About June 8
June 8, 2025 is the 159th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 254 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 8
- 68 –The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
- 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.
- 1690 –Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
- 1789 –James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
- 1887 –Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’– his punched card calculator.
- 1912 –Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
- 1928 –Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping (“Northern peace”).
- 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.
- 1949 –George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 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.
- 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
- 1992 –The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 1995 –Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
- 2008 –The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Katō drives a two-ton truck into a crowd before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife.
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