July 1940

the éphéméride | all on July and 1940.

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• July 1st:

• the Channel Islands are completely occupied;
• the French government moves with Vichy.

• July 2nd:

• Hitler orders the preparation of the plans for the invasion of the Great Britain, code name Opération Otary.
• the Polish of the Brigade of the hunters of Carpates, that the Vichy government wants to disarm in Syria, pass in Palestine.
• the USSR occupies part of the Romania.

• July 3rd:

• the Royal Navy brutally attacks with Seas-el-Kébir close to Oran the French fleet: 1.297 sailors are killed, the squadron of Alexandria is neutralized and all the French ships having found refuge in the British ports “are seized” by Royal Navy.

• July 5th:

• Rupture of the diplomatic relations between the Vichy government and the British government.

• July 6th: New British attack on Seas-el-Kébir. Main target of this second air attack, the battleship Dunkirk , already damaged by the first tackles three days earlier.

• July 8th: Attacks British on the French battleship Richelieu in roads of Dakar.

• July 9th:

• naval Action enters the fleets Italian and British.

• July 10th:

• the Parliament gives the constituent capacities to Philippe Pétain, the president of the Republic Albert Lebrun is thus “resigned” of office. It is the end of the Third Republic.
• Drafting by the French Communist Jacques Duclos of the text known under the name “of call of July 10th” which will be diffused as from August.

• July 11th:

• Philippe Pétain which takes the title of chief of the French State announces via the radio that it intends to carry out great reforms.

• July 12th:

• Publication in France of the first number of the weekly magazine anti-semite “With the Pilori”.

• July 14th:

• Foundation of the Parisian resistance movement Friends of Alain Fournier .

• July 17th:

• Parachuting of the first spy of the free France in occupied Zone.

• July 20th:

• the Romania and the Denmark leave the Société of the Nations.

• July 21st:

• the Czech government in exile settles with London.

• July 22nd:

• Hitler proposes peace with the British government.
• the New Hebrides adopt the free France.

• July 24th:

• the Alsace and the Lorraine are annexed to the III {{E}} Reich.

• July 25th:

• the women and the children receive the order all to evacuate Gibraltar.
• Bombardment of the British bases of Palestine by Italian aviation.

• July 26th:

• Rallying of the Ivory Coast to the General de Gaulle.

• July 27th:

• the character of animation Bugs Bunny makes its beginnings with the cinema.

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