1824 - British workers gain the right to strike.
1875 - Thomas Mann born
1925 - Chrysler Motor Company founded
1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds born
1944 - D-Day, Thousands of Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy in northern France at the start of a major offensive against the Germans.
1955 - Sandra Bernhard born
1956 - Bjorn Borg born
1962 - Ena born
1966 - James Meredith, the first black man to brave the colour bar at the University of Mississippi, is shot in the back and legs while on a civil rights march.
1967 - Max Casella born
1970 - James "Munky" Shaffer born
1975 - British voters back the UK's continued membership of the EEC by two-to-one in a nationwide referendum. Also Staci Keanan born.
1984 - Nearly 300 people are killed as Indian troops storm the Golden Temple in Amritsar, held by Sikh militants.
1994 - Six detainees held in an Oxfordshire immigration centre make their escape after a rooftop protest.
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