Capuchin Friar Blessed Leonard Melki was murdered along with other Christians, including Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants, by Ottoman troops at Mardin.
Included in the murdered was Blessed Ignace Maloyan, Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin.
The French advanced 550 yards at Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.
British and French forces took control of all garrisons around Garua, German Cameroon.
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British, French, and Indian forces made a third and final attempt to capture Achi Baba on the Gallipoli peninsula but were repulsed. Both side, sustained heavy casualties.
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Today in World War II History—June 3, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—June 3, 1945: French troops leave Damascus, escorted by the British. US Marines land on Iheya Shima in the Ryukyu Islands northwest of Okinawa.
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President Wilson was growing irritated at the inability of Mexico to form a government.
Armenians began a month long resistance against the Ottoman Empire due to the genocide using a fort in the Giresun Province of Turkey. The uprising was sparked by news that the genocide was coming their way.
Ceylon's Governor Robert Chalmers declared martial law in the colony to arrest violence between Muslims and Buddhists.
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Churchill informed de Gaulle that British forces had been instructed to intervene in the Levant in order to end the fighting and the threat it posed to Allied supply lines to the Pacific. The British soon arranged a ceasefire but British intervention would bring the UK and France to the point of war.
Odilo Globocnik, age 41, Austrian Nazi committed suicide after being captured by the British.
On Okinawa, the Japanese pulled out of Shuri.
Japanese resistance ended on Negros in the Philippines.
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The forced expulsion of ethnic Germans from Brno began.
The French Army took control of the parliament building in Damascus while French aircraft bombed other parts of the city.
On Okinawa US forces reached Shuri and the southeast edge of Naha.
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85% of Yokohama was destroyed in a B-29 raid.
The second Sandakan Death March begins in which the Japanese guards commence a force march of Allied POWs in Borneo.
The French Army shelled Damascus and Hama.
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The USS Drexler was sunk in a kamikaze attack. 100 Japanese aircraft were shot down on the same day, bringing to an end the Japanese air offensive.
William Joyce, "Lord Haw Haw", was arrested by the British in Flensburg.
Queen Wilhelmina returned to the Netherlands.
The Royal Navy stopped the convoy system in the Atlantic, Arctic and Indian Oceans.
Admiral Halsey, commanding US 3rd Fleet, took command of American naval forces operating against targets in Japan.
French forces and Syrians engaged in combat against each other.
John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival was born.
It was Memorial Day.
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The French failed to capture, Andres, Pas-de-Calais.
New Zealand troops captured a ridge overlooking ANZAC Cove.
Riots broke out between Sinhalese and Muslims in Kandy, British Ceylon.
Armenian actor Yenovk Shahen, age 34, was murdered in the Armenian Genocide.
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The Australians took Tarakan Island.
More heavy fighting occurred on Okinawa.
The Czechoslovak Extraordinary People's Court distributed over twenty thousand sentences - seven percent of them being for life or the death sentence - to "traitors, collaborators and fascist elements."
Philipp Bouhler, age 45, Nazi official and philosopher committed suicide with a cyanide capsule while in a U.S. internment camp.
French troops landed in Syria and Lebanon to reassert control over the region. The landings sparked protests from Arab nationalists.
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The 43d Infantry Division captured the Ipoh Dam near Manila. 100,000 gallons of napalm were used in the American effort.
There was hard fighting again on Okinawa.
Aircraft from the USS Ticonderoga attacked targets on Taroa and the Maleolap atoll, encountering limited resistance.
Dutch troops landed on Tarakan Island, reinforcing the Australian forces.
Denmark severed relations with Japan.
French forces landed in Beirut to reassert control of Lebanon.
A British white paper addressed post war independence for Burma.
Archbishop Stepinac of Croatia was arrested for the first time by the incoming Communists in Yugoslavia.
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The secret Treaty of London was signed in which Italy agreed to abandon the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austro Hungaria and join the Triple Entente in exchange for Austro Hungarian territory.
Canadians attacked St. Julien again, but were once again forced back.
German colonial forces attacked the South African-held town of Trekkopje in South West Africa but were repulsed by a unit of armored cars equipped with machine guns.
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Franklin Roosevelt on April 11, 1945.
The Red Army prevailed in the Upper Silesian Offensive.
The U.S. Navy sank the I-8 off of Okinawa.
The British and Nationalist Chinese armies took Kyaukme.
The French 1st Army crossed t he Rhine near Speyer.
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