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1935  Police kill 10, wound 100 in the "Memorial Day Massacre" in South Chicago.   

1935  Sheila Steafel, South African-born British actress   

1936  The inaugural Government of Zealand in Belgium ends   

1936  1st govt of Zealand in Belgium ends   

1937  Dutch Rail NV at law forms   

1937  San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens.   

1937  Yehuda Yannay, composer   

1938  House Committee on Un-American Activities begins work.   

1938  House on un-American Activities forms   

1938  Jackie Liebesit, rocker (Can)   

1939  Charles H Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic), dies at 74   

1940  HMS CURLEW (AA), sunk in Lavangs Fiord, Ofotfiord near Narvik, northern Norway by German Ju88 bombers   

1940  Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk   

1940  The "Miracle of Dunkirk" evacuation begins in France during World War II.   

1940  1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky.   

1941  American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Philadelphia   

1941  Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck   

1941  German occupiers begin youth labor   

1941  American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila.   

1942  Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London.   

1942  Belgian Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star   

1942  Tank battle at Bir Hakeim African corps vs British army.   

1942  Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army.   

1943  Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam.   

1943  Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from US to North Africa   

1943  The inaugural president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia).   

1943  1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)   

1943  Edsel Ford, owner (Ford Motor Company), dies at 49   

1944  82nd Airborne div D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste Mere Eglise   

1944  C M Francois, cricketer (WWII, 252 runs in 5 Tests for S Africa), dies   

1945  US drop fire bombs on Tokyo.   

1946  Klement Gottwald is recorded as becoming premier of Czechoslovakia   

1946  Patent filed in US for H-Bomb   

1946  2-for-42 and hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott formally ends playing baseball   

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1264  Prince koreyasu: Japanese shogun   

1478  Clement vii: [giulio de' medici], italy, pope (1523-34)   

1566  Mohammed iii: Sultan of turkey (1595-1603)   

1566  Mehmed iii: Ottoman emperor   

1591  Dirck janszoon sweelinck: Composer   

1602  Philippe de champaigne: French painter   

1667  Abraham de moivre: French mathematician (de moivre's theorem)   

1669  Sébastien vaillant: French botanist   

0604  Death of Augustinus van canterbury: Bishop/apostle of england,   

0735  Death of Beda venerabilis: English speaking church historian,   

0818  Ali ar-rida: Shia imam (b. 766)   

1055  Death of Margrave adalbert of austria: Margrave adalbert of austria   

1421  Mohammed i: Sultan of turkey (1413-21),   

1512  Bajezid ii: Governor of amasja/8th sultan of turkey,   

1595  Death of Philippus nerius: [filippo neri], italian merchant/saint,   

1609  Death of Cornelis claesz: Mapmaker, buried