He was mentioned in despatches on 9 August 1940 and 21 March 1941 and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in January 1941.

In August 1941, Mountbatten was appointed captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious which lay in Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs following action at Malta in the Mediterranean in January.

Moreover, in Yugoslavia there existed the Jasenovac concentration camp ( August 1941 – April 1945 ), which was the only central extermination camp outside of Poland, and the only one not operated by Nazis, but by the fascist Ustaše forces of the Independent State of Croatia, the majority of whose victims were Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roma, and Jews.

Sixteen young, blindfolded Yugoslav Partisans await execution by German forces in Serbia, 20 August 1941

In August 1941, Himmler attended the shooting of 100 Jews at Minsk.

In August 1941, a front-bench revolt forced Menzies to resign as Prime Minister.

In August 1941, when the question of whether to deport foreign Jews living in Germany arose, Ribbentrop argued against deportation as a way of maximizing the Foreign Office's influence.

The 82 mm BM-8 was approved in August 1941, and deployed as the BM-8-36 on truck beds and BM-8-24 on T-40 and T-60 light tank chassis.

A London message from the GRU, the Red Army's foreign military intelligence directorate, dated 10 August 1941, refers to the GRU reestablishing contact with Fuchs.

He attended Munali Training Centre in Lusaka ( August 1941 – 1943 ).

Nevertheless this civilian transport was adapted to the long-range reconnaissance and anti-shipping roles and, between August 1940 and February 1941, Fw 200s sank 85 vessels for a claimed total of 363, 000 Grt.

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.

The Navy took over the atoll for use as the Palmyra Island Naval Air Station on August 15, 1941.

* In August 1941, Menzies resigned as prime minister.

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Stalin increased mobilization, and by 1 August 1941, despite 46 divisions lost in combat, the Red Army's strength was 401 divisions.

* 1941 – World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Authors connected to Stockholm include the poet and songwriter Carl Michael Bellman ( 1740 – 1795 ), novelist and dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), and novelist Hjalmar Söderberg ( 1869 – 1941 ), all of whom made Stockholm part of their works.

that nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or interference which can be traced back to the Atlantic Charter, signed on 14 August 1941, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom pledged The Eight Principal points of the Charter.

Ugo Nespolo ( Mosso, ( Biella ), 29 August 1941 ) is an Italian painter and sculptor, particularly known for his experimental films, his applied arts works and his artistic collaborations in advertising, theatre and literature.

Menzies resigned as Prime Minister and leader of the UAP on 29 August 1941.

The capture of the U-570 in August 1941

The capture, rather than sinking, of U-570 – the only ship to be captured by an aircraft – on 27 August 1941 by a Lockheed Hudson from RAF Coastal Command was important for determining the fighting capacity of U-boats, although her crew destroyed the Enigma and cipher information.

On 4 August Orwell gave a talk at the Adelphi Summer School held at Langham, entitled An Outsider Sees the Distressed Areas ; others who spoke at the School included John Strachey, Max Plowman, Karl Polanyi and Reinhold Niebuhr.

At the end of August he had a dinner with H. G. Wells which degenerated into a row because Wells had taken offence at observations Orwell made about him in a Horizon article.

Animal Farm had been published in August 1945 and Orwell was experiencing a time of critical and commercial literary success.

Sonia Mary Brownell ( 25 August 1918 – 11 December 1980 ) was the second and last wife of writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair.

In a letter to Henry Miller a week after the book's publication in the US ( August 1936 ) Orwell described the book as " bollox ", though he added that he'd made some useful experiments with it.

The author George Orwell visited the site on August 21, 1938, as detailed in his domestic diary of that date.

A Hanging ( 1931 ) is a short essay written by George Orwell, first published in August 1931 in the British literary magazine The Adelphi.

On the return leg of an August boating daytrip to nearby Glengarrisdale, Orwell seems to have misread the local tide tables and steered into rough seas that drove his boat near to the whirlpool.

Many ships had only jury masts and it took a full day for the convoy to reach the mouth of the bay, finally sailing into open water on 15 August.

Unemployment finally dipped to 7. 8 % in 2006, and continued to fall in 2007, averaging 6. 8 % monthly ( up to August ).

Media Blasters finally released the film on August 14th, 2012 but only on a bare-bones DVD.

The decision on the date was finally made on 22 August by the GDR's Minister-President, de Maiziere, at a special session of the Volkskammer, which began at 9 pm.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

Kenyatta was finally released in August and became president of KANU in October.

But finally in 1705 King August II managed to establish the Order of the White Eagle which remains Poland's most prestigious order of that kind.

The same year, the United Kingdom and Libya signed a prisoner-exchange agreement and then Libya requested the transfer of the convicted Lockerbie bomber, who finally returned home in August 2009.

Polo was finally released from captivity in August 1299, and returned home to Venice, where his father and uncle had purchased a large house in the central quarter named contrada San Giovanni Crisostomo.

Specifically, he participated in the attempt to take Fushimi castle by assault in July 1600, in the defense of the besieged Gifu Castle in August of the same year, and finally in the Battle of Sekigahara.

On August 19, the 1939 German – Soviet Commercial Agreement was finally signed.

It finally dissolved in August 31, 2003, after he resigned from the leadership.

In August 1253, after much worry about the order's insistence on absolute poverty, Innocent finally approved the rule of the 2nd Order of the Franciscans, the Poor Clares, founded by St. Clare of Assisi, the great friend of St Francis.

As the opening attack of the British Operation Crossbow, the Operation Hydra air-raid attacked the HVP's " Sleeping & Living Quarters " ( to specifically target scientists ), then the " Factory Workshops ", and finally the " Experimental Station " on the night of August 17 / 18, 1943.

In August 1939, after another failure of attempts to establish a counter-Nazism alliance with Britain and France, and after Western powers had engaged in the policy of Appeasement with Nazi Germany, the Soviet government finally agreed to establish peaceful relations by concluding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, pledging non-aggression between the two countries and dividing their spheres of influence in Eastern Europe.

They finally divorced in August 2006, 14 years after a mutual decision to live separately.

Slavery in Mauritania was finally criminalized in August 2007 It was already abolished in 1980 though it was still affecting the descendants of black Africans abducted into slavery before generations, who live now in Mauritania as " black Moors " or haratin and who partially still serve the " white Moors ", or bidhan ( the name means literally white-skinned people ), as slaves.

While all this took place, William Wallace was finally captured near Glasgow and was hanged, drawn and quartered in London on 23 August 1305.

Such processes continued to deepen throughout the early Shōwa period, when State Shinto became a main force of militarism, finally coming to an abrupt end in August 1945 when Japan lost the war in the Pacific.

Full emancipation for all was finally legally granted ahead of schedule on 1 August 1838.

This continued, until the matter finally came to trial on 23 August 1451, in Nuneaton.

When the band's first album, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, finally appeared in August 1981, it received positive reviews in local fanzines.

The Soviet Union finally recognised Lithuanian independence in August 1991.

Gaeta surrendered in August, and Capua held out until November when its commander, Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, finally negotiated surrender terms when he ran out of ammunition.