On This Day In History

June 6th, 2025

…81 years ago today

On June 6, 1944, D-Day saw Allied forces, primarily from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, launch a massive invasion of Nazi-occupied France, specifically in Normandy. This operation, codenamed Operation Overlord, marked the start of the liberation of northwestern Europe and is considered the largest amphibious invasion in history.
Key Aspects of D-Day:
The Normandy Landings: Allied troops landed on five beaches along the coast of Normandy: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword.
Operation Overlord: This was the overall name for the Allied invasion plan to liberate Europe.
Operation Neptune: This was the specific landing operation on D-Day.
Military Significance: D-Day is considered a turning point in World War II, as it marked the beginning of the end of the war in Europe.

Thanks for posting this EF
Brings back a lot of great memories
Every Friday after lunch
We would knock off and the WWII veterans would tell their stories
Then we would make a few drinks and the guys from Nam would tell theirs

They are all gone now, my kin and the ones I knew with the stories. I still know and keep up with just one guy who fought in Korean, but he had a sweet attache job, then finished his career at the bomb plant, so he didn’t have grunt stuff to tell

Almost all my heros are gone…just dammm

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June 7th, 1942. 83 years ago today…

The Battle of Midway Ends

On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway—one of the most decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan—comes to an end. In the four-day sea and air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers with the loss of only one of its own, the Yorktown, thus reversing the tide against the previously invincible Japanese navy.

Also today is National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

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June 8th, 1968

57 years ago today…

James Earl Ray, suspect in Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, is arrested

James Earl Ray, an escaped American convict, is arrested in London, England, and charged with the assassination of African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

On April 4, 1968, in Memphis, King was fatally wounded by a sniper’s bullet while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine. That evening, a Remington .30-06 hunting rifle was found on the sidewalk beside a rooming house one block from the Lorraine Motel. During the next several weeks, the rifle, eyewitness reports, and fingerprints on the weapon all implicated a single suspect: escaped convict James Earl Ray. A two-bit criminal, Ray escaped a Missouri prison in April 1967 while serving a sentence for a holdup. In May 1968, a massive manhunt for Ray began. The FBI eventually determined that he had obtained a Canadian passport under a false identity, which at the time was relatively easy.

On June 8, Scotland Yard investigators arrested Ray at a London airport. Ray was trying to fly to Belgium, with the eventual goal, he later admitted, of reaching Rhodesia. Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) was at the time ruled by an oppressive and internationally condemned white minority government. Extradited to the United States, Ray stood before a Memphis judge in March 1969 and pleaded guilty to King’s murder in order to avoid the electric chair. He was sentenced to 99 years in prison.

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June 8th, 632ad

1392 years ago today…

Muhammad, the prophet who spread Islam, dies

In Medina, located in present-day Saudi Arabia, Muhammad, one of the most influential religious and political leaders in history, dies in the arms of Aisha, his third and favorite wife. Some scholars have identified the date as June 8, 632, but note that the exact date is not possible to verify.

Born in Mecca of humble origins, Muhammad married a wealthy widow at 25 years old and lived the next 15 years as an unremarkable merchant. In 610, in a cave in Mount Hira north of Mecca, he had a vision in which he heard God, speaking through the angel Gabriel, command him to become the Arab prophet of the “true religion.” Thus began a lifetime of religious revelations, which he and others collected as the Qur’an. These revelations provided the foundation for the Islamic religion. Muhammad regarded himself as the last prophet of the Judaic-Christian tradition, and he adopted the theology of these older religions while introducing new doctrines. His inspired teachings also brought unity to the Bedouin tribesmen of Arabia, an event that had sweeping consequences for the rest of the world.

Also, today is National Best Friend Day. Call your bff and catch up.

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June 9th, 1923

98 years ago today

American cash-carrying company Brink’s unveils the first armored security vans

Also, on June 9th, 1945

80 years ago today

The Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declares that Japan will fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender. We all know what happens in two months (August 1945) in Heroshema and Nagisakki.

Also Today is National Donald Duck Day

Today is National Donald Duck Day because June 9th marks the date of his first on-screen appearance in the animated short “The Wise Little Hen” in 1934

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