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Historical Events

Results 1 - 78 of 78

1st - Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
1st - Gen-mjr Bernard Montgomery returns to London
1st - Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
2nd - Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
3rd - Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk
4th - 1st NL night game at Sportsman's Park (Dodgers 10, Cardinals 1)
4th - 1st night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2)
4th - British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
4th - German forces enter Paris
4th - The synthetic rubber tire unveiled
4th - Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas & oceans"
5th - 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
5th - American Negro Theater organizes
5th - Battle of France begins in WW II
5th - Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme
5th - General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense
5th - Gov of Suriname & Neth Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees
5th - Netherlands rations petroleum
5th - Synthetic rubber tire unveiled
7th - British/French troops evacuate Narvik
8th - 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6
8th - Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
8th - Last British troops leave Narvik Norway
9th - 44th US Golf Open: Lawson Little shoots a 287 at Canterbury GC OH
9th - General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill
9th - Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II
10th - French government moves to Bordeaux
10th - German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker
10th - German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen
10th - Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
10th - Norway surrenders to nazis
10th - World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.
11th - Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta
11th - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
11th - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy.
11th - World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.
13th - Paris evacuates before German advance
14th - Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
14th - German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
14th - German forces occupied Paris during WW II
15th - 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province
15th - Bread & flour rationed in Holland
15th - France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris
15th - Soviet Army occupies Lithuania
16th - Communist govt installed in Lithuania
16th - General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux
17th - France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
17th - General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London
17th - Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
17th - USSR occupies Estonia
17th - World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
18th - Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers
18th - German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs & chickens
18th - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"
18th - Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
19th - "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago
19th - German 7th Armour division under gen-maj Rommel occupies Cherbourg
19th - Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses & ships
20th - Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
21st - German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
21st - The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
22nd - France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms
22nd - SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond Neth
23rd - Marcel Louette seeks opposition group "White Brigade" on Antwerp
23rd - RAF bombs Schiphol
24th - France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
25th - Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower & grave of Napoleon in France
26th - End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
27th - Soviet Army attacks Romania
27th - USSR returns to Gregorian calendar
28th - "Quiz Kids?" premieres on radio
28th - Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union
29th - Anjer (Carnation) Day-anniversary of Prince Bernhard
29th - US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
29th - Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
30th - "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
30th - 58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month
30th - US Fish & Wildlife Service forms

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 63 of 63

1st - Rene Auberjonois, actor (Clayton-Benson, Star Trek Deep Space 9)
1st - Kip Thorne, American physicist
2nd - Christopher Bernau, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Guiding Light)
2nd - Constantine II, deposed King of Greece (1964-73)
2nd - Horace Clarke, baseball 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
2nd - Jim Maloney, baseball pitcher
3rd - Richard Edwards, cricketer (WI pace bowler 1968-69 Aust/NZ tour)
4th - Dorothy Rudd Moore, composer
4th - Gerrit H Terpstra, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
4th - Ludwig Schwarz, Austrian bishop
5th - H R "Tiger" Lance, cricketer (S African batting all-rounder 1961-67)
5th - Moira Anderson, Scotland, singer (Loch Lomond)
6th - Laudir De Olivera, rocker (Chicago)
6th - Phillip Rhodes, composer
6th - Sandra Morgan, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
6th - Willie-John McBride, British rugby player
7th - Tom Jones, [Woodward], Pontypridd Wales, singer (What's New Pussycat)
7th - Tom Jones, Welsh singer
8th - Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer (Boots are Made for Walkin')
8th - Sherman Garnes, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers)
9th - Dick Vitale, US, sportscaster (ESPN, ABC "Oh Baby!")
10th - John William Stevens, jazz drummer
11th - Joey Dee, Passaic NJ, singer (Hey Let's Twist, 2 Tickets to Paris)
13th - Bobby Freeman, SF, rocker (Do You Want to Dance)
14th - Ben Davidson, LA Calif, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R)
14th - Bill Baker, (Rep-R-California)
14th - Jack Bannon, LA Calif, actor (Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center)
14th - John Mizelle, composer
15th - Willem Frederik Bon, Dutch composer
16th - Billy "Crash" Craddock, Greensboro NC, singer
16th - Hans Dorrestijn, Dutch cabaret performer
16th - Neil Goldschmidt, Governor of Oregon
17th - Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
17th - Tony Marlow, MP (Conservative)
17th - George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel laureate
18th - Bob Duncan, prison warden (Gartree Prison in UK)
18th - Jim Albus, Staten Island NY, PGA golfer (1991 Mazda Senior Players)
18th - Michael Sheard, British actor (d. 2005)
19th - Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, drag racer (1st woman Top Fuel champ)
20th - John Mahoney, Manchester England, actor (Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out)
20th - Eugen Drewermann, German theologian
21st - Mariette Hartley, NYC, actress (Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned)
21st - Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher
22nd - Abbas Kiarostami, author/director (Under the Olive Trees, Close Up)
22nd - Esther Rantzen, British TV presenter
23rd - Alexander Irvine, Lord Chanceller of UK (1997- )
23rd - Diana Trask, Australia, singer (Sing Along With Mitch)
23rd - Mike Shrimpton, cricketer (occasional NZ Test batsman 1963-74)
23rd - Simon Hobday, Mareking South Africa, PGA golfer (1994 US Senior Open)
23rd - Stuart Sutcliffe, Edinburgh Scotland, rocker (Beatles)
23rd - Wilma Rudolph, St Bethlehem Tenn, runner (Olympic-3 gold-1960)
23rd - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
25th - Clint Warwick, [Eccles], Birmingham England, bassist (Moody Blues)
25th - A.J. Quinnell, British writer (d. 2005)
26th - Billy Davis Jr, St Louis Mo, singer (5th Dimension-One Less Bell)
26th - Robert Kramer, actor (A.K.)
26th - Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer (Taxi, Little Buddah, Dick Tracy)
27th - Erik Erikson, anthropologist
28th - Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
28th - Roderick Wright, ex-Scottish bishop (d. 2005)
29th - Louise S Groenman, Dutch MP (D66)
29th - Viacheslav Artyomov, composer
30th - Mark Spoelstra, American folk singer (d. 2007)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 15 of 15

2nd - Willem E Roelofs, painter/cartoonist, dies
6th - E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56
7th - James Hall, writer/actor (Millie, Hell's Angels), dies at 39
8th - Frederick Shepherd Converse, US composer, dies at 69
16th - Dubose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies
16th - Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25
19th - Maurice Jaubert, composer, dies at 40
20th - Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29
21st - Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies
21st - Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40
21st - W Hasenclever, writer, dies at 49
21st - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881)
22nd - M A Noble, cricketer (giant of NSW/Australian cricket), dies
28th - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya, dies at 44
29th - Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60