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1941
Year 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.- January :...
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1925
6.2.1925
Because of a lineup revision by Miller Huggins, Wally Pipp is replaced by Lou Gehrig at first base for the New York Yankees, beginning a streak of 2,130 consecutive games played, topped only by Cal Ripken, Jr. in by 1995. Exactly 16 years later to the day, in 1941, Gehrig dies from Amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
1944
6.9.1944
World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
1945
9.7.1945
Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.