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.

Measurements at 3.15 cm were obtained on 11 days spread over the interval May 3 to June 19, 1956, using the 50-foot reflector at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington.

Ajmer has a hot semi-arid climate with over 55 centimetres ( 25. 4 in ) of rain every year but most of the rain occurs in the Monsoon months, between June and September.

Before his death in Herat, on June 9, 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan had nominated as his successor Sher Ali Khan, his third son, passing over the two elder brothers, Afzal Khan and Azam Khan.

His episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ), of which over 17 were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman emperors.

St Athanasius ' long episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ) of which over 17 years were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman Emperors, not counting approximately six more incidents in which he had to flee Alexandria for his own safety to escape people seeking to take his life.

On June 30, 2009, the Orioles rallied to score 10 runs against Boston Red Sox after facing a 10 – 1 deficit in the 7th inning, winning the game by 11 – 10, setting a Major League Baseball record for the largest comeback by a last-place team over a first-place team.

The current Governor of the Bank of England is Sir Mervyn King, who took over on 30 June 2003 from Sir Edward George.

The Knights formally surrendered on 12 June and, in exchange for substantial financial compensation, handed the islands and all of their resources over to Bonaparte, including the extensive property of the Roman Catholic Church on Malta.

Fought over three days from 28 to 30 June 1651, the battle took place in the Polish province of Volhynia.

During Chaplin's legal trouble over the Barry affair, he met Oona O ' Neill, daughter of Eugene O ' Neill, and married her on 16 June 1943.

The two companies underwent a name change to Sambi Co., Ltd. in September 1981, while Capcom Co., Ltd. itself was first established on June 11, 1983, for the purpose of taking over the internal sales department.

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

In June 2001, NASA launched a second CMB space mission, WMAP, to make much more precise measurements of the great scale anisotropies over the full sky.

In June 1807 Thompson crossed the Rocky Mountains and spent the summer surveying the Columbia basin and continuing to survey the area over the next few seasons.

The legislation initially stalled in the Congress over the issuance of bonds to finance the project, but the legislative effort was renewed and the law was signed by Ike in June 1956.

On June 2, 1621, it was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies ( meaning the Caribbean ) by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and given jurisdiction over the African slave trade, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America.

From July 1, 1941 to June 6, 1969, when the Army stopped publishing awards of the DSM in Department of the Army General Orders, over 2, 800 further awards were made.

* Every June, Ellensburg hosts Dachshunds on Parade, an event that draws Dachshund dog owners from all over the Northwest.

By the time of Operation Overlord in June 1944, the Allies had gained near complete air superiority over the Western Front.

Freenet 0. 7. 5, released on 12 June 2009, offers a variety of improvements over 0. 7.

On 2 June 1793, Paris sections — encouraged by the enragés (" enraged ones ") Jacques Roux and Jacques Hébert – took over the Convention, calling for administrative and political purges, a low fixed price for bread, and a limitation of the electoral franchise to sans-culottes alone.

On 28 June 1835, the unit was handed over to the Spanish government.

In June 2005, gnutella's population was 1. 81 million computers increasing to over three million nodes by January 2006.

The military was used three times in 2006-2007 to suppress popular protest: in June 2006, resulting in 16 deaths, on 22 January 2007, when it fired on protesters at the 9 November Bridge in Conakry, killing over 100, and on 9 February 2007, when it killed several more protesters.

With a worldwide membership, the website lists more than 1. 8 million caches in over 200 countries around the world as of June, 2012.

By the winter of 1941 – 1942 just 39 percent of the fighter force was operational and possessed just 60 more combat aircraft than it did in June 1941 despite its increased commitments.

On average, approximately 60 % of all precipitation occurs from June to September.

On June 28, 2006, a new official game ball was introduced for the 2006 – 07 season, marking the first change to the ball in over 35 years and only the second ball in 60 seasons.

While 60 % of regimental commanders had two years or more of command experience in June 1941, and almost 80 % of rifle division commanders, only 20 % of corps commanders, and 5 % or fewer army and military district commanders, had the same level of experience.

* June 8 – The Deutsches Stadion in Berlin is dedicated with the release of 10, 000 pigeons, in front of an audience of 60, 000 people.

* June 30 – The International Time Bureau adds the first leap second ( 23: 59: 60 ) to Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) at the end of the month.

* June 15 – An army laboratory explodes in Estonia, killing 60.

* June 6 – California voters approve Proposition 13, which slashes property taxes nearly 60 %.

* June 18 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60, 000 homeless.

* 7 June 1981 – magnitudo 4. 60 ( 4 / 5 ° scala Mercalli scale ) with epicentre in Borgo Elefante in Mazara del Vallo, far about 20 km from the town-centre of Marsala.

In June, MySpace founder Brad Greenspan put forth a bid to buy 25 % of the Dow for $ 60 a share, the same price per share as News Corporation's bid.

As a preliminary, on 21 June, German assault troops ( 60, 000 men ) took the redoubt of Thiaumont and the ruined village of Fleury.

On June 28, 2012, CTV's Comedy announced Zone3 and RTL would now produce 60 episodes of an English-language version, Match Game Canada, on the Atomes Crochus set in Montréal over the summer for broadcast.

For the three hot months of June, July, and August 1980, George Brett played in 60 American League games and hit. 459 ( 111 – 242 ), most of it after a return from a monthlong injury.

By early June 1974, the WFL claimed they had some 60 NFL players under contract.

60 ), June 27, 1884, to collect information about employment and labor.

In June 1902, by the order of tsar Nicholas II, Sosnowiec was legally named a city with the area of 19 km² and with 60, 000 inhabitants.

The current mechanically powered circumnavigation record of 60 days 23 hours and 49 minutes was established by a voyage of the wave-piercing trimaran Earthrace which was completed on 27 June 2008.

Annual precipitation averages around 350 – 700 mm, with 60 % of it concentrated between June and August.

On 2 June 1780 a huge crowd, estimated at 40, 000 to 60, 000 strong, assembled and marched on the Houses of Parliament.

Tczew (; ) is a town on the Vistula River in Eastern Pomerania, Kociewie, northern Poland with 60, 279 inhabitants ( June 2009 ).

He was sentenced on June 23, 2005 by Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon to the maximum sentence of 60 years in prison, 20 years for each count of manslaughter, to be served consecutively.

The price of copper has historically been unstable, and it quintupled from the 60-year low of US $ 0. 60 / lb ( US $ 1. 32 / kg ) in June 1999 to US $ 3. 75 per pound ( US $ 8. 27 / kg ) in May 2006.

As of June 2012, the borough is 54 percent Democratic, a complete reversal from the early 1990s when it was a 60 percent Republican borough.