About June 8
June 8, 2024 is the 160th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 235 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 8
- 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.
- 1405 –Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV’s orders.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1928 –Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping (“Northern peace”).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 2004 –The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
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