1941
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1941 (MCMXLI) was the 941st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1940s decade.
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Politics
Holocaust
- Jews throughout Western Europe are forced into ghettos.
- Jews may not leave their houses without permission form the police.
- Jews may no longer use public telephones.
Art and culture
- La Discothèque opened on rue Huchette
- Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, USA enters war
Literature
- Thomas the Obscure
- Madame Edwarda
- The Garden of Forking Paths
- Masochism in Sex and Society by Theodor Reik
- The Aerodrome: A Love Story by Rex Warner
Film
Music
- Recorded music broadcasting on American radio
- Symphony No. 7 by Shostakovich (about Nazi invasion of Russia)
- John Cage and Lou Harrison: Double Music (first collaborative musical composition)
- "Vous avez un beau chapeau Madame"
- "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
Births
- Laura Mulvey (1941 - )
- George Clinton (1941 - )
- Bertrand Tavernier (1941 - )
- Julia Kristeva (1941 - )
- Vivienne Westwood (1941 - )
- Stanley Cowell (1941 - )
- Anne Rice (1941 - )
- Barbet Schroeder (1941 - )
- Essy Persson (1941 - )
- Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941 - 1996)
- Laura Antonelli (1941 - )
- July 15 - Larry Cohen, American film director and screenwriter (d. 2019)
Deaths
- James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
- Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
- Walter Ruttmann (1887 - 1941)
- Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941)
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