John “Johnny” Christopher Depp II is an actor, musician, and
filmmaker. He was born in Owensboro, Kentucky and is 63
years old today.

He is the recipient of multiple accolades, including a Golden
Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as
nominations for three Academy Awards and two British
Academy Film Awards.

His films, in which he has often played eccentric characters,
have grossed over $10.8 billion worldwide.

2004

George Orwell’s novel of a dystopian future, 1984, was
published on June 8, 1949. It Orwell’s ninth and final
completed book.

The novel’s all-seeing leader, known as “Big Brother,”
became a universal symbol for intrusive government
and oppressive bureaucracy.

Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal
Farm (1945).

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
(25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950)

TIM MAGUIRE

On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight
D. Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for the largest amphibious
military operation in history: Operation Overlord, the Allied
invasion of northern France, commonly known as D-Day.

By daybreak, 18,000 British and American parachutists were
already on the ground. 

An additional 13,000 aircraft were mobilized to provide air
cover and support for the invasion. At 6:30 a.m., American
troops came ashore at Utah and Omaha beaches.

The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.

The operation began the liberation of France and the rest of
Western Europe, and laid the foundations for the Allied
victory on the Western Front.

On June 6, 1889, a fire ignites in a Seattle woodworking shop
and sweeps through some 100 acres, destroying much of the
city’s business district and waterfront.

The Great Seattle Fire culminates in losses estimated at $20
million—and serves as a turning point in the city’s history.

The fire started shortly after 2:30 p.m. when a pot of heated
glue at Victor Clairmont’s woodworking shop in the Pontius
Building on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Madison
Avenue burst into flames.

In less than a day, the fire swept through the city’s downtown, consuming nearly everything along its path, including mills,
warehouses, piers, and hundreds of businesses.

Seattle emerged more modern and resilient, with 465 new
buildings and a population increase of more than 30 percent
within a year of the fire.