June 8

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

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 - 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.
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.
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.
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.

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)
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)
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
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)
1963 - Keti Garbi, Greek singer
1965 - Kevin Farley, American actor
1965 - Rob Pilatus, member of Milli Vanilli (d. 1998)
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
1985 - Alexandre Despatie, French Canadian diver

Deaths

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)

Holidays and observances

Roman Empire - second day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta.
World Ocean Day.

Liturgical feasts

Saint Audomar, bishop of Thérouanne, confessor (Translation day)
Saint Elphege, bishop, martyr (Translation day)
Saint Marius, hermit Clermont
saint Medard, bishop of Noyon, confessor ^*
Saint Sabinianus, abbot, confessor 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)

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