WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY JUNE 06

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1985 The body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele is located and exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil.

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1982 Israel invades southern Lebanon.

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1966 African American James Meredith is shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks.

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1961 Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of modern psychiatry, dies.

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1944 D-Day: Operation Overlord lands 400,000 Allied American, British, and Canadian troops on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied France.

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1939 Marian Wright Edelman, first African-American woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund.

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1934 Bill Moyers, American broadcast journalist, press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson.

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1934 President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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1930 Frozen foods are sold commercially for the first time.

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1925 Maxine Kumin, poet novelist and children’s author.

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1924 The German Reichstag accepts the Dawes Plan, an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.

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1918 U.S. Marines enter combat at the Battle of Belleau Wood.

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1907 Bill Dickey, professional baseball player.

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1902 Jimmie Lunceford, bandleader.

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