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On this day: June 8th

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218 Battle of Antioch (218): With the support of the Syrian Roman legion, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.

452 Attila leads a Huns army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.

793 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.

1042 Edward the Confessor becomes Monarchy of the United Kingdom the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.

1191 King Richard I of England arrives in Acre, Israel, beginning the Third Crusade.

1663 Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial ensures Portugal's independence from Spain.

1772 Alexander Fordyce flees to Kingdom of France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the British credit crisis of 1772–1773 in the British Empire and the Dutch Republic.

1776 American Revolutionary War: Continental Army attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.

1783 Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.

1789 James Madison introduces United States Bill of Rights in Congress.

1794 Maximilien 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 Islands, descendants of the mutineers of , arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.

1861 American Civil War: Tennessee in the American Civil War secedes from the Union (American Civil War).

1862 American Civil War: A Confederate States of America 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 (American Civil War) forces from reinforcing General George B. McClellan in his Peninsula campaign.

1867 Coronation of Franz Joseph I of Austria as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (''Ausgleich'').

1887 Herman Hollerith applies for US patent # 395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was 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.

1924 1924 British Mount Everest expedition: British mountaineers Andrew Irvine (mountaineer) and George Mallory go missing.

1928 Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Beijing, whose name is changed to Beiping ("Northern Peace").

1929 Margaret Bondfield is appointed Secretary of State for Employment. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

1940 World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.

1941 World War II: The Allies of World War II commence the Syria–Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.

1942 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy submarines Japanese submarine I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle, New South Wales.

1943 World War II: The two-day Battle of Porta between the Royal Italian Army and the Greek People's Liberation Army begins.

1953 1953 Flint–Beecher tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, United States, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.

1953 The Supreme Court of the United States rules in ''District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.'' that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.

1959 and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.

1961 Wedding of Prince Edward and Katharine Worsley of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent to Katharine, Duchess of Kent at York Minster.

1966 An Lockheed F-104 Starfighter collides with North American 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, United States is Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966 that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale, exceeding US$200 million in damages. Seventeen people are killed, over five hundred more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.

1967 Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident: A United States Navy spy ship is attacked by the Israeli Air Force and Navy, resulting in 34 deaths and 171 wounded.

1968 James Earl Ray, the man who Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested at Heathrow Airport.

1972 Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc 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.

1982 Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentines air attack on two landing ships, and .

1982 VASP Flight 168 crashes in Pacatuba, Ceará, Brazil, killing 128 people.

1984 Homosexuality is decriminalized in the States and territories of Australia of New South Wales.

1987 New Zealand's Fourth Labour Government of New Zealand establishes a New Zealand nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.

1992 The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1992 GP Express Airlines Flight 861 crashes on approach to Anniston Regional Airport in Anniston, Alabama, killing three.

1995 Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain (United States O-3) Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2001 Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in Ikeda school massacre at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.

2004 The first Transit of Venus, 2004 in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882 transit of Venus.

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 .

2023 Former US President Donald Trump is Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (classified documents case) on federal charges of misusing classified information.

862 Emperor Xizong of Tang (died 888)

1508 Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (died 1586)

1593 George I Rákóczi, prince of Transylvania (died 1648)

1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (died 1712)

1671 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (died 1751)

1717 John Collins (Continental Congress), American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (died 1795)

1724 John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (died 1794)

1745 Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (died 1818)

1757 Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (died 1824)

1776 Thomas Rickman, English architect and architectural antiquary (died 1841)

1788 Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (died 1869)

1810 Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (died 1856)

1829 John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator (died 1896)

1831 Thomas J. Higgins, Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1917)

1842 John Q. A. Brackett, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1918)

1851 Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physician and physicist (died 1940)

1852 Guido Banti, Italian physician and pathologist (died 1925)

1854 Douglas Cameron (politician), Canadian politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (died 1921)

1855 George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (died 1924)

1858 Charlotte Scott, English mathematician (died 1931)

1860 Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (died 1940)

1867 Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (died 1959)

1868 Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (died 1942)

1872 Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (died 1949)

1876 Alexandre Tuffère, Greek-French triple jumper (died 1958)

1878 Evan Roberts (minister), Welsh Revivalist minister (died 1951)

1885 Karl Genzken, German physician (died 1957)

1891 William Funnell (public servant), Australian public servant (died 1962)

1893 Ernst Marcus (zoologist), German zoologist (died 1968)

1893 Gaby Morlay, French actress (died 1964)

1894 Erwin Schulhoff, Czech composer and pianist (died 1942)

1895 Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and manager (died 1978)

1897 John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (died 1974)

1899 Eugène Lapierre, Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator (died 1970)

1899 Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (died 1945)

1900 Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (died 1945)

1903 Ralph Yarborough, American lawyer and politician (died 1996)

1903 Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet (died 1987)

1910 John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (died 1971)

1910 Fernand Fonssagrives, French-American photographer, sculptor, and painter (died 2003)

1911 Edmundo Rivero, Argentinian singer-songwriter (died 1986)

1912 Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, British abstract painter (died 2004)

1912 Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1989)

1912 Harry Holtzman, American painter (died 1987)

1915 Seán McCaughey, Irish Republican Army leader, died on hunger strike (died 1946)

1915 Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet (died 2015)

1916 Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (died 2004)

1916 Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2007)

1916 Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator (died 1992)

1917 Byron White, American football player, lawyer and judge (died 2002)

1918 George Edward Hughes, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (died 1994)

1918 Robert Preston (actor), American actor and singer (died 1987)

1918 John D. Roberts, American chemist and academic (died 2016)

1919 John R. Deane, Jr., American general (died 2013)

1920 Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (died 1995)

1921 Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (died 1986)

1921 Olga C. Nardone, American actress (died 2010)

1921 LeRoy Neiman, American painter (died 2012)

1921 Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (died 1993)

1921 Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (died 2008)

1924 Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 2013)

1924 Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist and academic (died 2013)

1925 Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States (died 2018)

1927 Jerry Stiller, American actor, comedian and producer (died 2020)

1928 Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian philosopher, theologian and priest (died 2024)

1928 Mimi Mariani, Indonesian actress, model, and singer (died 1971)

1928 J. R. P. Suriyapperuma, Sri Lankan politician (died 2025)

1929 Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist and author (died 2013)

1930 Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize in Economics laureate

1930 Marcel Léger, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1993)

1931 Dana Wynter, British actress (died 2011)

1932 Ray Illingworth, English cricketer and sportscaster (died 2021)

1932 Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, Scottish lawyer and judge (died 2017)

1933 Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (died 2014)

1934 Millicent Martin, English actress and singer

1935 Molade Okoya-Thomas, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (died 2015)

1936 James Darren, American actor (died 2024)

1936 Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (died 2013)

1937 Gillian Clarke, Welsh poet and playwright

1938 Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal

1939 Herb Adderley, American football player (died 2020)

1940 Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress

1941 Robert Bradford (Northern Irish politician), Northern Irish politician and activist (died 1981)

1941 George Pell, Australian cardinal (died 2023)

1942 Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player (died 2021)

1943 Colin Baker, English actor

1943 William Calley, American military officer

1943 Willie Davenport, American hurdler (died 2002)

1944 Marc Ouellet, Canadian archbishop and cardinal

1944 Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1945 Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (died 2014)

1945 Derek Underwood, English cricketer (died 2024)

1946 Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach

1947 Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter

1947 Sara Paretsky, American author

1947 Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, geneticist, and academic Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

1949 Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator

1949 Hildegard Falck, German runner

1950 Kathy Baker, American actress

1950 Sônia Braga, Brazilian actress and producer

1951 Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter

1953 Ivo Sanader, Croatian historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia

1954 Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (died 2013)

1954 Sergei Storchak, Ukrainian-Russian politician

1955 Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web

1955 José Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer and manager

1957 Scott Adams, American author and illustrator

1957 Sonja Vectomov (sculptor), Czech/Finnish sculptor

1958 Louise Richardson, Irish political scientist and academic

1959 Mohsen Kadivar, Iranian philosopher

1960 Neil Baker, Australian rugby league player

1960 Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter

1960 Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach

1961 Mary Bonauto, American lawyer and gay rights activist

1964 Butch Reynolds, American runner and coach

1965 Kevin Farley, American screenwriter

1966 Julianna Margulies, American actress

1967 Russell E. Morris, Welsh chemist and academic

1971 Bernard Grech, Maltese lawyer and politician

1970 Kelli Williams, American actress and director

1974 Lauren Burns, Australian taekwondo practitioner

1975 Mark Ricciuto, Australian footballer and sportcaster

1976 Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player

1977 Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer

1978 Maria Menounos, American television personality, professional wrestler, author, and actress

1981 Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author (died 2019)

1982 Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player

1983 Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player; winner of six Grand Slam (tennis) tournament titles.

1984 Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer

1986 Keith Gill, American financial analyst and investor

1989 Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player

1994 Liv Morgan, American professional wrestler

1997 Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player

2004 Francesca Capaldi, American actress

632 Muhammad, the central figure of Islam. (born 570/571)

696 Chlodulf of Metz, bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz (or 697)

951 Zhao Ying, Chinese chancellor (born 885)

1042 Harthacnut, English-Danish king (born 1018)

1154 William of York, English archbishop and saint

1290 Beatrice Portinari, object of Dante Alighieri's adoration (born 1266)

1376 Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (born 1330)

1383 Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros, English politician (born 1338)

1384 Kan'ami, Japanese actor and playwright (born 1333)

1405 Richard Scrope (bishop), Archbishop of York (born )

1405 Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk (born 1385)

1476 George Neville (bishop), English archbishop and academic (born 1432)

1492 Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of England (born 1437)

1501 George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, Earl of Huntly and Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1440)

1505 Hongzhi Emperor of China (born 1470)

1600 Edward Fortunatus, German nobleman (born 1565)

1611 Jean Bertaut, French bishop and poet (born 1552)

1612 Hans Leo Hassler, German organist and composer (born 1562)

1621 Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (born 1567)

1628 Rudolph Goclenius, German lexicographer and philosopher (born 1547)

1651 Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shōgun (born 1604)

1714 Sophia of Hanover (born 1630)

1716 Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German son of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (born 1658)

1727 August Hermann Francke, German-Lutheran pietist, philanthropist, and scholar (born 1663)

1768 Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and scholar (born 1717)

1771 George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1716)

1795 Louis XVII of France (born 1785)

1809 Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (born 1737)

1831 Sarah Siddons, Welsh actress (born 1755)

1835 Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian economist and jurist (born 1761)

1845 Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (born 1767)

1846 Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist (born 1799)

1857 Douglas William Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (born 1803)

1874 Cochise, American tribal chief (born 1805)

1876 George Sand, French author and playwright (born 1804)

1885 Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (born 1799)

1889 Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (born 1844)

1899 Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (born 1863)

1913 Emily Davison, English suffragette (born 1872)

1919 Cora Agnes Benneson, American attorney (born 1851)

1951 Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1874)

1956 Marie Laurencin, French painter and sculptor (born 1883)

1966 Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (born 1890)

1968 Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (born 1909)

1968 Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian racing driver (born 1933)

1969 Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (born 1885)

1969 Robert Taylor (American actor), American actor (born 1911)

1970 Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (born 1908)

1971 J. I. Rodale, American author and playwright (born 1898)

1976 Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and psychologist (born 1894)

1982 Satchel Paige, American baseball player (born 1906)

1984 Gordon Jacob, English composer and academic (born 1895)

1987 Alexander Iolas, Egyptian-American art collector (born 1907)

1997 George Turner (writer), Australian author and critic (born 1916)

1997 Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and academic (born 1948)

1998 Sani Abacha, Nigerian general and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (born 1943)

1998 Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (born 1903)

2000 Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (born 1921)

2001 Alex de Renzy, American director and producer (born 1935)

2004 Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist and academic (born 1930)

2004 Mack Jones, American baseball player (born 1938)

2006 Jaxon (cartoonist), American illustrator and publisher, co-founded Rip Off Press (born 1941)

2006 Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk, theologian, and author (born 1919)

2009 Omar Bongo, Gabonese captain and politician, President of Gabon (born 1935)

2012 Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1940)

2012 Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (born 1926)

2013 Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (born 1948)

2013 Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (born 1930)

2013 Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Spouse of Indonesia (born 1942)

2014 Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (born 1903)

2014 Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (born 1948)

2015 Chea Sim, Cambodian commander and politician (born 1932)

2018 Anthony Bourdain, American chef and travel documentarian (born 1956)

2019 Andre Matos, Brazilian heavy metal musician (born 1971)

2022 Paula Rego, Portuguese-British visual artist (born 1935)

2023 Pat Robertson, American televangelist (born 1930)

2024 Ramoji Rao, Indian businessman, media proprietor and film producer (born 1936)

2024 Chet Walker, American basketball player (born 1940)

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- Mary of the Divine Heart

- Chlodulf of Metz

- Jacques Berthieu, Society of Jesus

- Jadwiga of Poland

- Medardus

- Melania the Elder

- Roland Allen (Episcopal Church (USA))

- Thomas Ken (Church of England)

- William of York

- June 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

First Indochina War day (France)

Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)

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Engineer's Day (Peru)

Primož Trubar Day (Slovenia)

World Brain Tumor Day

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