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Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beck...
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Pope Pius Xii Canonises Dominic Savio

Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest non-mart...
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American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.

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Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). 1,180 Jews are led to the city's ol...
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Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

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World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.

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Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.

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At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded

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New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.