Editing 1941 (section)

===February===
{{Main|February 1941}}
* [[February 3]] &ndash; WWII: The [[Nazis]] forcibly restore [[Pierre Laval]] to the office of Prime Minister in occupied [[Vichy France]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/89546003/Pittsburgh|title=Post-Gazette Feb. 3, 1941|publisher=}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; WWII: The [[United Service Organization]] (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
* [[February 5]] &ndash; The [[Air Training Corps]] is formed in the United Kingdom.
* [[February 5]]–[[April 1]] &ndash; WWII: [[Battle of Keren]] &ndash; British and [[Free French Forces]] fight hard to capture the strategic town of [[Keren, Eritrea|Keren]] in [[Italian Eritrea]].
* [[February 6]] &ndash; WWII: [[Benghazi]] falls to the [[Western Desert Force]]. Lieutenant-General [[Erwin Rommel]] is appointed commander of [[Afrika Korps]].
* [[February 8]] &ndash; WWII: The U.S. House of Representatives passes the [[Lend-Lease]] Act.<ref>260–165.</ref>
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Winston Churchill]], in a worldwide broadcast, tells the United States to show its support by sending arms to the British: "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job."
* [[February 12]]
** WWII: [[Erwin Rommel]] arrives in [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]].
** Reserve Constable [[Albert Alexander (police officer)|Albert Alexander]], a patient at the [[Radcliffe Infirmary]] in [[Oxford]], England, becomes the first person treated with [[penicillin]] intravenously, by [[Howard Florey]]'s team. He reacts positively, but there is insufficient supply of the drug to reverse his terminal infection. A successful treatment is achieved during May.<ref>{{cite book|first=Patrick|last=Robertson|title=The Shell Book of Firsts|location=London|publisher=Ebury Press|year=1974|pages=124–5}}</ref>
* [[February 13]] &ndash; Aircraft from British carrier {{HMS|Formidable|67|6}} attack [[Massawa]] in Eritrea.
* [[February 14]] &ndash; WWII: Admiral [[Kichisaburō Nomura]] begins his duties as Japanese Ambassador to the United States.
* [[February 19]]–[[February 22|22]] &ndash; WWII: [[Swansea Blitz|Three Nights' Blitz]] over [[Swansea]], South Wales: Over these 3 nights of intensive bombing, which lasts a total of 13 hours and 48 minutes, Swansea's town centre is almost completely obliterated by the 896 high explosive bombs employed by the [[Luftwaffe]]; 397 casualties and 230 deaths are reported.
* [[February 22]] &ndash; WWII: British cruiser {{HMS|Shropshire|73|6}} bombards [[Barawa]], on the coast between [[Kismayo]] and [[Mogadishu]].
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Glenn T. Seaborg]] and associates isolate and discover [[plutonium]], at the University of California, Berkeley.
* [[February 25]] &ndash; WWII:
** The occupied [[Netherlands in World War II|Netherlands]] starts the first popular uprising in Europe against the [[Axis powers]], the "[[February strike]]" against German [[deportation]] of Jews in [[Amsterdam]] and surroundings.
** British submarine {{HMS|Upright|N89|6}} attacks an Italian convoy, sinking the [[Italian cruiser Armando Diaz|cruiser ''Armando Diaz'']].
* [[February 27]] &ndash; WWII: The [[New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy|New Zealand Division]] cruiser [[HMNZS Leander|HMS ''Leander'']] (1931) sinks Italian armed merchant raider ''[[Ramb I]]'' off the [[Maldives]].