World War II: Soviet Union Introduces Male Conscription, September 18, 1941

After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed. Date: October 31, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 31 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1941Hull Note Delivered to Japan, Air Fleet Departs for Hawaii – November 26, 1941Battle of Smolensk…

World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency". Date: May 27, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 27 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1941Japanese Forces Invade Shanghai, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, Philippines, Dutch East Indies,…

The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs. Date: September 3, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 3 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…

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." Date: July 31, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia →…

The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police begin a mass execution of 403 Jews in Nemenčinė. Date: September 20, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 20 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1941German Officer Killed in Bucharest Sparks Iron…

The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up roughly 25,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre. Date: November 30, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 30 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1941German Officer Killed in Bucharest…