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**[[May 2]] - 10 television stations were granted commercial TV licenses (effective July 1). These stations were required to broadcast 15 hours per week. [[Bulova Watch Co.]], [[Sun Oil Co.]], [[Lever Bros. Co.]] and [[Procter & Gamble]] sign on as sponsors of the first commercial telecasts from WNBT in [[New York]]. |
**[[May 2]] - 10 television stations were granted commercial TV licenses (effective July 1). These stations were required to broadcast 15 hours per week. [[Bulova Watch Co.]], [[Sun Oil Co.]], [[Lever Bros. Co.]] and [[Procter & Gamble]] sign on as sponsors of the first commercial telecasts from WNBT in [[New York]]. |
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**[[July 1]] - Commercial TV authorized by the [[FCC]]. |
**[[July 1]] - Commercial TV authorized by the [[FCC]]. |
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**[[July 1]] - [[Ralph Edwards]] hosted the first game show broadcast on television, ''Truth Or Consequences'', simulcast on radio and TV and sponsored by [[Ivory Soap]]. The world's first legal [[TV commercial]] for Bulova watches occurs at 2:29, superimposed over a [[test pattern]] |
**[[July 1]] - [[Ralph Edwards]] hosted the first game show broadcast on television, ''Truth Or Consequences'', simulcast on radio and TV and sponsored by [[Ivory Soap]]. The world's first legal [[television commercial|TV commercial]] for Bulova watches occurs at 2:29, superimposed over a [[test pattern]] |
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'''Births''' |
'''Births''' |
Revision as of 19:11, 10 February 2003
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years: 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 - 1941 - 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
Events
- January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the United States Congress
- January 19 - British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea
- January 21 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya
- January 22 - World War II: The United Kingdom captures Tobruk from Nazi forces.
- January 23 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the United States Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler
- February 3 - World War II: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France.
- February 4 - World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
- February 11 - Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
- April - Russia and Japan sign a neutrality pact
- June 22 - Germany attacks the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, Finland sees an opportunity and launches the Continuation War.
- November 14 - HMS Ark Royal capsizes and sinks
- December 7, December 6 (in Japan standard time) - Japan navy abrupty attacks the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the US into World War II.
- John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry developed the Atanasoff Berry Computer
- Ives and Stilwell prove that ions radiate at frequencies affected by their motion.
- In Sweden, Victor Hasselblad forms the Hasselblad camera company.
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 1941 in film
- Citizen Kane, starring Orson Welles
- The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart
- Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner
- 1941 in literature
- Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
- Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
- Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
- 1941 in music
- February 11 - 1st Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for Chattanooga Choo Choo.
- 1941 in sports
- 1941 in television
- April 30 - The FCC approves the NTSC standards of 525 lines and 30 frames per second, and authorizes commercial TV to begin on July 1.
- May 2 - 10 television stations were granted commercial TV licenses (effective July 1). These stations were required to broadcast 15 hours per week. Bulova Watch Co., Sun Oil Co., Lever Bros. Co. and Procter & Gamble sign on as sponsors of the first commercial telecasts from WNBT in New York.
- July 1 - Commercial TV authorized by the FCC.
- July 1 - Ralph Edwards hosted the first game show broadcast on television, Truth Or Consequences, simulcast on radio and TV and sponsored by Ivory Soap. The world's first legal TV commercial for Bulova watches occurs at 2:29, superimposed over a test pattern
Births
- January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, musician, composer
- January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer
- January 5 -
- Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese film maker
- Grady Thomas, singer (P-Funk)
- January 8 - Graham Chapman, comedian
- January 14 - Faye Dunaway, actress
- January 15 - Captain Beefheart, singer
- January 18 - David Ruffin, singer (+ 1991)
- January 21 -
- Richie Havens, musician
- Placido Domingo, opera singer
- January 26 -
- Henry Jaglom, director
- Scott Glenn, actor
- January 30 - Dick Cheney, politician
- January 31 - Richard Gephardt, American politician
- February 8 - Nick Nolte, actor
- February 11 -
- Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman.
- Jeremy Mackenzie, general.
- February 27 - Paddy Ashdown, British politician
- May 31 - Johnny Paycheck (singer)
- June 5 - Martha Argerich, Argentinian pianist
- June 27 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director
- October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer.
- Richard Dawkins, British scientist
- Bob Dylan, US poet and musician
Deaths
- January 10 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor
- January 13 - James Joyce, writer
- February 11 - Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/Minister of Finance.
- March 15 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian impressionist painter
- July 10 - Jelly Roll Morton - jazz musician & composer
- August 31 - Marina Tsvetaeva, aged 48, Russian poet (suicide)
- August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, author
- Physics - not awarded
- Chemistry - not awarded
- Medicine - not awarded
- Literature - not awarded
- Peace - not awarded
1941 is the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979.