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Adolf Hitler, on June 21, 1940, forced France to surrender in the same location and railway carriage in the Compiegne forest where the Germans had signed the armistice ending World War I in 1918. The WWI defeat had been humiliating for Germany, and Hitler's swift conquest of France turned German public opinion strongly in his favor....
O.J. Simpson, wanted as the main suspect in the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman, leads police on a 35-mph chase on the 405 freeway through L.A. Simpson was supposed to turn himself in the morning of...
During the running of the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 11, Pierre Levegh's Mercedes 300 SLR crashed into a track-side embankment, sending debris flying into a crowd of fans. Levegh and 83 spectators were killed, 120 others...
Secretariat dominated the field by 31 lengths in the 1973 Belmont Stakes and set a race record that's yet to be beaten. The victory completed a Triple Crown that also included a race record in the Kentucky Derby. Only two...
On June 6, 1944, Allied troops carried out a massive amphibious assault on occupied France, following an overnight air drop of 24,000 troops. The landings saw over 160,000 troops and over 5,000 ships cross the English Channel and establish beach...
On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing all 228 people on board. Two years later, analysis of the flight recorders showed evidence that the pilots...
On May 28, 1987, in one of the more bizarre moments of the Cold War, an amateur West German pilot named Mathias Rust "evaded" Soviet defenses as he flew from Finland to Moscow and landed near Red Square. Rust said...
Following the sinking of the HMS Hood and the loss of 1,415 sailors on May 24, 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill commanded that the offending ship, the Bismarck, be hunted down and sunk in retribution. "Sink the Bismarck!" became a...
