Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It'd be another long day for the United States and the British Commonwealth, however.
The Japanese landed troops at Lingayen Gulf and Lamon Bay in the Philippines.
Wake Island was heavily bombed.
The Kingdom of Thailand entered into a formal alliance with the Empire of Japan.
Off of Portugal the Battle of Convey HG-76 raged as German U-boats and Allied ships sought to amke progress and destroy each other. Meanwhile, a British Swordfish torpedo bomber sank the German U-451 off of Morocco, from which only one crew member survived.
The Red Army and the German Army begin a week of close quarter fighting in Kaluga.
German and Romanian units commenced murdering Jews in the Bogdanovka concentration camp. In two weeks they would kill 30,000 individuals.
Winston Churchill sent birthday wishes, late, to Stalin, whose actual birthday was December 18. The note states:
I send you sincere good wishes for your birthday and hope that future anniversaries will enable you to bring to Russia victory, peace and safety after so much storm.
1941 $5,077 collected in Sheridan Wyoming war relief drive. Attribution. Wyoming State Historical Society.
The Chicago Bears beat the New York Giants in the NFL Championship.
Peetie Wheatstraw, whose real name was William Bunch, died when a car he was a passenger in was hit by a train. At the height of his popularity, the bluesman was 39 years old.
The Man Born To Be King, a BBC dramatization of the life of Jesus, premiered on the British Broadcasting Corporation Home Service.
The Home Service started airing in 1922, and was later replaced as Radio 4.
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