Saturday, June 3, 1944. Rome declared an open city.

German commander Albert Kesselring declared Rome to be an open city and withdraw from the city under a truce with Italian partisans.

Under international law and the rules of war, an open city is one that will not be defended, and therefore is open for the taking.  The declaration spared Rome major destruction.

US troops took Albano and Frascati on Rome's outskirts.  Canadian troops too Anagni.

The Provisional Government of the French Republic was officially created.

The Japanese attempt to reinforce Biak by sea but fail.  Fighting on the island was intense.

Troops of the 4th Infantry Division on their way to load for D-Day, June 3, 1944.

Gretl Braun, Eva Braun's sister, married SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, who was a really bad guy.  He was not faithful to her, or in the very last moments of its existence, Hitler.  He was executed in its closing days.  She would remarry in 1954 and died in 1987 at age 72.

Bounding Home won the Belmont.

Asperger Syndrome was identified for the first time in a paper by Dr. Hans Asperger, an Austrian.

Last prior example:

Friday, June 2, 1944. Eisenhower moves, Operation Frantic commences, Romania and the Soviet Union talk.

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