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History on the 21st of June 1940

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21 Jun 1940 WW2 French cruisers El Djezair, El Kantara, El Mansour, Ville d'Oran, and Ville d'Alger arrived at Casablanca, French Morocco with 1,200 tons of French gold. 
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21 Jun 1940 WW2 French and German representatives met to negotiate peace at the 1918 Armistice site at Compiègne, France, using the very same rail carriage where the WW1 armistice, brought from a French museum, for the negotiations. Hitler personally attended the negotiation, but at 1530 hours abruptly left the meeting to show disrespect for the French. At 2030 hours, French General Huntzinger called his government and informed that the Germans allowed no room for negotiations and demanded harsh terms; he was told to accept the German terms. Meanwhile, in southern France, the 32 Italian divisions deployed on the French border marched through the Little Saint Bernard Pass in the Alps and along the French Riviera; some of the Italians were met with a heavy snow storm and the latter halted by a very small group of French troops at Menton, which was about 5 miles from the border. According to the diary of Galeazzo Ciano, Benito Mussolini was extremely embarrassed by the inability of his troops to break through the French lines. 
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21 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-28 sank British decoy ship HMS Prunella south of Ireland. 2 men were killed, 54 were missing and would be never found, and 40 were rescued. 
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21 Jun 1940 WW2 An German Ar 196 aircraft from battlecruiser Scharnhorst mistook German submarine U-99 for an enemy submarine and damaged her with a bomb. U-99 was already en route back to Wilhelmshaven, Germany with a sick sailor; she would now require a longer time to complete repairs. 
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21 Jun 1940 WW2 The Estonian Independent Signal Battalion engaged in fighting with Soviet troops at Raua Street in Tallinn, Estonia. The Estonians would be defeated during the night. 
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21 Jun 1940 WW2 Erich Raeder met with Adolf Hitler to discuss the invasion of Britain. 
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21 Jun 1940 WW2 Heavy cruiser USS Wichita, with Commander Cruiser Division Seven Rear Admiral Andrew C. Pickens embarked, arrived at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil en route to join heavy cruiser USS Quincy at Montevideo, Uruguay. 
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21 Jun 1940 WW2 The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage began at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 
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21 Jun 1940 WW2 Destroyer USS Herbert arrived at Casablanca, French Morocco. 
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21 Jun 1940 WW2 As the British evacuated from Guernsey, the control of the island was turned over to a Controlling Committee under the presidency of Attorney General Ambrose Sherwill. 
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21 Jun 1940 WW2 Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey James Murray Robert Harrison was withdrawn to Britain, leaving Bailiff Alexander Coutanche the sole civilian leader. 
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21 Jun 1940 WW2 Destroyer USS Dickerson departed Lisbon, Portugal for Bilbao, Spain. 
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