On this day

55 YEARS AGO (1963)

We revealed War Minister John Profumo had resigned “to save his family” after his affair with Christine Keeler. She was also the lover of Yevgeny Ivanov, a Soviet diplomat suspected of being a spy.

74 YEARS AGO (1944)

Allied troops began landing on the Normandy beaches for Operation Overlord to reclaim Nazi-occupied Europe.

52 YEARS AGO (1966)

Civil rights activist James Meredith was shot by a white supremacist as he walked to racially segregated Mississippi University to enrol.