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What Happened In December 1941 In History

Historical Events for December, 1941

  • 1st » World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
  • 1st » World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs s:Administrative Order 9 known as Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
  • 5th » World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
  • 5th » World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
  • 6th » World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
  • 8th » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "Infamy Speech known as a date which will live in infamy", after which United States declaration of war upon Japan named the U.S. declares war on Japan.
  • 8th » World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Japanese invasion of Malaya Malaya, Japanese invasion of Thailand Thailand, Battle of Hong Kong Hong Kong, Philippines Campaign (1941–42) the Philippines, and Dutch East Indies campaign the Dutch East In
  • 9th » World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, and Commonwealth of the Philippines the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Nazi Germany Germany and Imperial Japan Japan.
  • 9th » World War II: The American 19th Operations Group called 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
  • 10th » World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales 53 6 and HMS Repulse 1916 6 Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya Malaya.
  • 10th » World War II: Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) called Battle of the Philippines Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
  • 11th » World War II: Second Polish Republic named Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
  • 12th » World War II: Fifty-four Empire of Japan called Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Philippine called Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.
  • 12th » World War II: United States Marine Corps known as USMC F4F Wildcat called F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island.
  • 12th » World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan.
  • 12th » Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a Reich Chancellery meeting of 12 December 1941 named meeting in the Reich Chancellery
  • 13th » World War II: The Kingdom of Hungary and Kingdom of Romania declare war on the United States.
  • 14th » World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand.
  • 15th » The Holocaust: Nazi Germany known as German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union.
  • 17th » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army or Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
  • 19th » World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-chief of the German Army (1935–1945) or German Army.
  • 19th » World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian Navy Italian divers heavily damage the HMS Valiant 1914 6 and HMS Queen Elizabeth 1913 6 in Raid on Alexandria (1941) Alexandria harbour.
  • 20th » World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
  • 21st » World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
  • 23rd » World War II: After Battle of Wake Island named 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
  • 24th » World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
  • 25th » Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the United States Pacific Fleet or U.S. Pacific Fleet
  • 25th » World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
  • 25th » Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
  • 26th » President of the United States known as U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving (United States) known as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
  • 28th » World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazism called Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1941

  • 2nd » Mike England, Welsh footballer and manager
  • 6th » Richard Speck, American murderer (d. 1991)
  • 6th » Bill Thomas, American academic and politician
  • 6th » Wende Wagner, American actress (d. 1997)
  • 7th » Melba Pattillo Beals, American journalist and activist
  • 8th » Ed Brinkman, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008)
  • 8th » Bob Brown (offensive lineman) e.g Bob Brown, American football player
  • 8th » Duke Cunningham, American commander and politician
  • 8th » Bobby Elliott, English drummer (The Hollies)
  • 8th » Geoff Hurst, English footballer and manager
  • 9th » Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist and author (d. 2013)
  • 9th » Beau Bridges, American actor, director, and producer
  • 9th » Dan Hicks (singer) called Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Charlatans (American band) known as The Charlatans and The Acoustic Warriors)
  • 10th » Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress
  • 10th » Tommy Kirk, American actor and singer
  • 10th » Tommy Rettig, American actor and engineer (d. 1996)
  • 10th » Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1985)
  • 10th » Peter Sarstedt, Indian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 10th » Chad & Jeremy named Chad Stuart, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chad & Jeremy)
  • 10th » Ken Campbell, English writer, actor, director and comedian (d. 2008)
  • 11th » Max Baucus, American lawyer and politician
  • 11th » J. P. Parisé, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
  • 11th » Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1988)
  • 11th » J. Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (d. 1991)
  • 13th » John Davidson (entertainer) called John Davidson, American actor and game show host
  • 13th » Anouska Hempel, New Zealand-English actress and fashion designer
  • 13th » Bessel Kok, Dutch chess player and businessman
  • 14th » Karan Armstrong, American soprano and actress
  • 14th » Ellen Willis, American journalist, critic, and academic (d. 2006)
  • 16th » Robert Kerman, American actor
  • 16th » Lesley Stahl, American journalist
  • 16th » Roger Wheeler (British Army officer) called Roger Wheeler, English general
  • 17th » Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean politician, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Zimbabwe) or Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2012)
  • 18th » Sam Andrew, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Big Brother and the Holding Company)
  • 18th » Joan Wallach Scott, American historian
  • 18th » Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpet player and composer (Creative Construction Company)
  • 19th » Lee Myung-bak, South Korean politician, 10th President of South Korea
  • 19th » Maurice White, American singer-songwriter and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
  • 20th » Tommy Cole, American actor, singer, and makeup artist
  • 22nd » Jose Duval, Belgian pornographic actor
  • 23rd » Peter Davis (businessman) called Peter Davis, English businessman
  • 23rd » Tim Hardin, American singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
  • 23rd » Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (d. 1975)
  • 24th » John Levene, English actor
  • 24th » David Arkin, American actor (d. 1991)
  • 24th » Mike Hazlewood, English songwriter and musician (d. 2001)
  • 25th » Kenneth Calman, Scottish physician, surgeon, and academic
  • 26th » Daniel Schmid, Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
  • 27th » Miles Aiken, American basketball player and coach
  • 27th » Mike Pinder, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (The Moody Blues)
  • 27th » Nolan Richardson, American basketball player and coach
  • 28th » Intikhab Alam, Indian-Pakistani cricketer and coach
  • 29th » Ray Thomas, English singer-songwriter and flute player (The Moody Blues)
  • 30th » Mel Renfro, American football player and coach
  • 31st » Sean S. Cunningham, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 31st » Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
  • 31st » Sarah Miles, English actress

Famous Deaths for December 1941

  • 3rd » Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet (b. 1883)
  • 5th » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)
  • 7th » Attack on Pearl Harbor:
  • 9th » Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)
  • 10th » Erich Jacoby, Estonian-Polish architect (b. 1885)
  • 10th » Colin Kelly, American captain and pilot (b. 1915)
  • 11th » John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American pilot and poet (b. 1922)
  • 11th » Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
  • 12th » César Basa, Filipino lieutenant and pilot (b. 1915)
  • 20th » Igor Severyanin, Russian-Estonian poet (b. 1887)
  • 22nd » Karel Hašler, Czech people e.g Czech songwriter, actor, lyricist, director, composer, writer, dramatist and screenwriter, murdered at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (b. 1879)
  • 24th » Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858)
  • 25th » Richard S. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1884)
  • 28th » Hermann Wilker, German rower (b. 1874)
  • 29th » Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873)
  • 30th » El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (b. 1890)

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