People in Times Square watch the news ticker on the New York Times building about the D-Day Invasion, 1944
It’s June 6, 1944 — though for the people standing in Times Square that morning, it doesn’t feel like a day so much as a held breath. Crowds have gathered beneath the electronic ticker on the New York Times building, necks craned, eyes fixed on a stream of white letters crawling across a black strip of light: INVASION BEGINS. ALLIED TROOPS LAND IN FRANCE.