It Happened in 1941 Trivia Quiz

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During his State of the Union address on January 6, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt enunciated his Four Freedoms - Freedom from Want, Freedom from Fear, Freedom of Worship and Freedom of Speech - as fundamental global human rights.

Lawyer turned poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, CBE (February 17 1864 - February 5 1941) remains one of Australia's best-loved poets and is widely considered one of the greatest writers of Australia's colonial period.

In March 1917, British troops captured Baghdad, and the British claimed Iraq from the Ottomon Empire. That mighty empire had ruled the country from 1534 to 1920, with an interlude from 1704 to 1831 when it was independent under a Mamluk dinasty. In 1921, the League of Nations granted Britain a mandate to govern the country. A Hashemite monarchy was organized under British protection in 1921, and on October 3, 1932, the kingdom of Iraq was granted independence.

The 1941 nationalist Iraqi coup d'état Thawrah Rasīd ʿAlī al-Kaylānī), also called the Rashid Ali Al-Gaylani coup or the Golden Square coup, started on April 1 and ended on May 2 with the forced resignation of Prime Minister Taha al-Hashimi and the commencement of the Anglo-Iraqi War. It overthrew the pro-British regime of Regent 'Abd al-Ilah and his Prime Minister Nuri al-Said and installed Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.

The coup was led by four Iraqi nationalist army generals - Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh, 3rd Division Commander; Kamil Shabib, 1st Division Commander; Fahmi Said, Independent Mechanized Brigade Commander and Mahmud Salman, Chief of the Air Force - known as "the Golden Square", who intended to press for full Iraqi independence following the limited independence granted in 1932. To that end, they worked with German intelligence and accepted military assistance from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Although the coup was successful, overthrowing the government of 'Abd al-Ilah and establishing the National Defence Government, the victory was short-lived. The change in government had the opposite effect to the intended one, leading to the British invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation until 1947.

Written in 1939 by German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht with "significant contributions" from German actress and writer Margarete Steffin, one of Brecht's closest collaborators,"Mother Courage and Her Children" had its world premiere at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland on April 19. Widely considered the greatest play of the Twentieth Century, "Mother Courage" is also regarded as perhaps the greatest anti-war play of all time.

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra recorded "Chattanooga Choo Choo", Written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren, on May 7, 1941 and released the disc on July 25 with "I Know Why and So Do You" on the B-side. It was featured in the film "Sun Valley Serenade", which was released on August 21 of that year and nominated for the Best Song Oscar.

The most popular record Miller ever made, Chattanooga Choo Choo" was in the Billboard top 10 for 21 weeks, nine weeks of that at No. 1. This despite the ASCAP boycott, that meant a good many songs including this one could not be played on network radio for much of 1941. Still, the success of "Sun Valley Serenade" drove record sales.

The record was so popular that, having sold one million, two hundred thousand units in just nine months, "Chattanooga Choo Choo" became the first recording honored with a gold record. on February 10 1942, Victor-Bluebird executive W. Wallace Early presented Glenn with a framed, gold-covered copy of the disc live on the CBS Radio Network's "Chesterfield Moonlight Serenade" program. The Winter 2017 issue of "Colorado Alumni Magazine" reported that Glenn's daughter, Jonnie Miller Hoffman, had recently donated the disc to the university's heritage Center.

The Viet Minh (League for Independence of Vietnam) was formed on May 19 as a coalition of communist and nationalist groups seeking to free Vietnam from French colonial rule. Later, it also fought against Japanese occupation. Initially, the United States supported France but, when Japan occupied Vietnam, America joined China in assisting the Viet Minh in its anti-Japanese efforts. After WWII, when the common enemy had been defeated, America resumed its stance of opposition to the Viet Minh, later known as the Viet Kong.

At best, the Viet Minh represented only part of the population, which was divided along religious lines. By and large, Buddhists supported independence and hence the League, while by and large, Catholics supported the French. Since from the beginning the Viet Minh faced internal opposition as well as external hostility it was, sadly, inevitable that the situation would eventually degenerate into civil war.

Although in 1933 he call for a just and objective evaluation of [Hitler's] new political movement", by 1934 Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen was speaking and working against the Nazi regime. His three powerful sermons of July and August 1941 earned him the nickname "Lion of Münster" as well as the enmity of Nazi officials up to Hitler. These sermons denounced Nazi policies such as Gestapo terror, euthanasia, forced sterilization and concentration camps.

On October 18, Warner Bros. Released the film noir"The Maltese Falcon". Directed by John Huston in his directorial debut the movie, a remake of a 1931 release of the same title, was Based on Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel, also titled "The Maltese Falcon".

The 1941 film starred Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his femme fatale client, and Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet as villains. "The Maltese Falcon" was one of the first twenty-five films selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry upon its establishment in 1988.

Construction began on the Niagara Falls International Rainbow Bridge (popularly known as the Rainbow Bridge), crossing the Niagara River and connecting Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada and Niagara Falls, New York, U.S., in May 1940 near the site of the earlier Honeymoon Bridge, which collapsed in 1938 due to an ice jam in the Niagara Gorge. The bridge is a steel arch, whose total length is one thousand, four hundred fifty ft (four hundred forty m) and height is two hundred two ft (sixty-two m). It was designed by Canadian architect Richard (Su Min) Lee. Its official opening was on November 1, 1941.

In his article "Three new Wolves from North America" published in "Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington", E. A. Goldman first distinguished the Hudson Bay wolf (Canis lupus hudsonicus), also known as The Tundra Wolf, as a distinct subspecies of the gray wolf.

Also found in Alaska, the Hudson Bay wolf is a white colored, medium-sized wolf native to the northern Kivalliq Region, including the northwestern coast of Hudson Bay in Canada. It has a bushy coat that can vary from light grey to yellowish-white or cream, seeming lighter in the winter. Its primary prey is caribou, though it also hunts bison, various species of deer and other, smaller mammals. Its lifespan in the wild is approximately 10 years. As of 2022, this wolf's conservation status is "least concern".

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The second of Chandler's novels to feature Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlow (the first being "The Big Sleep), "Farewell, My Lovely" was published in 1940

Uranium had been discovered in 1789 and named for the then newly discovered planet Uranus. Glenn T. Seaborg and associates isolated and discovered plutonium at the University of California, Berkeley, on February 23 1941.

Linda Louise Eastman was born September 24, 1941 in Manhattan. On March 12 1969 she married Liverpudlian James Paul McCartney (born June 18 1942).

U.S. naval engineer Richard T. James developed the slinky in 1943. In November 1945, around three months after the end of WWII, the toy was successfully demonstrated at Gimbels Brothers Department Store in James' native Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The popular, originally Puerto Rican, Pińa Colada is reputed to have been invented by Ramón "Monchito" Marrero in 1954, while he was a bartender at The Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan.