Allied forces begin an evacuation from Dunkirk in France during WW2

Hands Across America takes place.

Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the “Battle of Toledo”, a five-day melée between troops and picketers.

During the First Battle of St Albans the Duke of York defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.

Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo in Japan, for days with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her hand.

The Battle of Hamburger Hill during the Vietnam War ends.

A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.

A fire nearly burns the entire city of St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.