The Gold Coast Bulletin

ON THIS DAY

-

1844: The Young Men’s Christian Associatio­n (YMCA) is founded in London.

1925: Walter Percy Chrysler founds Chrysler Corp.

1933: The first drive-in cinema opens in Camden, New Jersey.

1944: Operation Overlord, the D-Day landing of Allied forces, the largest seaborne invasion in history, takes place on the coast of Normandy.

1968: US Senator Robert Kennedy dies in a Los Angeles hospital a day after he was shot in a hotel.

2016: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Pinterest and Twitter accounts are compromise­d after hackers gain his password in a LinkedIn data leak.

Birthdays: Robert Englund, US actor of Freddy Krueger fame (1947-); Bjorn Borg, Swedish tennis player (1956-); Ross Noble, English comedian (1976-).

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from Australia