What happend on 6th June

05.06
07.06
1944

World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.

1934

New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

1933

The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.

1932

The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (26 ¢/L) sold.

1925

The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.

1912

Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest volcanic eruption in historic time.

1882

More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.

1862

American Civil War: Battle of Memphis

1859

Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).

1857

Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.