Peter Grimes
Jun 5 Benjamin Britten's opera "Peter Grimes" premieres in London
71st Kentucky Derby
Jun 9 71st Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hoop Jr scores his third of record 5 Derby wins
Brooklyn Manager Durocher Arrested
Jun 9 Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him
- Jun 9 Warner Bros cartoon "A Gruesome Twosome" starring Tweety premieres in USA
- Jun 10 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze
- Jun 12 US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
- Jun 13 Heerjansdam soccer team forms
- Jun 13 Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
- Jun 15 Dutch political party ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
- Jun 16 70th Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8
- Jun 16 Boo Ferriss loses to Yanks 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins
- Jun 17 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
Haw-Haw Charged with Treason
Jun 18 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster, charged with treason in England
- Jun 19 El Teniente Mine accident [Smoke Tragedy] 355 men die from smoke inhalation from a fire in the Andes, Chile
Operation Paperclip
Jun 20 U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr. approves transfer of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and his specialists to the US
- Jun 21 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa
- Jun 23 77th Belmont Stakes: Eddie Arcaro aboard Pavot wins in 2:30.2
- Jun 23 Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan)
- Jun 24 Schermerhorn government forms in the Netherlands
- Jun 24 The Moscow Victory Parade takes place
- Jun 25 Allied landing at Ternate, capital of the Maluku Islands in modern day Indonesia
- Jun 25 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa
- Jun 26 England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs
United Nations Charter
Jun 26 The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 nations in San Francisco
- Jun 27 Foundation 1940-45 established
- Jun 28 Polish Provisional government of National Unity set up by Soviets
- Jun 29 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record)
- Jun 29 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, annexed by Soviet Union, becomes Ukrainian SSR
- Jun 30 17-day newspaper strike in NY begins
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