1933

The first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey.

1939

The first Little League Baseball game was played as Lundy Lumber defeated Lycoming Dairy, 23-8, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

1944

On June 6, 1944, during World War II, nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, on D-Day as they launched Operation Overlord to liberate German-occupied Western Europe. More than 4,400 Allied troops were killed on D-Day, including 2,501 Americans.

– From wire reports