Sergeant York
Release year: 1941
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
Country: United States of America
June 1941 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in June 1941.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Winston Churchill (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.
But much more happened on June 1941: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of June 1941?
Events
- 01 Jun 1941 British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq
- 02 Jun 1941 World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
- 03 Jun 1941 Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
- 04 Jun 1941 Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z
- 05 Jun 1941 Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ
- 06 Jun 1941 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
- 07 Jun 1941 45th US Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Ft Worth
- 08 Jun 1941 English and French troop overthrow pro-German Syria
- 09 Jun 1941 Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500
- 11 Jun 1941 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
- 13 Jun 1941 TASS, the official Soviet news agency, denies reports of tension between Germany and the Soviet Union.
- 14 Jun 1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
- 16 Jun 1941 First US federally-owned airport opened in Washington DC.
- 18 Jun 1941 Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
- 19 Jun 1941 US President Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act
- 20 Jun 1941 German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US Battleship Texas
- 21 Jun 1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
- 22 Jun 1941 Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation
- 23 Jun 1941 Germany occupies Telz Lithuana
- 24 Jun 1941 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
- 25 Jun 1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission established
- 26 Jun 1941 Lithuanian fascist massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
- 27 Jun 1941 Bialystok Poland falls to Germany
- 28 Jun 1941 German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
- 29 Jun 1941 Ignace Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in New York at age 80.
- 30 Jun 1941 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month
Famous Birthday
Argentinean pianist, interpreter of Chopin and winner of the 1965 award in Warsaw.
Drummer.
Polish film director, dies of heart attack at age 54 (born 1941).
French politician, minister of culture and French-speaking communities in 1993.
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Famous Deaths
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1st baseman (New York Yankee), dies at 37 of ALS in Riverdale, New York.
British writer (Killer & the Slain).
Emperor (Germany, 1888-1918).
US black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52.
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Movies
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Man Hunt
Release year: 1941
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine
Country: United States of America
Jungle Girl
Release year: 1941
Directed by: John English, William Witney
Starring: Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Trevor Bardette, Gerald Mohr
Underground
Release year: 1941
Directed by: Vincent Sherman
Starring: Jeffrey Lynn, Philip Dorn, Kaaren Verne, Mona Maris
The Bride Came C.O.D.
Release year: 1941
Directed by: William Keighley
Starring: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette