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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

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1941 is the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979.

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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]].
 **[[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]]
+**[[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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