What is 1941?
{{Year nav|1941}} {{Year in various calendars|1941}} '''1941''' ([[Roman numerals|MCMXLI]]) was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 1941st year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, {{Year article header/year number|1941}}. == Events == * [[January 6]] – Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his [[Four Freedoms|Four Freedoms Speech]] in the State of the Union Address. * [[January 10]] – [[Lend-Lease]] is introduced into the [[United States Congress]]. * [[January 19]] – [[United Kingdom|British]] troops attack [[Italy|Italian]]-held [[Eritrea]]. * [[January 21]] – [[World War II]]: [[Australia]]n and [[United Kingdom|British]] forces attack [[Battle of Tobruk|Tobruk]], [[Libya]]. * [[January 22]] – World War II: British troops capture [[Tobruk]] from the Italians. * [[January 23]] – [[Charles Lindbergh]] testifies before the [[United States Congress]] and recommends that the [[United States]] negotiate a [[neutrality pact]] with [[Adolf Hitler]]. * [[April 6]] – [[World War II]]: The [[Germany|German]] army attacked [[Yugoslavia]]. * [[April 10]] – [[Croatia]] declares itself independent of [[Yugoslavia]]. * [[June 22]] - Nazi German invasion to the [[Soviet Union]]. The [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union]] begins. * [[September 11]] – Building of [[The Pentagon]] starts. * [[December 5]] - Soviet counteroffensive near Moscow begins. * [[December 7]] – The [[Japan]]ese attack on [[Pearl Harbor]]. Following this, the [[United States|U.S.]] enters [[World War II]]. == Births == * [[January 3]] – [[Van Dyke Parks]], musician, composer * [[January 5]] – [[Miyazaki Hayao]], Japanese movie maker * [[January 5]] – [[Grady Thomas]], singer ([[P-Funk]]) * [[January 8]] – [[Graham Chapman]], British comedian (d. [[1989]]) * [[January 9]] – [[Joan Baez]], [[United States|American]] [[singer]] * [[January 14]] – [[Faye Dunaway]], American actress * [[January 14]] – [[Milan Kucan|Milan Kučan]], [[Slovenes|Slovene]] [[pol