CAMILLE BOHANNON

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

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives orders to paratroopers on D-Day.

U.S. paratroopers attached to the static line just prior to jumping
during the invasion of Normandy.

CAMILLE
BOHANNON

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson)
(June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)

Actress, model, and singer Marilyn Monroe was famous for
playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters. She became
one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early
1960s. Although she was a top-billed actress for only one
decade, her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2
billion in 2018) by the time of her unexpected death in
1962. More than half a century later, she continues to be
a major popular culture icon.

Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of a New York
subway grate while filming "The Seven Year Itch" in
New York in 1954. (AP)

SANDY KOZEL

Bono (Paul David Hewson) is 59 years old today.

The Irish born singer-songwriter is best known as the lead
vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band U2.

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BOHANNON

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., walking on the deck of the aircraft
carrier USS Champlain on May 5, 1961, after the return of his
Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 (in background) from the first
manned suborbital al flight.

President John F. Kennedy (right) congratulates astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., (left) the first American in space, on his historic May
5th, 1961 ride in the Freedom 7 spacecraft and presents him with
the NASA Distinguished Service Award. 

Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998)

ROSS SIMPSON

Country singer Willie Hugh Nelson is 86 today.