On this day …

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  • In 1808, Napoleon’s brother, Joseph Bonaparte, was crowned King of Spain.
  • In 1844, the YMCA was founded in London.
  • In 1882, more than 100,000 were killed in Bombay when a cyclone flooded the harbor.
  • In 1933, the first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, N.J.
  • In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed legislation establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • In 1944, the D-Day invasion, code-named Operation Overlord, began; it was the largest amphibious assault in history.