Jun 09 Norway surrenders to the Nazis during World War II

Jun 18 The RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron withdraws from France.

Jun 21 HMAS Sydney and Stuart bombard Bardia

Jun 04 RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron posted to France.

Jun 27 800 Jews are burned alive inside Great Synagogue. 1,200 others die in shooting

Jun 04 German forces enter Paris

Jun 05 Battle of France begins in WW II

Jun 05 The Battle of France begins during World War II.

Jun 04 Evacuation of British Army from Dunkirk is completed.

Jun 10 Italy declares war on France and Britain while Canada declares war on Italy.

Jun 16 Commuinist govt installed in Lithuania

Jun 14 German forces occupied Paris during WW II

Jun 14 The Nazis open the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Also: German troops enter Paris during World War II.

Jun 04 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops

Jun 29 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register

Jun 04 The Allied military evacuation from Dunkirk, France, ends in World War II.

Jun 06 HMS WRESTLER, damaged off Normandy beaches, northern France in English Channel by German mine.

Jun 30 US Fish &Wildlife Service established

Jun 24 France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II

Jun 13 HMS ODIN, sunk off southern Italy in Gulf of Taranto by torpedo and gunfire of Italian destroyer 'Strale'.

Jun 26 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27

Jun 30 "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, first appears

Jun 18 Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"

Jun 18 The French cruiser Emile Bertin arrives in Canada with $305 million in gold from the Bank of France; gold released after the war.

Jun 15 Germans occupy Paris, capture Havre, assault Maginot line.

Jun 27 HMS WREN, sunk 10 miles of Aldeburgh, eastern England in North Sea - by German bombers.

Dec 08 German Luftwaffe launches massive attack on London

Dec 09 British troops first major offensive in North Africa during WW II

Dec 27 In New York City, Halifax born actress Ruby Keeler and her husband singer Al Jolson divorce after 12 years of marriage

Dec 05 HMCS Saguenay (Destroyer) first Canadian Warship torpedoed, limps into a British port

Dec 01 Richard Pryor actor was born this day

Dec 29 Germany begins the bombing of London during WWII, damaging many buildings, such as historic St. Mary's Cathedral.

Dec 09 Illegal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius

Dec 18 Munitions Minister C.D.Howe and 152 other survivors of the torpedoed lines SS Western Prince arive in Britian

Aug 13 Air crash in Canberra kills three UAP ministers and Chief of the General Staff

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