[GreenKeys] today in history

[Bryan Brodie]

June 3, 1944: A young employee in the London Associated Press bureau
punched out a practice strip of teletype tape labeled as a "flash,"
the most urgent type message used by the wire service, on what she
thought was a disconnected machine, to report that Allies had landed
in France.

The AP sent a message to "bust that flash" less than two minutes
later, but radio stations had already broadcast the "flash" about the
landing.

The invasion, now known as D-Day, occurred three days later.