Heavy fighting continued on Saipan.
Beachheads on Saipan were linked, with combat featuring heavy artillery duels by both sides.
US battleships hit Guam, but the invasion of the island was postponed due to the approach of a Japanese fleet, which later turned to link up with a second one.
Carrier task forces raided Iwo Jima, Chichi Jima and Haha Jima.
The Treaty of Vis was signed in Yugoslavia in an attempt by the Western Allies to merge the Yugoslavian government in exile and the Communist partisans in the field. The treaty provided for an interim post-war government.
The British 21st Army Group in Normandy advanced everywhere along its front. The U.S. 1st Army crossed the Douvre and captured St. Saveur.
King George VI visited British troops in France.
The U.S. 9th Infantry Division liberated Orglandes.
244 V-1 rockets hit London.
The British 8th Army took Foligno and Spoleto, Italy. The US 5th Army took Grosseto.
French historian Marc Bloch, age 57, was shot by the Gestapo due to his work for the French Resistance.
George Stinney, a 14-year-old African American convicted of murder of two white girls, was executed in the electric chair, the youngest American to suffer that fate.
His conviction has since been vacated, not that it does him any good, on the basis that he did not receive a fair trial.
Another item on this from Uncle Mike:
June 16, 1944: A Southern State Executes a Black 14-Year-Old
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