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conf with USSR, Brit and U S officials, London; heads mission to U S
RAF bombs Berlin, Kiel, Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Rotterdam and occupied-France airfields; Berlin claims no bombs fell in city limits; USSR reptd urging greater Brit air activity against Germany; details on previous day's raid on battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau; Brit rept 34 German planes downed; RAF lost 22; Germans claim 87 RAF planes downed, July 23-24
1941Jean BaubĂ©rot, French historian and sociologist[â ]
Jean Baubérot, is a French historian and sociologist specializing in sociology of religions. He is the founder of the sociology of secularism.
1941Darlene Love, American singer and actress[â ]
Darlene Wright, also known by the stage name Darlene Love, is an American R&B and soul singer and actress. She was the lead singer of the girl group the Blossoms and also a solo recording artist.
1941Brenton Wood, American R&B singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2025)[â ]
Alfred Jesse Smith, known professionally as Brenton Wood, was an American singer and songwriter. Three 1967 singles of Wood's, "The Oogum Boogum Song", "Gimme Little Sign", and "Baby You Got It" were hits.
1941Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic (born 1875)[â ]
Henri LĂ©on Lebesgue was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th-century concept of integrationâsumming the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis. His theory was published originally in his dissertation IntĂ©grale, longueur, aire at the University of Nancy during 1902.
1941World War II: Battle of Grand Harbour, British forces on Malta destroy an attack by the Italian Decima Flottiglia MAS. Fort St Elmo Bridge covering the harbour is demolished in the process.[â ]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.
1941World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.[â ]
French Indochina, officially known as the Indochinese Union and after 1941 as the Indochinese Federation, was a group of French dependent territories in Southeast Asia from 1887 to 1954. It was initially a federation of French colonies (1887â1949), later a confederation of French associated states (1949â1954). It comprised Cambodia, Laos, Guangzhouwan (1898â1945), Cochinchina, and Vietnamese regions of Tonkin and Annam. It was established in 1887 and was dissolved in 1954. In 1949, Vietnam was reunited and it regained Cochinchina. Its capitals were Hanoi (1902â1945) and Saigon.