TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, JUNE 6,

the 157th day of 2017. There are 208 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:

On this date in 1944, during World War II, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on “D-Day” as they began the liberation of Germanoccupied Western Europe.

In 1523,

Gustav Vasa became Sweden’s new king, Gustav I.

In 1654,

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicated; she was succeeded by her cousin, Charles X Gustav.

In 1799,

American politician and orator Patrick Henry died at Red Hill Plantation in Virginia.

In 1844,

the Young Men’s Christian Association was founded in London.

In 1925,

Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corp.

In 1933,

the first drive-in movie theater was opened by Richard Hollingshead in Camden County, N.J. (The movie shown was “Wives Beware,” starring Adolphe Menjou.)

In 1966,

black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.

In 1968,

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.

In 1977,

a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law imposing an automatic death sentence on defendants convicted of the first-degree murder of a police officer.