Radio year 1941

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1941: The song Lili Marleen , interpreted by Lale Anderson, becomes a worldwide hit

General

Konrad Zuse builds the first working computer in Berlin.
June 1st - All German radio magazines are discontinued.
June 22nd - The German Reich attacks the Soviet Union ( Operation Barbarossa ).
August 14 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill outline their ideas for a new world order in the Atlantic Charter .
September 1st - In Germany, the police ordinance stipulates that all Jews in the German Reich must wear the “ Jewish star ” from the age of six.

September 17 - The first death sentences are pronounced in Germany for listening to " enemy broadcasters ".

December 7th - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . Entry of the US into World War II .

Finnish military mobile transmitter (1941)

January 7 - The radio play series Inner Sanctum Mysteries (1941–1952) premieres on NBC Blue Network .

March 1 - CBS broadcasts the first episode of the sitcom Duffy's Tavern .

April 26th - Shortly after the German invasion and the defeat of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , the soldier broadcaster Belgrade broadcasts the song Lili Marleen for the first time in the version recorded by Lale Andersen in 1939, which subsequently became a "war hit" across the board and continues to this day is considered a "typical" soldier's song.

August 31 - The Great Gildersleeve (1941–1957) entertainment series premieres on NBC Red Network .

November - The broadcaster Free Radio Yugoslavia reports from Ufa in the Ural Mountains via shortwave . Above all, he supports the resistance fighters operating on the territory of the former Yugoslav monarchy under Josip Broz Tito .

April 30th - The USA introduces a new television standard (525 lines at 30 frames per second).
July 1st - The age of commercial television begins in the United States.

Peter Huemer - Austrian radio and television journalist ( Club 2 ) was born in Linz .
Norbert Langer - German voice actor (German voice of Thomas Magnum in the crime series Magnum , 1980–1988) is born.
Magdalena Müller - German sports journalist and television presenter was born in Augsburg († 2004).
January 8th - Graham Chapman , British actor and member of the Monty Python , is born in Leicester. († 1989)
January 28th - Jochen Busse , German actor, cabaret artist ( 7 days, 7 heads ) and author is born in Iserlohn .
February 1 - Karl Dall , German comedian and actor, is born in Emden .
March 7th - Manfred Seipold , German actor ( Race to Bombay ) is born in Berlin. († 1989)
March 19 - Thomas "Tommi" Piper , German voice actor (German voice of the television character Alf ) is born in Berlin .
March 27th - Kurt Felix , Swiss TV presenter, is born in Wil , Canton St. Gallen . († 2012)
March 28 - Alf Clausen , American film and television composer (music for The Simpsons ) is born in Minneapolis , Minnesota .
April 6th - Hans W. Geißendörfer , German director ( Lindenstrasse ) is born in Augsburg .
April 12th - Dieter Seefranz - Austrian television journalist and actor is born in Vienna. († 1983)
April 30th - Heinz Prüller , Austrian Formula 1 commentator and sports journalist, is born in Vienna.
June 10th - Jürgen Prochnow , German actor, was born in Berlin .
November 22nd - Günther Koch , German sports commentator and radio journalist, is born in Poznan .