In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.

They could not imagine that the Germans, whom they had defeated only twenty years previously, could defeat them in a mere six weeks, as happened when France fell in June 1940.

A Muslim community was started in June 1940 when two Yemenis purchased an artisan cottage on Mary Street.

* CCC, " The Civilian Conservation Corps, What It Is and What It Does " ( June 1940 )

In June 1940, during the early stages of World War II, France fell and the colony was then ruled by the pro-Axis Vichy ( French ) government.

Mussolini was aware that Italy did not have the military capacity to carry out a long war with France or the United Kingdom and waited until France was on the verge of imminent collapse and surrender from German invasion before declaring war on France and the United Kingdom on 10 June 1940, on the assumption that the war would be short-lived following France's collapse.

In the wake of Mussolini ’ s declaration of war against France and England on June 10, 1940, he discovered Kafka ’ s The Metamorphosis, Gogol, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner along with French films by Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Julien Duvivier.

Chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources that support this story are an article by Robert Lewis Taylor in the June 15, 1940, issue of The New Yorker and Marshall's autobiography My 50 Years of Chess ( 1942 ).

Paris fell to the Germans on 14 June 1940, and the French leaders surrendered on 24 June 1940 after the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.

In recognition of his services in the field from March to June 1940, Alexander was again mentioned in despatches.

After Stalin declared that he was going to " solve the Baltic problem ", by June 1940, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were merged into the Soviet Union, after repressions and actions therein brought about the deaths of over 160, 000 citizens of these states.

In June 1940, Stalin directed the Soviet annexation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, proclaiming this formerly Romanian territory part of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Terboven was made Reichskommissar for Norway on 24 April 1940, even before the military invasion was completed on 7 June 1940.

* 1940 – Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his formal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum.

Erin Brockovich-Ellis ( born June 22, 1960 ) is an American legal clerk and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, or any legal education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company ( PG & E ) of California in 1993.

The initial, formal killings of the Final Solution were undertaken by the SS Einsatzgruppen ( Task Forces ) death squads who followed the Wehrmacht during the Operation Barbarossa invasion of the USSR in June 1941.

Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of the revolutionary chaos in Iran and attacked without formal warning, they made only limited progress into Iran and were quickly repelled by the Iranians, who regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982.

Discussions began in March 1964 between Kenya and Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations Duncan Sandys on defence, and a formal agreement was signed on 3 June 1964.

While independence was being reclaimed, the election of King Gustav of the Vasa at Strängnäs on June 6, 1523, has been seen as a formal declaration of independence, and as the de facto end of a union that had lost all long-term support in Sweden.

On 24 September 1853, under orders from Napoleon III, Admiral Febvrier Despointes took formal possession of New Caledonia and Port-de-France ( Nouméa ) was founded 25 June 1854.

" On 10 June 1941, the pope commented on the problems of the Reichskonkordat in a letter to the Bishop of Passau, in Bavaria: " The history of the Reichskonkordat shows, that the other side lacked the most basic prerequisites to accept minimal freedoms and rights of the Church, without which the Church simply cannot live and operate, formal agreements notwithstanding ".

Radical elements became more vocal: anti-Soviet polemics appeared in the press ( after the formal abolishment of censorship on 26 June 1968 ), the Social Democrats began to form a separate party, and new unaffiliated political clubs were created.

The formal title of the portfolio has always been simply " Prime Minister ", except for the period of the Fourth Deakin Ministry ( June 1909 to April 1910 ), when it was known as " Prime Minister ( without portfolio )".

The state union effectively came to an end after Montenegro's formal declaration of independence on 3 June 2006, and Serbia's formal declaration of independence on 5 June.

In June 2009 Antigua and Barbuda became a formal member of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas ( ALBA ) international cooperation organization and the Caribbean oil alliance Petrocaribe.

His formal coronation took place in June 1974, and soon thereafter the strains between the Wangchucks and Dorjis were relieved with the return that year of the exiled members of the latter family.

After the fall of Pretoria, one of the last formal battles was at Diamond Hill on 11 – 12 June, where Roberts attempted to drive the remnants of the Boer field army beyond striking distance of Pretoria.

On June 30, 1985, a formal request to permit re-admittance to school was denied by Western School Corporation superintendent James O. Smith, sparking a legal battle that lasted for eight months.

On 30 June 1688 — the same day the bishops were acquitted — a group of political figures known afterward as the " Immortal Seven ", sent William a formal invitation.

* June 25 Enron announces formal organization of InternationalCo as Prisma Energy International Inc.

In this year, when his brother-in-law Louis de Bourbon, comte de Soissons fled from France after his failed conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu, Thomas Francis acted as intermediary between Soissons and the Spanish in negotiations which led to a formal alliance between the count and Philip IV of Spain concluded 28 June 1637-although within a month Soissons had reconciled with France.

Military action for Thomas is not recorded in 1637, but in this year, when his brother-in-law Soissons fled from France after his failed conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu, he acted as intermediary between Soissons and the Spanish in negotiations which led to a formal alliance between the count and Philip IV of Spain concluded 28 June 1637-although within a month Soissons had reconciled with France!

The formal institutionalization of covert actions was established as NSC 4 in December 1947, and NSC 10 / 2 of June 1948.

In June 2009 the UVF formally decommissioned their weapons in front of independent witnesses as a formal statement of decommissioning was read by Dawn Purvis and Billy Hutchinson.

In June 2009, an announcement was made that All Quiet on the Western Front will be remade.

The 7800 was initially released in southern California in June 1984, following an announcement on May 21, 1984 at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show.

When their son, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr, was born on 5 May 1925, Chaplin sent Grey and the child into hiding: it was seen as too close to their wedding, so a fake birth announcement was made to the press at the end of June.

On June 1, 2009, as a part of the General Motors bankruptcy announcement, the company revealed that the Hummer brand would be discontinued.

This announcement was made during a surprise visit by the United Arab Emirates ' Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan to Baghdad on 5 June 2008.

This announcement consolidated the people, with more than a million students and citizens participating in anti-government protests all over the nation in June 1987 in the June Democracy Movement.

At announcement, samples were set for June 1999 and volume later that year.

This announcement was made during a surprise visit by the United Arab Emirates ' Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan to Baghdad on 5 June 2008.

* 20 June 1997: Tony Blair appointed Peter Mandelson to the role of Minister for the Millennium after his announcement that the beleaguered £ 580 million dome would go ahead

Lumumba and the MNC won this election and the right to form a government, with the announcement on 23 June 1960 of 34-year-old Lumumba as Congo's first prime minister and Joseph Kasa-Vubu as its president.

The Tribunes June 7, 1942, front page announcement that America had broken Japan's naval code was actually the potential revelation of a closely guarded military secret by the paper.

The day following Colorado's defection announcement, on June 11, Nebraska applied for membership in the Big Ten Conference and was unanimously accepted, becoming the Big Ten's twelfth member, effective July 1, 2011.

Two schools announced in summer 2012 that they would join the league for the 2013 – 14 academic year, with Boston University making its announcement on June 15 and Loyola University Maryland doing so on August 29.

( Door noise ) Hello June "; " Honest Ron-the others are a con "; an unfortunately named throat lozenge (" Suck Quilly's, suck Quilly's, they make your mouth feel great ") and a blindingly obvious patronising public service announcement (" Do not throw boiling water over a child ").

In a pamphlet Irving published in London on 23 June 1989 Irving made the " epochal announcement " that there was no mass murder via gas chambers at the Auschwitz death camp.

Following the announcement, it was announced on June 12, 2006, that Dan Abrams, a nine-year veteran of MSNBC and NBC News, had been named General Manager of the NBC News 24-hour cable news television channel, effective immediately.

The hard work paid off with the announcement in June 1941 that the War Department had approved the site for an Army Air Corps base.

*-first public announcement of NATO. 0 + 55 on the PD-ot mailing-list, June 21, 1999.

On the June 30 episode of Raw, Mysterio came to make an announcement to all the Raw fans which led to a minor fight with Santino Marella.

On June 19, 2008, an announcement was made that an expansion slot had been awarded to a Tampa Bay, Florida-based franchise led by main investors Andrew Nestor ( CEO ) and Hinds Howard ( Chairman ) of Citrus Ventures.

According to the Centennial Conference's web site: " On June 4, 1981, Keith Spalding, then-president of Franklin & Marshall College, made the announcement that " eight private colleges found it timely and appropriate to form a round-robin football schedule among institutions with similar attitudes and practices in intercollegiate football competition.

Until the official title's announcement on 27 June 2000, the book was called by its working title, Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament.

However, on June 12, 2008, Continental's announcement of cuts of services, routes and destinations due to high fuel prices included termination of flights to Hong Kong ( which has since resumed ) and Bali.