iJunoon Archives |2014 | June

The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa.

The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.

World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.

The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.

World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.

The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.

Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.