June 8
is the 159th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (160th in
leap years), with 206 days remaining.
*
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 le 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.
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1861 -
American Civil War:
Tennessee secedes from the
Union.
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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.
*
1906 -
Theodore Roosevelt signs the
Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the
President to restrict the use of certain parcels of
public land with historical or conservation value.
*
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 - 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.
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1966 -
Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the
Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. [
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1967 -
Six-Day War: The
USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
*
1968 -
James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of
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 declared not a crime in the state of
New South Wales,
Australia.
*
1986 - Former
United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of
Austria.
*
1987 -
New Zealand's
Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as at June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.
*
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 - First
Transit of Venus in this
millennium.
*
2006 - Workers working on the regeneration of
Broadmead,
Bristol discover an unexploded German
bomb from
World War II.
Broadmead has to be evacuated and stores temporarily closed.
*
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)
*
1901 -
Lena Baker, American murderer (d.
1945)
*
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)
* 1912 -
Harry Holtzman, American Abstract Artist(d.
1987)
*
1916 -
Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, 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 -
LeRoy Neiman, American painter
* 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* 1925 -
Eddie Gaedel, American dwarf, made one plate appearance for the
St. Louis Browns in
1951 (d.
1961)
* 1925 -
Del Ennis, baseball player (d.
1996)
*
1929 -
Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor
*
1930 -
Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician,
Nobel Prize in Economics*
1931 -
Dana Wynter, German born actress
*
1933 -
Joan Rivers, American comedian and author
* 1933 -
Millicent Martin, English singer and actress
*
1936 -
James Darren, American actor and singer
* 1936 -
Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist,
Nobel Prize*
1939 -
Bernie Casey, American football player and actor
*
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
* 1942 -
Chuck Negron, American singer (
Three Dog Night)
*
1943 -
Colin Baker, British actor
* 1943 -
William Calley, American war criminal
* 1943 -
Willie Davenport, American athlete (d.
2002)
*
1944 -
Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d.
1998)
* 1944 -
Marc Cardinal Ouellet, Archbishop of
Quebec City * 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
* 1949 -
Dino Bravo, Professional wrestler
*
1950 -
Sonia Braga, Brazilian actress
*
1951 -
Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer and guitarist
* 1951 -
Tony Rice, American acoustic 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
* 1957 -
Don Robinson, Baseball player
*
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)
*
1962 -
Kristine W, American Musician
*
1963 -
Keti Garbi, Greek singer
*
1965 -
Kevin Farley, American actor
* 1965 -
Rob Pilatus, member of
Milli Vanilli (d.
1998)
* 1965 -
Chris Chavis, American professional wrestler
*
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
*
1975 -
Bryan McCabe, NHL Hockey PLayer
*
1976 -
Lindsay Davenport, American tennis legend
*
1977 -
Kanye West, American rapper
*
1978 -
Maria Menounos, American actress and television host
*
1981 -
Alex Band, American musician (
The Calling)
* 1981 -
Sara Watkins, American fiddle player
* 1981 -
Ai Nonaka, Japanese
seiyu (voice actress)
*
1983 -
Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
*
1983 -
Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
*
1983 -
Lee Harding, Australian punk-rock singer
*
1984 -
Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
*
1984 -
Andrea Casiraghi, Heir in Monaco
*
1985 -
Alexandre Despatie, French Canadian diver
*
218 -
Macrinus,
Roman Emperor*
632 -
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam (b.
570)
*
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)
*
1885 -
Ignace Bourget, Bishop of
Montreal (b.
1799)
*
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)
*
1972 -
Jimmy Rushing, American blues singer (b.
1903?)
*
1982 -
Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b.
1906)
*
1998 -
Sani Abacha,
President of Nigeria (b.
1943)
*
2000 -
Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (b.
1948)
*
2004 -
Mack Jones, American baseball player (b.
1938)
*
2006 -
Robert Donner, American actor (b.
1931)
* 2006 -
Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b.
1919)
*
Roman Empire - second day of the
Vestalia in honor of
Vesta.
*
World Ocean Day.
*
Saint Audomar,
bishop of Thérouanne, confessor (Translation day)
*
Saint Elphege, bishop, martyr (Translation day)
*Saint Marius, hermit [GTZ: Clermont]
*
saint Medard,
bishop of Noyon, confessor [common]
*
Saint Sabinianus, abbot, confessor [GTZ: Puy]
*Blessed
Chlodulph,
bishop of Metz *Blessed
Gildard,
bishop of Rouen, confessor
*Blessed Maximinus,
bishop of Aix en Provence *Blessed William,
bishop of York, confessor
*Blessed Syra of Ireland, virgin
*Syria, virgin (at Troyes)
*Trojecia, virgin (at Rodez)
*
BBC: On This Day*
The New York Times: On This Day*
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