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Monday, 06 July 2026
Jun 09 44th US Golf Open: Lawson Little shoots a 287 at Canterbury GC OH. 
Jun 09 Norway surrenders to the Nazis during World War II
Jun 10 French government moves to Bordeaux
Jun 10 Italy declares war on France and Britain while Canada declares war on Italy.
Jun 11 Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta
Jun 12 HMS CALYPSO, sunk Eastern Mediterranean, south of Crete by 1 torpedo from Italian submarine 'Bagnolini'.
Jun 13 HMS ODIN, sunk off southern Italy in Gulf of Taranto by torpedo and gunfire of Italian destroyer 'Strale'.
Jun 13 Paris evacuated before the German advance
Jun 13 Paris evacuates before German advance
Jun 14 Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
Jun 14 Ben Davidson, LA Calif, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R)
Jun 14 German forces occupied Paris during WW II.
Jun 14 German troops enter Paris
Jun 14 The Nazis open the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Also German troops enter Paris during World War II.
Jun 15 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province.
Jun 15 French fortress of Verdun captured by Germans
Jun 15 Germans occupy Paris, capture Havre, assault Maginot line
Jun 16 Commuinist govt installed in Lithuania
Jun 16 Communist govt installed in Lithuania
Jun 16 Dubose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies
Jun 16 HMS GRAMPUS,sunk off Augusta, eastern Sicily in Ionian Sea by Italian torpedo boats 'Circe' and 'Clio'.
Jun 17 Chief of Naval Operations asks Congress for money to build two-ocean Navy
Jun 17 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II.
Jun 18 Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers
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 18 The RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron withdraws from France.
Jun 18 Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour".
Jun 19 "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago.
Jun 19 "Brenda Starr," inaugural cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago.
Jun 19 HMS ORPHEUS, sunk north of Tobruk, eastern Libya by Italian destroyer "Turbine"
Jun 19 Maurice Jaubert, composer, dies at 40
Jun 20 Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29
Jun 20 Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title.
Jun 21 Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies.
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