WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1941
Find out what all happened February to August 1941

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief. (20. July 1941)

Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II. (31. May 1941)

The Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question." (31. July 1941)

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

Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. (12. May 1941)

Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage. (15. August 1941)

World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants. (3. June 1941)

World War II: German troops reach the Dnieper River. (5. July 1941)

Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record. (16. July 1941)

World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad. (22. August 1941)

World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing. (5. June 1941)

Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day. (5. May 1941)

Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name. (15. March 1941)

The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time. (29. March 1941)

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

World War II: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak). (13. July 1941)

World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup. (27. March 1941)

World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete. (20. May 1941)

World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen. (24. May 1941)

Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war. (24. August 1941)