1939

The German ocean liner MS St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, was turned away by U.S. officials on the Florida coast.

1940

During World War II, the Allied military evacuation of some 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, ended. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared: “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 hills; we shall never surrender.”

1990

Dr. Jack Kevorkian carried out his first publicly assisted suicide, helping Janet Adkins, an Alzheimer’s patient from Portland, Oregon, end her life in Oakland County, Michigan.