The Longest Day may refer to:
* The "
D-day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as ...
" invasion of Normandy during World War II
Art, entertainment, and media
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''The Longest Day'' (book), 1959 book by Cornelius Ryan
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''The Longest Day'' (film), a 1962 war film based on Ryan's book
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Japan's Longest Day
is a 1967 Japanese epic film, epic war film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The subject of the majority of the movie is the period between noon on August 14, 1945, and noon on August 15, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito's decision to surrender to the ...
'', a Japanese 1967 war film on the surrender of Japan in World War II
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''The Longest Day'' (game), a 1980 wargame by Avalon Hill
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"The Longest Day" (''Land of the Lost''), an episode of the 1974 series ''Land of the Lost''
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''Longest Day'' (novel), a 1998 novel by Michael Collier set in the ''Doctor Who'' universe.
* "The Longest Day", a song by Iron Maiden from ''
A Matter of Life and Death'' (2006)
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''The Longest Day'' (album), 1984 album by the Del Fuegos
* "Longest Day", a song by Soulsavers from ''
The Light the Dead See
''The Light the Dead See'' is the fourth full-length studio album from English electronica production duo Soulsavers, released by V2 Records in the UK on 21 May 2012, and by Mute in the US on 22 May 2012. The album title comes from a poem by F ...
'' (2012)
Other uses
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The Longest Day (race)
The Longest Day of Nelson was conceived in 1980, when a group of racing enthusiasts, led by John McGill, Grover Griggs and Ann McHugh, came up with the idea to hold an amateur 24-hour endurance race for purely showroom stock vehicles at the Nelson ...
, a 24-hour sports and touring car endurance race
* "The longest day", a 25-hour day that occurs once a year due to
daylight saving time
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time, daylight time (Daylight saving time in the United States, United States and Daylight saving time in Canada, Canada), or summer time (British Summer Time, United Kingdom, ...
* The
summer solstice
The summer solstice or estival solstice occurs when one of Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere ( Northern and Southern). The summer solstice is the day with the longest peri ...
, the "longest day" of the year since it has the most daylight
See also
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Long Day (disambiguation)
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