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Events[]
- The computer simulation of Dixon Hill is set in this year.[1]
- Dixon Hill in The Long Dark Tunnel, by Tracy Tormé, is published in New York and London.[1]
- Germany is reported to be getting ready to invade England.[2] With Adolf Hitler's Germany in the offensive, Franklin D. Roosevelt presses for more American aid for Great Britain in the United States Congress.[1]
- The Battle of Britain ends.[3]
Time magazine runs an article on Philip Murray's CIO, a powerful industrial union, in the United States of America.[1]
Joe DiMaggio, a New York Yankees baseball player, plays the 37th game of his hitting streak in a match-up with the St. Louis Cardinals. His streak eventually reaches 56 games. On his 57th game, DiMaggio is defeated by two journeyman pitchers from the Cleveland Indians.[1]
The American naval base at Pearl Harbor is attacked by Japanese air and naval forces. Many naval vessels docked at Pearl Harbor were destroyed or seriously damaged in the attack, though thankfully, the American aircraft carriers were out at sea at the time of the attack. A few days later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan, Germany, and Italy, officially entering World War II.[4][5][6]
Alternate timelines[]
In an alternate timeline created by Leonard McCoy when he saved Edith Keeler from being killed in a traffic accident in New York City in 1930, she went on to found the American Pacifist Movement, a large and powerful peace organization. The growth of Keeler's organization in the following years managed to influence Roosevelt's foreign and military policies, forcing him to assume a less aggressive stance against the Axis Powers in the early years of World War II. Because of these changes, Japan did not attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the United States' entry into the war was delayed until 1944.[6]
President Roosevelt paid an official visit to Atlanta, Georgia. In response, the Governor of Georgia, a political opponent, invited the American Pacifist Movement to hold a rally at the state capitol on the same day.[6]
Appendices[]
References and Notes[]
Background[]
According to reference book Phase II: The Lost Series, a script commissioned for the aborted Phase II series, "Tomorrow and the Stars", would have depicted Captain James T. Kirk's adventures trapped in 1941 during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
External links[]
- 1941 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- 1941 article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.