June 6 - This Day in History

June 6 : General Interest
1944: D-Day

Although the term D-Day is used routinely as military lingo for the day an operation or event will take place, for many it is also synonymous with June 6, 1944, the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II... read more


American Revolution
1775 : New York Patriot Marinus Willet seizes British weapons
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-york-patriot-marinus-willet-seizes-british-weapons


Automotive
1933 : First drive-in movie theater opens
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-drive-in-movie-theater-opens


Civil War
1862 : Union claims Memphis in naval battle
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-memphis


Cold War
1977 : Vance affirms Carter's interest in human rights
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/vance-affirms-carters-interest-in-human-rights


Crime
1997 : A teenaged mother gives birth and murders her baby at the prom
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-teenaged-mother-gives-birth-and-murders-her-baby-at-the-prom


Disaster
1981 : Train avoids cow, but kills 600
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/train-avoids-cow-but-kills-600


General Interest
1683 : The Ashmolean opens
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-ashmolean-opens

1833 : President Jackson rides the Iron Horse
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-jackson-rides-the-iron-horse

1966 : James Meredith shot
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/james-meredith-shot

1984 : Indian army storms Golden Temple
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/indian-army-storms-golden-temple


Hollywood
1998 : Sex and the City premieres on HBO
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sex-and-the-city-premieres-on-hbo


Literary
1949 : George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four is published
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four-is-published


Music
1971 : The Ed Sullivan Show airs for the very last time
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-ed-sullivan-show-airs-for-the-very-last-time


Old West
1865 : William Quantrill killed by Union soldiers
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/william-quantrill-killed-by-union-soldiers


Presidential
1944 : General Dwight D. Eisenhower launches Operation Overlord
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/general-dwight-d-eisenhower-launches-operation-overlord


Sports
1992 : Eddie Murray sets career RBI record for a switch hitter
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eddie-murray-sets-career-rbi-record-for-a-switch-hitter


Vietnam War
1964 : U.S. reconnaissance jets shot down over Laos
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-reconnaissance-jets-shot-down-over-laos

1972 : South Vietnamese forces clear Kontum of communist troops
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/south-vietnamese-forces-clear-kontum-of-communist-troops


World War I
1918 : Battle of Belleau Wood begins
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-belleau-wood-begins


World War II
1944 : Allies invade France
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/allies-invade-france