In 1933, the first drive-in movie theater was opened by Richard Hollingshead in Camden County, New Jersey. (The movie shown was "Wives Beware," starring Adolphe Menjou.)

1934 – New Deal: The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

In 1939, the first Little League game was played as Lundy Lumber defeated Lycoming Dairy 23-8 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

1944 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Normandy—codenamed Operation Overlord—begins with the execution of Operation Neptune (commonly referred to as D-Day), the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.

1946 – The Basketball Association of America is founded in New York City; the BAA was the precursor to the modern National Basketball Association.

In 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, 25 1/2 hours after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan

In 1978, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, a primary ballot initiative calling for major cuts in property taxes.

In 1982, Israeli forces invaded Lebanon to drive Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of the country. (The Israelis withdrew in June 1985.)

1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.

2002 – Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

2004 – Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…

1755 – Nathan Hale, American soldier (d. 1776)

1756 – John Trumbull, American soldier and painter (d. 1843)

1867 – David T. Abercrombie, American surveyor and businessman, founded Abercrombie & Fitch (d. 1931)

1875 – Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)

1890 – Ted Lewis, American singer, clarinet player, and bandleader (d. 1971)

1901 – Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (d. 1970)

1936 – Levi Stubbs, American baritone singer for the Four Tops (d. 2008)

1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, American singer-songwriter

1941 – Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-American journalist and author (d. 2012)

1949 – Holly Near, American folk singer-songwriter

1952 – Playwright-actor Harvey Fierstein

1955 – Sandra Bernhard, American actress and comedian

1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player and fashion designer

1960 – Steve Vai, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1967 – Actor Paul Giamatti

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