1941

Events

• Germany is reported to be getting ready to invade England. (TNG: "Manhunt")
• Philip Murray is the leader of the CIO, a powerful industrial union, in the United States of America. Time runs an article on his union in their January 27th edition. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
• Lord Halifax becomes the British ambassador to the United States of America. On February 10th, Life magazine runs an article on him as the new ambassador to America. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
• With Adolf Hitler's Germany in the offensive, Franklin D. Roosevelt presses for more American aid for Great Britain in the United States Congress. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
• The Battle of Britain ends. (DS9: "Homefront")
• June 25 – 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. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
• December 7 – Naval Air forces of the Japanese Empire attack the United States Navy base at Pearl Harbor. The event results in the entry of the United States into World War II. (TNG: "The Enemy"; VOY: "The 37's"; DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")
• In an alternate timeline during which Edith Keeler founds a pacifist movement in the late 1930s, America does not enter the war in 1941, either as a result of Japan not attacking or because the peace movement convinces the American government to overlook the attack. As a result, America is delayed in entering World War II which allows Nazi Germany time to develop nuclear weapons and achieve victory in the conflict. (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever")
• The computer simulation of Dixon Hill is set in this year. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
• Dixon Hill in The Long Dark Tunnel, by Tracy Tormé, is published this year in New York and London. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")

External link

• 1941 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works