1870-A huge section of the city of Constantinople, Turkey, is set ablaze When the smoke finally cleared, 3,000 homes were destroyed and 900 people were dead.
1944- more than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries placed at the Normandy assault area, while 3,000 Allied ships cross the English Channel in preparation for the invasion of Normandy—D-Day.
1949-Enid Blyton's wooden toy character
Noddy first appears-in The Sunday
Graphic.
1968- Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in the Ambassador Hotel by 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He was shot in the head and died early the next morning.
2015-Former All Black Jerry Collins dies after
his car collides with a bus near Beziers in
Southern France.
He was 34.Collins'partner Alana Madill also
died in the crash.
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