WHAT HAPPENED IN 1941.
Look what happened the 1941.

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

World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. (17. April 1941)

Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece. (21. April 1941)

World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht. (23. April 1941)

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

World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. (27. April 1941)

World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk. (1. May 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)

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

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

The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. (6. May 1941)

The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby (8. May 1941)

World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. (9. May 1941)

World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid. (10. May 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)

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

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

First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied Jet Aircraft. (15. May 1941)

Viet Minh, a communist coalition, formed at Cao Bang Province, Vietnam. (19. May 1941)

   
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