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Results 1 - 75 of 75

1st - 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
1st - The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
4th - 21 "not neutral" nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
4th - 66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05
5th - Norwegian govt in exile forms in London
6th - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)
7th - Winston Churchill becomes PM of Britain
10th - British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms
10th - Dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks
10th - Dutch-Indies Gov Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege
10th - French marines stationed on Aruba
10th - French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands
10th - Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg
10th - Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM
10th - World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
11th - 66th Preakness: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 1:58.6
11th - NY World's Fair reopens
12th - French mariners occupy St Maarten
12th - German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug
12th - Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
13th - British bomb factory at Breda
13th - Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
13th - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
13th - German breakthrough at Grebbelinie
14th - Admiral Furstner departs to England
14th - Boston's Jimmie Foxx HR goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof
14th - German breakthrough at Sedan
14th - Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
14th - Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany
14th - World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
15th - 1st nylon stockings sold in US
15th - 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300
15th - German armour division moves into Northern France
15th - German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders
15th - Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
15th - Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (US)
15th - USS Sailfish (SS-192) recomisioned, origionaly the Squalus.
15th - McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
16th - Nazi's forbid non-professional auto workers
16th - Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
17th - Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
17th - Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
18th - German troops conquer Brussels
19th - Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)
19th - French counter attack at Pronne under Gen De Gaulle
20th - Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
20th - Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention
20th - Soccer team HZVV forms in Hoogeveen
20th - Trailing 7-1 in 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7
21st - AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
21st - Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
21st - Reynaud forms French govt
22nd - Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis
22nd - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to decide with General Maxime Weygand a strategy to save the city
23rd - 1st great dogfight between Spitfires
24th - 1st night game at NY's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1)
24th - 1st night game at St Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2)
24th - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
24th - Dutch army demobilizes
24th - German tanks reach Atrecht France
24th - Hitler affirms Gen von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"
24th - NY Giants rip Boston Bees 8-1 in 1st night game at Polo Grounds
25th - German troops conquer Boulogne
25th - Golden Gate Intl Expo reopens
26th - Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk
27th - British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
27th - World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops.
28th - Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
28th - British-French troops capture Narvik Norway
28th - Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase," premieres in NYC
29th - Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec)
29th - Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich commissar of Hague Neth
29th - In WW II, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France
31st - Gen-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken
31st - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with Marshal August Pétain who announces he is willing to make a seperate peace with Germany