17th June, 1953

On this day in 1953, Soviet troops crushed an uprising by workers in East Berlin. As of June 16th, construction workers had been demonstrating for fair pay and working hours, and would be joined by thousands more dissidents over the next 24 hours. A crowd of some...

D-Day Landings

This week in history: on the 6th of June 1944, over 150,000 troops from 13 countries would land on the coast of Normandy, enacting ‘Operation Neptune’ on what has come to be known as ‘D-Day’. Airbone and amphibious landings were made,...

The Marshall Plan

This week in history: on the 5th of June 1947, in a speech before students of Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlined his plan for the economic recovery of Western Europe post-World War II. In March 1948, the United States Congress...