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What Happened on June 8th This Day in History

Year	Name
2014	At least 28 people are killed in an attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan.
2009	Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
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.
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.
2004	The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
2001	Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
1995	Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1992	The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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.
1984	Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New South Wales.
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.
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.
1968	James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested at London Heathrow Airport.
1967	Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
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: The first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1966	The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970.
1959	USS Barbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
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.
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.
1942	World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1941	World War II: The Allies commence the Syria
1940	World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
1929	Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
1928	Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
1918	A solar eclipse is observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
1912	Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
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.
1887	Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
1867	Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
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.
1861	American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
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.
1794	Maximilien Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
1789	James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
1783	Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1776	American Revolutionary War: Continental Army attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
1772	Alexander Fordyce flees to France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the credit crisis of 1772 in the British Empire and the Dutch Republic.
1663	Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial ensures Portugal's independence from Spain.
1191	Richard I arrives in Acre, beginning the Third Crusade.
1042	Edward the Confessor becomes King of England
793	Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
452	Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.
218	Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.

Famous People Born on June 8

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Year	Name
1982	Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
1956	Jonathan Potter, English psychologist, sociolinguist, and academic
1915	Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet (d. 2015)
1975	Mark Ricciuto, Australian footballer and sportcaster
1963	Karen Kingsbury, American journalist and author
1946	Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1921	Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (d. 1993)
1903	Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1987)
1945	Derek Underwood, English cricketer
1950	Kathy Baker, American actress

Famous People Deaths On June 8

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Date	Name
1924	Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1902)
2000	Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1042	Harthacnut, English-Danish king (b. 1018)
1835	Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian economist and jurist (b. 1761)
1969	Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
1621	Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (b. 1567)
1831	Sarah Siddons, Welsh actress (b. 1755)
1716	Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German son of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1658)
1714	Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
1874	Cochise, American tribal chief (b. 1805)