
June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ==Events== *68 - Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. *536 - Pope Silverius becomes Pope (probable date). *793 - The first Viking raid on United Kingdom 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 - Earthquake strikes Peru *1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - United States 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 United States. *1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate States of America forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a United States 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. *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 in 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 first (and only) delivery of Missile Mail. *1967 - 6-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 - F4 tornado strikes Emporia, Kansas, killing 6. *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 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 for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works copyright treaty. *1998 - Charlton Heston assumes the presidency of the 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 - First Transit of Venus in this millennium. *2005 - Version 6.1 of Game Maker is released. ==Births== *1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, scientist (d. 1712) *1724 - John Smeaton, civil engineer (d. 1794) *1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro, adventurer (d. 1795) *1810 - Robert Schumann, composer (d. 1856) *1847 - Ida McKinley, former First Lady of the United States (d. 1907) *1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (d. 1959) *1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, author (d. 1987) *1903 - Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator and Texas politician (d. 1996) *1910 - John W. Campbell, science fiction writer, publisher, editor (d. 1971) *1916 - Francis Crick, scientist, Nobel Prize laureate, helped discover the molecular structure of DNA (d. 2004) *1917 - Byron White, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 2002) *1918 - Robert Preston, actor (d. 1987) *1921 - Suharto, former President of Indonesia *1921 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993) *1924 - Lyn Nofziger, political operative *1925 - Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (to 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, mother to 43rd President George W. Bush) *1927 - LeRoy Neiman, painter *1929 - Jerry Stiller, comedian, actor *1933 - Joan Rivers, comedienne, author *1934 - Millicent Martin, singer, actress *1936 - James Darren, actor, singer *1940 - Nancy Sinatra, singer *1941 - Fuzzy Haskins, musician ("P Funk") *1942 - Doug Mountjoy, Wales snooker player *1943 - Colin Baker, British actor *1944 - Boz Scaggs, singer, songwriter *1948 - Jurgen von der Lippe, Germany show master *1950 - Sonia Braga, actress *1951 - Bonnie Tyler, singer, guitarist *1955 - Griffin Dunne, actor *1955 - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web *1957 - Scott Adams, cartoonist ("Dilbert") *1958 - Keenen Ivory Wayans, comedian, actor, director *1960 - Mick Hucknall, singer/songwriter ("Simply Red") *1962 - Nick Rhodes, musician ("Duran Duran") *1966 - Julianna Margulies, actress (''ER (television)'') *1969 - Marcos Siega, American director *1970 - Kelli Williams, actress (''The Practice'') *1971 - Troy Vincent, American football player *1973 - Lexa Doig, Canadian actress (''Andromeda (television)'') *1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player *1977 - Kanye West, rapper, producer *1978 - Matthew Bellamy, musician ("Muse") *1982 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player *1983 - Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player ==Deaths== *218 - Macrinus, List of Roman Emperors (b. c. 165) *632 - Muhammad, prophet of Islam (b. c. 570) *1042 - Harthacanute, King of England (b. 1018) *1795 - King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785) *1809 - Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer: ''Common Sense'' (b. 1737) *1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767) *1857 - Douglas William Jerrold, British dramatic playwright and political satirist (b. 1803) *1874 - Cochise, Apache Tribe leader (b. c. 1812) *1876 - George Sand, author (b. 1804) *1924 - George Leigh Mallory (b. 1886) and Andrew Irvine (b. 1902), mountaineers *1929 - Bliss Carman, poet (b. 1861) *1966 - Anton Melik, Slovenes geographer (b. 1890) *1969 - Robert Taylor (actor), actor (b. 1911) *1970 - Abraham Maslow, psychologist (b. 1908) *1979 - Herb Polesie, playwright *1982 - Satchel Paige, baseball player (b. 1906) *1998 - Sani Abacha, then President of Nigeria (b. 1904) *2000 - Jeff MacNelly, political cartoonist *2004 - Mack Jones, Major League Baseball player (b. 1938) ==Holidays and observances== *Roman Empire - second day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta (mythology) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/8 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/6/8 Today in History: June 8] ---- June 7 - June 9 - May 8 - July 8 -- historical anniversaries ka:8 ივნისი ml:ജൂണ് 8 th:8 มิถุนายน
--User:Maveric149 23:46, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:June 8 selected anniversaries - Template talk:June 8 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:June_8_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- ==Moved/removed== Removed: *452 - Attila the Hun invades Italy It did happen in 452, but I could not confirm the date from a good source. --User:Maveric149 05:47, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC) Removed: *1790 - King's College founded by United Empire Loyalist scholars from what is now Columbia University at Windsor, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia It happened sometime in 1789 - I could not pin down an exact date. --User:Maveric149 05:47, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC) Removed: *1824 - First patent issued in Canada Could not be confirmed outside of 'this day in history'-type pages. --User:Maveric149 05:47, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC) Moved to June 21: *1942 - World War II: Tobruk falls to Germany forces. Nope - was on or about June 21. --User:Maveric149 05:47, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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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 - Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. *536 - Pope Silverius becomes Pope (probable date). *793 - The first Viking raid on United Kingdom 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 - Earthquake strikes Peru *1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - United States 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 United States. *1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate States of America forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a United States 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. *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 in 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 first (and only) delivery of Missile Mail. *1967 - 6-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 - F4 tornado strikes Emporia, Kansas, killing 6. *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 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 for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works copyright treaty. *1998 - Charlton Heston assumes the presidency of the 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 - First Transit of Venus in this millennium. *2005 - Version 6.1 of Game Maker is released. ==Births== *1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, scientist (d. 1712) *1724 - John Smeaton, civil engineer (d. 1794) *1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro, adventurer (d. 1795) *1810 - Robert Schumann, composer (d. 1856) *1847 - Ida McKinley, former First Lady of the United States (d. 1907) *1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (d. 1959) *1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, author (d. 1987) *1903 - Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator and Texas politician (d. 1996) *1910 - John W. Campbell, science fiction writer, publisher, editor (d. 1971) *1916 - Francis Crick, scientist, Nobel Prize laureate, helped discover the molecular structure of DNA (d. 2004) *1917 - Byron White, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 2002) *1918 - Robert Preston, actor (d. 1987) *1921 - Suharto, former President of Indonesia *1921 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993) *1924 - Lyn Nofziger, political operative *1925 - Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (to 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, mother to 43rd President George W. Bush) *1927 - LeRoy Neiman, painter *1929 - Jerry Stiller, comedian, actor *1933 - Joan Rivers, comedienne, author *1934 - Millicent Martin, singer, actress *1936 - James Darren, actor, singer *1940 - Nancy Sinatra, singer *1941 - Fuzzy Haskins, musician ("P Funk") *1942 - Doug Mountjoy, Wales snooker player *1943 - Colin Baker, British actor *1944 - Boz Scaggs, singer, songwriter *1948 - Jurgen von der Lippe, Germany show master *1950 - Sonia Braga, actress *1951 - Bonnie Tyler, singer, guitarist *1955 - Griffin Dunne, actor *1955 - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web *1957 - Scott Adams, cartoonist ("Dilbert") *1958 - Keenen Ivory Wayans, comedian, actor, director *1960 - Mick Hucknall, singer/songwriter ("Simply Red") *1962 - Nick Rhodes, musician ("Duran Duran") *1966 - Julianna Margulies, actress (''ER (television)'') *1969 - Marcos Siega, American director *1970 - Kelli Williams, actress (''The Practice'') *1971 - Troy Vincent, American football player *1973 - Lexa Doig, Canadian actress (''Andromeda (television)'') *1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player *1977 - Kanye West, rapper, producer *1978 - Matthew Bellamy, musician ("Muse") *1982 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player *1983 - Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player ==Deaths== *218 - Macrinus, List of Roman Emperors (b. c. 165) *632 - Muhammad, prophet of Islam (b. c. 570) *1042 - Harthacanute, King of England (b. 1018) *1795 - King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785) *1809 - Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer: ''Common Sense'' (b. 1737) *1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767) *1857 - Douglas William Jerrold, British dramatic playwright and political satirist (b. 1803) *1874 - Cochise, Apache Tribe leader (b. c. 1812) *1876 - George Sand, author (b. 1804) *1924 - George Leigh Mallory (b. 1886) and Andrew Irvine (b. 1902), mountaineers *1929 - Bliss Carman, poet (b. 1861) *1966 - Anton Melik, Slovenes geographer (b. 1890) *1969 - Robert Taylor (actor), actor (b. 1911) *1970 - Abraham Maslow, psychologist (b. 1908) *1979 - Herb Polesie, playwright *1982 - Satchel Paige, baseball player (b. 1906) *1998 - Sani Abacha, then President of Nigeria (b. 1904) *2000 - Jeff MacNelly, political cartoonist *2004 - Mack Jones, Major League Baseball player (b. 1938) ==Holidays and observances== *Roman Empire - second day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta (mythology) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/8 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/6/8 Today in History: June 8] ---- June 7 - June 9 - May 8 - July 8 -- historical anniversaries ka:8 ივნისი ml:ജൂണ് 8 th:8 มิถุนายน
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--User:Maveric149 23:46, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:June 8 selected anniversaries - Template talk:June 8 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:June_8_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- ==Moved/removed== Removed: *452 - Attila the Hun invades Italy It did happen in 452, but I could not confirm the date from a good source. --User:Maveric149 05:47, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC) Removed: *1790 - King's College founded by United Empire Loyalist scholars from what is now Columbia University at Windsor, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia It happened sometime in 1789 - I could not pin down an exact date. --User:Maveric149 05:47, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC) Removed: *1824 - First patent issued in Canada Could not be confirmed outside of 'this day in history'-type pages. --User:Maveric149 05:47, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC) Moved to June 21: *1942 - World War II: Tobruk falls to Germany forces. Nope - was on or about June 21. --User:Maveric149 05:47, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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