WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened July to September 1941

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

World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued. (17. September 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: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak). (13. July 1941)

Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany. (5. September 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)

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)

World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. (8. September 1941)

World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer. (4. September 1941)

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

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

Japanese troops occupy French Indochina. (27. July 1941)

Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon. (11. September 1941)

The Drama Uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins. (28. September 1941)

Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union. (29. August 1941)

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

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

World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre. (30. September 1941)

World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. (16. September 1941)

World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report. (29. September 1941)