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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.
World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower�
World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.
World War II: Battle of Carentan: American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan, Normandy, France.