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On This Day, June 6: Allies invade Nazi-occupied Europe on D-Day
UPI· 9 hours agoOn June 6, 1944, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops began crossing the English Channel in the...
White House proclaims 'National Day of Remembrance' for 80th anniversary of D-Day
UPI· 16 hours ago1 of 3 | Crosses adorned with U.S. and French flags blanket WWII's Normandy American Cemetery and...
How the ‘Corridor of Death’ Saved the D-Day Invasion
The Daily Beast· 7 hours agoOn the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we look back at a little-remembered battle two months after the invasion, one that truly turned the tide of WWII....
Bad Takes: Texas Republicans sure love to invoke Orwell without understanding his work
San Antonio Current· 2 days agoCharles González, a San Antonio native, who together with his father, Henry B. González, represented...
President Joe Biden Proclaims Thursday, June 6, 2024, as a National Day of Remembrance of the 80th...
Sierra Sun Times· 2 hours agoOn the evening of June 6, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcast a prayer for the Nation....
‘Father of State Parks.’ Meet the New York man who led KY’s first state park commission
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoThe man who was Kentucky’s first state parks commissioner can trace his ancestry back to the...
Here’s where betting experts see value in Boston-Dallas NBA Finals
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 20 hours agoDallas has covered four of its last five games and seven of its last 10. “Just the way Boston...
D-day and the most important weather forecast in history
BBC News· 7 hours agoWith stormy conditions in the English Channel D-Day, planned for 5 June 1944 was under threat. But a...
The D-Day weather forecast was flawed, but the Allies won and the war changed meteorology forever
Philly.com· 6 hours agoA memorial honoring a World War II hero will be unveiled in Atlantic City on Thursday, the 80th...
Senate Republicans block proposed Right to Contraception Act
UPI· 18 hours agoOpposition from Senate Republican lawmakers Wednesday defeated the proposed Right to Contraception...