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* April 23 – The [[America First Committee]] holds its first mass rally in New York City, with [[Charles Lindbergh]] as keynote speaker.
* April 23 – The [[America First Committee]] holds its first mass rally in New York City, with [[Charles Lindbergh]] as keynote speaker.
* April 25 – [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], at his regular press conference, criticizes Charles Lindbergh by comparing him to the [[Copperhead (politics)|Copperheads]] of the Civil War period. In response, Lindbergh resigns his commission in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve on April 28.
* April 25 – [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], at his regular press conference, criticizes Charles Lindbergh by comparing him to the [[Copperhead (politics)|Copperheads]] of the Civil War period. In response, Lindbergh resigns his commission in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve on April 28.
* Late April – [[World War II]]: All assets are frozen from [[Yugoslavia]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Greece]] and [[Hungary]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/pcha/PlunderRestitution.html/html/StaffChapter3.html |title=PLUNDER AND RESTITUTION: Findings and Recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and Staff Report |year=2000 |chapter=Chapter III: Assets in the United States |access-date=May 5, 2024}}</ref>


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===May===
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===June===
===June===
* June 14 – Executive Order 8785 is signed freezing all German and Italian assets in the United States are frozen. A census of all foreign assets are ordered under Executive Order 8389. Assets are also frozen from occupied countries/territories along with some neutral countries in Europe including: [[Finland]], [[Sweden]], [[Francoist Spain|Spain]], [[Andorra]], [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Portugal]], [[Switzerland]], [[San Marino]] and [[Lichtenstein|Liechtenstein]].<ref name=":0" />
* June 14 – All German and Italian assets in the United States are frozen.
* June 16
* June 16
** All German and Italian consulates in the United States are ordered closed and their staffs to leave the country by July 10.
** All German and Italian consulates in the United States are ordered closed and their staffs to leave the country by July 10.
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**[[World War II]] (12:30 EST): Franklin Roosevelt gives his [[Infamy Speech]] to a joint session of Congress. Within an hour the [[United States declaration of war on Japan]] is signed.
**[[World War II]] (12:30 EST): Franklin Roosevelt gives his [[Infamy Speech]] to a joint session of Congress. Within an hour the [[United States declaration of war on Japan]] is signed.
**The exhibition ''American Negro Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' opens in [[Edith Halpert]]'s Downtown Gallery in New York City.
**The exhibition ''American Negro Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' opens in [[Edith Halpert]]'s Downtown Gallery in New York City.
* December 9 – [[World War II]]: All assets from [[Thailand in World War II|Thailand]] are frozen.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 10, 1941 |title=Thailand Assets Are Frozen |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/10/archives/thailand-assets-are-frozen.html |access-date=May 5, 2024 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
* December 11 – [[World War II]]:
* December 11 – [[World War II]]:
**American forces repel a Japanese landing attempt at [[Wake Island]].
**American forces repel a Japanese landing attempt at [[Wake Island]].
**Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The U.S. responds in kind.
**Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The U.S. responds in kind.
**Hungary severs diplomatic relations with the United States.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=A Guide to the United States’ History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations, by Country, since 1776: Hungary |url=https://history.state.gov/countries/hungary |access-date=May 5, 2024 |website=United States Department of State: Office of the Historian}}</ref>
* December 12 – [[World War II]]:
* December 12 – [[World War II]]:
**[[Romania]] declares war on the United States with diplomatic relations also being severed by the two countries. The United States later declares war on Romania on June 5, 1942.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Guide to the United States’ History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations, by Country, since 1776: Romania |url=https://history.state.gov/countries/romania |access-date=May 5, 2024 |website=United States Department of State: Office of The Historian}}</ref>
**Hungary and [[Romania]] declare war on the United States.
**The U.S. seizes the French transatlantic liner {{SS|Normandie}}.
**The U.S. seizes the French transatlantic liner {{SS|Normandie}}.
* December 13 – [[World War II]]:
** [[Bulgaria]] declares war on the United States with diplomatic relations being severed by both countries. The United States does not declare war on Bulgaria until June 5, 1942.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Guide to the United States’ History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations, by Country, since 1776: Bulgaria |url=https://history.state.gov/countries/bulgaria |access-date=May 5, 2024 |website=United States Department of State: Office of the Historian}}</ref>
** Hungary declares war on the United States but war is not declared on Hungary by the United States until June 5, 1942.<ref name=":1" />
* December 19 – The [[United States Naval Academy]] in [[Annapolis, Maryland]] graduates its "Class of 1942" a semester early so as to induct the graduating students without delay into the U.S. Navy and/or Marine Corps as officers, for immediate stationing in the war.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usna.com/page.aspx?pid=700|title=The United States Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation|access-date=2014-12-04}}</ref>
* December 19 – The [[United States Naval Academy]] in [[Annapolis, Maryland]] graduates its "Class of 1942" a semester early so as to induct the graduating students without delay into the U.S. Navy and/or Marine Corps as officers, for immediate stationing in the war.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usna.com/page.aspx?pid=700|title=The United States Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation|access-date=2014-12-04}}</ref>
* December 20 – Admiral [[Ernest King]] is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. fleet.
* December 20 – Admiral [[Ernest King]] is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. fleet.

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Events from the year 1941 in the United States. At the end of this year, the United States enters World War II by declaring war on the Empire of Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Incumbents

Federal government

Events

January

January 20: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, begins his third term
Henry A. Wallace becomes the 33rd U.S. vice president

February

March

March 11: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease law

April

May

May 1: President Roosevelt buys the first War Bond

June

July

August

August 14: The Atlantic Charter issued

September

American Design exhibit 1941, Chicago, poster by WPA Art Project

October

November

  • November 10 – In a speech at the Mansion House, London, Winston Churchill promises, "should the United States become involved in war with Japan, the British declaration will follow within the hour."
  • November 14
  • November 17 – World War II – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables to Washington, D.C., a warning that Japan may strike suddenly and unexpectedly at any time.
  • November 24 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
  • November 26
    • U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the 4th Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States (this partly reverses a 1939 action by Roosevelt that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November).
    • The Hull note ultimatum is delivered to Japan by the United States.
  • November 27
    • A group of young men stop traffic on U.S. Highway 99 south of Yreka, California, handing out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the State of Jefferson.
    • World War II – Attack on Pearl Harbor: All U.S. military forces in Asia and the Pacific are placed on war alert.

December

December 7: Attack on Pearl Harbor
December 8: Infamy Speech and declaration war on Japan

Ongoing

Undated

  • The Centenary College Choir (America's Singing Ambassadors) is formed by Dr. A. C. Voran at Centenary College of Louisiana.
  • This calendar year is the wettest on record in Utah with 20.33 inches (516.4 mm),[15] Colorado with 25.52 inches (648.2 mm)[16] and New Mexico with 26.57 inches (674.9 mm) against a mean of only 13.74 inches or 349.0 millimetres.[17]
  • In contrast to the wetness in the West, it is the driest calendar year in Tennessee with only 36.44 inches (925.6 mm) versus a mean of 50.97 inches or 1,294.6 millimetres[18] and New Hampshire with 32.65 inches (829.3 mm) against a mean of 42.74 inches or 1,085.6 millimetres.[19]

Sport

Baseball fans across the nation witnessed not one, but two of the most amazing individual efforts and achievements the game has ever known. The two measures recorded during the 1941 campaign both stand to this day and are regarded by practically all, even the most casual of fans, to be unattainable in the game today. 1941 saw the great Joltin' Joe DiMaggio step up to the plate in 56 consecutive baseball games and hit safely to break a record that had withstood the test of time since 1897 when Wee Willie Keeler totaled 45 consecutive games hitting safely over the course of the 1896 and 97 seasons. The Splendid Splinter, Ted Williams, also treated baseball fans to a feat that has also barely been threatened since by having a season for the ages. During the 1941 Teddy Ballgame managed to record a batting average over .400 by finishing the season with an unparalleled .406 batting average. Although his average for the season is not the single season record for baseball, no player has hit .400 or better since.

Births

January

Joan Baez
Faye Dunaway
Neil Diamond
Aaron Neville
Dick Cheney

February

Nick Nolte

March

Mike Love

April

Pete Rose
Ryan O'Neal

May

Bob Dylan
William Nordhaus

June

Stacy Keach
Mickey Jones
Ed Bradley
Charles Whitman

July

Robert Forster
George Clinton

August

Martha Stewart

September

Bernie Sanders
Otis Redding

October

Chubby Checker
Jesse Jackson
Paul Simon

November

Art Garfunkel
Dr. John

December

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Richard Speck
Maurice White

Full date unknown

Deaths

See also

References

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  16. ^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Colorado Precipitation: January to December
  17. ^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; New Mexico Precipitation: January to December
  18. ^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Tennessee Precipitation: January to December
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  21. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 438/9. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
  22. ^ Baldwin County lawmaker Steve McMillan, Alabama House member for over 40 years, has died
  23. ^ Former U.S. Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts has died at age 82
  24. ^ "Berning, Susie Maxwell | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture". www.okhistory.org. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  25. ^ Barbara Ehrenreich, author who resisted injustice, dies aged 81
  26. ^ "Jets Super Bowl champion Dave Herman dead at 81". New York Post. 2022-10-21. Archived from the original on 2023-03-26.
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  28. ^ "Signe Anderson, Jefferson Airplane Singer, Dies at 74". The New York Times. February 2, 2016. Archived from the original on February 9, 2016. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
  29. ^ Charley Taylor (1941–2022), Hall of Fame wide receiver
  30. ^ John Sinclair, 82, Dies; Counterculture Activist Who Led a ‘Guitar Army’
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