TODAY IN HISTORY

On June 6, 1816, a snowstorm struck the northeastern U.S., heralding what would become known as the “Year Without a Summer.”

In 1933, the first drive-in movie theater was opened by Richard Hollingshead in New Jersey. (The movie shown was “Wives Beware.”)

In 1939, the first Little League game was played in Pennsylvania.

In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on “D-Day” as they began the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe.