Today in History:Thursday, June6, 2013

歷史上的今天：2013年6月6日，星期四

June 6th, 1944. Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandie, France, in the D-Day invasion of WWII. Commanding the massive operation General Dwight Eisenhower who tells the troops:

“You are about to embark upon the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.”

Years later, D-Day veteran Vernon Grosscup recalls what he saw on the beaches firsthand:

“The destruction that will end the death, the bodies lay all over, and there’s other words I said before but this was the all term I decide to say.”

1982. In the Mid-East, Israel invades neighboring Lebanon, to drive out Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian fighters. Months later, Arafat and the PLO leadership leave Lebanon, relocating to Tunisia in North Africa. Israel withdraws most of its troops 3 years later, but holds a border zone in South Lebanon until 2000.

1985. In Brazil, authorities exhume a body later identified as remains of Josef Mengele, the fugitive Nazi doctor. Known as the Angel of Death, Mengele performed cruel medical experiments on inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust.

And 1933. The first Drive-In movie theatre opens in Camden, New Jersey. Drive-In’s become a pop culture sensation across the United States in the first few decades after WWII.

Today in History, June 6th. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.