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Foreign Min Guani gives luncheon for Quincy officers; U S Min Wilson s
Immediate cessation of hostilities. French troops already surrounded are to lay down their arms.
Backs W L Willkie for Pres
Brit radio announcer denounces armistice terms
1940Ian Ross, Australian newsreader (died 2014)[†]
Ian Charles "Roscoe" Ross was an Australian television news presenter for Seven News in Sydney and for Nine News.
1940Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer[†]
Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C., is an Italian cinematographer, widely recognized as one of the best and most influential in cinema history.
1940World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11 Independent Company.[†]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.