June 1944 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1944 Gen Montgomery / Patton / Bradley / Dempsey / Crerar meet in Portsmouth
• 02 Jun 1944 Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery dine in Portsmouth
• 03 Jun 1944 76th Belmont: G L Smith aboard Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
• 04 Jun 1944 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day
• 05 Jun 1944 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day
• 06 Jun 1944 Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
• 07 Jun 1944 Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen
• 08 Jun 1944 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy
• 09 Jun 1944 Russian offensive in Carelia
• 10 Jun 1944 Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
• 11 Jun 1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
• 12 Jun 1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
• 13 Jun 1944 German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy
• 14 Jun 1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
• 15 Jun 1944 American B-29 Super Fortress bombers based in China begin bombing the Japanese home island of Northern Kyushu.
• 16 Jun 1944 Iceland adopts constitution
• 17 Jun 1944 Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons
• 18 Jun 1944 Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris
• 19 Jun 1944 300 Japanese aircrafts shot down
• 20 Jun 1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
• 21 Jun 1944 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
• 22 Jun 1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn
• 23 Jun 1944 Russian offensive in central front sector
• 25 Jun 1944 British assault at Caen Normandy
• 26 Jun 1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
• 27 Jun 1944 Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies
• 29 Jun 1944 German counter attack at Caen
• 30 Jun 1944 Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea

Famous Birthday

• Gary Busey

  American actor with a roller coaster career and steadily rising credits, intermixed with cocaine, booze and weight problems.

• Michelle Phillips

  American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress.

• Antoine (singer)
• Jeff Beck

  English guitarist (The Yardbirds).

• Ray Davies

  British musician who organized "The Kinks" in late 1963 with his brother Dave after formerly being billed as "The Ramrods.

• Raymond Moody

  American writer, a best-selling author about the near-death-experience.

• Ban Ki-moon

  South Korean United Nations Secretary-General.

• Claude-Michel Schönberg
• Robert Charlebois

  Canadian singer, author, composer, and performer, one of the most important figure in French music at the end of the 20th century.

• Jacotte Chollet
• Tony Scott

  English-American director and producer (d. 2012).

• Ticky Holgado

  French actor and a frequent collaborator with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

• Chico Buarque

  Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

• Pierre Goldman

  French left-wing intellectual who was convicted of several robberies and mysteriously assassinated on 20 September 1979 in Paris.

• Patrick Préjean
• Joanne Wickenburg

  American professional astrologer whose study began in 1969, a full-time pro from 1972.

• Marvin Hamlisch

  American composer and conductor (d. 2012).

• Boz Scaggs

  American musician who joined Steve Miller in "The Marksman" in 1959, doing vocals and tambourine while learning to play the guitar.

• John McCook

  American actor, of "Bold and the Beautiful" fame, married to noted actress/dancer Juliet Prowse for five years.

• Jean-Luc Moreau (director)
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Famous Deaths

• French Duwaer

  Dutch printer / resistance fighter, executed.

• Gerrit Jan van der Veen [Wolffensperger]

  Resister, executed at 41.

• Johan Limpers

  Sculptor / resistance fighter, executed at 28.

• Han Yong-woon

  Zen teacher, dies at 65 in Seoul County, Korea.

• Riccardo Zandonai

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Danny Brotheridge

  British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day.

• Gerrit John van de Peat

  Artist / resistance fighter, executed at 41.

• 99 inhabitants

  of Tulle hanged by SS.

• Lubor Niederle

  Czech archaeologist / slavist, dies at 78.

• Robert H Iseley

  US pilot / lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle.

• Jan Bonekamp

  Dutch resistance fighter / friend of Hannie Schaft.

• Rio Gebhardt

  Composer, dies at 36.

• Werner Wehrli

  Composer, dies at 52.

• Willem Jacob van Stockum

  Dutch physicist (Born 1910).

• Lucha Reyes

  Mexican mariachi singer (Born 1906).

• Milan Hodza

  Slovak politician (Born 1878).

• Marc Bloch

  French historian who studied historical problems in a comparative framework.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Andy Russell - Amor
2. King Cole Trio - Straighten Up and Fly Right
3. Mills Brothers - You Always Hurt The One You Love
4. Spike Jones - Behind Those Swinging Doors
5. Jerry Jerome - Arsenic And Old Lace