Today in History for June 1944

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 92 of 92

1st - Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth
1st - Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots
2nd - Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth
2nd - Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands
3rd - 76th Belmont: G L Smith aboard Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
3rd - Generals Giraud & de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution
3rd - Nazis pull out of Rome
4th - 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day
4th - 1st submarine captured & boarded on high seas-U 505
4th - 5th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies
4th - French general De Gaulle arrives in London
5th - 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure
5th - 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day
5th - Allies march into Rome
5th - Fieldmarshal Rommel goes on vacation
5th - General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6
5th - King Victor Emmanuel abdicates the throne for his son Umberto
6th - Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
6th - D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
6th - Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad
6th - Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
6th - U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje
6th - Alaska Airlines commences operations.
7th - Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen
7th - Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux
7th - Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler
8th - 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy
8th - Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy
8th - Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
8th - Gen Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully
9th - Russian offensive in Carelia
10th - Joe Nuxhall at 15 becomes youngest ML baseball player
10th - Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league
10th - Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
10th - World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
11th - 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
11th - 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC
11th - KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail
12th - 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
12th - British 12th airborne batallion/13th & 18th Hussars conquer
12th - British 12th battalion conquers Bréville
12th - Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chateau de Creully
12th - US troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy
13th - German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy
13th - Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
14th - 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
French President Charles de Gaulle 14th - General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
15th - US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
16th - Iceland adopts constitution
16th - King George VI visits Montgomery's HQ in Normandy
16th - US bombs Kyushu Japan
17th - -19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba
17th - Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons
17th - Iceland declares independence from Denmark
17th - Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland
17th - Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London
18th - Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris
18th - U-767 sinks
19th - Two day Battle of Philippines Sea begins
19th - 300 Japanese aircrafts shot down
19th - French troops free Elba
19th - Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot"
19th - Japanese troops conquer Changsha China
19th - World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
20th - Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
20th - Heavy storm hits the Channel
20th - Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
20th - Soviet forces conquer Wiborg
20th - US attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea
20th - US troops occupy Biak
21st - Very heavy bombing on Berlin
22nd - British 14th army frees Imphal Assam
22nd - FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
22nd - Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn
22nd - Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn
22nd - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.
23rd - 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
23rd - Russian offensive in central front sector
Novelist Thomas Mann 23rd - Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen
25th - British assault at Caen Normandy
26th - 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
26th - Yanks, Dodgers & Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 & Giants-0
27th - Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies
29th - German counter attack at Caen
29th - Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead
29th - Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden
29th - Soviet Armys join in Bobroesjk
29th - US 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg
30th - Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea
30th - French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands
30th - Universal strike against nazi terror in Copenhagen
30th - World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 73 of 73

1st - Robert Powell, England, actor (Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets)
2nd - Garo Yepremian, NFL place kicker (Miami Dolphins)
2nd - Marvin Hamlisch, NYC, composer/pianist (Sting, Chorus Line), (d. 2012)
2nd - Poul Jensen, Denmark, yachting (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
3rd - Edith McGuire, US 200m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1964)
3rd - Michael Clarke, NYC, rock drummer (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
3rd - Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
4th - Charlie Whitney, rock guitarist (Family)
4th - Michelle Phillips, Long Beach CA, singer/actress (Mamas & Papas)
4th - Roger Ball, Scotland, saxophonist (Average White Band)
5th - Chris Finnegan, UK, middleweight boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1968)
5th - Tommie Smith, US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1968) [or Jan 5]
5th - Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
6th - Edgar Froese, rocker (Tangerine Dream)
6th - Peter Albin, SF California, rocker (Big Brother & Holding Co)
6th - David Penhaligon, British politician
6th - Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
7th - Bill Rafferty, Queens NY, comedian (Laugh-In, Real People)
7th - Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
8th - Boz Scaggs, [William Royce], Dallas Tx, rocker (Steve Miller Band)
8th - Don Grady, [Agrati], actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons), (d. 2012)
8th - Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
8th - Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec City
9th - 23 puppies, (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler Penn
9th - Brigid Bazlen, Wisc, actress (Pam-Too Young to go Steady)
9th - Viscount Craigavon
9th - record litter of 23 puppies is born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler Penn
10th - Rick Price, rocker (Move)
11th - Alan Horworth, MP
11th - Barry Stevens, British/Neth, choreographer (Personals, Young Again)
11th - James "Ox" D A van Hoften, Fresno California, astronaut (STS 11, STS 20)
12th - Howard Cowart, rocker
12th - Linda Foster, Lancaster England, actress (Doris-Hank)
12th - Maurice Jackson, US singer (Independents-Leaving You)
13th - Joe Amato, NHRA top fuel drag racing champion (1991)
14th - Laurie Colwin, American author (d. 1992)
14th - Joe Grifasi, American actor
15th - Inna Ryskai, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-2 gold/2 silver-1964-76)
15th - Robert Keppel, American criminologist
16th - Joan Barbara Grigor, artist
16th - Takamiyama, [Jesse Kuhaulua], Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion
17th - Bill Rafferty, comedian (Real People, Laugh-in '77)
17th - Chris Spedding, rocker
17th - Chucho Castillo, Nuevo Valle de Moreno, Mexico, bantamweight boxer (WBA, WBC, 1970), (d. 2013)
18th - Paul Lansky, composer
18th - Sandy Posey, American singer
19th - Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
20th - Dave Nelson, baseball player
20th - Terry Funk, Hammond Ind, pro wrestler (WWF/NWA)/actor (Paradise Alley)
20th - David Roper, English actor
21st - Corinna Tsopel, Athens, actress (Man Called Horse)/Miss Universe (64)
21st - Frans Luitjes, Dutch athlete
21st - Jon Hiseman, rocker
21st - Miguel Danus, Vicens rocker
21st - Ray Davies, London, singer/guitarist (Kinks-Come Dancing)
22nd - Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austria, actor (Mephisto, Out of Africa)
22nd - Michael Obst, German FR, coxsman (Olympic-gold-1960)
22nd - Peter Asher, London, singer (Peter & Gordon-World Without Love)
22nd - Steve Weber, guitarist, (Rounders-Holy "Boobs" Modal)
23rd - Rosetta Hightower, US singer (Don't Hang Up)
24th - Chris Wood, rocker (Traffic)
24th - Jeff Beck, Surrey England, singer/guitarist (Jeff Beck Group)
25th - Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
26th - Ruth Kempson, linguist (SOAS)
27th - Bruce Johnston, US pop musician (Beach Boys-God Only Knows)
27th - Cornelis J "Kees" Ouwens, Dutch writer/poet (Intimate Acts)
27th - Patrick Sercu, Belgium, 1K time trial (Olympic-gold-1964)
29th - Collin Peterson, (Rep-D-Minnesota)
29th - Gary Busey, Goose Creek Tx, actor (Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born)
29th - Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
30th - Glenn Shorrock, Sydney Australia, rock vocalist (Little River Band)
30th - Ron Swoboda, baseball outfielder/sportscaster (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
30th - Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 20 of 20

5th - Riccardo Zandonai, composer, dies at 61
6th - Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day
6th - Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41
9th - 99 inhabitants of Tulle, hanged by SS
10th - French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed
10th - Gerrit Jan van der Veen, [Wolffensperger], resister, executed at 41
10th - Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28
10th - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
13th - Christopher Heseltine, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1895-96), dies
14th - Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist, dies at 78
14th - Robert H Iseley, US pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle
16th - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
19th - Bill Bradley, cricketer (bowled for England in two Tests 1899), dies
19th - Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65
21st - Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies
24th - Rio Gebhardt, composer, dies at 36
25th - Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
26th - Billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies
27th - Werner Wehrli, composer, dies at 52
27th - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)