Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

Dale Chihuly ( born September 20, 1941, Tacoma, Washington, is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.

Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber ( born 28 September 1941 ) is a German politician, former minister-president of the state of Bavaria and former chairman of the Christian Social Union ( CSU ).

Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.

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

In September 1941, Stalin told British diplomats that he wanted two agreements: ( 1 ) a mutual assistance / aid pact and ( 2 ) a recognition that, after the war, the Soviet Union would gain the territories in countries that it had taken pursuant to its division of Eastern Europe with Hitler in the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact.

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

He was promoted to major in September 1941.

In September 1941, the Reich Plenipotentiary for Serbia, Felix Benzler, reported to Ribbentrop that the SS had arrested 8, 000 Serbian Jews, whom they were planning to execute en masse, and asked for permission to try to stop the massacre.

During this period, Tito held talks with Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović on 19 September and 27 October 1941.

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

In September 1941 he commanded Leningrad Front.

Failing to prevent the Germans from surrounding Leningrad however, he was dismissed from that post and replaced by the far abler Georgy Zhukov on 8 September 1941.

However, they explained at a meeting of the Reich Industrial Council on 18 September 1941 that the new next generation aircraft had failed to materialise, and obsolescent types had to be continued to keep up with the growing need for replacements.

The Omakaitse ( Home Guard ) was an organisation formed by the local population of Estonia on the basis of the Estonian Defence League and the forest brothers resistance movement active in the Eastern Front, 3 July 1941 – 17 September 1944.

On September 11, 1941 Bockmühl and Ehrhart filed an application for a patent for a synthetic substance they called Hoechst 10820 or polamidon ( a name still in regular use in Germany ) and whose structure had only slight relation to morphine or the opiate alkaloids ( Bockmühl and Ehrhart, 1949 ).

During the early period of American involvement in World War II ( December 7, 1941 – September 22, 1943 ), the Purple Heart was awarded both for wounds received in action against the enemy and for meritorious performance of duty.

He was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei on 24 September 1941.

On 27 September 1941 Heydrich was appointed Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( the part of Czechoslovakia incorporated into the Reich on 15 March 1939 ) and assumed control of the territory.

Stephen Jay Gould ( September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002 ) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

From September 1941 to May 1944 Germany managed to send 62 U-boats into the Mediterranean.

Australia marked two years of war on 7 September 1941 with a day of prayer, on which Prime Minister Fadden broadcast to the nation an exhortation to be united in the ‘ supreme task of defeating the forces of evil in the world ".

* September 10 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist ( d. 1941 )

* September 13 – Sherwood Anderson, American writer ( d. 1941 )

In World War II, the Wehrmacht occupied Poltava from late October 1941 until September 23, 1943, when it was retaken during the Lower Dnieper Offensive.

Further good news for the Allies arrived from northern Italy where, on 7 September, Prince Eugene had routed a French army before the Piedmontese capital, Turin, driving the Franco-Spanish forces from northern Italy.

People of Eindhoven ( during World War II ) watching Allies of World War II | Allied forces entering the city following its liberation from Axis powers | Axis forces on 19 September 1944.

The Allies finally stopped the advance northeast of Paris at the Marne River ( 5 – 12 September 1914 ).

Following the Allied invasion of Italy and the fall of Benito Mussolini in September, he and Joachim von Ribbentrop raised with Hitler the possibility of secretly approaching Joseph Stalin and negotiating a separate peace behind the backs of the western Allies.

When a joint German-Soviet peace initiative was rejected by Britain and France on 28 September 1939, Soviet foreign policy became critical of the Allies and more pro-German in turn.

In 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany agreed to both a non-aggression pact and an agreement to invade and partition Poland between them, resulting in the invasion of Poland in September 1939 by Germany and the Soviet Union and the beginning of World War II, with the Allies declaring war on Germany.

The persecution of the Jews ended in Southern Italy ( controlled by the Kingdom of Italy ) after the armistice with the Allies ( 8 September 1943 ), while in Central and Northern Italy ( controlled by the Italian Social Republic, a puppet state of Nazi Germany led by Mussolini ) the persecution continued until the definitive fall of Mussolini's regime ( 25 April 1945 ).

Despite all this, the Germans and Allies clashed on San Marino's soil in late September 1944 at the Battle of Monte Pulito ; Allied troops occupied San Marino after that, but only stayed for two months before returning the Republic's sovereignty.

* September 3 – WWII: The Allies liberate Brussels.

As the Germans started to retreat on 18 September 1944, Jüri Uluots, the last Prime Minister of the Estonian Republic prior to Soviet occupation, assumed the responsibilities of president ( as dictated in the Constitution ) and appointed a new government while seeking recognition from the Allies.

An armistice was signed on 8 September 1943, and Italy joined the Allies as a co-belligerent.

On 2 September 1944, as the Red Army approached the Bulgarian border, a new Bulgarian government came to power and sought peace with the Allies, expelled the few remaining German troops, and declared neutrality.

Retreating Axis forces occupied San Marino on 17 September, but were forced out by the Allies in less than three days.

On 20 September the Allies attacked on a 14, 500 yard front and captured most their objectives to a depth of about by mid-morning.

After the Italian armistice with the Allies in September 1943, the German Army took control of Cagliari and the island, but soon retreated peacefully in order to reinforce their positions in mainland Italy.

After the armistice between Italy and the Allies on 3 September 1943 and the country's split into the fascist Italian Social Republic in the north and the Kingdom of Italy in the south, the Carabinieri split into two groups.

The city, while nominated to be abandoned to the Japanese in the spring by Australian factions was, by September, home to an important Allied complex of bases and thousands of troops were eventually stationed in the area or more often, staged through it, as it was the last allied bastion on the island and the last line of defense against the Japanese before Australia and conversely, a key staging and jumping off point as the Allies got their feet underneath themselves under MacArthur, and began conducting offensive warfare themselves, pushing back the Japanese advances.

Italy agreed to an armistice with the Allies on September 3, 1943, with the stipulation that the Allies would provide military support to Italy in defending Rome from German occupation.

On 8 September, the new government announced it had signed an armistice with the Allies five days earlier.

She and her family were put on the first of the three final trains ( the three final transports were most probably a reaction to the Allies ' offensive ) on 3 September 1944 for Auschwitz, arriving there three days later.

At the Second Quebec Conference in September 1944, the Allies agreed to partition and de-industrialize a defeated Germany so as to render her permanently unable to wage war Morgenthau Plan.

After outwitting Marshal Villars to take the town of Tournai on 3 September ( a major and bloody operation ), the Allies turned their attention upon Mons, determined to maintain the ceaseless pressure on the French.

To this end, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden on 17 September.

During the Two World Wars, Fleurus was the theatre of confrontations, but not of the battle with the Vieux Campinaire where tanks of the Allies took place in September 1944.