June 1941

Sunday 01:

World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.

Sunday 08:

World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.

Saturday 14:

Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians begun.

Sunday 22:

The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins

Monday 23:

Lithuanian Activist Front initiates Lithuanian 1941 independence from the Soviet Union; it lasted only briefly as the Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.

Tuesday 24:

Government of briefly independent Lithuania conducts its first meeting under prime minister Juozas Ambrazevičius