In 1941 Hawks made Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper as a pacifist farmer who becomes a decorated World War I soldier.

The film was the highest-grossing film of 1941 and won two Academy Awards ( Best Actor and Best Editing ), as well as earning Hawks his only nomination for Best Director.

Hawks completed initial shooting of the film in early 1941, but due to perfectionism and battles with the Hollywood Production Code, Hughes continued to re-shoot and re-edit the film until it was finally released in 1943, with Hawks uncredited as director.

* to Slim Keith ( 1941 – 1949 ), who was the mother of his daughter, Kitty Hawks, an interior designer ; and

* Ball of Fire ( 1941 ), d. Howard Hawks

", The Big Sleep directed by Howard Hawks ( 1946 ), The Lady Eve directed by Preston Sturges ( 1941 ), The Shop Around the Corner directed by Ernst Lubitsch ( 1940 ), White Heat directed by Raoul Walsh ( 1949 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), and Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock, ( 1946 ).

* Aud Tuten, former NHL player with the Chicago Black Hawks ( 1941 – 43 )

Ball of Fire ( also known as The Professor and the Burlesque Queen ) is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.

After playing in the Alberta Senior Hockey League ( ASHL ), Kaleta joined the NHL with the Chicago Black Hawks in 1941 – 42.

Michael William McMahon, Jr. ( born August 30, 1941 in Quebec City, Quebec ) is a former ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) for the New York Rangers, Minnesota North Stars, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins and the Buffalo Sabres.

18th Pursuit Squadron P-36 Hawks, Elmendorf, August 1941

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.

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.

The ABC had been examined by John Mauchly in June 1941, and Isaac Auerbach, a former student of Mauchly's, alleged that it influenced his later work on ENIAC, although Mauchly denied this ( Shurkin, pg.

Some former CCC sites in good condition were reactivated from 1941 to 1947 as Civilian Public Service camps where conscientious objectors performed " work of national importance " as an alternative to military service.

In the war-time 1941 edition of Heidegger's primary work, Being and Time ( first published in 1927 ), the original dedication to Husserl was removed.

Little of Emily's work from this period survives, except for poems spoken by characters ( The Brontës ' Web of Childhood, Fannie Ratchford, 1941 ).

During the classic era, his work, either as author or screenwriter, was the basis for seven films now widely regarded as film noirs, including three of the most famous: High Sierra ( 1941 ), This Gun for Hire ( 1942 ), and The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ).

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.

In August 1941, Orwell finally obtained " war work " when he was taken on full-time by the BBC's Eastern Service.

* Edward Soja ( born 1941 ), noted for his work on regional development, planning and governance, along with coining the terms synekism and postmetropolis.

They built on the work of other physiologists, such as Cole and Baker's research into voltage-gated membrane pores from 1941.

By 1857 he had accumulated over 800 pages of notes and short essays on capital, landed property, wage labour, the state, and foreign trade and the world market ; this work did not appear in print until 1941, under the title Grundrisse.

Henri Bergson ( 1859 – 1941 ), on the other hand, emphasized the difference between scientific, clock time and the direct, subjective, human experience of time His work on time and consciousness " had a great influence on twentieth-century novelists ," especially those modernists who used the stream of consciousness technique, such as Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, ( 1915 ), James Joyce, Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Virginia Woolf ( 1882 – 1941 ) Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), To the Lighthouse ( 1927 ).

* In " Heredity " ( 1941 ), a short story by Isaac Asimov, twin brothers who have been raised separately on Earth and Ganymede must work together to operate a Martian fungus farm.

* 1941 – After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.

After submitting his work, " Memorandum of Establishment of Service of Strategic Information ," Colonel Donovan was appointed as the " Co-ordinator of Information " in July 1941.

Her work never ran because Babbage's machine was never completed to a functioning standard in her time ; the first programmer to successfully run a program on a functioning modern electronically based computer was pioneer computer scientist Konrad Zuse, who achieved this feat in 1941.

Major conservation work has been carried out since, due to the effects of London's air pollution, and extensive repairs took place after the Second World War, including the reconstruction of the Commons Chamber following its bombing in 1941.

Wounded, he was rearrested, and sent back to Brazzaville where on 8 February 1941 he was sentenced under Felix Eboué to work in labor camps for the rest of his life.

More than 100, 000 workers were removed from " unsuitable " jobs and conscripted by the Ministry of Labour ; by December 1941, Czechs could be called to work anywhere within the Reich.

The journal Tropiques, featuring the work of Cesaire along with Suzanne Césaire, René Ménil, Lucie Thésée, Aristide Maugée and others, was first published in 1941.

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

As Secretary to the Joint Intelligence Committee, Middle East, he was soon doing work that would normally have been done by a more senior officer and was ( May 1942, backdated to December 1941 ) promoted to major.