Events Calendar: June 2025 Fred E. Hayes Post 57 Events: June 2025
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D-DAY
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Location:Normandy France
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Date:Friday, June 6, 2025
Honoring the landing of allied forces on the beaches of Normandy, France in WWII.
Battle of Midway Concludes (1942)
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Location:Midway Atoll
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Date:Saturday, June 7, 2025
The 3 day battle resulted in the loss of 4 Japanese aircraft carriers, a heavy cruiser, 300 aircraft and 3000 men. The US lost a carrier and destroyer, 145 aircraft and 360 men.
USS Liberty Attacked by Israel (1967)
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Location:Eastern Mediterranian
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Date:Sunday, June 8, 2025
During the Six-Day War, Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attack the USS Liberty in international waters off Egypt’s Gaza Strip.
Blood Drive
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Location:Grandview Community Center
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Date:Wednesday, June 11, 2025
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Time:1:00 PM
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Duration:5 Hours
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Contact:Jim Davidson at (509) 882-1984
Appointments fill quickly, so schedule at RedCrossBlood.org.
US Army Established (1775)
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Location:United States
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Date:Saturday, June 14, 2025
The US Army was formed June 14, 1775.
War of 1812 Begins
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Location:United States
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Date:Wednesday, June 18, 2025
June 18, 1812: The day after the Senate followed the House of Representatives in voting to declare war against Great Britain, President James Madison signs the declaration into law—and the War b
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo (1815
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Location:Waterloo, Belgium
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Date:Wednesday, June 18, 2025
At Waterloo in Belgium, Napoleon Bonaparte suffers defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington, bringing an end to the Napoleonic era of European history.
POST MEETING
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Location:Grandview Community Center
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Date:Thursday, June 19, 2025
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Time:7:00 PM
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Duration:1.5 Hours
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Contact:Jim Davidson at (509) 882-1984
RegularPost Meeting held both in person at by teleconference. Agendas emailed to the membership one to two daays before the meeting.
FDR Signs GI Bill (1944)
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Location:Washington, DC
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Date:Sunday, June 22, 2025
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services—known as G.I.s—for their eff
Battle of Okinawa Ends (1945)
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Location:Okinawa Island
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Date:Sunday, June 22, 2025
During World War II, the
Eisenhower takes command of US Forces in Europe (1942)
Location:
Europe
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
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Location:United States
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Date:Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the US Army troops of General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River
Korean War begins (1950)
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Location:Korea
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Date:Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War.
Khobar Towers bombing (1996)
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Location:Saudi Arabia
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Date:Wednesday, June 25, 2025
A truck loaded with 25,000 pounds of explosives rips through the U.S. Air Force military housing complex Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 U.S. airmen and wounding nearly 500 others.
U.S. begins Berlin Airlift (1948)
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Location:Germany
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Date:Thursday, June 26, 2025
U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade.
First U.S. troops arrive in France (1917)
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Location:France
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Date:Thursday, June 26, 2025
During World War I, the first 14,000 US infantry troops land in France at the port of Saint-Nazaire. The landing site had been kept secret because of the menace of German submarines.
Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea (1950)
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Location:United States
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Date:Friday, June 27, 2025
President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering US air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea.
US Launches First Offensive in Vietnam (1965)
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Location:Republic of Vietnam
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Date:Saturday, June 28, 2025
In the first major offensive ordered for U.S. forces in Vietnam, 3,000 troops of the 173rd Airborne Brigade&mdas
Nixon Announces No Draftees will go to Vietnam (1972)
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Location:United States
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Date:Saturday, June 28, 2025