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World War II: Commencement of Operation Overlord: The Allied invasion of Normandy begins with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred to as D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history.�
World War II: The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part—Aka�
World War I: U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties during the Battle of Belleau Wood while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry (the losses are exceeded at the Bat�
King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
World War II: The two-day Battle of Porta between the Royal Italian Army and the Greek People's Liberation Army begins.
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
World War II: The Allies commence the Syria–Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian campaign.
World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
World War II: Six hundred forty-three men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.
World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 228 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
World War II: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.
World War II: Fascist Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom, beginning an invasion of southern France.
World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends.