Timeline Tuesday 6 June 1944

Events on Tuesday 6 June 1944 3

• 1944 D-Day Normandy landings On June 6, 1944, over 156,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy — the largest seaborne invasion in history.
• 1944 – present Phillip Allen Sharp American Molecular Biologist American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing, fundamentally changing the understanding of how genes work. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for demonstrating that genes in higher organisms are not continuous stretches of DNA but are interrupted by non-coding sequences called introns. Raised on a farm in rural Kentucky, he paid for college by raising cattle and growing tobacco before becoming one of the most influential figures in modern biology. He co-founded two pioneering biotechnology companies — Biogen (1978) and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (2002) — and has spent his career at MIT, where his doctoral students have included fellow Nobel laureate Andrew Fire.
• 1944 Phillip Allen Sharp born in Falmouth, Kentucky Born Phillip Allen Sharp on a small farm in Falmouth, Pendleton County, Kentucky, where his family grew tobacco and corn. He enjoyed science and maths at school but was not particularly drawn to biology as a child.