May 26, 1938: German Chancellor and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler inspects the new 'People's Car' at Volkswagen factory in  Fallersleben, Germany, designed to manufacture 6 million of the cars.

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November 29

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Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in 1944, the largest amphibious invasion in history. Weeks later, the Allies liberated Paris from its Nazi occupiers. Meanwhile, Soviet forces battered the Nazis on WWII’s eastern front. In the U.S., Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth presidential term and Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall starred in their first film together, “To Have and Have Not,” introducing the immortal line, “You know how to whistle, don’t you?” 

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May 24

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December 25

The horrors of modern warfare were on full view in 1915, the second year of World War I. A German U-boat sank the passenger liner Lusitania off Ireland, German zeppelins bombed London, the French developed a fighter plane that could fire precisely timed machine-gun bullets through its propeller, and German troops unleashed poison gas for the first time on the battlefield. In America, meanwhile, a young Boston Red Sox pitcher named Babe Ruth clubbed his first major-league homer.

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Inventions & Science ‑ This Day In History

Last day for Texas’ celebrated drive‑in Pig Stands

Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies

Volkswagen halts production during World War II

First tank produced

The term “global warming” appears for the first time

Daniel Gabriel Farenheit, inventor of the mercury thermometer, is born

Switzerland welcomes first drive‑through bank

Layne Hall is born; will become oldest licensed driver in United States

“Silicon Valley” first appears in print

Louis Braille is born

PONG released

Researchers unravel the genetic code of an entire human chromosome