MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2011

Today is Monday, June 6, 157th day of 2011. There are 208 days left in the year.

1844 _ Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) founded in London

1882 _ Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000

1882 _ Electric iron patented by Henry W. Seely, NYC

1933 _ First drive-in theatre opens (Camden, N.J.)

1942 _ First nylon parachute jump (Hartford, Conn.-Adeline Gray)

1944 _ D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France

1960 _ Roy Orbison releases ``Only the Lonely"

1967 _ Six-Day War between Israel and Arab neighbors begin

1972 _ Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia)

1984 _ 1,200 die in Sikh ``Golden Temple" uprising India