November 1941

Thursday 06:

World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a wild exaggeration) and that Soviet victory was near.

Saturday 08:

Albanian Communist Party founded.

Wednesday 12:

World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.

Thursday 13:

World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81, she sinks on November 14.

Friday 14:

World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.

Saturday 15:

SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.

Wednesday 19:

World War II: The Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.

Friday 21:

The radio program King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time (it would later become the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program).

Monday 24:

World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.

Wednesday 26:

1941 - World War II: The Hull note ultimatum is delivered to Japan by the United States.