July 1941

Friday 04:

Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers, committed by Nazi Germans in captured Polish city of Lwów.

Saturday 05:

World War II: German troops reach the Dniepr River.

Monday 07:

World War II: American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Germany.

Sunday 13:

World War II: Montenegrins start the first popular uprising in Europe against the Axis Powers (Crnogorski ustanak).

Sunday 20:

Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.

Saturday 26:

World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.

Sunday 27:

Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China.

Thursday 31:

Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."