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This year in history
In the year 1941

	January 13th	Irish writer, James Joyce, died at the age of 59. He is widely recognized as one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
	January 14th	American actress, Faye Dunaway, was born in Florida. She is one of the most celebrated actresses of the 20th century.
	January 21st	Spanish tenor, Placido Domingo, was born in Madrid, Spain. He is regarded as one of the great tenors of the 20th century.
	January 26th	American actor, Scott Glenn, was born in Pennsylvania.
	January 30th	Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, was born in Nebraska.
	February 23th	American chemist, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, isolated and produced plutonium for the first time.
	March 14th	German film director, Wolfgang Petersen, was born in Emden. He is best known for the World War II classic, Das Boot as well as the more recent movies, In the Line of Fire and Air Force One.
	April 10th	The independent state of Croatia was formed by Axis powers, in occupied Yugoslavia.
	April 13th	Japan and the Soviet Union signed a pact of Neutrality.
	April 17th	The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrendered to Germany, during the course of the 2nd World War.
	April 20th	American actor, Ryan O'Neal, was born in Los Angeles, California.
	April 27th	German troops entered the city of Athens, Greece.
	May 1st	Orson Welles's controversial and highly acclaimed movie, Citizen Kane, premieres in New York City. It is considered one of the most innovative movies ever created and one that is still studied extensively in film schools.
	May 2nd	Greek author, Penelope Delta, committed suicide when the Nazi armies entered Athens. She is one of the most celebrated Greek authors of the 20th century.
	May 7th	British anthropologist, Sir James George Frazer, died at the age of 87. He is most known for his publication of 'The Golden Bough', a study of ancient cults, rites, and myths and their relation to Christianity.
	May 20th	The 'Battle of Crete' began as German paratroopers dropped over Crete. It was the first large-scale airborne invasion of the war, although the Germans had used parachute assaults in the invasion of France it was on a much smaller scale. The high cost in German lives during the invasion, put a stop in any further such airborne operation by the Germans throughout the rest of the war.
	May 24th	American musician, Bob Dylan, was born in Duluth, Minnesota. He is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th century and a civil rights activist throughout his life. His birth name was Robert Allen Zimmerman.
	May 27th	The German battleship Bismarck sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean. Over 2,200 of its crew died. The ship was scuttled after it had suffered severe damage by the British ships that had been pursuing it.
	May 30th	Germany captured the island of Crete after what has been historically become known as 'The Battle of Crete'.
	June 4th	The last German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, died at the age of 82 in Doorn, Netherlands. He was forced to abdicate in 1918 and had spent the remainder of his life in exile in the Netherlands.
	June 6th	American automotive pioneer, Louis Chevrolet, died at the age of 62. Born in Switzerland, he emigrated to the United States in 1901 where he worked at various major automobile manufacturers as lead mechanic. He was the founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company.
	June 10th	German actor, Jurgen Prochnow, was born in Berlin. He became internationally known after his roles as submarine Captain Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock in Das Boot and Duke Leto Atreides in Dune.
	June 22nd	Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union in accordance with Operation Barbarossa. It is widely regarded as the turning point of World War II.
	June 23th	Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union, however it lasted only a short time as Nazi forces occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.
	July 7th	French and British troops occupied the city of Beirut.
	July 29th	British actor, David Warner, was born in Manchester.
	August 22nd	During the course of the Second World War the siege of Leningrad began. The siege was lifted on January 27, 1944 after one of the bloodiest sieges in world history.
	September 6th	In Nazi Germany, all Jews over the age of 6 were required to wear the Star of David with the word Jew inscribed on it.
	September 11th	Works commenced on the grounds where the American, Pentagon would be constructed.
	September 16th	The United Kingdom and the USSR occupied Iran and forced, Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia, to resign in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The action had come about due to the fears that Reza Pahlavi was planning to align his country with Nazi Germany during World War II.
	September 24th	American singer and activist, Linda McCartney, was born in New York. Best known for her marriage to Sir Paul McCartney, of The Beatles as well as for being one of the most outspoken Animal rights activist in the world.
	September 27th	The first Liberty Ship, SS Patrick Henry, was launched. The liberty ships were cargo ships built by the United States during World War II. Overall 2,751 Liberty Ships were built with the purpose of transporting supplies from America to England during the war. As of 2006 two of those ships survive as ship museums and are still operational.
	October 13th	American musician, Paul Simon, was born in New Jersey, USA. Along with his high school friend, Art Garfunkel, he formed the Simon & Garfunkel duet which enjoyed tremendous success throughout the 1960's and 1970's. While he subsequently pursued a successful solo career later, he has often reunited with Garfunkel througout the years.
	October 21st	In Kragujevac, Yugoslavia, thousands of civilians, including women and children, were executed by German soldiers as a reprisal for an attack on German soldiers.
	December 8th	The United States declared war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Additionally China and the Netherlands also declared war on Japan upon the same day.
	December 9th	Russian writer, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, died at the age of 76. He was one of the most prominent figures of the eminent ideologues of Russian Symbolism movement.
	December 12th	During the course of World War II Great Britain declared war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania on the United States. And India on Japan.
	December 13th	In the course of World War II the countries of Hungary and Romania declared war on the United States.
	December 23th	American forces were forced to surrender to the Japanese Imperial army in Wake Island.

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