1st » World War II: the Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1st » The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
2nd » World War II: German Fallschirmjäger (Nazi Germany) paratoopers murder Greece Greek civilians in the village of Massacre of Kondomari Kondomari.
3rd » World War II: The Wehrmacht Razing of Kandanos known as razes the Greece named Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
5th » World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxia known as asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
8th » World War II: Allies of World War II known as Allies Syria-Lebanon Campaign known as invade Syria and Lebanon.
14th » June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
22nd » Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
22nd » The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
23rd » The Lithuanian Activist Front declares June Uprising in Lithuania e.g independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany known as Nazis will occupy Lit
26th » World War II: Soviet planes Košice attack known as bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
27th » Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch Iaşi pogrom named one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
27th » German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.