On June 6, 1889, a fire ignited in a Seattle woodworking shop and
swept 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 served 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.

    
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BOHANNON

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.  

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 – 1969)

Erich Anderson, the familiar character actor who made his film
debut in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, played Keri Russell’s
father on Felicity and recurred on shows from Steven Bochco,
has died.

His wife, Saxon Trainor, and her brother-in-law, Michael O’Malley, announced in an Instagram post, Anderson died Saturday after a
"brutal struggle with cancer." 

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Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy
was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the        
California presidential primary.

Robert Kennedy was pronounced dead a day later, June 6, 1968.

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan turned 80 in March.

At Sirhan’s 17th parole board appearance on March 1, 2023, he
was again denied parole. He has waived his right to contest
deportation if he is paroled.