February 1941 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Feb 11 Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli

Feb 11 Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
Feb 12 First injection of penicillin into a patient by British physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England
Feb 12 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms under Ascher and Cohen
Feb 12 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
Feb 13 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council
Feb 14 Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
Feb 14 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
Feb 14 German Afrika Korps lands in Tripoli, Libya
Feb 14 One millionth vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel
Feb 19 Nazi police attacked & driven away from Koco, Amsterdam (by young Jews)
Feb 20 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
Feb 20 Nazi Germany orders Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
Feb 20 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands

General Bradley

Feb 21 US officer Omar Bradley is promoted to the rank of brigadier general

Feb 22 Arthur "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
Feb 22 German assault on El Agheila Libya
Feb 22 IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Feb 22 Nazi police raid Amsterdam and round up 429 young Jews for deportation to be sent to Buchenwald and Mauthausen concentration camps
Feb 23 Plutonium first produced and isolated by American chemist Glenn T. Seaborg at Berkeley
Feb 24 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
Feb 24 Anti-Nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
Feb 25 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
Feb 26 2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declares double KO
Feb 26 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)
Feb 26 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews
Feb 26 Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
Feb 28 British-Italian dogfight above Albania

Birthdays in History

Feb 1 Jerry Spinelli, children's author
Feb 1 Robert Walmsley, British Vice-Admiral
Feb 3 Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)
Feb 5 Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor
Feb 5 Stephen J. Cannell, American TV producer (The Rockford Files, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street) and writer, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2010)
Feb 7 Peter Foxhall, Australian evangelist
Feb 11 Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman (Species, Mrs Soffel, Return of the Jedi)
Feb 11 Jeremy Mackenzie, general
Feb 12 Dennis Sullivan, American mathematician (2022 Abel prize for work on topography), born in Port Huron, Michigan
Feb 12 Naomi Uemura, Japanese mountain climber (1st Japanese to scale Everest)
Feb 13 Andrea Conte, First Lady of Tennessee, born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Feb 13 Sigmar Polke, German painter, born in Oleśnica, Poland (d. 2010)
Feb 14 Donna Shalala, American educator
Feb 14 Paul Tsongas, American politician (Sen-D-Mass), born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d. 1997)
Feb 19 Stephen Dobyns, American author and poet (Cold Dog Soup), born in Orange, New Jersey
Feb 22 Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician, born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Feb 23 Frank Gerstenberg, Edinburgh, principal (George Watson's College)
Feb 25 Stewart Sutherland, Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Edinburgh University)
Feb 27 Andrew "Sandy" Wilson, Royal Air Force officer (1962–1995)
Feb 27 Paddy Ashdown, British MP, leader of Liberal Democrats (1988-1999), born in New Delhi, British Raj (d. 2018)
Feb 28 Alice May Brock, American author

Weddings in History

William J. Casey

Feb 22 Future CIA Director William J. Casey (27) weds Sophia Kurz

Deaths in History

Feb 2 Johannes Schlaf, German writer and translator, dies at 78
Feb 4 Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian and archaeologist, dies at 79
Feb 6 Maximilien Luce, French painter, dies at 82
Feb 11 Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/Min of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63