3rd » World War II: Empire of Japan e.g Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by Battle of Dutch Harbor e.g bombing Unalaska Island.
4th » World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
5th » World War II: The United States declares war on Kingdom of Bulgaria Bulgaria, Kingdom of Hungary Hungary, and Kingdom of Romania Romania.
6th » World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
7th » World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
7th » World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Empire of Japan or Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu Island named Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
8th » World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines Japanese submarine I-21 e.g I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle, New South Wales called Newcastle.
10th » World War II: Nazism called Nazis burn the Czech Republic or Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
11th » World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
12th » Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
20th » The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
21st » World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
21st » World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens (Oregon) or Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of Attacks on North America during World War II known as attacks by Japan against the
22nd » Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal (Germany) called Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
23rd » World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
26th » The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
28th » World War II: Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue
18th » Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
18th » Pat Hutchins, English author and illustrator
18th » Thabo Mbeki, South African politician, 23rd President of South Africa
18th » Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Quarrymen, the Beatles, Wings (band) named Wings and The Fireman (music) named the Fireman)
18th » Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos) (d. 1980)
18th » Nick Tate, Australian actor
18th » Hans Vonk (conductor) known as Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
19th » Jos Brink, Dutch actor and producer (d. 2007)
19th » Neil Chalmers, English zoologist and academic
19th » Merata Mita, New Zealand director and producer (d. 2010)
19th » Jeff Moss, American screenwriter and composer (d. 1998)
20th » Andrew Graham (academic) or Andrew Graham, English economist and academic
20th » Richard I. Neal, American general
20th » Neil Trudinger, Australian mathematician and theorist
20th » Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Beach Boys)
21st » Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe, English businessman and politician
21st » Dan Henning, American football player and coach
21st » Marjorie Margolies, American journalist and politician
21st » Henry S. Taylor, American author and poet
21st » Togo D. West, Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
22nd » Murphy Dunne, American actor and keyboard player (The Blues Brothers)
23rd » Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, English cosmologist and astrophysicist
24th » Arthur Brown (musician) or Arthur Brown, English singer (Kingdom Come (British band) named Kingdom Come and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
24th » Michele Lee, American actress, singer, and dancer
24th » Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean engineer and politician, 32nd President of Chile