Events in History on June 8 (2024)

June 8

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65 Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem
68 Roman Senate accepts Emperor Galba

Emperor Elagabalus

218 Elagabalus becomes the emperor of Rome

Roman Emperor Elagabalus

Attila Invades Italy

452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun

King and Chieftain of the Hunnic Empire Attila

536 St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
793 Vikings in long ships from modern-day Norway plunder St Cuthbert's monastery on Lindisfarne Island, off the northeast coast of England capturing and killing monks
979 Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France

Siege of Acre

1191 King Richard I of England arrives at Acre in modern day Israel to join the Siege of Acre during the Third Crusade

King of England Richard the Lionheart

Execution of Scrope and Mowbray

1405 Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on the King of England, Henry IV's orders

King of England and Lord of Ireland Henry IV of England

1493 Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III's left leg is amputated at his court in Linz, the most famous record of surgery in the Middle Ages - he survives until August 19

Excommunication of Ottavio Farnese

1551 Pope Julius III excommunicates the Duke of Parma, Ottavio Farnese

Counter-Reformation Pope Julius III

1624 Earthquake strikes Peru

Prince of Orange Conquers Sittard

1632 Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, conquers Sittard in the Netherlands

Nelson Sails to Meet the Armada

1779 Admiral Horatio Nelson and Captain Thomas Hardy on HMS Foudroyant set sail against Spanish fleet

Admiral Horatio Nelson

1783 Laki volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption, killing 10,000 and causing widespread famines throughout Asia and Europe
1786 Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall in NYC)

Madison Introduces Bill of Rights

1789 James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives

The bill of rights as it was created on September 25, 1789

1809 William Hyde Wollaston invents the first reflective goniometer

Robert Jenkinson Prime Minister

1812 Robert Jenkinson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after Spencer Perceval's assassination

British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham, drawing by John Heaviside Clark

1815 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
1817 An uprising involving three hundred workers in the English town of Pentrich begins but is quashed almost immediately
1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1834 HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn
1846 Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
1856 Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island
1861 American Civil War: Tennessee votes to secede from the Union
1861 US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval
1862 Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
1869 Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents the 1st vacuum cleaner, calls it a "sweeping machine"
1872 US Congress endorses penny post card

Dostoyevsky Honors Pushkin

1880 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky delivers an emotional speech at the unveiling of a monument to Pushkin in Moscow

Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1886 First Home Rule Bill for Ireland defeated by 343 votes to 313 in the British House of Common
1887 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator
1892 US shoemaker Homer A. Plessy refuses to go to in a segregated RR car (US Supreme Court Plessy v Ferguson)
1896 First car thief; Baron de Zuylen’s Peugeot is stolen by his mechanic in Paris

Roosevelt Tries to End Russo-Japanese War

1905 US President Theodore Roosevelt sends identical notes to Japan and Russia urging them to negotiate and end hostilities, offering his personal services

26th US President Theodore Roosevelt

1911 Belgium government of Schollaert falls
1912 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1914 34.7°F (1.5°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1915 92°F (33.3°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1916 Battle of Verdun: Germans capture Fort Vaux after several days of intense fighting
1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
1928 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1929 Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap governor Fruytier
1931 Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo
1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily
1938 Gert Terblanche, a local school boy, discovers fossils of an unknown 'robust-type' human ancestor, later named Paranthropus robustus by Robert Broom, at Kromdraai, Blaauwbank River Valley in South Africa
1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
1940 Last British troops leave Narvik, Norway
1941 British & French troops overthrow pro-German Syria
1944 1st SS-Panzer Korps counterattacks at Normandy
1944 Allies occupy Port-en-Bessin Normandy
1944 Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
1944 General Montgomery lands in Normandy, sets up HQ in Chateau de Creully

Sukarno Calls for Defiance

1946 Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia

1st President of Indonesia Sukarno

1948 John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1949 Secker & Warburg publishes George Orwell's seminal novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", set in the totalitarian state of Oceania

The cover of the first edition of George Orwell's classic novel

1949 Siam changes name to Thailand
1950 Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier
1950 Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
1953 Cluster of 6 tornadoes touches down in Flint, Michigan killing 113
1953 Mary Church Terrell wins struggle to end illegal segregation in Washington, D.C. restaurants [1]
1956 Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government
1956 Richard B. Fitzgibbon, Jr. killed by another USAF airman in Vietnam, becoming the first American killed in the Vietnam War
1959 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Florida)
1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m

'The Banality of Evil'

1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann

Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann sits in the dock at his 1961 trial in Jerusalem

1962 Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8)
1963 American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1965 USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles
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: Israel's navy and air force attack USS Liberty in Mediterranean Sea in broad daylight, mistaking it for an Egyptian ship; 34 US crewmen killed, 75 injured, and ship badly damaged
1968 Bermuda adopts its constitution

James Earl Ray Captured

1968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., captured

Assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. James Earl RayCivil Rights Activist Martin Luther King Jr.

1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted

Robert F. Kennedy Laid to Rest

1968 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery

US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy

Franco Closes Gibraltar Border

1969 General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar

Spanish Dictator and General Francisco Franco

1969 Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August
1970 MLB players union and management end labor dispute, raising minimum salary to $12,000
1971 General Officer Commanding the British Army Harry Tuzo, then claims that a permanent military solution to the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland could not be achieved
1971 North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam
1973 Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain
1974 US and Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
1975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich, Germany killing 35
1975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
1978 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification

Mormon Will a Fake

1978 Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery

Aviator and Businessman Howard Hughes

1979 "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
1979 Mariners draft Al Chambers #1
1980 34th Tony Awards: "Children of a Lesser God" (play) & "Evita" (musical) win
1982 Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
1982 Falklands War: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sir Gahalad attacked in San Carlos Water ("Bomb Alley") by Argentine aircraft: 48 soldiers and crewman were killed.

Ash Heap of History

1982 US President Ronald Reagan addresses the British Parliament in his "ash heap of history" speech

US President and Actor Ronald Reagan

1984 hom*osexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia

Kurt Waldheim Elected

1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria

4th Secretary-General of the United Nations Kurt Waldheim

1986 Iraqi jets attack Assadabad satellite station in Afghanistan
1987 New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels in NZ. Only nation to legislate against nuclear power.

Iran-Contra Hearing

1987 Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall testifies at Iran-Contra hearing

Political Commentator and Iran-Contra Figure Oliver North

1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
1990 Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
1991 College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3
1991 Victory parade following success in the Gulf War is held in Washington, D.C.
1991 Warren Schutte is 1st non American to win NCAA Division 1 golf title
1992 Thomas Klestil succeeds Kurt Waldheim as president of Austria
1993 Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns
1994 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia
1994 Mass murderer Joel Rifkin sentenced to 27 years in prison
1995 Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1996 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1996 Lloyd and Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt Lancs v Essex
1996 Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
1996 PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper

Lady Godiva

1996 Revival of the legendary procession of Lady Godiva (Godgifu) naked through Coventry, England

Lady Godiva as painted in c. 1897 by John Collier

2003 57th Tony Awards: "Hairspray" (musical) & "Take Me Out" (play) win
2004 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
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 took place on the Sunday-pedestrian-zoned Chūōdōri street. A man killed seven in an attack on a crowd using a truck and a dagger.
2009 First section of the elevated High Line park, built on an old railway opens in New York from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street
2012 A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people
2014 68th Tony Awards: "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" (musical) & "All The Way" (play) win

Conservatives Lose Majority

2017 British General Election results in a hung parliament, Prime Minister Theresa May and the Conservative party lose their majority

British Prime Minister Theresa May

Comey Testifies

2017 Ex-FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that US President Donald Trump told "lies plain and simple"

45th US President, Businessman and TV Personality Donald TrumpLawyer and FBI Director James Comey

2017 UN states Islamic State forces have shot and killed hundreds of fleeing civilians during battle for Mosul, Iraq in past two weeks
2017 US prisoner Richard Anthony Jones freed after 17 years in Roeland Park, Kansas when his lookalike discovered
2018 IMF agrees to lend Argentina up to 50 billion dollars
2018 WhatsApp rumours of child kidnappers in India prompt two men to be beaten to death by a mob in Karbi Angong district, Assam
2018 World's most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia
2019 Albanian President Ilir Meta cancels nationwide local elections amid constitutional crisis after the opposition refuses to participate until Prime Minister Edi Rama resigns
2020 Former astronaut Kathy Sullivan is the first woman to reach deepest point of the ocean - Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench. Formerly the first American woman to spacewalk.
2020 Lockdowns for COVID-19 in Europe saved 3 million lives according to study by Imperial College London
2020 National Bureau of Economic Research announces the US officially entered recession in February, ending the longest expansion of growth since 1854 (11 years)
2020 New York begins reopening after 100 days of lockdown due to COVID-19 with just 702 hospitalized (18,825 at peak of outbreak)
2020 The Philippines says children won't go back to school until a vaccine is found for COVID-19
2020 World Bank says the COVID-19 pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5.2% in 2020
2021 National Geographic announces it is officially recognizing the South Ocean as the world's fifth ocean

Sunak Meets Biden

2023 British PM Rishi Sunak meets US President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington announcing an economic partnership, to investigate dangers of A.I. and re-stating their long-term support for Ukraine

46th US President, Vice President and Senator Joe BidenBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

2023 US federal prosecutors file 37 count indictment against former US President Donald Trump, for unlawful retention of defense information, for storing dozens of classified documents at his Florida resort, and obstruction of justice [1] [2]
2023 US Supreme Court upholds Voting Rights Act ruling 5-4 that Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama had weakened Black voting by creating just one district where they were a majority [1]
2024 Israel rescues four Israeli hostages from Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, but kills 274 Palestinians and injures 698 during the daylight operation [1]

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