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Thursday, 11 June 2026
Jun 04 The inaugural submarine captured and boarded on high seas-U 505 
Jun 05 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure
Jun 05 Riccardo Zandonai, composer, dies at 61
Jun 05 Rome is captured intact by the 5th Army
Jun 05 The inaugural B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure
Jun 06 Allied forces storm the Normandy, France beaches during the "D-Day" invasion of Europe in World War II.
Jun 06 Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion.
Jun 06 D-Day 150000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
Jun 06 Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day
Jun 06 Hanna Senesz, a Jewish girl originally from Hungary, who had immigrated to Palestine, parachutes behind German lines to connect with Hungarian and Slovak resistance fighters. Caught on the Hungarian border, she dies knowing that her mission has given strength to those suffering in the camps.
Jun 06 Invasion of Normandy, D-Day, by allied forces.
Jun 06 Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor.
Jun 07 Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen
Jun 07 Bill Rafferty, Queens NY, comedian (Laugh-In, Real People)
Jun 08 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy.
Jun 08 FO K.O.Moore pilot of a liberator bomber sunk two U-Boats off the coast of France
Jun 09 23 puppies (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler, Penn
Jun 09 99 inhabitants of Tulle, hanged by SS
Jun 09 Russian offensive in Carelia
Jun 10 French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed
Jun 10 Joe Nuxhall at 15 is recorded as becoming youngest ML baseball player
Jun 11 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas.
Jun 11 inaugural Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC.
Jun 12 1st V-1 rocket assault on London.
Jun 12 In this year, Piolet Off. Andrew C. Mynarski (Royal Cdn. Air Force) claims the Victoria Cross for service over France.
Jun 12 inaugural V-1 rocket reaches London.
Jun 12 The inaugural V1 rocket falls on England during World War 2
Jun 13 Christopher Heseltine, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1895-96), dies
Jun 13 German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy
Jun 13 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks.
Jun 14 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan.
Jun 14 Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist, dies at 78
Jun 14 The inaugural B-29 raid against mainland Japan
Jun 15 inaugural B-29 test-raid on Japanese industrial cities is deemed satisfactory.
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