Editing 1939 (section)

=== June ===
{{main|June 1939}}
[[File:Phutthamonthon Buddha.gif|thumb|160px|right| [[June 24]]: Siam is renamed "[[Thailand]]".]]
* [[June 3]] &ndash; The Soviet government offers its definition of what constitutes "aggression", upon which the projected Anglo-Soviet-French alliance will come into effect. French Foreign Minister [[Georges Bonnet]] accepts the Soviet definition of aggression at once. The British reject the Soviet definition, especially the concept of "indirect aggression", which they feel is too loose a definition, and phrased in such a manner as to imply the Soviet right of inference in the internal affairs of Eastern European nations.
* [[June 4]] &ndash; The [[MS St. Louis|''St. Louis'']], a ship carrying a cargo of 907 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in [[Florida]], only a few passengers had been allowed to enter [[Cuba]]. Forced to return to Europe, many of its passengers later die in [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[death camps]] during [[The Holocaust]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://activehistory.ca/?s=Netherlands+&submit=Search|title=Remembering the Voyage of the St. Louis|last=Madokoro|first=Laura|website=Active History |date=August 9, 2021 }}</ref>
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Tientsin Incident]]: The Japanese blockade the British concession in [[Tianjin]], China, beginning a crisis which almost causes an Anglo-Japanese war in the summer of 1939.
* [[June 17]] &ndash; In the last public [[Guillotine|execution]] in France, murderer [[Eugen Weidmann]] is guillotined.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/17/eighty-years-since-versailles-execution-gave-public-guillotines-the-chop|title=Eighty years since Versailles execution stopped public guillotine spectacles|date=17 June 2019|author1=Vincent Coste|author2=Alastair Jamieson|website=Euronews|access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref>
* [[June 23]] &ndash; Talks are completed in [[Ankara]] between French Ambassador [[René Massigli]] and Turkish Foreign Minister [[Şükrü Saracoğlu]], resolving the Hatay dispute in Turkey's favor. [[Turkey]] annexes [[Hatay State|Hatay]].
* [[June 24]] &ndash; The government of Siam changes the country's name to [[Thailand]], which means 'Free Land'.<ref>"Thailand ( Siam ) History" (overview), CS Mngt, 2005, ''CSMngt.com'' webpage: [http://www.csmngt.com/thailand_history.htm CSMngt-Thai] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150424080811/http://www.csmngt.com/thailand_history.htm |date=April 24, 2015 }}.</ref>
* [[June 29]] &ndash; The [[Ford N-Series tractor#N Series Models|Ford 9N tractor]], with the [[Harry Ferguson|Ferguson]] hydraulic [[three-point hitch]], is first demonstrated at [[Dearborn, Michigan]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Randy|last=Leffingwell|title=Classic Farm Tractors: History of the Farm Tractor|year=1996|location=Osceola, WI, US|publisher=Motorbooks International|isbn=978-0760302460|page=99}}</ref>