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World War II: Capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges by Allied paratroopers, also known as Operation Coup de Main (incorrectly referred to as Operation Deadstick.)
World War II: The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part—Aka�
World War I: U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties during the Battle of Belleau Wood while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry (the losses are exceeded at the Bat�
Tommie Smith, American sprinter and football player; winner of 1968 Olympic 200m gold medal in a world record time
Bill Dickey, American baseball player and manager who played in eight World Series, winning seven (died 1993)
Henry Allingham, English World War I soldier and supercentenarian (died 2009)
Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster; arguably the best player never to become World Chess Champion (born 1931)
World War II: Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France.
King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
World War II: The two-day Battle of Porta between the Royal Italian Army and the Greek People's Liberation Army begins.
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
World War II: The Allies commence the Syria–Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian campaign.
Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web
