June 1942

Thursday 04:

World War II: Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island with much of the Imperial Japanese navy.

Sunday 07:

Japanese troops land on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.

Wednesday 10:

World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.

Thursday 11:

World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.

Friday 12:

Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

Saturday 13:

The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda.

Sunday 14:

Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.

Sunday 21:

World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the U.S. mainland.