WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO OCTOBER 1941
Find out what all happened July to October 1941

World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners. (5. August 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: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica. (31. August 1941)

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

Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. (10. July 1941)

Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia. (11. October 1941)

After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed. (31. October 1941)

The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action". (29. October 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)

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

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

World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. (14. August 1941)

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

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)

World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol. (8. October 1941)

Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany. (11. September 1941)

World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII. (31. October 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)

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