June 8 is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
- 218 – Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats with support of the Syrian legions the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
- 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
- 1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
- 1405 – Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
- 1690 – Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers 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 twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
- 1794 – 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: 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 B. McClellan.
- 1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' – his punched 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 incorporates Universal Pictures.
- 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping ("Northern peace").
- 1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She was the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
- 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 – Celebrities 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.
- 1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
- 1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115.
- 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 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2 destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
- 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.
- 1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
- 1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
- 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
- 1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine air attack on two landing ships : RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
- 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal 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 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.
- 2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history 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 trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
- 2008 – The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Katō drives a two-ton truck into a crowd before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife.
Births
- 1552 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1638)
- 1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist and astronomer (d. 1712)
- 1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
- 1717 – John Collins, American politician (d. 1795)
- 1724 – John Smeaton, English engineer (d. 1794)
- 1745 – Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
- 1757 – Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (d. 1824)
- 1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
- 1829 – John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (d. 1896)
- 1831 – Thomas J. Higgins, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1917)
- 1842 – John Q. A. Brackett, American politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
- 1847 – Ida Saxton McKinley, American wife of William McKinley, 25th First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
- 1851 – Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
- 1854 – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
- 1855 – George Charles Haité, English designer, painter, and illustrator (d.1924)
- 1859 – Smith Wigglesworth, English evangelist (d. 1947)
- 1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designer, writer, and educator, designed the Fallingwater (d. 1959)
- 1872 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
- 1876 – Alexandre Tuffère, French-Greek athlete (d. 1958)
- 1885 – Karl Genzken, German Nazi physician (d. 1957)
- 1895 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
- 1897 – John G. Bennett, English scientist and author (d. 1974)
- 1901 – Lena Baker, American maid and murderer (d. 1945)
- 1903 – Ralph Yarborough, American politician(d. 1996)
- 1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
- 1910 – John W. Campbell, American publisher and editor (d. 1971)
- 1910 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Edmundo Rivero, Argentine singer and composer (d. 1986)
- 1912 – Harry Holtzman, American artist (d. 1987)
- 1912 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (d. 1989)
- 1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian director (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Byron White, American football player and politician (d. 2002)
- 1918 – Robert Preston, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist
- 1920 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995)
- 1921 – Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
- 1921 – Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (d. 1986)
- 1921 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter (d. 2012)
- 1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
- 1923 – Malcolm Boyd, American priest and author
- 1924 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author, (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
- 1925 – Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player (d. 1961)
- 1925 – Del Ennis, American baseball player (d. 1996)
- 1927 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor
- 1930 – Robert Aumann, German-Israeli mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 – Marcel Léger, Canadian politician (d. 1993)
- 1931 – Dana Wynter, German-American actress (d. 2011)
- 1933 – Rommie Loudd, American football player, coach, and executive (d. 1998)
- 1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and author
- 1934 – Millicent Martin, English actress and singer
- 1936 – James Darren, American actor, singer, and director
- 1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1939 – Bernie Casey, American football player and actor
- 1940 – Arthur Elgort, American photographer
- 1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress
- 1940 – Jim Wickwire, American attorney and mountaineer
- 1941 – Robert Bradford, Irish politician (d. 1981)
- 1941 – Fuzzy Haskins, American singer, musician, and producer (The Parliaments and P-Funk)
- 1942 – Nikos Konstantopoulos, Greek politician
- 1942 – Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
- 1942 – Chuck Negron, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Three Dog Night)
- 1943 – Colin Baker, English actor
- 1943 – William Calley, American convicted war criminal
- 1943 – Willie Davenport, American athlete (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Peter Eggert, German footballer
- 1944 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
- 1944 – Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter (Renaissance and Nevada)
- 1944 – Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
- 1944 – Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Steve Miller Band)
- 1946 – Alan Scarfe, English-Canadian actor
- 1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 – Sara Paretsky, American author
- 1949 – Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator
- 1949 – Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1950 – Kathy Baker, American actress
- 1950 – Sonia Braga, Brazilian actress
- 1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer
- 1951 – Tony Rice, American guitarist and songwriter (David Grisman Quintet and Bluegrass Album Band)
- 1953 – Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
- 1953 – Ad Tak, Dutch cyclist
- 1954 – Sergei Storchak, Russian deputy finance minister
- 1954 – Marios Tokas, Greek-Cypriot composer (d. 2008)
- 1954 – Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Black Flag, Gone, Mojack, and Confront James)
- 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist and engineer, invented the World Wide Web
- 1955 – Griffin Dunne, American actor
- 1956 – Udo Bullmann, German politician
- 1957 – Scott Adams, American cartoonist
- 1957 – Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress
- 1957 – Don Robinson, American baseball player
- 1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor and director
- 1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter and musician (Simply Red and Faces)
- 1960 – Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
- 1962 – John Gibbons, American baseball player
- 1962 – Andreas Keim, German footballer
- 1962 – Nick Rhodes, English keyboardist and producer (Duran Duran, Arcadia, and The Devils)
- 1962 – Kristine W, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1963 – Katy Garbi, Greek singer, actress, and producer
- 1963 – Frank Grillo, American actor
- 1964 – Butch Reynolds, American runner
- 1965 – Tatanka, American wrestler
- 1965 – Kevin Farley, American actor
- 1965 – Rob Pilatus, German-American singer and dancer (Milli Vanilli, Rob & Fab, and Empire Bizarre) (d. 1998)
- 1966 – Julianna Margulies, American actress
- 1966 – Doris Pearson, English singer-songwriter and choreographer (Five Star)
- 1968 – Rob Ray, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – J.P. Manoux, American actor
- 1969 – Marcos Siega, American director
- 1969 – David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor
- 1970 – Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
- 1970 – Seu Jorge, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1970 – Kwame Kilpatrick, American politician, 68th Mayor of Detroit
- 1970 – Teresa Strasser, American writer and television host
- 1970 – Troy Vincent, American football player
- 1970 – Kelli Williams, American actress
- 1971 – Troy Duffy, American director, screenwriter, and musician
- 1971 – Mark Feuerstein, American actor
- 1972 – Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer
- 1973 – Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
- 1973 – Shappi Khorsandi, Iranian comedian
- 1973 – Bryant Reeves, American basketball player
- 1973 – Lucija Šerbedžija, Croatian actress
- 1975 – Bryan McCabe, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
- 1976 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
- 1976 – Trish Goff, American model
- 1976 – Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player
- 1977 – Kanye West, American rapper, songwriter, producer, director, and fashion designer
- 1978 – Eun Ji Won, South Korean rapper, producer, and dancer (Sechs Kies)
- 1978 – Maria Menounos, American journalist and actress
- 1979 – Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
- 1979 – Derek Trucks, American guitarist and songwriter (The Allman Brothers Band, The Derek Trucks Band, and Tedeschi Trucks Band)
- 1979 – Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player
- 1981 – Alex Band, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Calling)
- 1981 – Matteo Meneghello, Italian race car driver
- 1981 – Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actor
- 1981 – Sara Watkins, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (Nickel Creek, The Decemberists, and Works Progress Administration)
- 1981 – Jess Weixler, American actress
- 1982 – Matteo Barbini, Italian rugby player
- 1982 – Michael Cammalleri, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
- 1982 – Irina Lăzăreanu, Romanian-Canadian model
- 1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
- 1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
- 1983 – Lee Harding, Australian singer
- 1983 – Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer
- 1983 – Mamoru Miyano, Japanese voice actor
- 1984 – Andrea Casiraghi, French son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover
- 1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer
- 1985 – Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver
- 1986 – Patrick Kaleta, American ice hockey player
- 1987 – Coralie Balmy, French swimmer
- 1987 – Issiar Dia, Senegalese footballer
- 1987 – Danielle Foote, Australian singer
- 1989 – Christina Broccolini, Canadian actress and producer
- 1989 – Richard Fleeshman, English singer-songwriter and actor
- 1990 – Alexander Yakin, Russian actor
- 1994 – Nick Benson, American actor
Deaths
- 632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet (b. 570)
- 1042 – Harthacanute, Danish-English king (b. 1018)
- 1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, English 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 (b. 1432)
- 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, founder of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (b. 1567)
- 1628 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
- 1714 – Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
- 1716 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
- 1727 – August Hermann Francke, German minister (b. 1663)
- 1768 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German scholar and archaeologist (b. 1717)
- 1771 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
- 1795 – Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
- 1809 – Thomas Paine, English-American author and pamphleteer (b. 1737)
- 1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
- 1845 – Andrew Jackson, American politician, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
- 1857 – Douglas William Jerrold, English playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
- 1874 – Cochise, Native American chief (b. 1805)
- 1876 – George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
- 1885 – Ignace Bourget, French-Canadian priest and bishop (b. 1799)
- 1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet (b. 1844)
- 1924 – Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer (b. 1902)
- 1924 – George Leigh Mallory, English mountaineer (b. 1886)
- 1929 – Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
- 1945 – Karl Hanke, German Nazi official (b. 1903)
- 1951 – Eugène Fiset, Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
- 1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
- 1965 – Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (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 singer (Oklahoma City Blue Devils) (b. 1901)
- 1980 – Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (b. 1900)
- 1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
- 1984 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
- 1987 – Alexander Iolas, Greek-American gallery owner and art collector (b. 1907)
- 1992 – Atef Bseiso, PLO head of intelligence (b. 1948)
- 1993 – Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
- 1997 – George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
- 1997 – Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and educator (b. 1948)
- 1998 – Sani Abacha, Nigerian military dictator and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
- 1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
- 2000 – Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (b. 1948)
- 2003 – Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
- 2006 – Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
- 2006 – Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Kenny Olsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1977)
- 2007 – Richard Rorty, American American philosopher (b. 1931)
- 2008 – Šaban Bajramović, Serbian-Romani singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
- 2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese politician, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Johnny Palermo, American actor (b. 1982)
- 2010 – Andreas Voutsinas, Greek actor and director (b. 1932)
- 2011 – Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Comoran terrorist (b. 1974)
- 2012 – Pete Brennan, American basketball player (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Frank Cady, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2012 – K. S. R. Das, Indian director (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Nikolai Petrovich Ivanov, Russian rower (b. 1949)
- 2012 – Ivan Lessa, Brazilian journalist (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, politician, and academic (b. 1926)
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