June 6th facts

While investigating facts about June 6th, I found out little known, but curios details like:

On June 29, 1995, a department store in Seoul, Korea collapsed, killing 500 people. During construction, the owner insisted on adding an unauthorized 6th floor with a swimming pool. When his engineers protested, they were fired.

A volcanic eruption in Indonisia in 1815 temporarily altered the Earth's climate resulting in many parts of the US Northeast accumulating 6 inches of snow from June 6th-7th the following year

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 18 of the best facts about June 6th I managed to collect.

1. James Martin Stagg, a meteorologist for the allies in WW2 tasked with finding the day with the right conditions for the D-Day invasion. His team and him predicted that the weather would clear up on June 6th, which the Germans didn’t predict. He was right and D-Day was successful.

2. On June 6th 1942, 500 Japanese soldiers invaded and captured Kiska, Alaska. Taking a 10 man (and 6 dog) US Navy weather detachment completely by surprise. By the end of the campaign more casualties occurred in Alaska than at Pearl Harbor.

3. John Eisenhower graduated West Point on June 6th 1944, the same day his dad commanded the invasion of Europe by the Allied Forces.

4. Scotty" from Star Trek (James Doohan) was shot 6 times on D-day (June 6th, 1944) at Juno Beach.

5. At 3:00am on June 6th, Allied bombers began to attack the Germans, dropping a total of seven million pounds of explosives that day.

6. The Normandy landing on June 6th 1944 was the largest seaborne invasion in history, with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on D-Day, with 875,000 men disembarking by the end of June.

7. Lizzie Borden's trial began on June 6th, 1893 in New Bedford.

8. The final shot of the Civil War was shot by the CSS Shenandoah off of the Aleutian Islands on June 22nd, 1865. It finally surrendered in Liverpool, England on November 6th, 1865. 5 months and 29 days after the Civil War ended.

9. Bobby Kennedy’s first words after being fatally shot on June 6th, 1968 was “Is everyone okay?”. When the buss-boy who heard him replied yes, Kennedy’s last words were “Everything’s going to be okay.”

10. James Doohan, aka Scotty of Star Trek, lost the middle middle finger on his right hand at the Invasion of Normandy on Juno Beach, June 6th 1944. He was a member of the 3rd Canadian Infantry who led the assault on that beach.

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The "D" in "D-Day" stands for "Day", making the alternate name for June 6th, 1944 be "Day-Day".

On "D Day" on June 6th, during WWII, Allied troops were able to move inland French territory thanks that nobody dared to wake up Adolf HItler from his nap. Only Hitler could order the German Panzers to counter-attack the Allied invasion. - source

The German Army planned a tactical map exercise for June 6th 1944 which featured a paratrooper assault followed by a landing from the sea. The theoretical invasion was supposed to take place in Normandy. - source

6th of June 1944 was a very importain date for Erwin Rommel, because it was his wifes birthday.

On the 6th of June 1671 John Evelyn, councillor of the Foreign Plantations for Charles II, regarded New England "a people almost upon the very brink of renouncing any dependence on the Crown" over a century before independence was declared - source

The bizarre last words of Florida serial killer Aileen Wuornos, “I’d just like to say I’m sailing with the Rock and I’ll be back like ‘Independence Day’ with Jesus, June 6th, like the movie, big mothership and all. I’ll be back.”