WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1941
Find out what all happened February to October 1941

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

World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow. (2. October 1941)

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

Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews. (27. June 1941)

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

Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power. (2. May 1941)

World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance. (13. May 1941)

World War II: The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. (3. September 1941)

World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States. (26. July 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 Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. (17. April 1941)

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

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

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

World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation. (7. July 1941)

The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later. (23. June 1941)

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

A Luftwaffe air raid on Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives. (31. May 1941)

June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins. (14. June 1941)

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