941, Gillars was working in the studio when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was announced.

Albertina first met Walter Sisulu in 1941 while working at Johannesburg General Hospital ; at that time he was a young political activist.