This date in history

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1896 British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla.

1940 Last British and French troops evacuated from Dunkirk.

1944 Germans pull out of Rome.

1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing.

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1913 English suffragette Emily Davison dies after throwing herself in front of King George V's horse Anmer during running of the Derby at Epsom.

1917 Most Excellent Order of British Empire inaugurated by King George V to recognise the efforts of his people in WWI

1940 British complete the "Miracle of Dunkirk" by evacuating 338,226 allied troops from France via a flotilla of over 800 vessels including Royal Navy destroyers, merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and even lifeboats.

1940 Winston Churchill's speech "We shall fight on the seas and oceans"

1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's first major defeat in WW II

1944 U505 becomes the first German submarine captured and boarded on high seas.

1944 General Eisenhower cancels planned D-Day invasion on June 5th after receiving unfavourable weather reports.

1945 US, Soviet Union, Britain and France agree to divide up occupied Germany.

1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial figures place death toll near 1,000

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1917 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I

1944 First B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure.

1944 As part of Operation Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion.

1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies.

1944 After receiving favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6

1945 USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany.

1964 Davie Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me"; group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie.

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1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, First US victory of WW I

1939 The ship MS St. Louis, carrying 907 Jewish refugees from Europe, begins sailing back to the continent after it was refused entry into America. Approximately a quarter of those on board would perish in the Holocaust.

1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway.

1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II

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1912 US army tests first machine gun mounted on a plane.

1917 The British detonate mines beneath the German-held Messines Ridge, in the Ypres area.

1939 George VI and Elizabeth become the first king and queen of Britain to visit USA.

1940 British/French troops evacuate Narvik.

1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island.

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1779 Admiral Horatio Nelson and Captain Thomas Hardy on HMS Foudroyant set sail against Spanish fleet.

1944 1st SS-Panzer Korps counter attacks at Normandy.

1944 General Montgomery lands in Normandy, sets up HQ in Chateau de Creully.

1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann.

1968 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

1969 General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar.

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68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.

1910 A passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland)

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson sends second Lusitania note to Germany protesting sinking of the Lusitania and refuting German claim British blockade illegal.

1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”

1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

1997 British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong expires.

2019 Over 1 million people protest in Hong Kong over proposed new extradition laws to China in one of largest-ever protests in the city.

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1940 German "Dutch" Q-ship Atlantis sinks Norwegian tanker.

1940 Norway surrenders to Nazi Germany after 62 days of fighting.

1943 FDR becomes first US President to visit a foreign country during wartime.

1943 Heinrich Himmler ordered the final liquidation of Lodz ghetto in occupied Poland.

1944 Nazi forces carry out a massacre of 642 civilians in the French village Oradour-sur-Glane.

1945 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1944 Nazi forces carry out a massacre of 642 civilians in the French village Oradour-sur-Glane.

The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre was carried out by the 1st Battalion of the 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment Der Führer, part of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. Das Reich had already committed numerous war crimes, such as Holocaust killings in Minsk and the hanging of several French civilians only a day before Oradour-sur-Glane. After the war, Das Reich was glamourised by the writings of HIAG, a revisionist SS veterans’ group. Oradour-sur-Glane remains abandoned to this day.

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1900 David Beatty and 150 men from HMS Barfleur land as part of a force of 2,400 defending Tientsin from 15,000 Chinese troops plus Boxers.

1939 King and Queen of England taste first "hot dogs" at FDR's party.

1940 First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.

1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein, North Africa.

1987 Margaret Thatcher is first British Prime Minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term.

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1917 US Secret Service extends protection of the President to include his family.

1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present in Amsterdam.

1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London.

1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa.

2018 Singapore Summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump.

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1842: Queen Victoria becomes the first Brish monarch to ride on a train travelling from Slough Railway Station to Paddington...in 25 minutes!

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1917 World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children with 432 injuries.

1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km.

1942 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island.

1944 German counter attack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy.

2000 South Korean President Kim Dae Jung meets leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

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1789 Captain William Bligh and his loyal men cast off from HMS Bounty reach Timor, after sailing 5,800 km in a 6-metre launch.

1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens in Nazi controlled Poland with Polish POWs (approx. 3 million would die within its walls)

1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral.

1942 Anne Frank begins her diary.

1982 Argentina surrenders to Great Britain, ending the 74-day Falklands Islands conflict.

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1940 World War II: France surrenders to Germany, German troops occupy Paris.

1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann.

1967 "The Dirty Dozen", based on E. M. Nathanson's novel, directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine and Charles Bronson is released in the US

1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.