• events that happened in 1941 in Iceland. Monarch - Kristján X Prime Minister – Hermann Jónasson On 7 July the defence of Iceland was transferred to the...
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    State Flag of Iceland (1915–1944) Royal Standard (1921–1944) Standard of the Regent (1941–1944) Iceland portal Nobility in Iceland Icelandic independence...
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    World War II. However, the British invaded Iceland on 10 May 1940. On 7 July 1941, the defence of Iceland was transferred from Britain to the United States...
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    1941. At the end of hostilities most British facilities were turned over to the Icelandic government. 199 Commonwealth soldiers are buried in Iceland...
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    Iceland observes UTC±00:00 year-round, known as Greenwich Mean Time or Western European Time. UTC±00:00 was adopted on 7 April 1968 – in order for Iceland...
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    Iceland would be used militarily by Nazi Germany, which had overrun Denmark a month earlier. Although Iceland was independently governed, it was in a...
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    USS Reuben James (DD-245) (category Maritime incidents in October 1941)
    sunk by a torpedo attack from German submarine U-552 near Iceland on 31 October 1941, resulting in the deaths of 100 crewmembers, before the United States...
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    Iceland (Icelandic: Ísland, pronounced [ˈistlant] ) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...
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    recorded history of Iceland began with the settlement by Viking explorers and the people they enslaved from Western Europe, particularly in modern-day Norway...
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    invasion of Iceland on 10 May 1940. Agnar wanted to expand the forces, but the Icelandic Minister of Justice rejected his proposal. In mid-1941 while still...
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