A Walk In The Sun was released. I'm personally not a great fan of the movie, but many regard it as one of the greatest World War Two, and indeed war, films ever.
The Arab League voted to boycott all goods from Jewish Palestine.
The U.S. Supreme Court decided International Shoe Co. v. Washington holding that held that a party may be subject to the jurisdiction of a state court if it has "minimum contacts" with that state.
The Secretary of Transportation has taken a lot of flak for this, and I'm not fan of the Trump Administration, but you know, I don't think the message here is wrong by any means.
And, fwiw, I hate seeing people in pajamas in public, whether its on an airplane, or Walmart.
Trade Union leader and member of the IWW was executed for the murder of John and Arling Morrison in Salt Lake City in 1914. His guilt continues to be contested, and Hill became sort of a martyr for trade union activism.
Hill was a Swede born as Joel Emmanuel Hägglund in an era when a lot of Scandinavian and Eastern European immigrants were fairly radicalized.
Hill may in fact have not been guilty of the murder he was accused of. Morrison, a former policeman and grocer, along with his son, was shot and killed by two men. Later that evening Hill arrived at a doctor's office with a gunshot wound and claimed it was sustained in a fight over a women. He refused to say more, even later. Evidence developed as late as 2011 suggest that Hill was telling the truth initially, and that he was shot by Otto Appelquist, a friend of his. Both Appelquist and Hill were lodgers of the Erickson family, and rivals for her attentions. Hill apparently told Erickson that Appelquist had shot him before going to seek medical attention, but he never revealed the details for his defense at trial, which is peculiar.
Hill, who was a songwriter himself, was famously memorialized in the balled "Joe Hill".
It's a bit much, frankly, particularly if he was shot by a fellow Swede over the affection of a Swedish American girl. That's drama, but not that sort of drama.
It's interesting that he never revealed the details of what would have been a pretty good alibi. Given the immigrant connection, he may have felt that he simply didn't want to get them in trouble.
Richard Bell Davies of the Royal Naval Air Service landed his Nieuport to rescue downed airman Gilbert Smylie in the first example of an air combat rescue mission.
He won the Victoria Cross.
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to Squadron-Commander Richard Bell Davies, D.S.O., R.N., and of the Distinguished Service Cross to Flight Sub-Lieutenant Gilbert Formby Smylie, R.N., in recognition of their behaviour in the following circumstances:—
On the 19th November these two officers carried out an air attack on Ferrijik Junction. Flight Sub-Lieutenant Smylie's machine was received by very heavy fire and brought down. The pilot planed down over the station, releasing all his bombs except one, which failed to drop, simultaneously at the station from a very low altitude. Thence he continued his descent into the marsh. On alighting he saw the one unexploded bomb, and set fire to his machine, knowing that the bomb would ensure its destruction. He then proceeded towards Turkish territory.
At this moment he perceived Squadron-Commander Davies descending, and fearing that he would come down near the burning machine and thus risk destruction from the bomb, Flight Sub-Lieutenant Smylie ran back and from a short distance exploded the bomb by means of a pistol bullet. Squadron-Commander Davies descended at a safe distance from the burning machine, took up Sub-Lieutenant Smylie, in spite of the near approach of a party of the enemy, and returned to the aerodrome, a feat of airmanship that can seldom have been equalled for skill and gallantry.
He'd earlier won the DSO.
For services rendered in the aerial attack on Dunkirk, 23rd January, 1915:—
Squadron Commander Richard Bell Davies
Flight Lieutenant Richard Edmund Charles Peirse
These Officers have repeatedly attacked the German submarine station at Ostend and Zeebrugge, being subjected on each occasion to heavy and accurate fire, their machines being frequently hit. In particular, on 23rd January, they each discharged eight bombs in an attack upon submarines alongside the mole at Zeebrugge, flying down to close range. At the outset of this flight Lieutenant Davies was severely wounded by a bullet in the thigh, but nevertheless he accomplished his task, handling his machine for an hour with great skill in spite of pain and loss of blood.
He remained in the Royal Navy until retiring in 1941, at which time he joined the Royal Navy Reserve, taking a reduction in rank to Commander from Vice Admiral in order to do so. He retied a second time in 1944. He died in 1966 at age 79.
The first commercial airplane flight took place when Wright Company pilot Philip Parmalee transported two bolts of silk (worth $1,000) from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, for delivery to the Morehouse-Martens Department Store in Columbus.
Predictably, Parmalee died two years later in an airplane crash.
Philip Parmalee
Oddly enough, showing the dangers of an earlier age, his mother had been killed when he was a child by a runaway horse.
The HMCS Rainbow arrived at Esquimault, British Columbia, to begin her service patrolling the Pacific coast. She was the Royal Canadian Navy's second ship.
Gen. Eisenhower was relieved of command of the Third Army and put in head of a military history detail due to his remarks about denazification.
United States Marshal Fred A. Canfil sent a gift to his friend Harry S. Truman of a painted glass sign mounted on a walnut base with the phrase "The Buck Stops Here".
Admiral William Sample, age 47, was on a flight which disappeared near Wakayama, Japan.
Korea was removed from Japan's political and administrative control..
A real glimpse into how things have changed was provided by the denial of divorce story on the cover of the Tribune.
Both sides asked for a divorce, but the judge said no.
No fault divorce, as we've noted here before, did not exist at the time.
It shouldn't exist now.
The Saturday journals were out. Women seemed to be the theme.
Marty Robbins (Martin Robinson) was born in Arizona. He learned how to play the guitar while serving in the Navy during World War Two.
Alejandro Velasco Astete, the first aviator to fly over the Andes, died in a plane crash while landing. He was attempting to avoid a crowd of spectators that had gathered to watch him land at Puno, Peru. He was 28.
Spanish Olympic fencer Miguel Zabalza was killed in action in the Rif War. He was 29 years old.
Japanese officials arrived in Manila to conclude the surrender there. They flew in two Mitsubishi G6M1- with green crosses rather than Japanese roundels.
Bataan 1 and Bataan 2 on Ie Shima., where they stopped for refueling.
The planes were assigned the flight names Bataan 1 and Bataan 2.
The Red Army kept on with its war against Japan, landing at Maoka on South Sakhalin.
Chiang Kai-shek forbid Japanese forces from surrendering to the Red Chinese forces and demanded of the Communists that they not advance.
The Chinese Communist prevailed at Yongjiazhen. 1300 Warlord/Nationalist and twentyone Japanese troops were killed on the Nationalist side.. Ninety-eight Nationalist troops and twenty-one Japanese troops were captured.
The Red Army took Tsitsihar in the Manchurian Plain and linked up with Chinese Communist forces in the region.
Truman told Stalin that the US had a new and very powerful weapon that was going to be deployed against Japan, but did not provide the specifics.
Stalin, thanks to deep penetration of the US government by Soviet intelligence, already knew about the Manhattan Project and what it was about, so this was not that much of a surprise. Stalin had actually known about the Manhattan Project three years prior to Truman knowing about it.
The Navy began to bombard Kure, Japan.
Japanese freighter hit from carrier-based aircraft near Tsugaru-Kaikyo, east of Hokkaido, Japan.
North American P-51C-11-NT of the 311th FG, 14th AF, escorting C-47s over China on July 24, 1945.
The Japanese carried out the Kalagong massacre, killing villagers in the area after they failed to provide any information about guerrillas in the area.
Peter to Rot.
The Japanese also murdered Peter To Rot, a Catholic from New Guinea, in a bizarre incidence demonstrating the severe Japanese anti Western view and, frankly, the Japanese debasement of the period, which not only reflected itself in murder, but in a chattel slavery view of women and sex. He was executed for defending a woman whom another planned to kidnap and force into a plural marriage, with the Japanese supporting plural marriages in New Guinea (they were not legal in Japan). He was arrested and then later murdered on this day. He will be canonized this October.
Japanese rocket propelled fighter the Mitsubishi J8M made its first flight under it's own power. The test flight was not really a success as the engine stalled. The pilot, Lieutenant Commander Toyohiko Inuzuka, was able to glide the power into a landing, but the plane hit a building. He died the following day.
The plane was intended as a licensed copy of the ME 163. Only seven were built.
"First American Red Cross workers to leave Europe for duty in the Pacific are these girls shown waiting to board their transport: L-R: Brownie Thain, Waukomis, Okla.; Jean Fiegel, 7021 Hollywood Bvd., Hollywood, Cal., and Mildred Blandford, 1735 Chichester St., Louisville, Kentucky. Marseille, France. 7 July, 1945. Photographer: Cpl. Becker."
Heloísa Pinheiro (Helô Pinheiro), who inspired The Girl from Ipanema, was born.
Women could no longer be involuntarily discharged from the United States Armed Forces as a result of pregnancy, by orders of the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Stricken plane landing on aircraft carrier, June 28, 1945.
While 23,000 Japanese troops remained in the field, in isolated areas, MacArthur announced that operations on Luzon were complete.
They weren't, really. The 8th Army and the Filipinos would remain to mop the remainder up.
The Soviet backed Provisional Government of National Unity in Poland, made up of the PPR: 7 ministers, Socialist Party: 6 ministers, People's Party: 3 ministers, PSL: 3 ministers and Democratic Party: 2 ministers, was formed.
The Polish Government in Exile did not recognize it, although several of its members were from the Government in Exile.
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