WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1941
Find out what all happened January to July 1941

World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers. (1. March 1941)

World War II: German troops enter Athens. (27. April 1941)

World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships. (16. April 1941)

Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0. (16. April 1941)

Nazi Germany launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk. (6. July 1941)

World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. (17. April 1941)

World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari. (2. June 1941)

German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa. (27. June 1941)

World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers. (28. March 1941)

World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk. (1. May 1941)

World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany. (10. May 1941)

Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas. (29. January 1941)

Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. (4. July 1941)

World War II: the Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany. (1. June 1941)

World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. (9. January 1941)

Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece. (21. April 1941)

World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day. (26. June 1941)

World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. (27. April 1941)

The Blockade Runner Badge for the German navy is instituted. (1. April 1941)

United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address. (6. January 1941)