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What Happened In June 1941 In History

Historical Events for June, 1941

  • 1st » World War II: the Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
  • 1st » The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
  • 2nd » World War II: German Fallschirmjäger (Nazi Germany) paratoopers murder Greece Greek civilians in the village of Massacre of Kondomari Kondomari.
  • 3rd » World War II: The Wehrmacht Razing of Kandanos known as razes the Greece named Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
  • 5th » World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxia known as asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
  • 8th » World War II: Allies of World War II known as Allies Syria-Lebanon Campaign known as invade Syria and Lebanon.
  • 14th » June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
  • 22nd » Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
  • 22nd » The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
  • 23rd » The Lithuanian Activist Front declares June Uprising in Lithuania e.g independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany known as Nazis will occupy Lit
  • 26th » World War II: Soviet planes Košice attack known as bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
  • 27th » Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch Iaşi pogrom named one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
  • 27th » German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.

Famous Birthdays on June in 1941

  • 1st » Dean Chance, American baseball player
  • 1st » Toyo Ito, Japanese architect, designed the Torre Realia BCN and Hotel Porta Fira
  • 1st » Alexander V. Zakharov, Russian physicist and astronomer
  • 2nd » William Guest (singer) e.g William Guest, American singer-songwriter and producer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
  • 2nd » Susan Hart, American actress
  • 2nd » Stacy Keach, American actor and producer
  • 2nd » Lou Nanne, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
  • 2nd » Charlie Watts, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Rolling Stones and Blues Incorporated)
  • 2nd » Jeff Winkless, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
  • 4th » Kenneth G. Ross, Australian playwright and screenwriter
  • 5th » Martha Argerich, Argentinian pianist
  • 5th » Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter
  • 5th » Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2004)
  • 5th » Robert Kraft, American businessman, founded The Kraft Group
  • 5th » Jeff Rooker, Baron Rooker, English politician
  • 6th » Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-American journalist (d. 2012)
  • 8th » Robert Bradford (Northern Irish politician) or Robert Bradford, Irish politician (d. 1981)
  • 8th » Fuzzy Haskins, American singer, guitarist, and producer (The Parliaments and Parliament-Funkadelic)
  • 8th » George Pell, Australian cardinal
  • 9th » Jon Lord, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Deep Purple, Paice Ashton Lord, The Flower Pot Men, and The Artwoods) (d. 2012)
  • 10th » Mickey Jones, American drummer and actor (The First Edition (band) e.g The First Edition)
  • 10th » Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
  • 10th » Jürgen Prochnow, German-American actor
  • 10th » David Walker (racing driver) or David Walker, Australian race car driver
  • 12th » Marv Albert, American sportscaster
  • 12th » Chick Corea, American pianist and composer (Chick Corea Elektric Band, Return to Forever, and Five Peace Band)
  • 12th » Roy Harper, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
  • 12th » Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (The Troggs) (d. 2013)
  • 12th » Lucille Roybal-Allard, American politician
  • 13th » Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach, and manager
  • 13th » Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (d. 1998)
  • 13th » Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
  • 14th » Mike Yarwood, English actor
  • 15th » Neal Adams, American illustrator
  • 15th » Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1994)
  • 16th » Lamont Dozier, American songwriter and producer
  • 16th » Tõnu Õim, Estonian chess player
  • 16th » Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist (d. 2011)
  • 17th » Nicholas C. Handy, English chemist (d. 2012)
  • 18th » Paul Mayersberg, English director and screenwriter
  • 18th » Delia Smith, English chef and author
  • 19th » Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino jurist
  • 19th » Václav Klaus, Czech politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic
  • 20th » Stephen Frears, English actor, director, and producer
  • 20th » Dieter Mann, German actor
  • 20th » Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
  • 21st » Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor, screenwriter, and producer
  • 21st » Cecil Gordon, American race car driver (d. 2012)
  • 21st » Lyman Ward (actor) e.g Lyman Ward, Canadian actor
  • 22nd » Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
  • 22nd » Michael Lerner (actor) called Michael Lerner, American actor
  • 22nd » Terttu Savola, Finnish politician
  • 23rd » Robert Hunter (lyricist) or Robert Hunter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Grateful Dead)
  • 23rd » Roger McDonald, Australian author
  • 24th » Erkin Koray, Turkish singer
  • 24th » Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst and author
  • 24th » Charles Whitman, American murderer (d. 1966)
  • 25th » Denys Arcand, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 25th » Eddie Large, Scottish comedian and actor
  • 25th » Roy Marsden, English actor
  • 26th » Yves Beauchemin, Canadian author and academic
  • 26th » Hiro Narita, Japanese-American cinematographer
  • 27th » Bill Baxley, American lawyer and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama
  • 27th » Ian Black (swimmer) or Ian Black, Scottish swimmer
  • 27th » James P. Hogan (writer) named James P. Hogan, English author (d. 2010)
  • 27th » Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
  • 28th » Al Downing (baseball) known as Al Downing, American baseball player and sportscaster
  • 28th » Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist, developed the OBJ (programming language) or OBJ language (d. 2006)
  • 28th » David Johnston, Canadian academic, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor-General of Canada
  • 28th » Ann Leslie, Indian-English journalist
  • 29th » John Boccabella, American baseball player
  • 29th » Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
  • 29th » Margitta Gummel, German shot putter
  • 30th » Peter Pollock, South African cricketer and author
  • 30th » Otto Sander, German actor (d. 2013)

Famous Deaths for June 1941

  • 1st » Hans Berger, German neurologist (b. 1873)
  • 1st » Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English author (b. 1884)
  • 2nd » Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
  • 4th » Wilhelm II, German Emperor (b. 1859)
  • 6th » Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and businessman, founded Chevrolet and Frontenac Motor Corporation (b. 1878)
  • 11th » Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, founded the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
  • 15th » Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and physician (b. 1873)
  • 15th » Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and author (b. 1875)
  • 17th » Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1862)
  • 29th » Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)
  • 30th » Yefim Fomin, Belarusian politician (b. 1909)
  • 30th » Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1875)

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