On this day …
June 6, 2017
- 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.