Oct 1941 Events

1941 Oct John F. Kennedy Appointed an Ensign in the US Navy
Despite having a bad back, Kennedy was able to join the U.S. Navy through the help of Captain Alan Kirk, the Director, Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) who had been the Naval Attache in...
1941 Oct Soviet Prisoners of War Prepare Salaspils Nazi Concentration Camp
Salaspils concentration camp was established at the end of 1941 at a point 18 km southeast of Riga,in the country of Latvia. The Nazi bureaucracy drew distinctions between different types...
1941 Oct The Nazis Set Up Janowska Concentration Camp Next Door to a Factory Housing Forced Laborers
Janowska was a German Nazi labor, transit and concentration camp established in occupied Poland September 1941 on the outskirts of Lvov, (Poland, today Ukraine).
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 1941 World Series
The 1941 World Series matched the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers, with the Yankees winning in five games to capture their fifth title in six years, and their ninth overall....
1941 Oct 1 Majdanek Concentration Camp Begins Operation
Majdanek was a German Nazi concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland, established during German Nazi occupation of Poland. The camp operated from October 1, 1941 until July 22...
1941 Oct 2 Battle of Moscow Begins
The Battle of Moscow (Russian: Битва под Москвой, Romanized: Bitva pod Moskvoy, German: Schlacht um Moskau) is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically signific...
1941 Oct 2 "One Foot In Heaven" Is Released
One Foot in Heaven is a 1941 biographical film which follows the life of a minister and his family as they move from parish to parish. It stars Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, ...
1941 Oct 3 "The Maltese Falcon" Is Released
The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American Warner Bros. film based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. Written and directed by John Huston, the movie stars Humphrey Bogart as pr...
1941 Oct 13 German Forces Arrive at the Mozhaisk Defense Line
By October 13, 1941, the Wehrmacht had arrived at the Mozhaisk defense line, a hastily constructed double set of fortifications protecting Moscow from the west and stretching from Kalinin...
1941 Oct 23 Dumbo is released
Dumbo is a 1941 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, D...
1941 Oct 23 The Lend-Lease Bill Is Passed
The Senate passed the $5.98 billion supplemental Lend-Lease bill on October 23, 1941, bringing the United States one step closer to direct involvement in World War II. The Lend-Lease Act,...
1941 Oct 28 "How Green Was My Valley" Is Released
How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 American drama film directed by John Ford. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, written by Philip Dunne, and based on the Richard Llewellyn novel o...
1941 Oct 30 German Forces Begin Siege of Sevastopol
A rapid thrust was launched towards Sevastopol on 30 October 1941 which commenced the Defence of Sevastopol (Russian: оборона Севастополя), consisting of two infantry divisions and one mo...