WillDekkard
06-08-2010, 03:50 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 8th
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* 68 The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
* 793 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
* 1191 Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
* 1405 Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
* 1690 Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
* 1776 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Riviθres American attackers are driven back at Trois-Riviθres, Quebec.
* 1783 The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
* 1789 James Madison introduces 12 proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the United States House of Representatives; 10 of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights
* 1856 The community of Pitcairn Islands and descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty consisting of 194 people arrived on the Morayshire at Norfolk Island commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
* 1861 American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
* 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
* 1887 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for 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.
* 1912 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
* 1928 Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing.
* 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.
* 1949 Celebrities 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.
* 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. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
* 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.
* 1966 One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross 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.
* 1967 Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
* 1968 James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
* 1968 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
* 1974 An F4 tornado strikes Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
* 1982 Falklands War: Up to 50 British servicemen are killed in an Argentine air attack on two supply ships - RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
* 1984 Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australia state of New South Wales.
* 1984 An F5 tornado strikes Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing 9 and injuring 200; 90% of the homes, seventeen out of the eighteen businesses, and the three churches are destroyed.
* 1986 Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, is elected president of Austria.
* 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.
* 1995 The first release of the PHP programming language is released by Rasmus Lerdorf.
* 2001 Mamoru Takuma stabs 8 elementary school pupils to death during the Osaka school massacre.
* 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 takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Katō drives a two-ton truck into a crowded pedestrianised area before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife, killing seven and injuring ten.
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- June 8th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 68 The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
* 793 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
* 1191 Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
* 1405 Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
* 1690 Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
* 1776 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Riviθres American attackers are driven back at Trois-Riviθres, Quebec.
* 1783 The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
* 1789 James Madison introduces 12 proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the United States House of Representatives; 10 of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights
* 1856 The community of Pitcairn Islands and descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty consisting of 194 people arrived on the Morayshire at Norfolk Island commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
* 1861 American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
* 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
* 1887 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for 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.
* 1912 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
* 1928 Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing.
* 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.
* 1949 Celebrities 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.
* 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. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
* 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.
* 1966 One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross 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.
* 1967 Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
* 1968 James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
* 1968 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
* 1974 An F4 tornado strikes Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
* 1982 Falklands War: Up to 50 British servicemen are killed in an Argentine air attack on two supply ships - RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
* 1984 Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australia state of New South Wales.
* 1984 An F5 tornado strikes Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing 9 and injuring 200; 90% of the homes, seventeen out of the eighteen businesses, and the three churches are destroyed.
* 1986 Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, is elected president of Austria.
* 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.
* 1995 The first release of the PHP programming language is released by Rasmus Lerdorf.
* 2001 Mamoru Takuma stabs 8 elementary school pupils to death during the Osaka school massacre.
* 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 takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Katō drives a two-ton truck into a crowded pedestrianised area before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife, killing seven and injuring ten.
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