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Day of the year
June 8 is the 159th day of the year (160th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 206 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1663 –
Portuguese Restoration War : Portuguese victory at the
Battle of Ameixial ensures Portugal's independence from Spain.
[5]
1772 –
Alexander Fordyce flees to
France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the
credit crisis of 1772 in the
British Empire and the
Dutch Republic .
[6]
1776 –
American Revolutionary War :
Continental Army attackers are driven back at the
Battle of Trois-Rivières .
1783 –
Laki , a
volcano in
Iceland , begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year
famine .
1789 –
James Madison introduces
twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
1794 –
Maximilien Robespierre inaugurates the
French Revolution 's new state religion, the
Cult of the Supreme Being , with large organized festivals all across France.
1856 – A group of 194
Pitcairn Islanders , descendants of the mutineers of
HMS Bounty , arrives at
Norfolk Island , commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1861 –
American Civil War :
Tennessee secedes from the
Union .
1862 – American Civil War: A
Confederate victory by forces under General
Stonewall Jackson at the
Battle of Cross Keys , along with the
Battle of Port Republic the next day, prevents
Union forces from reinforcing General
George B. McClellan in his
Peninsula campaign .
1867 – Coronation of
Franz Joseph as
King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (
Ausgleich ).
1887 –
Herman Hollerith applies for US
patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his
punched card
calculator .
1901–present
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 incorporates
Universal Pictures .
1918 – A
solar eclipse is observed at
Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the
United States Navy .
1928 –
Second Northern Expedition : The
National Revolutionary Army captures
Beijing , whose name is changed to Beiping ("Northern Peace").
[7]
1929 –
Margaret Bondfield is appointed
Minister of Labour . She is the first woman appointed to the
Cabinet of the United Kingdom .
[8]
1940 –
World War II : The completion of
Operation Alphabet , the evacuation of Allied forces from
Narvik at the end of the
Norwegian Campaign .
1941 – World War II: The
Allies commence the
Syria–Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of
Vichy France in the
Levant .
1942 – World War II: The
Imperial Japanese Navy submarines
I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and
Newcastle .
1949 –
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.
1949 –
George Orwell 's
Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1953 –
An F5 tornado hits
Beecher, Michigan , killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
1953 – The
United States Supreme Court rules in
District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
1959 –
USS Barbero and the
United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via
Missile Mail .
1961 –
Marriage of
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent to
Katharine Worsley at
York Minster .
[9]
1966 – An
F-104 Starfighter collides with
XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near
Edwards Air Force Base .
Joseph A. Walker , a
NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a
United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
1966 –
Topeka, Kansas , is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the
Fujita scale , exceeding US$200 million in damages. Seventeen people are killed, over five hundred more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
[10]
1966 – The
National Football League and
American Football League announced a
merger effective in
1970 .
1967 –
Six-Day War : The
USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1968 –
James Earl Ray , the man who
assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested at
London Heathrow Airport .
[11]
1972 –
Vietnam War : Nine-year-old
Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by
napalm , an event captured by
Associated Press photographer
Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running naked down a road, in what would become an iconic,
Pulitzer Prize -winning photo.
1982 –
Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the
Falklands War : Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an
Argentine air attack on two landing ships,
RFA Sir Galahad and
RFA Sir Tristram .
1982 –
VASP Flight 168 crashes in
Pacatuba, Ceará ,
Brazil , killing 128 people.
[12]
1984 –
Homosexuality is decriminalized in the
Australian state of
New South Wales .
1987 –
New Zealand 's
Labour government establishes a
national nuclear-free zone under the
New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987 .
1992 – The first
World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the
Earth Summit held in
Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.
1992 –
GP Express Airlines Flight 861 crashes on approach to
Anniston Regional Airport in
Anniston, Alabama , killing three.
[13]
1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot
Captain
Scott O'Grady is rescued by
U.S. Marines in
Bosnia .
2001 –
Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in
a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the
Osaka Prefecture of
Japan .
2004 – The first
Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in
1882 .
2007 –
Newcastle, New South Wales , Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the
MV Pasha Bulker .
2008 – At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a
Ukrainian coal mine causes
it to collapse .
2008 – At least seven people are killed and ten injured in
a stabbing spree in
Tokyo ,
Japan .
2009 – Two American
journalists are
found guilty of illegally entering
North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of
penal labour .
2014 – At least 28 people are killed in an
attack at Jinnah International Airport ,
Karachi, Pakistan .
2023 – Former US President
Donald Trump is
indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information.
[14]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1625 –
Giovanni Domenico Cassini , Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712)
1671 –
Tomaso Albinoni , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1751)
1717 –
John Collins , American lawyer and politician, 3rd
Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1795)
1724 –
John Smeaton , English engineer, designed the
Coldstream Bridge and
Perth Bridge (d. 1794)
1745 –
Caspar Wessel , Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (d. 1818)
1757 –
Ercole Consalvi , Italian cardinal (d. 1824)
1776 –
Thomas Rickman , English architect and architectural antiquary (d. 1841)
[17]
1788 –
Charles A. Wickliffe , American politician, 14th
Governor of Kentucky (d. 1869)
1810 –
Robert Schumann , German composer and critic (d. 1856)
[18]
1829 –
John Everett Millais , English painter and illustrator (d. 1896)
[19]
1831 –
Thomas J. Higgins , Canadian-American sergeant,
Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1917)
1842 –
John Q. A. Brackett , American lawyer and politician, 36th
Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
1851 –
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval , French physician and physicist (d. 1940)
1852 –
Guido Banti , Italian physician and pathologist (d. 1925)
1854 –
Douglas Cameron , Canadian politician, 8th
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (d. 1921)
1855 –
George Charles Haité , English painter and illustrator (d. 1924)
1858 –
Charlotte Scott , English mathematician (d. 1931)
[20]
1859 –
Smith Wigglesworth , English evangelist (d. 1947)
1860 –
Alicia Boole Stott , Irish-English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940)
[21]
1867 –
Frank Lloyd Wright , American architect, designed the
Price Tower and
Fallingwater (d. 1959)
1868 –
Robert Robinson Taylor , American architect (d. 1942)
1872 –
Jan Frans De Boever , Belgian painter and illustrator (d. 1949)
1875 –
Ernst Enno , Estonian poet and author (d. 1934)
1876 –
Alexandre Tuffère , Greek-French triple jumper (d. 1958)
1878 –
Evan Roberts , Welsh Revivalist minister (d. 1951)
[22]
1885 –
Karl Genzken , German physician (d. 1957)
1891 –
William Funnell , Australian public servant (d. 1962)
1893 –
Ernst Marcus , German zoologist (d. 1968)
1893 –
Gaby Morlay , French actress (d. 1964)
1894 –
Erwin Schulhoff , Czech composer and pianist (d. 1942)
1895 –
Santiago Bernabéu Yeste , Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1978)
1897 –
John G. Bennett , English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974)
1899 –
Eugène Lapierre , Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator (d. 1970)
1899 –
Ernst-Robert Grawitz , German physician (d. 1945)
[23]
1900 –
Lena Baker , African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (d. 1945)
[24]
1901–present
1903 –
Ralph Yarborough , American lawyer and politician (d. 1996)
1903 –
Marguerite Yourcenar , Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1987)
[25]
1910 –
John W. Campbell , American journalist and author (d. 1971)
[26]
1910 –
Fernand Fonssagrives , French-American photographer, sculptor, and painter (d. 2003)
1911 –
Edmundo Rivero , Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
1912 –
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham , British abstract painter (d. 2004)
1912 –
Maurice Bellemare , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
1912 –
Harry Holtzman , American painter (d. 1987)
[27]
1915 –
Kayyar Kinhanna Rai , Indian journalist, author, and poet (d. 2015)
1916 –
Francis Crick , English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
[28]
1916 –
Luigi Comencini , Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1916 –
Richard Pousette-Dart , American painter and educator (d. 1992)
1917 –
Byron White , American football player, lawyer and judge (d. 2002)
[29]
1918 –
George Edward Hughes , Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (d. 1994)
1918 –
Robert Preston , American actor and singer (d. 1987)
1918 –
John D. Roberts , American chemist and academic (d. 2016)
1919 –
John R. Deane, Jr. , American general (d. 2013)
1920 –
Gwen Harwood , Australian poet and playwright (d. 1995)
1921 –
Gordon McLendon , American broadcaster and businessman (d. 1986)
1921 –
Olga Nardone , American actress (d. 2010)
1921 –
LeRoy Neiman , American painter (d. 2012)
1921 –
Alexis Smith , Canadian-born American actress and singer (d. 1993)
1921 –
Suharto , Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd
President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
1924 –
Billie Dawe , Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2013)
1924 –
Kenneth Waltz , American political scientist and academic (d. 2013)
[30]
1925 –
Barbara Bush , American wife of
George H. W. Bush , 41st
First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)
1927 –
Jerry Stiller , American actor, comedian and producer (d. 2020)
1928 –
Mimi Mariani , Indonesian actress, model, and singer (d. 1971)
[31]
1929 –
Nada Inada , Japanese psychiatrist and author (d. 2013)
1930 –
Robert Aumann , German-American mathematician and economist,
Nobel Prize laureate
1930 –
Marcel Léger , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1993)
1931 –
Dana Wynter , British actress (d. 2011)
1932 –
Ray Illingworth , English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2021)
[32]
1932 –
Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood , Scottish lawyer and judge (d. 2017)
1933 –
Joan Rivers , American comedian, actress, and television host (d. 2014)
1934 –
Millicent Martin , English actress and singer
1935 –
Molade Okoya-Thomas , Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
1936 –
James Darren , American actor
1936 –
Kenneth G. Wilson , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1937 –
Gillian Clarke , Welsh poet and playwright
1938 –
Angelo Amato , Italian cardinal
1939 –
Herb Adderley , American football player (d. 2020)
[33]
1940 –
Nancy Sinatra , American singer and actress
1941 –
Robert Bradford , Northern Irish politician and activist (d. 1981)
1941 –
George Pell , Australian cardinal (d. 2023)
1942 –
Nikos Konstantopoulos , Greek politician,
Greek Minister of the Interior
1942 –
Doug Mountjoy , Welsh snooker player (d. 2021)
[34]
1943 –
Colin Baker , English actor
1943 –
William Calley , American military officer
[35]
1943 –
Willie Davenport , American hurdler (d. 2002)
[36]
1943 –
Peter Eggert , German footballer and manager
1943 –
Pierre-André Fournier , Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 2015)
1944 –
Boz Scaggs , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[37]
1945 –
Steven Fromholz , American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (d. 2014)
1945 –
Derek Underwood , English cricketer
[38]
1946 –
Graham Henry , New Zealand rugby player and coach
1947 –
Annie Haslam , English singer-songwriter and painter
1947 –
Sara Paretsky , American author
[39]
1947 –
Eric F. Wieschaus , American biologist, geneticist, and academic
Nobel Prize laureate
[40]
1949 –
Emanuel Ax , Polish-American pianist and educator
1949 –
Hildegard Falck , German runner
[41]
1950 –
Kathy Baker , American actress
1950 –
Sônia Braga , Brazilian actress and producer
1951 –
Bonnie Tyler , Welsh singer-songwriter
1953 –
Sandy Nairne , English historian and curator
1953 –
Ivo Sanader , Croatian historian and politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Croatia
1953 –
Olav Stedje , Norwegian singer-songwriter
1954 –
Kiril of Varna , Bulgarian metropolitan (d. 2013)
1954 –
Sergei Storchak , Ukrainian-Russian politician
1955 –
Tim Berners-Lee , English computer scientist, invented the
World Wide Web
[42]
1955 –
José Antonio Camacho , Spanish footballer and manager
1955 –
Griffin Dunne , American actor, director, and producer
1956 –
Jonathan Potter , English psychologist, sociolinguist, and academic
1957 –
Scott Adams , American author and illustrator
1957 –
Don Robinson , American baseball player and politician
1957 –
Sonja Vectomov , Czech/Finnish sculptor
1958 –
Louise Richardson , Irish political scientist and academic
1959 –
Mohsen Kadivar , Iranian philosopher
[43]
1960 –
Neil Baker , Australian rugby league player
[44]
1960 –
Mick Hucknall , English singer-songwriter
[45]
1960 –
Thomas Steen , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1961 –
Mary Bonauto , American lawyer and gay rights activist
[46]
1963 –
Karen Kingsbury , American journalist and author
1964 –
Butch Reynolds , American runner and coach
[47]
1965 –
Kevin Farley , American screenwriter
[48]
1967 –
Russell E. Morris , Welsh chemist and academic
[49]
1967 –
Julianna Margulies , American actress
[50]
1968 –
Sharon Shannon , Irish traditional musician
1969 –
David Barnhill , Australian rugby league player
[51]
1970 –
Steve Renouf , Australian rugby league player
[52]
1974 –
Lauren Burns , Australian taekwondo practitioner
[53]
1975 –
Mark Ricciuto , Australian footballer and sportcaster
[54]
1976 –
Lindsay Davenport , American tennis player
[55]
1977 –
Kanye West , American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
[56]
1978 –
Maria Menounos , American television personality, professional wrestler, author, and actress
[57]
1981 –
Rachel Held Evans , American Christian author (d. 2019)
[58]
1982 –
Nadia Petrova , Russian tennis player
[59]
1983 –
Kim Clijsters , Belgian tennis player; winner of six
Grand Slam tournament titles.
[60]
1984 –
Javier Mascherano , Argentinian footballer
[61]
1986 –
Keith Gill , American financial analyst and investor
[62]
1989 –
Timea Bacsinszky , Swiss tennis player
[63]
1994 –
Liv Morgan , American professional wrestler
[64]
1997 –
Jeļena Ostapenko , Latvian tennis player
[65]
Deaths
Pre-1600
632 –
Muhammad , the central figure of Islam. (b. 570/571)
[66]
696 –
Chlodulf , bishop of
Metz (or 697)
951 –
Zhao Ying , Chinese chancellor (b. 885)
1042 –
Harthacnut , English-Danish king (b. 1018)
[4]
1154 –
William of York , English archbishop and saint
1290 –
Beatrice Portinari , object of
Dante Alighieri 's adoration (b. 1266)
[67]
1376 –
Edward, the Black Prince , English son of
Edward III of England (b. 1330)
[68]
1383 –
Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros , English politician (b. 1338)
1384 –
Kan'ami , Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1333)
1405 –
Richard le Scrope , Archbishop of York (b.
c. 1350 )
[69]
1405 –
Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk (b. 1385)
[69]
1476 –
George Neville , English archbishop and academic (b. 1432)
1492 –
Elizabeth Woodville , Queen consort of England (b. 1437)
1501 –
George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly , Earl of Huntly and Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1440)
1505 –
Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
1600 –
Edward Fortunatus , German nobleman (b. 1565)
1601–1900
1611 –
Jean Bertaut , French bishop and poet (b. 1552)
[70]
1612 –
Hans Leo Hassler , German organist and composer (b. 1562)
1621 –
Anne de Xainctonge , French saint, founded the
Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (b. 1567)
1628 –
Rudolph Goclenius , German lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1547)
1651 –
Tokugawa Iemitsu , Japanese shōgun (b. 1604)
1714 –
Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
1716 –
Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine , German son of
Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1658)
1727 –
August Hermann Francke , German-Lutheran pietist, philanthropist, and scholar (b. 1663)
1768 –
Johann Joachim Winckelmann , German archaeologist and scholar (b. 1717)
1771 –
George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax , English politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1716)
1795 –
Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
1809 –
Thomas Paine , English-American theorist and author (b. 1737)
1831 –
Sarah Siddons , Welsh actress (b. 1755)
1835 –
Gian Domenico Romagnosi , Italian economist and jurist (b. 1761)
1845 –
Andrew Jackson , American general, judge, and politician, 7th
President of the United States (b. 1767)
1846 –
Rodolphe Töpffer , Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist (b. 1799)
1857 –
Douglas William Jerrold , English journalist and playwright (b. 1803)
1874 –
Cochise , American tribal chief (b. 1805)
1876 –
George Sand , French author and playwright (b. 1804)
1885 –
Ignace Bourget , Canadian bishop (b. 1799)
1889 –
Gerard Manley Hopkins , English poet (b. 1844)
1899 –
Mary of the Divine Heart , German nun and saint (b. 1863)
1901–present
1913 –
Emily Davison , English suffragette (b. 1872)
[71]
1919 –
Cora Agnes Benneson , American attorney (b. 1851)
[72]
1924 –
British Mount Everest expedition :
[73]
1945 –
Karl Hanke , Polish-German soldier and politician (b. 1903)
1951 –
Eugène Fiset , Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1874)
1951 –
Oswald Pohl , German
SS officer (b. 1892)
[74]
1956 –
Marie Laurencin , French painter and sculptor (b. 1883)
1959 –
Leslie Johnson , English racing driver (b. 1912)
1965 –
Edmondo Rossoni , Italian politician (b. 1884)
1966 –
Anton Melik , Slovenian geographer and academic (b. 1890)
1968 –
Elizabeth Enright , American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
1968 –
Ludovico Scarfiotti , Italian racing driver (b. 1933)
1969 –
Arunachalam Mahadeva , Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
1969 –
Robert Taylor , American actor and singer (b. 1911)
[75]
1970 –
Abraham Maslow , American psychologist and academic (b. 1908)
1971 –
J. I. Rodale , American author and playwright (b. 1898)
1976 –
Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe , Norwegian zoologist and psychologist (b. 1894)
1982 –
Satchel Paige , American baseball player (b. 1906)
[76]
1984 –
Gordon Jacob , English composer and academic (b. 1895)
[77]
1987 –
Alexander Iolas , Egyptian-American art collector (b. 1907)
1997 –
George Turner , Australian author and critic (b. 1916)
1997 –
Karen Wetterhahn , American chemist and academic (b. 1948)
1998 –
Sani Abacha , Nigerian general and politician, 10th
President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
1998 –
Maria Reiche , German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
2000 –
Frédéric Dard , French author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
[78]
2001 –
Alex de Renzy , American director and producer (b. 1935)
2004 –
Charles Hyder , American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1930)
2004 –
Mack Jones , American baseball player (b. 1938)
2006 –
Jaxon , American illustrator and publisher, co-founded
Rip Off Press (b. 1941)
2006 –
Matta El Meskeen , Egyptian monk, theologian, and author (b. 1919)
2009 –
Omar Bongo , Gabonese captain and politician,
President of Gabon (b. 1935)
[79]
2012 –
Charles E. M. Pearce , New Zealand-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1940)
2012 –
Ghassan Tueni , Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1926)
[80]
2013 –
Paul Cellucci , American soldier and politician, 69th
Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1948)
2013 –
Yoram Kaniuk , Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (b. 1930)
2013 –
Taufiq Kiemas , Indonesian politician, 5th
First Spouse of Indonesia (b. 1942)
2014 –
Alexander Imich , Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (b. 1903)
2014 –
Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (b. 1948)
2015 –
Chea Sim , Cambodian commander and politician (b. 1932)
[81]
2017 –
Sam Panopoulos , Greek cook (b. 1934)
2018 –
Anthony Bourdain , American chef and travel documentarian (b. 1956)
[82]
2019 –
Andre Matos , Brazilian heavy metal musician (b. 1971)
[83]
2022 –
Paula Rego , Portuguese-British visual artist (b. 1935)
[84]
2023 –
Pat Robertson , American televangelist (b. 1930)
[85]
Holidays and observances
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