* 1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.

Roma returned to form after being inconsistent for much of the late 1930s ; Roma recorded an unexpected title triumph in the 1941 – 42 season by winning their first ever scudetto title.

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.

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.

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.

Hal Trosky retired in 1941 due to migraine headaches and Bob Feller enlisted in the Navy two days after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Shortly after the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union, Trumbo and his publisher decided to suspend reprinting of Johnny Got His Gun until the end of the war.

* 1941 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be " a date which will live in infamy ", after which the U. S. and the Republic of China declare war against Japan.

Conquest's calculations excluded camp deaths before 1936 and after 1950, executions from 1939 – 1953, the vast deportation of the people of captive nations into the camps and their deaths 1939 – 1953, the massive deportation within the Soviet Union of minorities 1941 – 1944 and their deaths, and those the Soviet Red Army and secret police executed throughout Eastern Europe after their conquest during 1944 – 1945.

In 1941 they were swept by the Boston Bruins, and in 1942 they lost a seven-game series to Toronto after winning the first three games.

The only successful drop kick in the NFL since the 1941 NFL Championship game was by Doug Flutie, the backup quarterback of the New England Patriots, against the Miami Dolphins on January 1, 2006, for an extra point after a touchdown.

Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill, ( although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famously annoyed with Mountbatten's later role in the independence of India and Pakistan ), and on 27 October 1941 Mountbatten replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations and received promotion to commodore.

With very strong national support, he made war on Japan and Germany after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, calling it a " date which will live in infamy ".

In 1941 the Axis campaign spread to the Soviet Union after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa.

Within four days after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Capra quit his highly successful directing career in Hollywood and enlisted as a major in the United States Army.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Bush decided to join the US Navy, so after graduating from Phillips Academy earlier in 1942, he became a naval aviator at the age of 18.

In 1941, however, the German invasion of the Soviet Union failed, and after the United States entered the war, Britain became the base for massive Anglo-American bombings of German cities.

In 1941 Vincent showed every intention of standing for a third term as president, but after almost a decade of disengagement, the United States made it known that it would oppose such an extension.

The bombe, designed by Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman, after the Polish cryptographic bomba by Marian Rejewski ( 1938 ), came into productive use in 1941.

When Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951 it was the first country to achieve independence through the United Nations and the third former European colony in Africa to gain independence after Egypt ( 1922 ) and Abyssinia ( 1941 ).

The Banting Interpretation Centre in Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador is a museum named after him which focuses on the circumstances surrounding the 1941 plane crash which claimed his life.

In December 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, the United States entered the war.

In 1941 they released Mister Bug Goes to Town, unfortunately it was released a few days before the attack on Pearl Harbour, which caused Mister Bug to fail at the box-office.

Curtin with Douglas MacArthur preparing for war in 1942 Curtin, sitting right, at the 1944 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting | Commonwealth Prime Ministers ' Conference On 7 December 1941, the Pacific War broke out when Japan bombed Pearl Harbour.

The attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 led to Canada declaring war against Japan on 8 December 1941.

In 1941, after becoming pregnant, Smart returned to Canada, settling in Pender Harbour, British Columbia to have the child she would name Georgina.

The North Vancouver No. 5 was built in Coal Harbour by Boeing Shipyards in 1941.

* Ko-hyoteki-class midget submarines were used in the 1942 Attack on Sydney Harbour, Attack on Diego Suarez Harbor and the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, in which the type 97 torpedo was used operationally.

Australian infantry disembark at Singapore Harbour on 15 August 1941.

* 26 July 1941: An attack on Valletta Harbour ended in disaster for the X MAS and Major Teseo Tesei lost his life.

By 1941, the reverse working from Larne Harbour required a train of up to seventeen coaches.

Before and during World War II, she played small parts in numerous British films, including The Ghost Train ( 1941 ), In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Temptation Harbour ( 1947 ), Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) and a small but scene-stealing role as Mrs. Dilber in Scrooge ( 1951, entitled A Christmas Carol in the US ).

On 6 April 1941 over Brest Harbour, France, Flying Officer Campbell attacked the German battleship Gneisenau.

The shape of St. David's Island, and of Castle Harbour, Bermuda | Castle Harbour ( originally Southampton Harbour ), was radically altered by the construction of the airfield, which began in 1941.

These were built after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941.

Skills that would later be employed in the shallow waters of Pearl Harbour in December 1941.

On 20 June 1941, while in taking off, a Northrop N-3PB collided with the ferry Sam McBride in Port Race, Toronto Harbour, killing both the student pilot and instructor.

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.

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.

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.

* 1941: Jeannie Chapman and her children said they had escaped their home when a tall Sasquatch approached their residence in Ruby Creek, British Columbia.

Cleveland entered 1941 with a young team and a new manager ; Roger Peckinpaugh had replaced the despised Vitt ; but the team regressed, finishing in fourth.

At the 18th Party Conference ( 15 – 20 February 1941 ) it was concluded that the abolition of the Central Committee Department on Industry had led to the neglect of industry.

In an effort to experimentally reproduce the sensation, Banister and Zangwill ( 1941 ) used hypnosis to give participants posthypnotic amnesia for material they had already seen.

Among those films not themselves considered film noirs, perhaps none had a greater effect on the development of the genre than America's own Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), the landmark motion picture directed by Orson Welles.

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.

Prior to rising to power, from 1939 to 1941, Peron had developed a deep admiration of Italian Fascism and modelled his economic policies on Italian Fascist economic policies.

The relay-based Z3, completed in 1941 had representations for plus and minus infinity.

Hayek continued his research on monetary and capital theory, revising his theories of the relations between credit cycles and capital structure in Profits, Interest and Investment ( 1939 ) and The Pure Theory of Capital ( 1941 ), but his reputation as an economic theorist had by then fallen so much that those works were largely ignored, except for scathing critiques by Nicholas Kaldor.

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

Kelly was married to Betsy Blair for 15 years ( 1941 – 1957 ) and they had one child, Kerry.

The hypothesis of the Gospel being composed in layers over a period of time had its start with Rudolf Bultmann in 1941.

By spring 1941, following Himmler's orders, ten concentration camps had been constructed in which inmates were subjected to forced labour.

As the Germans were pushed back from Moscow in December 1941, signalling that the invasion of the Soviet Union had failed, Hitler and other Nazi officials realised that mass deportations to the east would no longer be possible.

In his preface to the 1941 edition of The War in the Air, Wells had stated that his epitaph should be: " I told you so.

Despite persistent diseases and famines, the population of the Indian subcontinent, which stood at about 125 million in 1750, had reached 389 million by 1941.

After the fall of Yugoslavia and Greece in April 1941, the Italian Fascists added to the territory of the Kingdom of Albania most of the Albanian-inhabited areas that had been previously given to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

High Sierra, a 1941 movie directed by Raoul Walsh, had a screenplay written by Bogart's friend and drinking partner, John Huston, adapted from the novel by W. R. Burnett ( Little Caesar, etc .).

The project even found and hired Malcolm Rice, a quarry supervisor who had overseen the original 1941 gallery project.

By the end of 1941, the Soviet military had suffered 4. 3 million casualties and German forces had advanced 1, 050 miles ( 1, 690 kilometers ).