1941
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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 (1941) Theodor Reik
- ‘‘The Aerodrome: A Love Story’’by Rex Warner (1941)
Film
Music
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 (about Nazi invasion of Russia)
- Recorded music broadcasting on American radio
- John Cage and Lou Harrison: Double Music (first collaborative musical composition)
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 - )
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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