Today in History for June 1941

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 56 of 56

1st - 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hr record)
1st - British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq
1st - Germany bans all Catholic publications
1st - Germany occupies Kreta
1st - NY Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR & his 1,500th RBI
3rd - Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
3rd - German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
4th - Nazi's forbid Jews access to beach & swimming pools
4th - Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z
5th - Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
6th - 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
6th - Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time
7th - 45th US Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Fort Worth
7th - 73rd Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway win in 2:31 (triple crown)
8th - English & French troop overthrow pro-German Syria
9th - Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500
9th - Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio
11th - 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
11th - Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews
14th - Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
14th - Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
16th - 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
18th - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
18th - Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany
19th - Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal
19th - Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani
32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt 19th - US president Franklin Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act
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 - Germany attacks the Soviet Union & occupies the Baltic states
22nd - Germany, Italy & Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
22nd - Michael Gerasimov opens grave of Tamerlan "Lenk"
22nd - President Franklin Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights"
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 fascist 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.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 67 of 67

1st - Edo de Waart, Amsterdam Holland, conductor (Houston Opera-1976)
2nd - Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
2nd - Oda Mayumi, Tokyo, resident artist (Green Gulch Zen Center)
2nd - Stacy Keach, Savannah Ga, actor (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer)
2nd - William Guest, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight Show)
5th - Duane Duke Sims, baseball player
5th - Floyd Butler, rocker
5th - Jeffrey Rooker, MP (Labour)
5th - Martha Argerich, Buenos Aires Argentina, pianist (debut 1949)
5th - Spalding Gray, RI, actor (Beaches, Clara's Heart, Heavy Petting)
5th - Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots
6th - Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist, (d. 2012)
7th - Jaime Laredo, Bolivia, violinist (Qn Elisabeth of Belgium prize 1959)
8th - Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins, US pop singer (Funkadelic-Knee Deep)
8th - Joop H van den Berg, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
9th - Billy Hatton, rocker
9th - Jon Lord, England, keyboardist (Deep Purple-Hush, White Snake), (d. 2012)
9th - Peter Wilson, CEO (Gallaher)
10th - Harry Muskee, Dutch rock vocalist (Cuby & Blizzards)
Actor Spalding Gray (5th) 10th - Jurgen Prochnow, actor (Das Boot)
10th - Shirley Owens Alston, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
10th - Soraya Khashoogi, Leicester England, wife (Adrian Khashoogi)
10th - Mickey Jones, American musician and actor
12th - Chick Corea, Chelsea Mass, jazz pianist (Delhpi I, Toy Dance)
12th - Lucille Roybal-Allard, (Rep-D-California)
12th - Roy Harper, Manchester, rocker (Folkjokeopus)
12th - Reg[inald] Presley, [Ball], rock vocalist (Troggs-Wild Thing), (d. 2013)
12th - Marv Albert, NYC, "Yes!" sportscaster (NBC-TV)/back biter
12th - Roy Harper, English musician
13th - Robert Forester, Rochester NY, actor (Banyon, Nakia)
13th - Tom Hallick, Buffalo NY, actor (Search)
13th - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
13th - Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player
14th - John Edgar Widerman, US writer
15th - Harry Nilsson, Bkln NY, singer/guitarist (Midnight Cowboy)
16th - Lamont Dozier, Detroit, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier)
16th - Aldrich Ames, CIA officer and spy for the Soviet Union
16th - Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist
18th - Delia Smith, English cook and television presenter
19th - Marlene Warfield, Queens NY, actress (Victoria-Maude)
19th - Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President
19th - Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
20th - Stephen Frears, England, dir (Prick Up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons)
20th - Ulf D Merbold, German physicist/astronaut (STS 9, 42, Soyuz TM-19)
21st - Pia J Barendrecht, Indonesian/Dutch actress (Pinokkio)
21st - Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor
22nd - Ed Bradley, Phila, CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes)
22nd - Michael Lerner, Brooklyn NY, actor (8 Men Out, Harlem Nights)
22nd - Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
23rd - Roger McDonald, Australian author
23rd - Richard M. Richie Roberts, former Marine and New Jersey Police Detective, Criminal Defense Attorney
24th - Graham McKenzie, cricketer (prolific Australian pace bowler 1961-71)
24th - Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist
25th - Denys Arcand, director (Jesus of Montreal)
26th - Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
27th - James P[atrick] Hogan, UK, sci-fi author (Giants' Star)
27th - Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, director/actor (Underground Passage)
28th - Al Downing, American baseball player
28th - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
29th - Margritta Gummel, German DR, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1968)
29th - Stokeley Carmichael, [Kwame Toure], US, Black Power-activist
29th - John Boccabella, American baseball player
30th - John Jameson, cricketer (England batsman, 465 p/ship with Kanhai)
30th - Larry Hall, rocker (Tape Heads)
30th - Micki Grant, composer
30th - Mike Leander Farr, record producer
30th - Peter Pollock, cricketer (bro of Graeme/father of Shaun, S Af quickie)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

3rd - Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 15 of 15

1st - Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain), dies
2nd - Lou Gehrig, 1st baseman (NY Yankee), dies of ALS in Riverdale NY at 37
2nd - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
4th - Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, emperor (Germany, 1888-1918), dies
6th - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
10th - Herschel Mayall, actor (Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 78
10th - Marcus Garvey, US black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52
11th - Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
14th - Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (John Knox), dies at 74
15th - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
15th - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
16th - Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies
17th - Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 78
20th - Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies
29th - Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in NY at 80