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Chuck Yeager Bell X1 Break the Sound Barrier
Chuck Yeager Bell X1 Break the Sound Barrier

Today in WW II: 14 Jun 1939 Japanese blockade the British concession in Tianjin, China, a crisis which almost precipitates Anglo-Japanese war [Tientsin Incident].  More ↓
14 Jun 1940 German army seizes Paris as French government flees to Bordeaux.
14 Jun 1940 Auschwitz concentration camp receives 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnòw, Poland, the first residents of the camp.
14 Jun 1941 Axis financial assets in the US frozen.
14 Jun 1941 Soviet Union conducts mass deportations from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, sending deportees to Siberia.
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Military Leaders/People/Entertainers