1941

1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945

Events

January 23 - The Iron Guard is dissolved.
February 14 - The National Legionary State is dissolved. Ion Antonescu emerges as Romania's sole ruler.
April 1 - Rashid Ali al-Gaylani seizes power in Iraq after a successful Axis-backed coup d'état.
April 10 - The Ustaše takes control of most of Yugoslavia, establishing the Independent State of Croatia.
April 30 - The Hellenic State is established in Greece by the Axis Powers.
May 10 - Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom, but ends up being captured.
May 11 - End of the Blitz.
May 13 - The Chetniks are founded by Draža Mihailović.
May 19 - Ho Chi Minh establishes the Việt Minh.
June 1 to 2 - The Farhud pogrom is carried out against Jews in Baghdad, Iraq by order of Prime Minister Rashid Ali al-Gaylani. Over 180 Jews are killed and 1,000 are injured.
June 3 - The village of Kandanos in Western Crete is razed by Nazi forces, killing 180 people.
June 14 - The Communist Party of the Soviet Union deports about 65,000 people from the Baltic states to Siberia.
June 22 - The Axis Powers launch Operation Barbarossa, subsequently invading the Soviet Union.
June 24 to 25 - The Rainiai massacre takes place when the NKVD, with help from the Red Army, kills 70 to 80 Lituanian political prisoners in a forest near Telšiai, Lithuania.
June 26 - The massacre in Pravieniskes camp takes place.
June 29 - Adolf Hitler designates Hermann Göring as his successor.
July 7 - The Communist Party of Yugoslavia raises an uprising against the Nazi occupation, beginning when Žikica Jovanović Španac kill two gendarmes in the village of Bela Crkva.
August - The Ustaše begin operation of Jasenovac concentration camp.
August 24 - Action T4 is discontinued.
September 16 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi becomes Shah of Iran following the abdication of his father, Reza Shah.
October 17 - Hideki Tojo is named Prime Minister of Japan, succeeding Fumimaro Konoe.
October 22 to 24 - The Odessa Massacre takes place.
November 8 - The Party of Labour of Albania is founded by Enver Hoxha.
December 7 - Imperial Japan launches a surprise attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United States formally enters World War II the following day.
Unknown - Murder, Inc. is disbanded.

Births

Villain births

January 31 - Eugène Terre'Blanche
February 9 - Kermit Gosnell
March 16 - Thomas Hagan
April 30 - Buddy Cianci
June 1 - Dragoljub Ojdanić
June 5 - Robert Kraft
June 22 - Ariffin Mohammed
June 24 - Charles Whitman
August 14 - Fred Neulander
August 16 - Théoneste Bagosora
August 20 - Slobodan Milošević
August 27 - Bernard Ebbers
September 29 - Fred West
November 13 - Patrick Sherrill
November 17 - James Pratt Craig
December 6 - Richard Speck
December 19 - Lee Myung-bak

Victim births

May 5 - Barbara Grimes
June 9 - Helen Barthelemy
August 6 - Gwynneth Rees
July 22 - Vernon Hunter
July 25 - Emmett Till
August 8 - George Tiller
Unknown - Reyna Marroquín

Deaths

Villain deaths

Janruary 29 - Ioannis Metaxas
March 9 - J. B. McNamara
May 8 - John J. McNamara
June 4 - Wilhelm II
July 26 - Paul Ogorzow

Victim deaths

July 3 - Frieda Koziol
July 28 - Ben Zion Halberstam