Biggest Events of the Year 1941

The Top Ten

1 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor bringing, the USA into World War II

2 Germans invade USSR (Operation Barbarossa)

3 Carving of Mount Rushmore completed

4 Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy

5 Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev

6 First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

7 Germany defeats Greece and Yugoslavia

8 Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy

9 Joe DiMaggio achieves 56 consecutive game hitting streak

Truly a baseball masterpiece and at a time when the Yankees needed the most. His hitting streak stretched through 3 months. On May 15 against the Chicago White Sox he had a hit off White Sox' Eddie Smith. By the time his hitting streak reached 13 on May 28. The new York Press began taking notice of DiMaggio's streak. He even had a hit in the All-Star Game, but of course that game didn't count. But in those 56 games he had hits that count and with it he became a true baseball legend for truly all times.
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10 First units of Rommel's German Afrika Corps arrive in North Africa

The Contenders

11 Orson Welles's Citizen Kane is released

12 Ted Williams hits.406

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