Shortly before the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944, Radio Londres broadcast the first stanza of Paul Verlaine's poem "Chanson d'automne" to let the resistance know that the invasion would begin within 24 hours.

Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l’automne
Blessent mon cœur
D’une langueur
Monotone.
Blessent mon cœur d'une langeur monotone ("wound my heart with a monotonous languor") was the specific call to action.

1495 - First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller.

1974 - Flixborough disaster, the UK's biggest peacetime explosion until Buncefield a few years ago. :o

1944 - Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth

June 2
 

1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.

1818 - The British army defeated the Maratha alliance in Bombay, India.

Paramountcy ain't necessarily the political azimuth !
 

June 3
 

1098 - Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey.

1918 - The Finnish Parliament ratified its treaty with Germany.

1923 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote.

1083 - Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral

June 4
 

1615 - The fortress of Osaka, Japan, fell to shogun Ieyasu after a six month siege.

1647 - The British army seized King Charles I and held him as a hostage

1918 - French and American troops halted Germany's offensive at Chateau-Thierry, France.

1940 - The British completed the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk, France.

1942 - The Battle of Midway began. It was the first major victory for America over Japan during World War II. The battle ended on June 6 and ended Japanese expansion in the Pacific.

781 BC - Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse

June 5
 

1595 - Henry IV's army defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.

1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.

1940 - During World War II, the Battle of France began when Germany began an offensive in Southern France.

1942 - In France, Pierre Laval congratulated French volunteers that were fighting in the U.S.S.R. with Germans.

1944 - The first B-29 bombing raid hit the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.

1661 - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

June 6
 

1882 - The first electric iron was patented by H.W. Seely.

1925 - Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.

1942 - Japanese forces retreated in the World War II Battle of Midway. The battle had begun on June 4.

1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.

1664 - New Amsterdam renamed New York

June 6th, 1523 (Julian), Gustav Wasa is proclaimed new king of Sweden, which starts the end of the Danish led Kalmar Union. Partly because of this, this day is the National Day of Sweden.

Also, this happened some time later:

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/i...00/s190062.jpg

God Bless.