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Date June 28, 1651 - June 30, 1651
Location Lutsk • Ukraine • Volhynia
Participants khanate of Crimea • Poland • Zaporozhian Cossack

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John II Casimir Vasa
John II Casimir Vasa
king of Poland
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Cossack leader

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D-Day. American soldiers fire rifles, throw grenades and wade ashore on Omaha Beach next to a German bunker during D Day landing. 1 of 5 Allied beachheads est. in Normandy, France. The Normandy Invasion of World War II launched June 6, 1944.
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