Post 135 Historical Events in June 1941

  • 20th German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas
  • 21st 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
  • 21st After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
  • 22nd Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation
  • 22nd Finland invades Karelia
  • 22nd Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union during WWII
  • 22nd Germany, Italy & Romania declare war on Soviet Union
  • 22nd Michael Gerasimov opens grave of Tamerlan "Lenk"
  • 22nd The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins.
  • 22nd Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
  • 23rd Germany occupies Telz, Lithuana
  • 24th Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
  • 24th Germans advanced into Russia & took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk & Kaunas
  • 25th -26] Russian counter attack at Rovno
  • 25th FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
  • 25th Fair Employment Practices Commission established
  • 25th Finland declares war on Soviet Union
  • 25th Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there
  • 26th Finland enters WW II against Russia
  • 26th Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
  • 27th Bialystok Poland falls to Germany
  • 27th Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam
  • 28th German & Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
  • 28th German troops occupy Galicia, Poland
  • 29th DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
  • 30th 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month
  • 30th Pro-Nazi group declares Ukraine independence
  • 30th World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.

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