The Lady Eve
Release year: 1941
Directed by: Preston Sturges
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette
Country: United States of America
February 1941 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in February 1941.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Winston Churchill (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.
But much more happened on February 1941: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of February 1941?
Events
- 01 Feb 1941 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn.
- 03 Feb 1941 US Supreme Court upholds Federal Wage and Hour law, sets minimum wages and maximum hours.
- 04 Feb 1941 Former Dutch Premier De Geer flies to Berlin
- 05 Feb 1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to the Netherlands
- 06 Feb 1941 Auke Adema win 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19).
- 07 Feb 1941 Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey Orchestra record Everything Happens to Me
- 08 Feb 1941 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore.
- 09 Feb 1941 British troops conquer El Agheila.
- 10 Feb 1941 Anti-Nazi Het Parool begins publishing in the Netherlands
- 11 Feb 1941 Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
- 12 Feb 1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher / Cohen
- 13 Feb 1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council.
- 14 Feb 1941 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
- 15 Feb 1941 Duke Ellington 1st records Take the A Train
- 17 Feb 1941 Joe Louis knocks out Gus Dorazio in two rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
- 19 Feb 1941 Nazi police attacks and driven away from Koco Amsterdam
- 20 Feb 1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands.
- 21 Feb 1941 US Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to Brigadier-General.
- 22 Feb 1941 German assault on El Agheila, Libya.
- 24 Feb 1941 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in The Hague.
- 25 Feb 1941 February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
- 26 Feb 1941 Utrecht and Zaandam strike against raid on Jews.
- 27 Feb 1941 The New Zealand Division cruiser HMS ''Leander'' (1931) sinks Italian armed merchant raider ''Ramb I'' off the Maldives.
- 28 Feb 1941 39 U-boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month
Famous Birthday
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Director / researcher (Granada TV).
London, England -- Film producer / CEO (Columbia Pictures).
World Leader.
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Famous Deaths
French painter, dies at 82.
Writer, dies at 78.
Composer / conductor, dies at 61.
German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56.
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Movies
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Meet John Doe
Release year: 1941
Directed by: Frank Capra
Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan
Country: United States of America
The Strawberry Blonde
Release year: 1941
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Starring: James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale
Country: United States of America
Prairie Pioneers
Release year: 1941
Directed by: Lester Orlebeck
Starring: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Esther Estrella
Flying Wild
Release year: 1941
Directed by: William West
Starring: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Joan Barclay, Dave O'Brien