The Boston Globe mistakenly left out a rather important event from its “This Day in History” feature:
Correction: Because of a production error, the column “This Day in History’’ in Wednesday’s g section omitted that June 6, 1944, was when Allied forces in World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of German occupied western Europe.

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