Editing 1941 (section)

===July===
{{Main|July 1941}}
* [[July]] &ndash; The British Army's [[Special Air Service]] is formed.
* [[July 1]]
** Commercial television is authorized by the [[Federal Communications Commission]] in the United States.
*** [[NBC]] Television begins commercial operation on WNBT, on Channel 1. The world's first legal TV commercial, for [[Bulova]] watches, occurs at 2:29 PM over WNBT, before a baseball game between the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] and [[Philadelphia Phillies]]. The 10-second spot displays a picture of a clock superimposed on a map of the United States, accompanied by the voice-over "America runs on Bulova time."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bulova.com/about/about.aspx|title=About Bulova|website=Bulova|access-date=December 28, 2012|archive-date=February 20, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220122718/http://bulova.com/about/about.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://jeff560.tripod.com/chronotv.html|title=A U. S. Television Chronology, 1875-1970|publisher=}}</ref> As a one-off special, the first quiz show called "Uncle Bee" is telecast on WNBT's inaugural broadcast day, followed later the same day by [[Ralph Edwards]] hosting the second game show broadcast on U.S. television, ''[[Truth or Consequences]]'', as simulcast on radio and TV and sponsored by [[Ivory (soap)|Ivory]] Soap. Weekly broadcasts of the show commence in [[1956 in television|1956]], with [[Bob Barker]].
*** [[CBS Television Network|CBS Television]] begins commercial operation on New York station WCBW (modern-day [[WCBS-TV]]), on Channel 2.
** WWII:
*** German forces capture [[Riga]].<ref name="evans and gibbons">{{cite book|last1=Evans|first1=A. A.|last2=Gibbons|first2=David|date=2012|title=The Illustrated Timeline of World War II|location= |publisher=Rosen Publishing|page=69|isbn=978-1-4488-4795-2}}</ref>
*** Germany and Italy recognize the Japanese-sponsored [[Reorganized National Government of China|Chinese reorganized national government]] under [[Wang Jingwei]] as the legitimate government of China.
* [[July 2]] &ndash; WWII: The [[Empire of Japan]] calls up 1&nbsp;million men for military service.
* [[July 3]] &ndash; WWII: [[Joseph Stalin]], in his first address since the German invasion, calls upon the Soviet people to carry out a "[[scorched earth]]" policy of resistance to the bitter end.
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Massacre of Lviv professors]]: Polish scientists and writers are murdered by [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] troops in the occupied Polish city of [[Lviv|Lwów]].
* [[July 5]] &ndash; WWII:
** [[Operation Barbarossa]]: German troops reach the [[Dnieper River]].
** British [[troopship]] {{SS|Anselm}} is torpedoed and sunk by {{ship|German submarine|U-96|1940|6}} in the Atlantic Ocean, with the loss of around 250 out of about 1,310 on board.
* [[July 5]]–[[July 31|31]]: [[Ecuadorian–Peruvian War]] is fought.
* [[July 7]]
** [[Uprising in Serbia (1941)|Uprising in Serbia]]: The [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia|Communist Party of Yugoslavia]] raises an uprising against the Nazi occupation, beginning when [[Žikica Jovanović Španac]] [[Bela Crkva incident|kills two gendarmes]] in the village of [[Bela Crkva (Krupanj)|Bela Crkva]],
** WWII: American forces take over the defense of [[Iceland]] from the British.
* [[July 10]] &ndash; The Holocaust: [[Jedwabne pogrom]]: Local ethnic [[Polish people|Poles]] massacre at least 340 Jewish residents of [[Jedwabne]], in [[Occupation of Poland (1939–45)|occupied Poland]]. The Jewish residents are locked in a barn and the barn set on fire<ref>{{cite web|title=The Jedwabne Tragedy|url=http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/J/|year=2000|publisher=Polish Academic Information Center, University at Buffalo|access-date=2012-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716185512/http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/J/|archive-date=July 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[July 11]] &ndash; The [[Northern Rhodesian Labour Party]] holds its first congress in [[Nkana]].<ref name="Wood1983">{{cite book|author=J. R. T. Wood|title=The Welensky Papers: A History of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lzhzAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Graham Publishing|isbn=978-0-620-06410-1|page=80}}</ref>
* [[July 13]]
** WWII: [[Uprising in Montenegro (1941)|An uprising in Montenegro]] against the Axis powers starts, the second popular uprising in Europe (the first being the "[[February strike]]" of February 25 ''(above)'' in the Netherlands).
** [[Clemens August Graf von Galen]], Catholic Bishop of Münster in Germany, preaches the first of 3 sermons against Nazi brutality.
* [[July 14]] &ndash; WWII: [[Vichy France]] signs armistice terms ending all fighting in [[Syria]] and [[Lebanon]].
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Joe DiMaggio]]'s 56-game [[hitting streak]] ends.
* [[July 19]]
** WWII: A [[BBC]] broadcast by "Colonel Britton" ([[Douglas Ritchie]]) calls on the people of occupied Europe to resist the Nazis, under the slogan "V for Victory".
** The [[Tom and Jerry]] cartoon short ''[[The Midnight Snack]]'' is released; it is the second appearance for the duo, and the first in which they are officially named.
* [[July 23]] &ndash; WWII: Italian aircraft damage the British destroyer {{HMS|Fearless|H67|6}} which has to be sunk.
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Postal codes in Germany]] are introduced.
* [[July 26]] &ndash; WWII:
** In response to the Japanese occupation of [[French Indochina]], U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
** General [[Douglas MacArthur]] is named commander of all U.S. forces in the [[Philippines]]; the Philippines Army is ordered nationalized by President Roosevelt.
* [[July 29]] &ndash; The [[Vichy Regime]] signs the Protocol Concerning Joint Defense and Joint Military Cooperation with the [[Empire of Japan]], giving the Japanese a total of 8 airfields, allowing them greater troop presence, and the use of the Indochinese financial system, in return for continued French autonomy.
* [[July 30]] &ndash; WWII: [[Glina massacres#July–August 1941|Glina massacre of July–August 1941]] &ndash; The [[Ustaše]] brutally kill 200 [[Serbs]] inside a Serbian Orthodox church in [[Glina, Croatia]], with a total of 700–1,200 being killed in the area of the next few days.
* [[July 31]] &ndash; WWII: [[The Holocaust]]: Under instructions from [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Nazism|Nazi]] official [[Hermann Göring]] orders [[Schutzstaffel|S.S.]] 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."<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies|editor1=Hayes, Peter|editor2=Roth, John K.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2010|isbn=9780199211869|page=122}}</ref>