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World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet engages the High Seas Fleet in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
The Ulm Minster, the world's tallest church building, is completed in Ulm, Germany.
Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed.
World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
World War II: The crews of three Japanese submarines scuttled their vessels and committed suicide after entering Sydney Harbour and launching a failed attack.
Scanian War: The Swedish warship Kronan, one of the largest ships in the world at the time, sank at the Battle of Öland with the loss of around 800 men.
World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the villages of Kondomari and Alikianos.
World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground and murders 180 of its inhabitants.
World War II: During the Battle of France, the Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.
World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
World War II: Gustaf Mannerheim, the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army, is granted the title of Marshal of Finland by the government on his 75th birthday. On the same day, Adolf Hitler arrives in�
World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: the British Armed Forces completes evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only�
World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
Robert Earl Hughes, American who was the heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world during his lifetime (died 1958)