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June 8
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'''
June 8''' is the 159th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (160th in
leap years), with 206 days remaining.
Events
*
68 - The
Roman Senate accepts emperor
Galba.
*
536 -
Pope Silverius St. Silverius becomes
Pope (probable date).
*
793 - The first
Viking raid on
United Kingdom British soil at
Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known
*
1405 -
Richard Scrope,
Archbishop of York and
Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk Thomas Mowbray,
Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on
Henry IV of England Henry IV's orders
*
1624 - An earthquake strikes
Peru
*
1776 -
American Revolutionary War:
Battle of Trois-Rivières -
United States American invaders are driven back at
Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
*
1783 - The
volcano Laki, in
Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year
famine.
*
1789 -
James Madison introduces a proposed
Bill of Rights in the
U.S. House of Representatives.
*
1861 -
American Civil War:
Tennessee secedes from the
United States Union.
*
1862 - American Civil War:
Battle of Cross Keys -
Confederate States of America Confederate forces under General
Stonewall Jackson save the
Army of Northern Virginia from a
United States Union assault on the
James Peninsula led by General
George McClellan.
*
1866 - The
Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in
Ottawa.
*
1887 -
Herman Hollerith receives a
patent for his
punch card calculator.
*
1912 -
Carl Laemmle incorporated
Universal Studios Universal Pictures.
*
1941 -
World War II:
Allies invade
Syria and
Lebanon.
*
1942 -
World War II:
Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the
Australian cities of
Sydney and
Newcastle, New South Wales Newcastle
*
1948 -
Milton Berle hosts the debut of ''
Texaco Star Theater''.
*
1949 - ''
Nineteen Eighty-Four'' by
George Orwell is published.
* 1949 -
Red Scare: Such celebrities as
Helen Keller,
Dorothy Parker,
Danny Kaye,
Fredric March,
John Garfield,
Paul Muni and
Edward G. Robinson are named in an
FBI report as
Communist Party members.
*
1950 - Sir
Thomas Blamey becomes the only
Field Marshal in
Australian history.
*
1953 -
Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A
tornado hits the
U.S. city of
Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
*1953 - The
United States Supreme Court rules that
Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
*
1959 - The
USS Barbero (SS-317) USS ''Barbero'' and
United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via
Missile Mail.
*
1966 - One of the
XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a
F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot.
NASA pilot
Joseph A. Walker and
USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
*
1967 -
Six-Day War: The
USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
*
1968 -
James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Doctor
Martin Luther King Jr.
*1968 - The body of
assassinated U.S. Senator
Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at
Arlington National Cemetery.
*
1969 - After the
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) cancels the program, the last
Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour airs.
*
1974 - An F4
tornado strikes the
U.S. city of
Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
*
1984 -
Homosexuality is
decriminalised in the state of
New South Wales,
Australia.
*
1986 - Former
United Nations Secretary-General
Kurt Waldheim is elected president of
Austria.
*
1992 - The first
World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the
Earth Summit held in
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
*
1995 - Downed
U.S. Air Force pilot Captain
Scott O'Grady is rescued by
U.S. Marines in
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia.
*
1996 -
Panama becomes a member of the
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works Berne Convention copyright treaty.
*
1998 -
Charlton Heston assumes the presidency of the U.S.
National Rifle Association.
*
1999 -
War on Drugs: The government of
Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion
US dollars, in its
gross national product.
*
2004 - Major
database Crash (computing) crash.
*2004 - First
Transit of Venus in this
millennium.
Births
*
1625 -
Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist (d.
1712)
*
1671 -
Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d.
1751)
*
1717 -
John Collins (delegate) John Collins, American politician (d.
1795)
*
1724 -
John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d.
1794)
*
1743 -
Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian adventurer (d.
1795)
*
1810 -
Robert Schumann, German composer (d.
1856)
*
1847 -
Ida McKinley,
First Lady of the United States (d.
1907)
*
1851 -
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d.
1940)
*
1867 -
Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d.
1959)
*
1903 -
Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator from Texas (d.
1996)
*1903 -
Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d.
1987)
*
1910 -
John W. Campbell John W. Campbell Jr., writer, publisher, and editor (d.
1971)
*1910 -
Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d.
2003)
*
1916 -
Francis Crick, English microbiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
2004)
*
1917 -
Byron White, American athlete and Supreme Court Justice (d.
2002)
*
1918 -
Robert Preston, American actor (d.
1987)
*
1921 -
Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d.
1993)
*1921 -
Suharto,
President of Indonesia
*
1924 -
Lyn Nofziger, American political operative (d.
2006)
*
1925 -
Barbara Bush,
First Lady of the United States
*
1927 -
LeRoy Neiman, American painter
*
1929 -
Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor
*
1930 -
Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician,
Nobel Prize in Economics
*
1933 -
Joan Rivers, American comedienne and author
*
1934 -
Millicent Martin, English singer and actress
*
1936 -
James Darren, American actor and singer
*1936 -
Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize
*
1940 -
Nancy Sinatra, American singer
*
1941 -
Robert Bradford (NI politician) Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer and politician (d.
1981)
*1941 -
Fuzzy Haskins, American musician (
P Funk)
*
1942 -
Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
*
1943 -
Colin Baker, British actor
*
1944 -
Boz Scaggs, American singer and songwriter
*
1945 -
James Baird, American Architect
*
1947 -
Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*
1949 -
Emanuel Ax, Polish-born pianist
*
1950 -
Sonia Braga, Brazilian actress
*
1951 -
Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer and guitarist
*
1955 - Sir
Tim Berners-Lee, English inventor of the World Wide Web
*1955 -
Griffin Dunne, American actor
*1955 -
Greg Ginn, American guitarist (
Black Flag (band) Black Flag)
*
1957 -
Scott Adams, American cartoonist
*
1958 -
Keenen Ivory Wayans, American comedian, actor, and director
*
1960 -
Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (
Simply Red)
*
1962 -
Nick Rhodes, English musician (
Duran Duran)
*
1963 -
Keti Garbi, Greek singer
*
1965 -
Kevin Farley, American actor
*
1966 -
Julianna Margulies, American actress
*
1969 -
Marcos Siega, American director
*1969 -
David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor
*
1970 -
Kelli Williams, American actress
*
1971 -
Troy Vincent, American football player
*1971 -
Mark Feuerstein, American actor
*
1972 -
Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
*1972 -
Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
*1972 -
Matthew Bellamy, British musician (
Muse)
*1972 -
Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
*
1973 -
Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
*
1977 -
Kanye West, American rapper
*
1978 -
Maria Menounos, American actress and television host
*
1983 -
Lee Harding, Australian punk-rock singer
Deaths
*
218 -
Macrinus,
List of Roman Emperors Roman Emperor
*
632 -
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
*
1042 -
Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b.
1018)
*
1376 -
Edward, the Black Prince, son of
Edward III of England (b.
1330)
*
1383 -
Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b.
1338)
*
1384 -
Kanami, Japanese actor (b.
1333)
*
1476 -
George Neville, English archbishop and statesman
*
1505 -
Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b.
1470)
*
1611 -
Jean Bertaut, French poet (b.
1552)
*
1612 -
Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b.
1562)
*
1621 -
Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b.
1567)
*
1628 -
Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b.
1547)
*
1714 -
Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (b.
1630)
*
1716 -
Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b.
1658)
*
1727 -
August Hermann Francke, German protestant minister (b.
1663)
*
1768 -
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar and archaeologist (b.
1717)
*
1771 -
George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b.
1716)
*
1795 - King
Louis XVII of France (b.
1785)
*
1809 -
Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer (b.
1737)
*
1835 -
Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b.
1761)
*
1845 -
Andrew Jackson, 7th
President of the United States (b.
1767)
*
1857 -
Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b.
1803)
*
1874 -
Cochise, Apache leader
*
1876 -
George Sand, French author (b.
1804)
*
1924 -
Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b.
1902)
*1924 -
George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b.
1886)
*
1929 -
Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b.
1861)
*
1965 -
Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b.
1884)
*
1966 -
Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b.
1890)
*
1969 -
Robert Taylor (actor) Robert Taylor, American actor (b.
1911)
*
1970 -
Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b.
1908)
*
1982 -
Satchel Paige, baseball player (b.
1906)
*
1998 -
Sani Abacha,
President of Nigeria (b.
1904)
*
2000 -
Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (b.
1948)
*
2004 -
Mack Jones, baseball player (b.
1938)
Holidays and observances
*
Roman Empire - second day of the
Vestalia in honor of
Vesta (mythology) Vesta
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
Today in History: June 8
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June 7 -
June 9 -
May 8 -
July 8 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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