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1941 – 2011Cesaria Evora (1941-2011)Died 17 December 2011, aged 70The Cape Verdean singer, known as the "Barefoot Diva," brought morna music to international audiences and won a Grammy Award in 2004. She died in her hometown of Mindelo after years of declining health. She remains Cape Verde's best-known cultural export.
1941Kamianets-Podilskyi massacreFirst mass killing of over 20,000 JewsGerman police battalions and Einsatzgruppen shot about 23,600 Jews near Kamianets-Podilskyi in occupied Ukraine, many of them deported from Hungary. It was the first Holocaust massacre to pass 20,000 victims.