Historical Events on June 8

Events 1 - 200 of 202

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

• 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

• 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

• 1624 Earthquake strikes Peru

• 1647 England parliament bans Christmas, Easter and Whitsun festivities, services and celebrations, including in the home, with fines for non-compliance - proves unpopular [1]
• 1663 Battle at Amegical: English & Portuguese fleet defeats the Spanish
• 1690 Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai
• 1694 English troops attack Brest (300 killed)
• 1708 Spanish flagship galleon San José is sunk during a battle just off the coast of Cartagena, Columbia carrying a cargo of gold, silver and emerald valued today in billions [1]
• 1761 British fleet occupies Belle Île off the Brittany Coast

• 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)

• 1809 William Hyde Wollaston invents the first reflective goniometer

• 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
• 1829 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London opens in Liverpool
• 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

• 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

• 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
• 1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
• 1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
• 1920 Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but umpire ejects Roush for delay of game
• 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 "Carmina Burana", the first work of Carl Orff's Trionfi cantata trilogy, premieres at the Oper Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany
• 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

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

• 1949 Siam changes name to Thailand
• 1950 Boston Red Sox rout St Louis Browns, 29-4 at Fenway Park; set 6 MLB records including runs scored and most total bases, 60
• 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
• 1956 WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1959 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Florida)
• 1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
• 1960 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"

• 1961 Test cricket debut of future Australian captain Bill Lawry, 1st Test v England in Birmingham
• 1962 Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8)
• 1963 American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
• 1964 "The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)", recorded by 1960s American pop singers, Jan and Dean, is released
• 1965 MLB Draft: Kansas City Athletics A's select Arizona State University outfielder Rick Monday #1; inaugural MLB Draft
• 1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
• 1965 USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles
• 1966 NFL & AFL announce merger plans, one league with two divisions (NFC and AFC) starting in 1970
• 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

• 1968 Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"

• 1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
• 1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

• 1969 "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" variety show last airs on CBS-TV [1]

• 1969 KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting

• 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
• 1971 White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign

• 1973 Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain
• 1974 Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes" (for the first time)
• 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

• 1976 Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1

• 1978 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification
• 1978 MLB Atlanta Braves draft Bob Horner #1

• 1979 "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
• 1979 Mariners draft Al Chambers #1
• 1979 Wings release "Back to the Egg" album
• 1980 34th Tony Awards: "Children of a Lesser God" (play) & "Evita" (musical) win
• 1981 MLB Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1
• 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.

• 1983 "Trading Places", American comedy film, is released
• 1983 Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal
• 1983 East German sprinter Marlies Göhr sets world record for 100m (10.81) in Berlin, Germany

• 1984 "Gremlins", American comedy horror film, is released
• 1984 Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia

• 1986 Iraqi jets attack Assadabad satellite station in Afghanistan
• 1986 Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Baltimore Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
• 1987 New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels in NZ. Only nation to legislate against nuclear power.

• 1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
• 1989 Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate broadcaster Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Philadelphia if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season
• 1990 "It's Garry Shandling's Show" last airs on Fox-TV
• 1990 Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
• 1991 College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3
• 1991 Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
• 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 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time
• 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 Australian cricketer Dean Jones takes career-best 5-112 for Derbyshire v Hampshire
• 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

• 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

• 2015 MLB Draft: Vanderbilt shortstop Dansby Swanson first pick by Arizona Diamondbacks

• 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
• 2022 "Ms Marvel" TV miniseries premieres on Disney+, with Disney's first on-screen Muslim superhero story, starring Iman Vellani [1]

• 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]

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