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.
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Events
- 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba.
- 536 - St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date).
- 793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known
- 1405 - Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders
- 1624 - An earthquake strikes Peru
- 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - 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 Union.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a 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 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
- 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 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.
- 1996 - Panama becomes a member of the 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 Wikipedia database crash.
- 2004 - First Transit of Venus in this millennium.
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Births
- 1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist (d. 1712)
- 1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
- 1717 - 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 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
- 1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
- 1941 - 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)
- 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
- 1981 - Alex Band, American musician (The Calling)
- 1983 - Lee Harding, Australian punk-rock singer
- 1984 - Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
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Deaths
- 218 - Macrinus, 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, 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)
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Holidays and observances
- Roman Empire - second day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
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