Events Date 1941 June | History by KabAstro

Jun 1 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, in Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record)
Jun 1 British troops occupy Baghdad, Iraq

Ott Hits 400th HR

Jun 1 Future Hall of Fame outfielder Mel Ott hits his 400th career HR and his 1,500th RBI to help New York Giants to a 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds

Jun 1 Germany bans all Catholic publications
Jun 1 Germany occupies Crete after Allied evacuation
Jun 2 WWII: British Royal Navy captures U-110, its 1st German U-boat; after gathering valuable code machinery, they sink the vessel
Jun 3 Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
Jun 3 German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
Jun 4 Republic of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z
Jun 5 German ammunition depot at medieval Smederovo Fortress, near Belgrade, Serbia explodes; kills close to 2,000

Szabo vs Nagurski

Jun 5 Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ

Hall of Fame American Football Player Bronko Nagurski

Jun 5 World War II: At least 4,000 people who hid in a tunnel die after a Japanese air attack on the Chinese city of Chongqing
Jun 6 1st US Navy vessel constructed as mine layer, USS Terror (CM-5) launched from the Philadelphia Navy Yard
Jun 6 MLB New York Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time

73rd Belmont

Jun 7 73rd Belmont: Eddie Arcaro wins aboard Whirlaway to claim first of 2 Triple Crowns

Partition Chromatography

Jun 7 Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and Richard L. M. Synge give the first demonstration of partition chromatography (separation of mixtures) at a meeting of the Biochemical Society held at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead

Nobel Prize Winning Chemist Archer John Porter Martin

45th US Open

Jun 7 US Open Men's Golf, Colonial CC, Fort Worth: In sweltering heat, Craig Wood wins by 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Denny Shute

Jun 8 British & French troops overthrow pro-German Syria
Jun 9 Archbishop De Young bans priests cooperating with Rijks radio
Jun 11 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
Jun 11 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews
Jun 14 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia

Wichita's Boeing Plant II

Jun 14 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) in Wichita, Kansas

Jun 16 1st US federally owned airport opened Washington, D.C.

Louis KOs Conn

Jun 18 In his 18th world heavyweight title defence Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13th round in front of a crowd of 54,487 at the Polo Grounds, NYC

Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis

Jun 18 Turkey signs peace treaty with Nazi Germany
Jun 19 Romania orders Jewish evacuation of Darabani
Jun 19 Soviet anthropologist Michael Gerasimov opens tomb of Timurid Empire founder Timur and allegedly finds the inscription that whoever opens the tomb shall "unleash an invader more terrible than I." Three days later Germany invades Russia.

Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act

Jun 19 US President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act - increases the size of US Navy by 70%

Jun 20 German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas
Jun 21 2nd French troops occupies Damascus, Syria
Jun 22 June Uprising in Lithuania begins, resulting in the collapse of the Soviet occupation, but replaced with invading German forces shortly after

Germany Invades the Soviet Union

Jun 22 Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany and its allies invade the Soviet Union during World War II, the largest military operation in history

German troops cross the border point between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941

Jun 22 Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group
Jun 23 Germany occupies Telz, Lithuania
Jun 24 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy, Lithuania, exterminated
Jun 24 Germans advance into Russia and take Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas
Jun 25 -26] Soviet counterattack at Rovno, Ukraine
Jun 25 Fair Employment Practices Commission established
Jun 25 Finland declares war on Soviet Union
Jun 25 Finland enters WW2 against the USSR following a massive airstrike the previous day
Jun 25 Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there

Byrnes to Supreme Court

Jun 25 James F. Byrnes is admitted to the US Supreme Court

Politician and US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes

Jun 25 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802, which forbids racial discrimination in the defense industry
Jun 26 Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
Jun 27 Bialystok Poland falls to Germany
Jun 27 Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam
Jun 28 German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
Jun 28 German troops occupy Galicia, Poland
Jun 29 DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
Jun 30 Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) declare Ukraine independent
Jun 30 World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine