Born in May 1941 - Zodiac Signs, Personality and Horoscopes

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What happened in May 1941

• May 1, 1941: The breakfast cereal Cheerios, initially known as CheeriOats, is introduced in the United States by General Mills.
• May 2, 1941: In the Anglo-Iraqi War, British forces initiate combat operations against the rebel government led by Rashid Ali in Iraq.
• May 5, 1941: Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, marking the liberation of Ethiopia from Italian forces; Liberation Day is subsequently commemorated on this date.
• May 6, 1941: Entertainer Bob Hope performs his first USO Show at California's March Field.
• May 8, 1941: German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin is sunk by British cruiser HMS Cornwall in the Indian Ocean, resulting in 555 casualties.
• May 9, 1941: German submarine U-110 is captured by the British Royal Navy, yielding the latest Enigma cryptography machine, which Allied cryptographers later use to decipher coded German messages.
• May 10, 1941: The British House of Commons sustains damage during a Luftwaffe air raid on London.
• May 11, 1941: The Ustaše regime perpetrates a massacre of 260–373 Serb men in a Catholic church in Glina, Croatia, targeting those who sought conversion to Catholicism in exchange for their lives.
• May 12, 1941: Konrad Zuse unveils the Z3, the world's first functional programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
• May 13, 1941: Yugoslav General Draža Mihailović and a group of soldiers cross the Drina river, reaching Ravna Gora in Nazi-occupied Serbia, and commence resistance against German forces.
• May 15, 1941: The Gloster E.28/39, the first British jet aircraft, takes flight.
• May 19, 1941: The Viet Minh, an alliance between the Indochina Communist Party and the Nationalist Party, is formed in Pác Bó, Vietnam, with the aim of overthrowing French rule; it later becomes the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.
• May 20, 1941: Germany launches an airborne invasion of Crete, marking the first predominantly airborne invasion in military history, known as the Battle of Crete.
• May 21, 1941: German submarine U-69 sinks the U.S.-flagged SS Robin Moor off the coast of West Africa, allowing passengers and crew to disembark before the sinking.
• May 24, 1941: In the North Atlantic, German battleship Bismarck sinks British battlecruiser HMS Hood, resulting in the loss of 1,415 lives, leaving only 3 survivors.
• May 26, 1941: Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the carrier HMS Ark Royal cripple the steering of German battleship Bismarck in an aerial torpedo attack in the North Atlantic.
• May 27, 1941: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares an "unlimited national emergency" in response to the escalating global conflicts."
• May 29, 1941: The Disney animators' strike commences due to Walt Disney's failure to address pay and privilege disparities among his animators.
• May 30, 1941: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas remove the Nazi swastika from the Acropolis in Athens and replace it with the Greek flag, symbolizing resistance against the occupation.
• May 31, 1941: British troops complete the reoccupation of Iraq, reinstating Prince 'Abd al-Ilah as regent for King Faisal II, thus ending the Anglo-Iraqi War.