WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JULY 1941
Find out what all happened March to July 1941

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

In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people. (15. April 1941)

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

At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show. (6. May 1941)

Fantana Alba massacre: between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Guards. (1. April 1941)

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

A Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. (13. April 1941)

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

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

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

Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. (10. July 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)

World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops. (7. July 1941)

W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.. (1. March 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)

The June Uprising in Lithuania begins. (22. June 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)

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

World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power. (10. April 1941)

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