WHAT HAPPENED IN 1941.
Look what happened the 1941.

The Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union. (15. December 1941)

World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak. (16. December 1941)

World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo. (17. December 1941)

World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-chief of the German Army. (19. December 1941)

World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers sink the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour. (19. December 1941)

World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China. (20. December 1941)

World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand. (21. December 1941)

World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island. (23. December 1941)

World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces. (24. December 1941)

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (25. December 1941)

World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. (25. December 1941)

Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces. (25. December 1941)

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States. (26. December 1941)

World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences. (28. December 1941)