Today is Wednesday, June 6, the 157th day of 2018. There are 208 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight: On June 6, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, 25½ hours after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.
On this date:
In 1799, American politician and orator Patrick Henry died at Red Hill Plantation in Virginia.
In 1918, U.S. Marines suffered heavy casualties as they launched their eventually successful counteroffensive against German troops in the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood in France.
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.)
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.
In 1966, black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.
In 1994, a China Northwest Airlines passenger jet crashed near Xian, killing all 160 people on board.
Today’s birthdays: Singer-songwriter Gary “U.S.” Bonds is 79. Comedian Sandra Bernhard is 63. International Tennis Hall of Famer Bjorn Borg is 62. Actress Amanda Pays is 59. Comedian Colin Quinn is 59. Record producer Jimmy Jam is 59. Rock musician Steve Vai is 58.
Thought for today: “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” — Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (born this date in 1606, died 1684).
— Associated Press
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