Ireland

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Evacuation of Dunkirk (which began on May 27) was completed., 338,226 soldiers were brought back to the UK by the little ships.

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Winston Churchill made his speech to the nation saying - We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hill

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The Cork Opera House is destroyed by fire

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Birth of Luke Kelly of the Dubliners

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City of Glasgow Fighter Squadron (No, 602) shoots down the first enemy aircraft over Britain after an attack on the River Forth.

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German submarine sank HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Orkney, with the loss of, 810 lives.

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Sir Jackie Stewart, three-times world motor racing champion, born in Dunbartonshire.

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Four senior IRA men executed by the Provisional Government are executed without trial

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Sir James Galway, born in Belfast

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