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June 8

June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining.

June 8 - 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 - First execution in England of a Bishop (Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York) by a King (Henry IV)
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2001 - Popular editorial site suck.com, one of the first original content sites on the internet, publishes its final article, "Gone Fishin'."
• 2004 - Major Wikipedia database crash.
• 2004 - First Transit of Venus in this millennium.
• 2005 - First tropical system formed in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.

June 8 - 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
• 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, recipient of the 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 laureate
• 1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
• 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
• 1947 - Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, recipient of the 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)
• 1966 - Julianna Margulies, American actress
• 1969 - Marcos Siega, American director
• 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

June 8 - 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 - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
• 2004 - Mack Jones, baseball player (b. 1938)

June 8 - Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - second day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta

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