1941

Germany attacks the Balkans and Russia
Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland (nobody knows why)
British and German battleships, Hood and Bismark, sunk in battle
US warship, USS Reuben James, torpedoed and sunk before US enters the war
U.S. enters World War II

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; U.S. enters World War II
Manhattan Project (atomic bomb research) begins
Roosevelt enunciates "four freedoms,"
Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Act
1st aerosol can
1st cardiac catheter
1st TV advertising
Films - "Citizen Kane", "The Maltese Falcon"
Radio show - "The Inner Sanctum"
Otis Redding and Jesse Jackson born
Robert Baden-Powell, Lou Gehrig, Louis Chevrolet, and "Jelly Roll" Morton die