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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.
World War II: German minister of foreign affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop presented a declaration of war to the Soviet ambassador Vladimir Dekanozov in Berlin.
World War II: As Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started an uprising to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation.
Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
The United States Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act to allow World War II refugees to immigrate to the United States above quota restrictions.