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 +[[Image:D-Day.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[D-Day]]'' ([[1944]])
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 +On [[June 6]], [[1944]], the [[date]] during [[World War II]] when the [[Allies]] [[invade]]d western Europe.
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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
 +*[[1929]] - ''[[Un chien andalou]]'' premiers in France
 +*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: the [[Normandy Landings|Battle of Normandy]] begins. [[D-Day]], code named ''[[Operation Overlord]]'', commences with the landing of 155,000 [[Allies of World War II|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.
== Births == == Births ==
 +*[[1799]] - [[Alexander Pushkin]], Russian poet (d. [[1837]])
 +*[[1875]] - [[Thomas Mann]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1955]])
== Deaths == == Deaths ==
 +*[[1832]] - [[Jeremy Bentham]], English philosopher (b. [[1748]])
 +*[[1925]] - [[Pierre Louÿs]], French writer and erotomaniac (b. [[1870]])
 +*[[1948]] - [[Auguste and Louis Lumière|Louis Lumière]], French movie pioneer (b. [[1864]])
 +*[[1961]] - [[Carl Jung]], Swiss psychiatrist (b. [[1875]])
 +*[[1962]] - [[Yves Klein]], French artist (b. [[1928]])
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