CSB - Today in History - June 6

Today in History - June 6

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today in history. Welcome to our day in history. Being
the sixth day of June, it is the one hundred
and fifty seventh day of the year. Quite a significant
day for the world today, and I'll tell you about
that in just a moment. But today. Also in nineteen
sixty five, the Rolling Stones released this song I Can't

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Get No Satisfaction and it went on to become number
one and give the band their first number one in
the UK. Yes, a very significant day for the world today.
Eighty years ago, Allied troops arrived on Omaha Beach in Normandy.

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It became known as the D Day Invasion. The logistics
of the D Day Invasion were incredible. It involved two
three hundred and ninety five aircraft, eight hundred and sixty
seven gliders, hundreds of Navy ships from mind sweepers to battleships,
and hundreds of troops carrying a salt craft. It was
absolutely incredible eighty years ago today. Right to the famous

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people having birthdays today, and topping the list is Gary
us Bombs, American blues and rock and roll singer. He
turns eighty five today. This is probably one of his
bigger hits. This Little Girl of mine. Legendary Irish locke
Willie John McBride born William James McBride, Captain Captain Ireland

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toured with the Lions five times, which was absolutely remarkable.
He turns eighty four today, Willie John. It's Tommy Smith's
birthday today. At the sixty eight Summer Olympics, it's an
American Track Cup in field athlete Tommy Smith was twenty
four at the time. On the two hundred metres sprint
finals in a gold medal nineteen point eight three seconds

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first time the twenty second barrier was broken. But more importantly,
his Black Power salute with John Carlos atop the medal
pod to protest racism and injustice. She caused quite a
bit of controversy. Have you birthday to him? He is
eighty today. American active was in Missus Dutfire Harvey Feistine Many.

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Happy birth birthday to Harvey. He is sixty today. Legendary
Swedish tennis player Beyond Borg became the first man in
the open era to win eleven Grand Slam singles, including
six French Opens. It's beyond Borg's sixty eighth birthday today.
American actor Paul Jiamatti loved him as the US attorney

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Chuck Rhodes Attorney in the Billions. It is Paul's fifty
seventh birthday today, and it's Uncle Cracker's birthday. Don't know
how you met me? Remember the song follow Me? His
real name is Matthew Schaefer until Cracker turns the Big
five vote today Amercu, there we go our day. In

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his story on gold Sport, this is the country sport,
Break us and followly