The Soviet ship Chervona Ukraina is sunk during the Battle of Sevastopol.
Tag Archives: 1941
25 December 1941
Battle of Hong Kong during World War 2 ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
12 December 1941
Adolf Hitler first announces extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery.
31 May 1941
Hermann Göring, directs 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.”
6 January 1941
USA President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech.
25 December 1941
The Battle of Hong Kong ends and begins the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.
10 December 1941
Imperial Japanese forces land on the Philippine mainland.