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Events on Saturday 17 June 1939 1
1939Voyage of the MS St. LouisJewish refugees are refused entry in the AmericasThe liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg with more than 900 Jewish refugees. Cuba, the United States and Canada refused to let them land. The ship returned to Europe, and about a quarter of its passengers later died in the Holocaust.