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World War II: Charles de Gaulle gave his Appeal of 18 June speech, often considered to be the origin of the French Resistance.
The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
World War II: During the Continuation War, the Soviet Union demands unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish governm�
The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
World War II: The Royal Air Force began Operation Bellicose, a four-day shuttle-bombing mission that included raids on Germany and Italy and a refuelling and rearming stop in Algeria.
World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces; 33,000 Allied troops are taken prisoner.
World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
World War II: The main offensive of the unsuccessful Italian invasion of France began.
World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end with an American flag-raising ceremony.
World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.
World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918.