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September 11, 1941

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Headlines from September 11, 1941

NORWAY SEETHING; Germans Act to Crush Revolt Spirit After Reducing Forces CONCENTRATE ON UNIONS Bar Strikes, Meetings, Dances -- Swedes, Finns Shocked by Harshness of Measures IN NORWAY: THE FIGHT GOES ON GERMANS PUT OSLO UNDER ARMY LAW

By Bernard Valeryby Telephone To the New York Times

Comr Terboven proclaims civilian emergency state, invoking martial law in Oslo, rest of Aker Prov and Asker and Baerum dists; Terboven por; W Rediess issues decree authorizing death penalties and property confiscation; V Hansteen and R Vickstroem executed; action laid to reptd strike plan; Swedes, Finns shocked; Germans blame Communists; Nazi poster illus

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Notable Births

Minnijean Brown-Trickey

1941Minnijean Brown-Trickey, Civil Rights activist and Little Rock Nine member[†]

Minnijean Brown-Trickey is an American political figure who was a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American teenagers who integrated Little Rock Central High School. The integration followed the Brown v. Board of Education decision which required public schools to be desegregated.

Notable Deaths

Christian Rakovsky

1941Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian physician, journalist, and politician, Soviet Ambassador to France (born 1873)[†]

Christian Georgiyevich Rakovsky, Bulgarian name Krastyo Georgiev Rakovski, born Krastyo Georgiev Stanchov, was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat and statesman; he was also noted as a journalist, physician, and essayist. Rakovsky's political career took him throughout the Balkans and into France and Imperial Russia; for part of his life, he was also a Romanian citizen.

Aleksandra Izmailovich

1941Aleksandra Izmailovich, Belarusian revolutionary (born 1878)[†]

Aleksandra Adolfovna Izmailovich was a Belarusian socialist revolutionary. From a noble family, she joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR) while studying in Saint Petersburg. She used her family home in Minsk to host PSR meetings, during which they plotted attacks against Russian Imperial government officials. Izmailovich herself attempted to assassinate the governor of Minsk Pavel Kurlov, who was responsible for pogroms in the city, but her shots failed to hit him. In prison, she found out that her sister Katerina Izmailovich had died attempting to assassinate the Russian naval commander Grigoriy Chukhnin.

Maria Spiridonova

1941Maria Spiridonova, Russian revolutionary (born 1884)[†]

Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries (SRs), she assassinated a security official. Her subsequent abuse by police earned her enormous popularity with the opponents of Tsarism throughout the empire and even abroad.

Historical Events

The Pentagon

1941Construction begins on the Pentagon.[†]

The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II. As a symbol of the U.S. military, the phrase The Pentagon is often used as a metonym for the Department of Defense and its leadership.

Charles Lindbergh

1941Charles Lindbergh makes his Des Moines speech accusing the British, Jews and FDR's administration of conspiring for war with Germany.[†]

Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, and author. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris, a distance of 3,600 miles (5,800 km), flying alone for over 33 hours. His aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis, was built to compete for the $25,000 Orteig Prize for the first flight between the two cities. Although not the first transatlantic flight, it was the first solo crossing of the Atlantic and the longest at the time by nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km), setting a new flight distance world record. The achievement garnered Lindbergh worldwide fame and stands as one of the most consequential flights in history, signalling a new era of air transportation between parts of the globe.