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title="February 1941">February</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/March_1941" title="March 1941">March</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/April_1941" title="April 1941">April</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/May_1941" title="May 1941">May</a></dd> <dd><a class="mw-selflink selflink">June</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/July_1941" title="July 1941">July</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/August_1941" title="August 1941">August</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/September_1941" title="September 1941">September</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/October_1941" title="October 1941">October</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/November_1941" title="November 1941">November</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/December_1941" title="December 1941">December</a></dd></dl> </div></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1256396092">.mw-parser-output .calendar-purple{color:var(--color-base,#202122);background-color:#ccf}.mw-parser-output .calendar-lightpurple{color:var(--color-base,#202122);background-color:#d8e0ff}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night 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title="Wednesday">We </th> <th scope="col" width="*" title="Thursday">Th </th> <th scope="col" width="*" title="Friday">Fr </th> <th scope="col" width="*" title="Saturday">Sa </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/June_1" title="June 1"><span aria-hidden="true" style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">0</span>1</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_2" title="June 2"><span aria-hidden="true" style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">0</span>2</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_3" title="June 3"><span aria-hidden="true" style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">0</span>3</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_4" title="June 4"><span aria-hidden="true" style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">0</span>4</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_5" title="June 5"><span aria-hidden="true" style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">0</span>5</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_6" title="June 6"><span aria-hidden="true" style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">0</span>6</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_7" title="June 7"><span aria-hidden="true" style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">0</span>7</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/June_8" title="June 8"><span aria-hidden="true" style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">0</span>8</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_9" title="June 9"><span aria-hidden="true" style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">0</span>9</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_10" title="June 10">10</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_11" title="June 11">11</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">12</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_13" title="June 13">13</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_14" title="June 14">14</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/June_15" title="June 15">15</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_16" title="June 16">16</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_17" title="June 17">17</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_18" title="June 18">18</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_19" title="June 19">19</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_20" title="June 20">20</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_21" title="June 21">21</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/June_22" title="June 22">22</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_23" title="June 23">23</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_24" title="June 24">24</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_25" title="June 25">25</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_26" title="June 26">26</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_27" title="June 27">27</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_28" title="June 28">28</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/June_29" title="June 29">29</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/June_30" title="June 30">30</a></td> <td> </td> <td colspan="4">  </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The following events occurred in <b>June 1941</b>: </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_1,_1941_(Sunday)"><span id="June_1.2C_1941_.28Sunday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_1" title="June 1">June 1</a>, 1941 (Sunday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: June 1, 1941 (Sunday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Crete" title="Battle of Crete">Battle of Crete</a> ended in a <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory" title="Pyrrhic victory">Pyrrhic victory</a> for the Axis.</li> <li>The light cruiser HMS <i><a href="/wiki/HMS_Calcutta_(D82)" title="HMS Calcutta (D82)">Calcutta</a></i> was sunk by the Luftwaffe off <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, Egypt.</li> <li>In the power vacuum in <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> following the collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Rashid_Ali_al-Gaylani" title="Rashid Ali al-Gaylani">Rashid Ali</a> regime, two days of violence known as the <a href="/wiki/Farhud" title="Farhud">Farhud</a> broke out against the local Jewish population.</li> <li>Clothes <a href="/wiki/Rationing" title="Rationing">rationing</a> began in the United Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>110 German aircraft bombed <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ref-1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ref-1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Catholic journals in Nazi Germany no longer receive printing paper.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Alexander_V._Zakharov" title="Alexander V. Zakharov">Alexander V. Zakharov</a>, astronomer, in <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">USSR</a></li> <li><b>Died:</b> <a href="/wiki/Hans_Berger" title="Hans Berger">Hans Berger</a>, 68, German psychiatrist (suicide); Jenny Dolly, 48, American dancer and actress, one-half of The <a href="/wiki/Dolly_Sisters" title="Dolly Sisters">Dolly Sisters</a> identical twin performers; <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Walpole" title="Hugh Walpole">Hugh Walpole</a>, 57, English novelist</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_2,_1941_(Monday)"><span id="June_2.2C_1941_.28Monday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_2" title="June 2">June 2</a>, 1941 (Monday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: June 2, 1941 (Monday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> and <a href="/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" title="Benito Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a> met at the <a href="/wiki/Brenner_Pass" title="Brenner Pass">Brenner Pass</a> once again. During the five-hour conference Hitler ranted about <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Hess" title="Rudolf Hess">Rudolf Hess</a> and other recent events, but kept Mussolini in the dark about the upcoming invasion of the Soviet Union. However, major Italian troop movements in the Balkans around this time suggest that the Italian government was likely aware of Hitler's intentions anyway. Mussolini reportedly told <a href="/wiki/Galeazzo_Ciano" title="Galeazzo Ciano">Count Ciano</a> after the meeting, "I wouldn't be at all sorry if Germany in her war with Russia got her feathers plucked."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-smith_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smith-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Blitz" title="Manchester Blitz">Manchester Blitz</a>: German bombers attacked <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> and neighbouring <a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Salford" title="County Borough of Salford">Salford</a>, killing 70 and severely injuring 86.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_database_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2_database-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-147_(1940)" title="German submarine U-147 (1940)">U-147</a></i> was sunk off Ireland by depth charges from British warships.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Massacre_of_Kondomari" title="Massacre of Kondomari">Massacre of Kondomari</a> and the first <a href="/wiki/Alikianos_executions" title="Alikianos executions">Alikianos executions</a> were carried by German paratroopers in reprisal for the active participation of Cretan civilians during the Battle of Crete.</li> <li>The British cargo ship <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Michael_E" title="SS Michael E">Michael E</a></i> was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic by the German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-108_(1940)" title="German submarine U-108 (1940)">U-108</a></i>.</li> <li>79-year old <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">Chief Justice of the United States</a> <a href="/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes" title="Charles Evans Hughes">Charles Evans Hughes</a> informed President <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a> that he was retiring effective July 1.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Stacy_Keach" title="Stacy Keach">Stacy Keach</a>, actor, in <a href="/wiki/Savannah,_Georgia" title="Savannah, Georgia">Savannah, Georgia</a>; <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Watts" title="Charlie Watts">Charlie Watts</a>, drummer for <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">The Rolling Stones</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Kingsbury,_London" title="Kingsbury, London">Kingsbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England (d. 2021)</li> <li><b>Died:</b> <a href="/wiki/Lou_Gehrig" title="Lou Gehrig">Lou Gehrig</a>, 37, American baseball player (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_3,_1941_(Tuesday)"><span id="June_3.2C_1941_.28Tuesday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_3" title="June 3">June 3</a>, 1941 (Tuesday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: June 3, 1941 (Tuesday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Razing_of_Kandanos" title="Razing of Kandanos">Razing of Kandanos</a>: German occupying forces in Crete completely destroyed the village of <a href="/wiki/Kandanos" title="Kandanos">Kandanos</a> in retaliation for the resistance of the local population during the Battle of Crete.</li> <li>The Finnish High Command granted the German General Staff permission to use northern Finland as a staging area for the planned attack on the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Hitler received Japanese ambassador <a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_%C5%8Cshima" title="Hiroshi Ōshima">Hiroshi Ōshima</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Berghof_(residence)" title="Berghof (residence)">Berghof</a> and informed him of the plan to attack the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-smith_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smith-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>48-year-old Mrs. Simon Olson of <a href="/wiki/Moorhead,_Minnesota" title="Moorhead, Minnesota">Moorhead, Minnesota</a>, drowned in Avalanche Creek in <a href="/wiki/Glacier_National_Park_(U.S.)" title="Glacier National Park (U.S.)">Glacier National Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montana" title="Montana">Montana</a>, after falling in while posing for a photograph on a log beside the creek.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_4,_1941_(Wednesday)"><span id="June_4.2C_1941_.28Wednesday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_4" title="June 4">June 4</a>, 1941 (Wednesday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: June 4, 1941 (Wednesday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>British forces seized control of <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a> and set up a pro-British government.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Luftwaffe bombed <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gregory_and_gehlen_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gregory_and_gehlen-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>British intelligence intercepted Ambassador Ōshima's coded message which included considerable details of Germany's plan to attack the USSR. However, due to a lack of either translators or interest, the report was not delivered to the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Intelligence_Committee_(United_Kingdom)" title="Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom)">Joint Intelligence Committee</a> for eight days.<sup id="cite_ref-smith_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smith-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The British ocean liner <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Zealandic_(1911)" title="SS Zealandic (1911)">Zealandic</a></i> struck a sunken wreck off <a href="/wiki/Cromer" title="Cromer">Cromer</a> while trying to evade a Luftwaffe attack and ran aground. <i>Zealandic</i> was then torpedoed by German <a href="/wiki/E-boat" title="E-boat">E-boats</a> before she could be salvaged.</li> <li><b>Died:</b> <a href="/wiki/Morris_Michael_Edelstein" title="Morris Michael Edelstein">Morris Michael Edelstein</a>, 53, Polish-born American Congressional Representative; <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilhelm II, German Emperor">Wilhelm II</a>, 82, Emperor of Germany from 1888 to 1918</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_5,_1941_(Thursday)"><span id="June_5.2C_1941_.28Thursday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_5" title="June 5">June 5</a>, 1941 (Thursday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: June 5, 1941 (Thursday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>About 4,000 Chinese residents who hid in a tunnel during the <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Chongqing" title="Bombing of Chongqing">Bombing of Chongqing</a> died of asphyxiation.<sup id="cite_ref-musiciandhistory_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musiciandhistory-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>United States landed 4,000 marines in <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a> to replace the British garrison.<sup id="cite_ref-Ref-1_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ref-1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Vichy French planes bombed the <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Transjordan" title="Emirate of Transjordan">Transjordanian</a> capital of <a href="/wiki/Amman" title="Amman">Amman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-chronicle_of_the_20th_c._13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chronicle_of_the_20th_c.-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>From <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a> the Greek Prime Minister-in-exile <a href="/wiki/Emmanouil_Tsouderos" title="Emmanouil Tsouderos">Emmanouil Tsouderos</a> made a broadcast to the people of occupied Greece. "Unite as one man more closely than ever around our national symbols, around our flag and our heroic King," Tsouderos said. "Keep your heads high as men who have been victorious. Do not trust the enemy; and have confidence in the final victory. Help each one of you, with every means at your disposal in order that we may achieve the final victory. Help our country to overcome the present misfortunes until the glorious day of liberation of a Greece great and new."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smederevo_Fortress_explosion" title="Smederevo Fortress explosion">An explosion of stored ammunition</a> at <a href="/wiki/Smederevo_Fortress" title="Smederevo Fortress">Smederevo Fortress</a> in <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a> killed about 2,500 people.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandor_Szabo_(wrestler)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sandor Szabo (wrestler)">Sandor Szabo</a> won the National Wrestling Association <a href="/wiki/World_Heavyweight_Championship_(National_Wrestling_Association)" title="World Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association)">World Heavyweight Championship</a> over <a href="/wiki/Bronko_Nagurski" title="Bronko Nagurski">Bronko Nagurski</a> in <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis</a> by disqualification.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-573" title="German submarine U-573">U-573</a></i> was commissioned.</li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Martha_Argerich" title="Martha Argerich">Martha Argerich</a>, Argentinian-born Swiss pianist, in <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires" title="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a>; <a href="/wiki/Spalding_Gray" title="Spalding Gray">Spalding Gray</a>, actor and writer, in <a href="/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence, Rhode Island">Providence, Rhode Island</a> (d. 2004)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_6,_1941_(Friday)"><span id="June_6.2C_1941_.28Friday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_6" title="June 6">June 6</a>, 1941 (Friday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: June 6, 1941 (Friday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>President Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing the requisitioning of all foreign merchant ships idling in American ports. He then issued an executive order authorizing the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Maritime_Commission" title="United States Maritime Commission">Maritime Commission</a> to operate or dispose of the ships in the interest of national defense. 84 vessels were affected by the order.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>German troops arrived in <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-musiciandhistory_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musiciandhistory-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commissar_Order" title="Commissar Order">Commissar Order</a>: Hitler ordered that commissars of the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> captured in battle or in resistance were "to be disposed of by gunshot immediately."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>President Roosevelt said during a press conference that many Americans were being duped by German propaganda into believing that Britain was on the verge of collapse and would soon be suing for peace.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/1941_Birthday_Honours" title="1941 Birthday Honours">1941 Birthday Honours</a> of King <a href="/wiki/George_VI" title="George VI">George VI</a> were published.</li> <li><b>Died:</b> <a href="/wiki/Louis_Chevrolet" title="Louis Chevrolet">Louis Chevrolet</a>, 62, Swiss-born American race car driver and co-founder of the <a href="/wiki/Chevrolet" title="Chevrolet">Chevrolet</a> automobile company</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_7,_1941_(Saturday)"><span id="June_7.2C_1941_.28Saturday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_7" title="June 7">June 7</a>, 1941 (Saturday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: June 7, 1941 (Saturday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Japan diplomatically recognized the <a href="/wiki/Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="Independent State of Croatia">Independent State of Croatia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Josephine_B" title="Operation Josephine B">Operation Josephine B</a> ended in Allied success when a sabotage team blew up an electrical transformer station in <a href="/wiki/Pessac" title="Pessac">Pessac</a>.</li> <li>Soviet Armaments Commissar <a href="/wiki/Boris_Vannikov" title="Boris Vannikov">Boris Vannikov</a> was arrested.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_database_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2_database-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whirlaway" title="Whirlaway">Whirlaway</a> won the <a href="/wiki/Belmont_Stakes" title="Belmont Stakes">Belmont Stakes</a> and completed the <a href="/wiki/Triple_Crown_of_Thoroughbred_Racing_(United_States)" title="Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States)">U.S. Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craig_Wood_(golfer)" title="Craig Wood (golfer)">Craig Wood</a> won the <a href="/wiki/1941_U.S._Open_(golf)" title="1941 U.S. Open (golf)">U.S. Open</a>.</li> <li>German submarines <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-85_(1941)" title="German submarine U-85 (1941)">U-85</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-207" title="German submarine U-207">U-207</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-332" title="German submarine U-332">U-332</a></i> were commissioned.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/My_Sister_and_I_(song)" title="My Sister and I (song)">My Sister and I</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Dorsey" title="Jimmy Dorsey">Jimmy Dorsey</a> and His Orchestra hit #1 on the <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> singles charts.</li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Tony_Ray-Jones" title="Tony Ray-Jones">Tony Ray-Jones</a>, photographer, in <a href="/wiki/Wells,_Somerset" title="Wells, Somerset">Wells, Somerset</a>, England (d. 1972)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_8,_1941_(Sunday)"><span id="June_8.2C_1941_.28Sunday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_8" title="June 8">June 8</a>, 1941 (Sunday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: June 8, 1941 (Sunday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Syria%E2%80%93Lebanon_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Syria–Lebanon Campaign">Syria–Lebanon Campaign</a> began with the Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled <a href="/wiki/French_Mandate_for_Syria_and_the_Lebanon" class="mw-redirect" title="French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon">Syria and Lebanon</a>.</li> <li>The British cargo ship <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Kingston_Hill" title="SS Kingston Hill">Kingston Hill</a></i> was torpedoed and sunk southwest of <a href="/wiki/Cape_Verde" title="Cape Verde">Cape Verde</a> by the German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-38_(1938)" title="German submarine U-38 (1938)">U-38</a></i>.</li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bradford_(Northern_Irish_politician)" title="Robert Bradford (Northern Irish politician)">Robert Bradford</a>, minister and politician, in <a href="/wiki/Limavady" title="Limavady">Limavady</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> (d. 1981); <a href="/wiki/Fuzzy_Haskins" title="Fuzzy Haskins">Fuzzy Haskins</a>, R&B and funk musician (<a href="/wiki/The_Parliaments" title="The Parliaments">The Parliaments</a>, <a href="/wiki/P-Funk" class="mw-redirect" title="P-Funk">P-Funk</a>), in <a href="/wiki/Elkins,_West_Virginia" title="Elkins, West Virginia">Elkins, West Virginia</a> (d. 2023)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_9,_1941_(Monday)"><span id="June_9.2C_1941_.28Monday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_9" title="June 9">June 9</a>, 1941 (Monday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: June 9, 1941 (Monday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Litani_River" title="Battle of the Litani River">Battle of the Litani River</a> was fought in French Lebanon, resulting in Allied victory.</li> <li>President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8773, authorizing the Secretary of War to take over the striking North American Aviation plant in <a href="/wiki/Inglewood,_California" title="Inglewood, California">Inglewood, California</a>. The president explained in a statement that the work stoppage could not be allowed to continue because it had created a situation that was "seriously detrimental to the defense of the United States."<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Luftwaffe units began deploying near the Soviet border.<sup id="cite_ref-davidson_and_manning_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-davidson_and_manning-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Hitler issued <a href="/wiki/List_of_Adolf_Hitler%27s_directives" title="List of Adolf Hitler's directives">Directive No. 31</a>, German Military Organisation in the Balkans.</li> <li>The funeral of ex-kaiser <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilhelm II, German Emperor">Wilhelm II</a> was held in <a href="/wiki/Doorn" title="Doorn">Doorn</a>. Although Hitler had wanted a state funeral in Berlin with himself in a prominent role, Wilhelm's family insisted on respecting instructions he'd given in 1933 that he was to be buried in Doorn if Germany was not a monarchy at the time of his death. However, a delegation of Nazi officials led by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Seyss-Inquart" title="Arthur Seyss-Inquart">Arthur Seyss-Inquart</a> was allowed to attend as well as a <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a> guard of honour, and Wilhelm's wishes that Nazi regalia not be displayed at his funeral were ignored.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Jon_Lord" title="Jon Lord">Jon Lord</a>, composer and rock keyboardist for <a href="/wiki/Deep_Purple" title="Deep Purple">Deep Purple</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>, England (d. 2012)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_10,_1941_(Tuesday)"><span id="June_10.2C_1941_.28Tuesday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_10" title="June 10">June 10</a>, 1941 (Tuesday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: June 10, 1941 (Tuesday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Vichy Vice-Premier <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Darlan" title="François Darlan">François Darlan</a> made a speech to the French people warning of those who were "trying to darken the nation's understanding." Darlan said that "<a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">de Gaullist</a> and Communist propaganda" both had "the same goal - to create disorder in the country, to increase the misery of the population, to prevent the rebirth of the nation ... Frenchmen, beware and help the government in its heavy, very heavy task. This task of the government is triple: to ameliorate the French people's situation, to prepare for peace in that measure a conquered nation can, and to prepare France's future in a new Europe."<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On the first anniversary of Italy's entry into the war, Mussolini said in a speech to the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Council_of_Fascism" title="Grand Council of Fascism">Grand Council of Fascism</a> that the United States was already in a de facto state of war with the Axis, but that "America's attitude does not bother us excessively ... American intervention would merely lengthen the war and would not save England."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The British troops of 3rd battalion of <a href="/wiki/15th_Punjab_Regiment" title="15th Punjab Regiment">15th Punjab Regiment</a> captured <a href="/wiki/Assab" title="Assab">Assab</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> from Italian garrison by surprise (see <a href="/wiki/East_African_Campaign_(World_War_II)#Subsequent_operations,_May–November_1941" class="mw-redirect" title="East African Campaign (World War II)">Operation Chronometer</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Ref-1_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ref-1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Jones" title="Mickey Jones">Mickey Jones</a>, musician and actor, in <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> (d. 2018); <a href="/wiki/James_A._Paul" title="James A. Paul">James A. Paul</a>, writer and executive, in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>; <a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Prochnow" title="Jürgen Prochnow">Jürgen Prochnow</a>, actor, in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, Germany</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_11,_1941_(Wednesday)"><span id="June_11.2C_1941_.28Wednesday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_11" title="June 11">June 11</a>, 1941 (Wednesday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: June 11, 1941 (Wednesday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> bombed the <a href="/wiki/Ruhr" title="Ruhr">Ruhr</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rhineland" title="Rhineland">Rhineland</a> for the first of 20 consecutive nights.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_database_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2_database-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The United States sent a note to <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a> reserving the right to act in self-defense should the <a href="/wiki/Azores" title="Azores">Azores</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cape_Verde_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Cape Verde Islands">Cape Verde Islands</a> be threatened by belligerent powers.<sup id="cite_ref-chronology_and_index_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chronology_and_index-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-130_(1941)" title="German submarine U-130 (1941)">U-130</a></i> was commissioned.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_12,_1941_(Thursday)"><span id="June_12.2C_1941_.28Thursday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">June 12</a>, 1941 (Thursday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: June 12, 1941 (Thursday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Representatives of fourteen Allied countries and governments-in-exile made a pact in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> to fight until victory was won and not make separate peace treaties with any Axis countries.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Hitler met with Romanian leader <a href="/wiki/Ion_Antonescu" title="Ion Antonescu">Ion Antonescu</a> in <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a>. An agreement was reached for Romania to participate in the invasion of the USSR.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The British cargo ship <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Empire_Dew" title="SS Empire Dew">Empire Dew</a></i> was torpedoed and sunk north of the <a href="/wiki/Azores" title="Azores">Azores</a> by German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-48_(1939)" title="German submarine U-48 (1939)">U-48</a></i>.</li> <li>The German cruiser <i><a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Deutschland" title="German cruiser Deutschland">Lützow</a></i> was torpedo bombed in the <a href="/wiki/Trondheimsfjord" class="mw-redirect" title="Trondheimsfjord">Trondheimsfjord</a> by <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Beaufort" title="Bristol Beaufort">Bristol Beauforts</a> of <a href="/wiki/RAF_Coastal_Command" title="RAF Coastal Command">RAF Coastal Command</a> and put out of action until 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-davidson_and_manning_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-davidson_and_manning-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>President Roosevelt nominated <a href="/wiki/Harlan_F._Stone" title="Harlan F. Stone">Harlan F. Stone</a> to be the 12th Chief Justice of the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>German submarines <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-574" title="German submarine U-574">U-574</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-575" title="German submarine U-575">U-575</a></i> were commissioned.</li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Marv_Albert" title="Marv Albert">Marv Albert</a>, sportscaster, in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, New York; <a href="/wiki/Chick_Corea" title="Chick Corea">Chick Corea</a>, jazz pianist, in <a href="/wiki/Chelsea,_Massachusetts" title="Chelsea, Massachusetts">Chelsea, Massachusetts</a> (d. 2021); <a href="/wiki/Roy_Harper_(singer)" title="Roy Harper (singer)">Roy Harper</a>, folk rock musician, in <a href="/wiki/Rusholme" title="Rusholme">Rusholme</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>, England; <a href="/wiki/Reg_Presley" title="Reg Presley">Reg Presley</a>, lead singer of <a href="/wiki/The_Troggs" title="The Troggs">The Troggs</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Andover,_Hampshire" title="Andover, Hampshire">Andover, Hampshire</a>, England (d. 2013)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_13,_1941_(Friday)"><span id="June_13.2C_1941_.28Friday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_13" title="June 13">June 13</a>, 1941 (Friday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: June 13, 1941 (Friday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jezzine_(1941)" title="Battle of Jezzine (1941)">Battle of Jezzine</a> was fought in French Lebanon, resulting in Australian victory.</li> <li>Vichy French President <a href="/wiki/Philippe_P%C3%A9tain" title="Philippe Pétain">Philippe Pétain</a> announced the arrest of 12,000 Jews for "plotting to hinder Franco-German co-operation."<sup id="cite_ref-chronicle_of_the_20th_c._13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chronicle_of_the_20th_c.-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The comedy film <i><a href="/wiki/Tom,_Dick_and_Harry_(1941_film)" title="Tom, Dick and Harry (1941 film)">Tom, Dick and Harry</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers">Ginger Rogers</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Murphy" title="George Murphy">George Murphy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Marshal_(actor)" title="Alan Marshal (actor)">Alan Marshal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phil_Silvers" title="Phil Silvers">Phil Silvers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Burgess_Meredith" title="Burgess Meredith">Burgess Meredith</a> was released.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_14,_1941_(Saturday)"><span id="June_14.2C_1941_.28Saturday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_14" title="June 14">June 14</a>, 1941 (Saturday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: June 14, 1941 (Saturday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8785, freezing all German and Italian assets in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Elena_(song)" title="María Elena (song)">Maria Elena</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Dorsey" title="Jimmy Dorsey">Jimmy Dorsey</a> and His Orchestra topped the <i>Billboard</i> singles charts.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="Independent State of Croatia">Independent State of Croatia</a> joins <a href="/wiki/Tripartite_Pact" title="Tripartite Pact">Axis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Mike_Yarwood" title="Mike Yarwood">Mike Yarwood</a>, British comedian and impressionist, in <a href="/wiki/Bredbury_and_Romiley_Urban_District" title="Bredbury and Romiley Urban District">Bredbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a> (d. 2023)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_15,_1941_(Sunday)"><span id="June_15.2C_1941_.28Sunday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_15" title="June 15">June 15</a>, 1941 (Sunday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: June 15, 1941 (Sunday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The British launched <a href="/wiki/Operation_Battleaxe" title="Operation Battleaxe">Operation Battleaxe</a>, seeking to clear eastern <a href="/wiki/Cyrenaica" title="Cyrenaica">Cyrenaica</a> of German and Italian forces and lift the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Tobruk" title="Siege of Tobruk">Siege of Tobruk</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kissou%C3%A9" title="Battle of Kissoué">Battle of Kissoué</a> began in Syria.</li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Neal_Adams" title="Neal Adams">Neal Adams</a>, comic book artist, on <a href="/wiki/Governors_Island" title="Governors Island">Governors Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> (d. 2022); <a href="/wiki/Harry_Nilsson" title="Harry Nilsson">Harry Nilsson</a>, singer-songwriter, in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> (d. 1994)</li> <li><b>Died:</b> <a href="/wiki/Evelyn_Underhill" title="Evelyn Underhill">Evelyn Underhill</a>, 65, English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_16,_1941_(Monday)"><span id="June_16.2C_1941_.28Monday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_16" title="June 16">June 16</a>, 1941 (Monday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: June 16, 1941 (Monday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>President Roosevelt ordered the closing of all German consulates in the United States and expulsion of their German employees no later than July 10, on the grounds of improper activities "inimical to the welfare of this country."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> gave a radio speech from London accepting an <a href="/wiki/Honorary_degree" title="Honorary degree">honorary degree</a> of Doctor of Laws from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Rochester" title="University of Rochester">University of Rochester</a> in New York. Churchill told his American listeners that it gave him "comfort and inspiration to feel that I think as you do, that our hands are joined across the oceans, and that our pulses throb and beat as one ... A wonderful story is unfolding before our eyes. How it will end we are not allowed to know. But on both sides of the Atlantic we all feel, I repeat, all, that we are a part of it, that our future and that of many generations is at stake."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_17,_1941_(Tuesday)"><span id="June_17.2C_1941_.28Tuesday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_17" title="June 17">June 17</a>, 1941 (Tuesday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: June 17, 1941 (Tuesday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The British called off the failed <a href="/wiki/Operation_Battleaxe" title="Operation Battleaxe">Operation Battleaxe</a> after taking 1,000 casualties and losing almost 100 tanks.<sup id="cite_ref-gregory_and_gehlen_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gregory_and_gehlen-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kissou%C3%A9" title="Battle of Kissoué">Battle of Kissoué</a> ended in Allied victory.</li> <li>Hitler issued the final order for <a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Operation Barbarossa</a> to begin on June 22 at 3:00 a.m.<sup id="cite_ref-chroniknet_june_17_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chroniknet_june_17-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a> announced its withdrawal from the <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-chroniknet_june_17_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chroniknet_june_17-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Western_District_of_New_York" title="United States District Court for the Western District of New York">United States District Court for the Western District of New York</a> decided a case with a very unusual name: <i><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._11_1/4_Dozen_Packages_of_Articles_Labeled_in_Part_Mrs._Moffat%27s_Shoo-Fly_Powders_for_Drunkenness" title="United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness">United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness</a></i>.</li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Sanford_Levinson" title="Sanford Levinson">Sanford Levinson</a>, legal scholar, in <a href="/wiki/Hendersonville,_North_Carolina" title="Hendersonville, North Carolina">Hendersonville, North Carolina</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_18,_1941_(Wednesday)"><span id="June_18.2C_1941_.28Wednesday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_18" title="June 18">June 18</a>, 1941 (Wednesday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: June 18, 1941 (Wednesday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Damascus_(1941)" title="Battle of Damascus (1941)">Battle of Damascus</a> began in Syria.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Turkish_Treaty_of_Friendship" title="German–Turkish Treaty of Friendship">German–Turkish Treaty of Friendship</a> was signed.</li> <li>German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-138_(1940)" title="German submarine U-138 (1940)">U-138</a></i> was sunk off <a href="/wiki/Cape_Trafalgar" title="Cape Trafalgar">Cape Trafalgar</a>, Spain by depth charges from British warships.</li> <li>German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-753" title="German submarine U-753">U-753</a></i> was commissioned.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Louis" title="Joe Louis">Joe Louis</a> retained the World Heavyweight Championship of boxing with a thirteenth-round knockout of <a href="/wiki/Billy_Conn" title="Billy Conn">Billy Conn</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Polo_Grounds" title="Polo Grounds">Polo Grounds</a> in New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Died:</b> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_H._Rynning" title="Thomas H. Rynning">Thomas H. Rynning</a>, 75, Norwegian-born American army officer and law enforcement official</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_19,_1941_(Thursday)"><span id="June_19.2C_1941_.28Thursday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_19" title="June 19">June 19</a>, 1941 (Thursday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: June 19, 1941 (Thursday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Merdjayoun" title="Battle of Merdjayoun">Battle of Merdjayoun</a> began in French Lebanon.</li> <li>Germany and Italy ordered the United States to close all 31 of its consulates in retaliation for President Roosevelt's order of three days earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-musiciandhistory_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musiciandhistory-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Kriegsmarine" title="Kriegsmarine">Kriegsmarine</a></i> began mining the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Conchita_Carpio-Morales" title="Conchita Carpio-Morales">Conchita Carpio-Morales</a>, Ombudsman of the Philippines, in <a href="/wiki/Paoay" title="Paoay">Paoay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ilocos_Norte" title="Ilocos Norte">Ilocos Norte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_the_Philippines" title="Commonwealth of the Philippines">Commonwealth of the Philippines</a>; <a href="/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Klaus" title="Václav Klaus">Václav Klaus</a>, 2nd President of the Czech Republic, in <a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a>, <a href="/wiki/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia" title="Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia">Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_20,_1941_(Friday)"><span id="June_20.2C_1941_.28Friday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_20" title="June 20">June 20</a>, 1941 (Friday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: June 20, 1941 (Friday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>President Roosevelt told Congress that the United States would not yield to such "outrageous and indefensible" acts as the sinking of the SS <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Robin_Moor" title="SS Robin Moor">Robin Moor</a></i> and said that Germany would be held accountable.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces" title="United States Army Air Forces">United States Army Air Forces</a> were established.</li> <li>Germany first briefed Romania on the plan to invade the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-kirchubel_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kirchubel-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Finland mobilized all reservists under age 45.<sup id="cite_ref-musiciandhistory_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musiciandhistory-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The American submarine <i><a href="/wiki/USS_O-9_(SS-70)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS O-9 (SS-70)">O-9</a></i> foundered during a test dive off <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth,_New_Hampshire" title="Portsmouth, New Hampshire">Portsmouth, New Hampshire</a>. All 33 crew were lost.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford Motor Company</a> signed its first contract with <a href="/wiki/United_Automobile_Workers" class="mw-redirect" title="United Automobile Workers">United Automobile Workers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_Industrial_Organizations" title="Congress of Industrial Organizations">Congress of Industrial Organizations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Berlin_Diary" title="Berlin Diary">Berlin Diary</a></i> by the American journalist <a href="/wiki/William_L._Shirer" title="William L. Shirer">William L. Shirer</a> was published.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1941_theatre_strike_in_Norway" title="1941 theatre strike in Norway">The theatre strike in Norway</a> was settled after a month.</li> <li>German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-351" title="German submarine U-351">U-351</a></i> was commissioned.</li> <li>A Russian expedition in <a href="/wiki/Samarkand" title="Samarkand">Samarkand</a> opened the tomb of the Turco-Mongol conqueror <a href="/wiki/Timur" title="Timur">Timur</a> and discovered his embalmed body. Rumors circulated among the locals that opening the tomb would bring a curse.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The comedy film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Store" title="The Big Store">The Big Store</a></i> starring the <a href="/wiki/Marx_Brothers" title="Marx Brothers">Marx Brothers</a> was released.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_21,_1941_(Saturday)"><span id="June_21.2C_1941_.28Saturday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_21" title="June 21">June 21</a>, 1941 (Saturday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: June 21, 1941 (Saturday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Damascus_(1941)" title="Battle of Damascus (1941)">Battle of Damascus</a> ended in Allied victory.</li> <li>Hitler sent <a href="/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" title="Benito Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a> a secret message informing him of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. "I waited until this moment, Duce, to send you this information, it is because the final decision itself will not be made until 7 o'clock tonight," Hitler wrote. "I earnestly beg you, therefore, to refrain, above all, from making any explanation to your Ambassador at Moscow, for there is no absolute guarantee that our coded reports cannot be decoded. I, too, shall wait until the last moment to have my own Ambassador informed of the decisions reached."<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A law in Vichy France limited Jews to only 3 percent of university students.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Churchill decided to dismiss <a href="/wiki/Archibald_Wavell,_1st_Earl_Wavell" title="Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell">Archibald Wavell</a> as Commander-in-Chief, <a href="/wiki/Middle_East_Command" title="Middle East Command">Middle East</a> and replace him with <a href="/wiki/Claude_Auchinleck" title="Claude Auchinleck">Claude Auchinleck</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_timelines_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2_timelines-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wavell took Auchinleck's old post of <a href="/wiki/Commander-in-Chief,_India" title="Commander-in-Chief, India">Commander-in-Chief, India</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_II_of_Yugoslavia" title="Peter II of Yugoslavia">Peter II of Yugoslavia</a> arrived in exile in London.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The United States completed the tit-for-tat exchange of consulate closings with Germany and Italy by ordering all Italian consulates to close before July 15.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_timelines_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2_timelines-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The British steam collier <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Gasfire" title="SS Gasfire">Gasfire</a></i> struck a mine in the North Sea and sank. All 26 crew were rescued.</li> <li>German submarines <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-374" title="German submarine U-374">U-374</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-434" title="German submarine U-434">U-434</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-455" title="German submarine U-455">U-455</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-456" title="German submarine U-456">U-456</a></i> were commissioned.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Daddy_(Sammy_Kaye_song)" title="Daddy (Sammy Kaye song)">Daddy</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Sammy_Kaye" title="Sammy Kaye">Sammy Kaye</a> and His Orchestra hit #1 on the <i>Billboard</i> singles charts.</li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Joe_Flaherty" title="Joe Flaherty">Joe Flaherty</a>, actor and comedian, in <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> (d. 2024); <a href="/wiki/Valeri_Zolotukhin" title="Valeri Zolotukhin">Valeri Zolotukhin</a>, theatrical and cinema actor, in <a href="/wiki/Altai_Krai" title="Altai Krai">Altai Krai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">USSR</a> (d. 2013)</li> <li><b>Died:</b> <a href="/wiki/Elliott_Dexter" title="Elliott Dexter">Elliott Dexter</a>, 71, American film and stage actor</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_22,_1941_(Sunday)"><span id="June_22.2C_1941_.28Sunday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_22" title="June 22">June 22</a>, 1941 (Sunday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: June 22, 1941 (Sunday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>German forces launched <a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Operation Barbarossa</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Axis_powers" title="Axis powers">Axis</a> invasion of the Soviet Union. A <a href="/wiki/German_declaration_of_war_on_the_Soviet_Union" title="German declaration of war on the Soviet Union">German declaration of war</a> was presented to Soviet ambassador <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Dekanozov" title="Vladimir Dekanozov">Vladimir Dekanozov</a> in Berlin and by German ambassador <a href="/wiki/Friedrich-Werner_Graf_von_der_Schulenburg" title="Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg">Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg</a> to Soviet Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Vyacheslav_Molotov" title="Vyacheslav Molotov">Vyacheslav Molotov</a> in Moscow. At around 3:25 a.m., <a href="/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov" title="Georgy Zhukov">Georgy Zhukov</a> woke up <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> by phone to inform him of the invasion, but Stalin had already made preparations to resist.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_database_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2_database-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Defense_of_Brest_Fortress" title="Defense of Brest Fortress">Defense of Brest Fortress</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hanko_(1941)" title="Battle of Hanko (1941)">Battle of Hanko</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bia%C5%82ystok%E2%80%93Minsk" title="Battle of Białystok–Minsk">Battle of Białystok–Minsk</a> began on the Eastern Front.</li> <li>The Germans executed <a href="/wiki/Operation_Renntier" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Renntier">Operation Renntier</a> to secure the nickel mines around Petsamo in Finland.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/June_Uprising_in_Lithuania" title="June Uprising in Lithuania">June Uprising in Lithuania</a> began when a segment of the Lithuanian population rose up and declared the restoration of the country's independence.</li> <li>Hitler issued a lengthy proclamation of war with the Soviet Union presenting his justification for the German invasion. Hitler presented himself as doing everything he could to preserve peace and only turning to force as a last resort.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Italy and Romania also declared war on the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-doody_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-doody-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vyacheslav_Molotov" title="Vyacheslav Molotov">Vyacheslav Molotov</a> gave a broadcast authorized by Stalin to the citizens of the Soviet Union. "This war has been forced upon us, not by the German people, not by German workers, peasants and intellectuals, whose sufferings we well understand, but by the clique of bloodthirsty Fascist rulers of Germany who have enslaved Frenchmen, Czechs, Poles, Serbians, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Greece and other nations," Molotov said. "The government of the Soviet Union expresses its unshakable confidence that our valiant army and navy and brave falcons of the Soviet Air Force will acquit themselves with honor in performing their duty to the fatherland and to the Soviet people, and will inflict a crushing blow upon the aggressor."<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Winston Churchill gave a speech announcing the German invasion of the Soviet Union and explaining Britain's new alliance with Russia. "No one has been a more consistent opponent of Communism than I have for the last twenty-five years," Churchill said. "I will unsay no word that I have spoken about it. But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding ... Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe ... It follows, therefore, that we shall give whatever help we can to Russia and the Russian people. We shall appeal to all our friends and allies in every part of the world to take the same course and pursue it, as we shall, faithfully and steadfastly to the end."<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Ed_Bradley" title="Ed Bradley">Ed Bradley</a>, broadcast journalist, in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> (d. 2006); <a href="/wiki/Michael_Lerner_(actor)" title="Michael Lerner (actor)">Michael Lerner</a>, actor, in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> (d. 2023); <a href="/wiki/Terttu_Savola" title="Terttu Savola">Terttu Savola</a>, politician, in <a href="/wiki/Vimpeli" title="Vimpeli">Vimpeli</a>, <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_23,_1941_(Monday)"><span id="June_23.2C_1941_.28Monday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_23" title="June 23">June 23</a>, 1941 (Monday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: June 23, 1941 (Monday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Battles of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Brody_(1941)" title="Battle of Brody (1941)">Brody</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Raseiniai" title="Battle of Raseiniai">Raseiniai</a> began on the Eastern Front.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stavka" title="Stavka">Stavka</a> was created.<sup id="cite_ref-kirchubel_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kirchubel-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia">Slovakia</a> declared war on the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_database_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2_database-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Provisional_Government_of_Lithuania" title="Provisional Government of Lithuania">Provisional Government of Lithuania</a> was announced with the goal of establishing an independent <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/June_1941_uprising_in_eastern_Herzegovina" title="June 1941 uprising in eastern Herzegovina">June 1941 uprising in eastern Herzegovina</a> began when Serbs in eastern <a href="/wiki/Herzegovina" title="Herzegovina">Herzegovina</a> rebelled against the authorities of the <a href="/wiki/Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="Independent State of Croatia">Independent State of Croatia</a>.</li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hunter_(lyricist)" title="Robert Hunter (lyricist)">Robert Hunter</a>, poet, singer and songwriter, in <a href="/wiki/San_Luis_Obispo,_California" title="San Luis Obispo, California">San Luis Obispo, California</a> (d. 2019)</li> <li><b>Died:</b> <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Gottwald" title="Frederick Gottwald">Frederick Gottwald</a>, 82, American painter</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_24,_1941_(Tuesday)"><span id="June_24.2C_1941_.28Tuesday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_24" title="June 24">June 24</a>, 1941 (Tuesday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: June 24, 1941 (Tuesday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Hitler arrives at the <a href="/wiki/Wolf%27s_Lair" title="Wolf's Lair">Wolf's Lair</a> for the first time.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Merdjayoun" title="Battle of Merdjayoun">Battle of Merdjayoun</a> ended in Allied victory.</li> <li>German troops captured the Baltic cities of <a href="/wiki/Kaunas" title="Kaunas">Kaunas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vilnius" title="Vilnius">Vilnius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-musiciandhistory_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musiciandhistory-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>British cargo ship <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Burgondier" title="SS Burgondier">Brockley Hill</a></i> was torpedoed and sunk off <a href="/wiki/Cape_Farewell,_Greenland" title="Cape Farewell, Greenland">Cape Farewell, Greenland</a> by German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-651" title="German submarine U-651">U-651</a></i>.</li> <li>President Roosevelt said at a press conference, "Of course we are going to give all the aid we possibly can to Russia."<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Erkin_Koray" title="Erkin Koray">Erkin Koray</a>, singer-songwriter, in <a href="/wiki/Kad%C4%B1k%C3%B6y" title="Kadıköy">Kadıköy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> (d. 2023); <a href="/wiki/Charles_Whitman" title="Charles Whitman">Charles Whitman</a>, mass murderer, in <a href="/wiki/Lake_Worth,_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Lake Worth, Florida">Lake Worth, Florida</a> (d. 1966)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_25,_1941_(Wednesday)"><span id="June_25.2C_1941_.28Wednesday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_25" title="June 25">June 25</a>, 1941 (Wednesday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: June 25, 1941 (Wednesday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Finland declared war on the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-doody_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-doody-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Continuation_War" title="Continuation War">Continuation War</a> began.</li> <li>German forces on the Eastern Front occupied <a href="/wiki/Dubno" title="Dubno">Dubno</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lutsk" title="Lutsk">Lutsk</a> in the south and <a href="/wiki/Baranovichi" class="mw-redirect" title="Baranovichi">Baranovichi</a> in the north.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-arad_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-arad-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Soviet <a href="/wiki/13th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="13th Army (Soviet Union)">13th Army</a> withdrew from <a href="/wiki/Maladzyechna" title="Maladzyechna">Maladzyechna</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The five-day massacre of Lithuanian Jews known as the <a href="/wiki/Kaunas_pogrom" title="Kaunas pogrom">Kaunas pogrom</a> began.</li> <li>President Roosevelt signed <a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_8802" title="Executive Order 8802">Executive Order 8802</a>, prohibiting racial discrimination in the national defense industry. Roosevelt also created the <a href="/wiki/Fair_Employment_Practice_Committee" title="Fair Employment Practice Committee">Fair Employment Practice Committee</a> to implement it.</li> <li>German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-403" title="German submarine U-403">U-403</a></i> was commissioned.</li> <li><b>Died:</b> <a href="/wiki/Stepan_Skitalets" title="Stepan Skitalets">Stepan Skitalets</a>, 71, Russian poet</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_26,_1941_(Thursday)"><span id="June_26.2C_1941_.28Thursday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_26" title="June 26">June 26</a>, 1941 (Thursday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: June 26, 1941 (Thursday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>German forces captured <a href="/wiki/Daugavpils" title="Daugavpils">Daugavpils</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-musiciandhistory_12-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musiciandhistory-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Kassa" title="Bombing of Kassa">Bombing of Kassa</a>: Unidentified aircraft attacked the Hungarian city of <a href="/wiki/Ko%C5%A1ice" title="Košice">Kassa</a>. This attack became the pretext for Hungary to declare war on the Soviet Union the following day.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francoist_Spain" title="Francoist Spain">Francoist Spain</a> began to officially organize a <a href="/wiki/Blue_Division" title="Blue Division">unit of volunteers</a> to fight alongside the Axis on the Eastern Front.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_database_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2_database-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1941_Andaman_Islands_earthquake" title="1941 Andaman Islands earthquake">A powerful earthquake</a> struck the <a href="/wiki/Andaman_Islands" title="Andaman Islands">Andaman Islands</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Bengal" title="Bay of Bengal">Bay of Bengal</a>.</li> <li>The cargo ship <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Mareeba" title="SS Mareeba">Mareeba</a></i> was shelled and sunk in the Bay of Bengal by the German auxiliary cruiser <i><a href="/wiki/German_auxiliary_cruiser_Kormoran" title="German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran">Kormoran</a></i>.</li> <li>German submarines <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-453" title="German submarine U-453">U-453</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-576" title="German submarine U-576">U-576</a></i> were commissioned.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Technicolor" title="Technicolor">Technicolor</a> drama film <i><a href="/wiki/Blossoms_in_the_Dust" title="Blossoms in the Dust">Blossoms in the Dust</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Greer_Garson" title="Greer Garson">Greer Garson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Walter_Pidgeon" title="Walter Pidgeon">Walter Pidgeon</a> premiered at <a href="/wiki/Radio_City_Music_Hall" title="Radio City Music Hall">Radio City Music Hall</a> in New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_27,_1941_(Friday)"><span id="June_27.2C_1941_.28Friday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_27" title="June 27">June 27</a>, 1941 (Friday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: June 27, 1941 (Friday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Raseiniai" title="Battle of Raseiniai">Battle of Raseiniai</a> ended in German victory.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary_(1920%E2%80%9346)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)">Hungary</a> declared war on the Soviet Union.</li> <li>Cargo ship <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Uhenfels" title="SS Uhenfels">Empire Ability</a></i> from convoy <a href="/wiki/Convoy_SL_78" title="Convoy SL 78">SL 78</a> was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-69_(1940)" title="German submarine U-69 (1940)">U-69</a></i>.</li> <li>German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-556" title="German submarine U-556">U-556</a></i> was depth charged and sunk in the North Atlantic by British corvettes.</li> <li>Cargo ship <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Belgian" title="SS Belgian">Empire Activity</a></i> was torpedoed off <a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_(island)" title="Newfoundland (island)">Newfoundland</a> by German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-96_(1940)" title="German submarine U-96 (1940)">U-96</a></i>.</li> <li>Dutch cargo liner <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Maasdam_(1921)" class="mw-redirect" title="SS Maasdam (1921)">Maasdam</a></i> was torpedoed and sunk off Greenland by German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-564" title="German submarine U-564">U-564</a></i>.</li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Krzysztof_Kie%C5%9Blowski" title="Krzysztof Kieślowski">Krzysztof Kieślowski</a>, film director, in <a href="/wiki/Warsaw" title="Warsaw">Warsaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/General_Government" title="General Government">General Government</a> (d. 1996)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_28,_1941_(Saturday)"><span id="June_28.2C_1941_.28Saturday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_28" title="June 28">June 28</a>, 1941 (Saturday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: June 28, 1941 (Saturday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1994-092-18A,_Sowjetunion,_Festnahme_von_Juden.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1994-092-18A%2C_Sowjetunion%2C_Festnahme_von_Juden.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1994-092-18A%2C_Sowjetunion%2C_Festnahme_von_Juden.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1994-092-18A%2C_Sowjetunion%2C_Festnahme_von_Juden.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1994-092-18A%2C_Sowjetunion%2C_Festnahme_von_Juden.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1994-092-18A%2C_Sowjetunion%2C_Festnahme_von_Juden.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1994-092-18A%2C_Sowjetunion%2C_Festnahme_von_Juden.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="535" /></a><figcaption>"Too bad even for a bullet... The Jews shown here were shot at once." 28 June 1941</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>German forces captured <a href="/wiki/Minsk" title="Minsk">Minsk</a> in Belarus<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_database_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2_database-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Rivne" title="Rivne">Rovno</a> in Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-arad_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-arad-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a> declared war on the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_database_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2_database-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_weather_war" title="North Atlantic weather war">North Atlantic weather war</a>: The German weather ship <i><a href="/wiki/German_weather_ship_Lauenburg" title="German weather ship Lauenburg">Lauenburg</a></i> was intercepted by British warships north of Iceland. A boarding party from the destroyer HMS <i><a href="/wiki/HMS_Tartar_(F43)" title="HMS Tartar (F43)">Tartar</a></i> seized a large amount of material that would be useful in cracking German codes, and then the <i>Lauenburg</i> was sunk by gunfire.</li> <li>President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8807, creating the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Scientific_Research_and_Development" title="Office of Scientific Research and Development">Office of Scientific Research and Development</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of <a href="/wiki/Harlan_F._Stone" title="Harlan F. Stone">Harlan F. Stone</a> to be Chief Justice of the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goguen" title="Joseph Goguen">Joseph Goguen</a>, computer scientist, in the United States (d. 2006); <a href="/wiki/David_Johnston_(governor_general)" title="David Johnston (governor general)">David Johnston</a>, 28th Governor General of Canada, in <a href="/wiki/Greater_Sudbury" title="Greater Sudbury">Greater Sudbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_29,_1941_(Sunday)"><span id="June_29.2C_1941_.28Sunday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_29" title="June 29">June 29</a>, 1941 (Sunday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: June 29, 1941 (Sunday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Defense_of_Brest_Fortress" title="Defense of Brest Fortress">Defense of Brest Fortress</a> ended in German victory.</li> <li>The Germans and Finns launched Operations <a href="/wiki/Operation_Silver_Fox" title="Operation Silver Fox">Silver Fox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Operation_Platinum_Fox" title="Operation Platinum Fox">Platinum Fox</a>, aimed at capturing the key Soviet port of <a href="/wiki/Murmansk" title="Murmansk">Murmansk</a>.</li> <li>212,000 children were evacuated from <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Leningrad</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-musiciandhistory_12-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musiciandhistory-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Hitler issued a secret decree formally designating <a href="/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Hermann Göring">Hermann Göring</a> as his successor.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is the decree that was referred to in the <a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6ring_telegram" title="Göring telegram">Göring telegram</a> of April 1945.</li> <li>Germans capture the port city of Libau in Latvia.</li> <li>German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-651" title="German submarine U-651">U-651</a></i> was depth charged and sunk in the North Atlantic by British warships.</li> <li><b>Died:</b> <a href="/wiki/Ignacy_Jan_Paderewski" title="Ignacy Jan Paderewski">Ignacy Jan Paderewski</a>, 80, Polish pianist</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June_30,_1941_(Monday)"><span id="June_30.2C_1941_.28Monday.29"></span><a href="/wiki/June_30" title="June 30">June 30</a>, 1941 (Monday)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: June 30, 1941 (Monday)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Brody_(1941)" title="Battle of Brody (1941)">Battle of Brody</a> ended in German victory.</li> <li>German forces captured <a href="/wiki/Lviv" title="Lviv">Lvov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_database_6-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2_database-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists" class="mw-redirect" title="Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists">Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists</a> announced the <a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_Ukrainian_State_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Declaration of Ukrainian State Act">Declaration of Ukrainian State Act</a> and declared the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_National_Government_(1941)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian National Government (1941)">Ukrainian National Government</a>.</li> <li>Vichy France severed diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-chronicle_of_the_20th_c._13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chronicle_of_the_20th_c.-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Soviet Union created the <a href="/wiki/State_Defense_Committee" title="State Defense Committee">State Defense Committee</a>.</li> <li><b>Born:</b> <a href="/wiki/Otto_Sander" title="Otto Sander">Otto Sander</a>, actor, in <a href="/wiki/Hanover" title="Hanover">Hanover</a>, Germany (d. 2013)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_1941&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: 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