SprueStack Zero Hour: WW2 day by day
26 June 1940
What happened on this day in the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, with a source for every entry.
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Each day we list events from the Second World War that happened on that date, from 1939 to 1945. Every entry names its source and links to it, so you can read further. Entries are sourced and machine-screened before they go up, a subset is human-reviewed, and we add more over time.
4 sourced entries for this date.
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Entries
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UK Parliament
Evacuation (House of Lords)
Official record of proceedings in the House of Lords, sitting of 1940-06-26: "Evacuation."
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Excerpt from the London Gazette, Issue 34889, page 4093, published 1940-07-05: "At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the26th day of June, 1940.PRESENT,The KING'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council'.
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Excerpt from the London Gazette, Issue 34889, page 4096, published 1940-07-05: "of any other Measure of the NationalAssembly of the Church of England, or of anyAct of Parliament."
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