Historical Events for June 1940
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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
