Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 8

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632 - Muhammad, founder of Islam, died in Medina.
1887 - Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.
1949 - George Orwell's dystopian political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published.
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.
2004 - Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele broke the world record for outdoor 10,000 m in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

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