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June 14, 1941

On June 14, 1941, june deportation: The first major wave of Soviet mass deportations of Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians from the occupied Baltic states begins. Michel Roux, Maulana Karenga, Andreas Khol would arrive in the same year.

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1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1941st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 941st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1940s decade.

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On June 14, 1941

  1. 1941 June deportation: The first major wave of Soviet mass deportations of Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians from the occupied Baltic states begins.

    1941 deportation of people from Soviet-occupied territories

    The June deportation of 1941 was a mass deportation of tens of thousands of people during World War II from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, present-day western Belarus and western Ukraine, and present-day Moldova – territories which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939–1940 – into the interior of the Soviet Union.

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Michel Roux 1941– French-English chef and author (died 2020)
Maulana Karenga 1941– American philosopher, author, and activist, created Kwanzaa
Andreas Khol 1941– German-Austrian lawyer and politician
Lady Elizabeth Shakerley 1941– British party planner, writer and socialite (died 2020)
Dorothy Hyman 1941– English sprinter
Michel Roux 1941– French-English chef and author (died 2020)

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