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.

Ribbentrop told Hitler that his sources showed that Britain would only be militarily prepared to take on Germany at the earliest in 1940 or more probably 1941, so this could only mean that the British were bluffing.

This was reduced to six units by the autumn of 1941, and eventually cancelled altogether when it became apparent Sea Lion would never take place.

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.

Gardner was visiting her sister Beatrice (" Bappie ") in New York in 1941 when Beatrice's husband Larry Tarr, a professional photographer, offered to take her portrait.

The city, along with Catania, Augusta and Palermo, was also identified as a landing zone in the British plan of invasion of Sicily, called " Whipcord " which was to take place December 9, 1941 and subsequently canceled 30 October 1941.

On 30 May 1941 Raeder told Hitler that a major offensive against Egypt to take the Suez Canal gave Germany a chance to strike a blow that " would be more deadly to the British Empire than the capture of London !".

Despite Rheinübung and the damaging attack on the Lützow, in July 1941 Raeder began planning for what he called " the battle of the Atlantic ", a plan to send every single warship in the Kriegsmarine into the Atlantic to take on the Royal Navy in one colossal battle that almost certainly result in the destruction of the German force, but would hopefully make the British victory a Pyrrhic one.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, government officials convinced the army to take control of Camp Peay and turn it into a federal induction center, renamed Camp Forrest.

The Plew Heights housing project near Valparaiso, Florida had been erected in 1941 to take care of civil service employees and enlisted personnel, but the government made no provision for commissioned officers.

On 7 December 1941 Lieutenant Whiteman attempted to take off from Wheeler Field during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Spencer reported that in 1941 when he ( Spencer ) was about to get on the boat that would take him home to the United States, Littlewood reminded him: " n, n alpha, n beta!

The group notion started in 1976, when the four brothers of the Neville family, Art ( born 1937 ), Charles ( b. 1938 ), Aaron ( b. 1941 ), and Cyril ( b. 1948 ) got together to take part in the recording session of The Wild Tchoupitoulas, a Mardi Gras Indian group led by their uncle Big Chief Jolly.

Lockheed Hudsons were obtained early in 1941 to take over this role.

Communists were antiwar until June 1941 and tried to infiltrate or take it over.

Also in June 1941, Arnold suggested that Cochran take a group of qualified female pilots to see how the British were doing.

Cochran was also the first woman to land and take off from an aircraft carrier, the first woman to reach Mach 2, the first woman to pilot a bomber across the North Atlantic ( in 1941 ), the first pilot to make a blind ( instrument ) landing, the only woman ever to be President of the Federation Aeronautique International ( 1958 – 1961 ), the first woman to fly a fixed-wing, jet aircraft across the Atlantic, the first pilot to fly above 20, 000 ft with an oxygen mask, and the first woman to enter the Bendix Transcontinental Race.

With the site acquired, in 1941, construction funds soon followed and NAS Los Alamitos began to take shape.

As a rookie in 1941, Reiser helped the Dodgers take home the pennant.

But Oesch became overstressed with work, and was forced to take a fortnight ’ s sick leave on 25 August 1941.

Plan Kathleen, or a widened variant of the plan to take over Northern Ireland appears to have surfaced again in Nazi Germany during January 1941.

The first, Operation Claymore, had taken place in March 1941, and the third raid, Operation Archery, would take place at the same time as Operation Anklet.

The modern island of Odaiba began to take shape when the Port of Tokyo opened in 1941.

Chapman was one of the early pioneers of the American airborne concept, commanding the experimental 88th Airborne Infantry Battalion in late 1941 when he was a Lieutenant Colonel, before going on to take command of the 13th Airborne Division.

He returned with the division to Quantico in April 1941, and in June of that year he was detached from it to take command of the organization that eventually became the Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet.