On This Day In History – June 6: anniversaries, birthdays, major events, and time capsules. This day’s facts in the arts, politics, and sciences.
Normandy Invasion begunLed by U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, an Allied armada of ships, planes, and landing craft and some 156,000 troops began the invasion of northern France from England this day in 1944—the famous “D-Day” of World War II.In 2015American Pharoah won the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first Thoroughbred in more than 35 years to capture horse racing‘s Triple Crown.In 1968While campaigning for president, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died of a bullet wound from assassin Sirhan Sirhan.
