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World War II: Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France.

On June 6, in the year 1944, World War II: Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France. This event is recorded as a Selected Events event in the history of June 6, one of 244 recorded events on this date across all of history.

World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, the latter enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the only nuclear weapons used in war. World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 60 to 75 million people. Millions died as a result of massacres, starvation, disease, and genocides, including the Holocaust. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on June 6, 1944 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Selected Events event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 4 Wikipedia articles.
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 1 June 2026.

On This Date in History 244

Type Year Date Event
Historical Events 2024 Jun 6 The launch of SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4)
Historical Events 2023 Jun 6 Russo-Ukrainian War: The Kakhovka Dam is destroyed
Selected Events 2021 Jun 6 A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing 4 members of the same
Historical Events 2017 Jun 6 Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to capture the city
Selected Events 2017 Jun 6 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (soldiers pictured) opened the Second Battle of Raqqa, the final phase of
Selected Events 2017 Jun 6 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces opened the Second Battle of Raqqa, the final phase of the Raqqa campaign,
Notable Deaths 2016 Jun 6 Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster; arguably the best player never to become World Chess Champion (born 1931)
Notable Deaths 2016 Jun 6 Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter; works included Equus and Amadeus (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jun 6 Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author; prosecuting attorney in the Tate–LaBianca murders case (born 1934)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jun 6 Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author; noted for The Two Thousand Words which inspired the Prague Spring (born 192
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 6 Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician; pioneered studies of autism (born 1928)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 6 Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the mo
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 6 Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2012 Jun 6 Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player; together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line
Notable Deaths 2009 Jun 6 Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his s
Notable Deaths 2006 Jun 6 Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1946)
Notable Deaths 2005 Jun 6 Anne Bancroft, American film actress; winner of the 1963 Academy Award for Best Actress for The Miracle Worker (born 193
Historical Events 2002 Jun 6 Eastern Mediterranean event
Notable Births 2001 Jun 6 Rayan Aït-Nouri, French-Algerian footballer
Notable Births 2000 Jun 6 Haechan, South Korean singer
Notable Births 1998 Jun 6 Kenny Pickett, American football player
Notable Births 1996 Jun 6 Jack Hetherington, Australian rugby league player
Notable Deaths 1996 Jun 6 George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist; awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 for
Notable Births 1995 Jun 6 Julian Green, American soccer player
Historical Events 1994 Jun 6 China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board
Notable Births 1994 Jun 6 Yvon Mvogo, Swiss footballer
Notable Deaths 1994 Jun 6 Mark McManus, Scottish actor (born 1935)
Notable Deaths 1994 Jun 6 Barry Sullivan, American film actor (born 1912)
Historical Events 1993 Jun 6 Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia
Notable Births 1993 Jun 6 Vic Mensa, American rapper and singer
Historical Events 1992 Jun 6 Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes into the Darién Gap in Panama, killing all 47 aboard
Notable Births 1992 Jun 6 DeAndre Hopkins, American football player
Notable Deaths 1991 Jun 6 Stan Getz, American saxophonist and jazz innovator (born 1927)
Notable Births 1990 Jun 6 Gavin Hoyte, English born footballer who represented Trinidad and Tobago
Notable Births 1990 Jun 6 Anthony Rendon, American baseball player
Notable Births 1990 Jun 6 Pape Souaré, Senegalese footballer
Notable Births 1988 Jun 6 Anthony Pilkington, Irish footballer
Notable Births 1986 Jun 6 Gin Wigmore, New Zealand singer and songwriter
Historical Events 1985 Jun 6 The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Men
Notable Births 1985 Jun 6 Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer
Notable Births 1985 Jun 6 Drew McIntyre, Scottish professional wrestler
Notable Births 1985 Jun 6 Becky Sauerbrunn, American footballer; twice a winner of the FIFA Women's World Cup, also an Olympic gold medallist
Selected Events 1985 Jun 6 The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exh
Notable Births 1983 Jun 6 Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer
Notable Deaths 1983 Jun 6 Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright who wrote the lyrics of Lili Marleen (born 1893)
Historical Events 1982 Jun 6 1982 Lebanon War: The war begins as forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Op
Notable Deaths 1982 Jun 6 Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and academic (born 1905)
Selected Events 1982 Jun 6 Falklands War: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly-fire i
Notable Births 1980 Jun 6 Pete Hegseth, American author, political commentator and 29th United States Secretary of Defense
Notable Births 1979 Jun 6 Roberto De Zerbi, Italian football manager

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