On this day in History - Jun 8

• 0068 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba.
• 0218 - Macrinus dies (b. c. 0165). Roman Emperor.
• 0536 - St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date).
• 0632 - Muhammad dies (b. c. 570). Founder of Islam.
• 0793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known
• 1042 - Harthacanute dies (b. 1018). King of England.
• 1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
• 1376 - Edward, the Black Prince dies (b. 1330). Son of Edward III of England.
  
• 1383 - Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros dies (b. 1338). English Crusader.
• 1384 - Kanami dies (b. 1333). Japanese actor.
• 1405 - Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
• 1476 - George Neville dies. English archbishop and statesman.
• 1505 - Hongzhi dies (b. 1470). Emperor of China.
• 1611 - Jean Bertaut dies (b. 1552). French poet.
• 1612 - Hans Leo Hassler dies (b. 1562). German composer.
• 1621 - Anne de Xainctonge dies (b. 1567). French saint.
• 1624 - An earthquake strikes Peru.
• 1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini was born (d. 1712). Italian scientist.
• 1628 - Rudolph Goclenius dies (b. 1547). German philosopher.
• 1662 - Morte de Henrique Dias, o herói da guerra contra os holandeses, em Recife-PE.
• 1671 - Tomaso Albinoni was born in Venice (d. 1751). Italian composer.
• 1690 - Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
• 1695 - Morria Christian Huygens (n. 14 Abr 1629). Matemático, físico e astrónomo. holandês criador da teoria de onda da luz; descobriu a verdadeira forma dos anéis de Saturno, e fez contribuições originais à ciência da dinâmica - o estudo da acção de forças em corpos.
• 1714 - Sophia of Hanover dies (b. 1630). Heir to the throne of Great Britain.
• 1716 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine dies (b. 1658).
• 1717 - John Collins was born (d. 1795). American politician.
• 1724 - John Smeaton was born (d. 1794). English civil engineer.
• 1727 - August Hermann Francke dies (b. 1663). German Protestant minister.
  
• 1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro was born. (d. 1795). Italian adventurer.
• 1745 - Caspar Wessel was born (d. 1818). Danish mathematician.
• 1757 - Cardinal Ercole Consalvi was born (d. 1824). Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal.
• 1768 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann dies (b. 1717). German classical scholar and archaeologist.
• 1771 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax dies (b. 1716). English statesman.
• 1769 - Alvará que cria uma fábrica de louça fina em Lisboa.
• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - American invaders 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.
• 1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
• 1795 - King Louis XVII of France dies (b. 1785).
• 1809 - Thomas Paine dies (b. 1737). American revolutionary and writer: Common Sense
• 1810 - Robert Schumann was born (d. 1856). German composer.
• 1835 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi dies (b. 1761). Italian physicist.
• 1845 - Andrew Jackson dies (b. 1767). 7th President of the United States.
• 1847 - Ida McKinley was born (d. 1907). Former First Lady of the United States.
• 1851 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval was born (d. 1940). French physicist.
• 1856 - The community of Pitcairn Islands and descendants of the mutineers of the HMS Bounty consisting of 194 people arrived on the Morayshire at Norfolk Island Commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
• 1857 - Douglas William Jerrold dies (b. 1803). British dramatic playwright and political satirist.
• 1859 - Smith Wigglesworth was born (d. 1947). British religious.
• 1860 - Alicia Boole Stott was born (d. 1940). Irish mathematician.
• 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 McClellan.
• 1866 - The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa.
• 1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Park, Wisconsin (d. 1959). American architect.
• 1874 - Cochise dies (b. c. 1812). Apache leader.
• 1876 - George Sand dies (b. 1804). French author.
• 1885 - Karl Genzken was born (d. 1957). Nazi physician.
• 1885 - Ignace Bourget dies (b. 1799). Bishop of Montreal.
• 1887 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
• 1895 - Santiago Bernabéu was born (d. 1978). President of Real Madrid.
• 1901 - Lena Baker was born (d. 1945). American murderer.
• 1903 - Ralph Yarborough was born (d. 1996). U.S. Senator from Texas.
• 1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar was born (d. 1987). French author.
• 1903 - Ralph Yarborough was born (d. 1996). U.S. Senator and Texas politician.
• 1904 - Carmen Santos [Maria do Carmo Santos Gonçalves} was born in Vila Flor, Distrito de Bragança, Portugal (m. 14 Set 1952 no de Janeiro, Brazil). Producer, she founded in 1933 the production company Brasil Vox Filmes, Rio de Janeiro, later called Brasil VitaFilmes.
• 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.
• 1910 - John W. Campbell Jr. was born (d. 1971). American publisher and editor.
• 1910 - Fernand Fonssagrives was born (d. 2003). French photographer.
• 1911 - Edmundo Rivero was born (d. 1986). Argentine singer.
• 1912 - Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.
• 1912 - Harry Holtzman was born (d. 1987). American abstract artist.
• 1912 - Maurice Bellemare was born (d. 1989). French Canadian politician.
• 1916 - Francis Crick was born. Scientist, Nobel laureate, helped discover the molecular structure of DNA.
• 1916 - Francis Crick was born (d. 2004). Molecular biologist; Nobel laureate.
• 1916 - Luigi Comencini was born (d. 2007). Italian film director.
• 1917 - Byron White was born (d. 2002). Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1918 - Robert Preston was born (d. 1987). American actor.
• 1918 - John D. Roberts was born. American chemist.
• 1921 - LeRoy Neiman was born. American painter.
• 1921 - Suharto was born (d. 2008). President of Indonesia.
• 1921 - Alexis Smith was born (d. 1993). Canadian actress.
• 1924 - Lyn Nofziger was born. American political operative.
• 1924 - George Leigh Mallory (b. 1886) and Andrew Irvine (b. 1902), die (climbing accident). English mountaineers.
• 1925 - Barbara Bush was born. Former First Lady of the United States (to 41st President, George Bush, mother to 43rd President George W. Bush).
• 1925 - Eddie Gaedel was born (d. 1961). American baseball player.
• 1925 - Del Ennis was born (d. 1996). Baseball player.
• 1926 - Antoni Gaudí, the famous Catalan architect, is run over by a tram. He dies 2 days later in hospital.
• 1927 - LeRoy Neiman was born. Painter.
• 1928 - Second Northern Expedition: NRA captures Beijing, whose name is changed to Beiping.
• 1929 - Jerry Stiller was born. American comedian, actor.
• 1929 - Bliss Carman dies (b. 1861). Canadian poet.
• 1930 - Robert Aumann was born. German-born mathematician, Nobel Prize in Economics.
• 1931 - Dana Wynter was born. German-born American actress.
• 1933 - Joan Rivers was born. American comedian and author.
• 1933 - Millicent Martin was born. English singer and actress.
• 1934 - Millicent Martin was born. Singer and actress.
• 1936 - James Darren was born. American actor and singer.
• 1936 - Kenneth G. Wilson was born. American physicist, Nobel laureate.
• 1939 - Bernie Casey was born. American football player and actor.
• 1940 - Nancy Sinatra was born. American singer.
• 1941 - World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
• 1941 - Robert Bradford was born (d. 1981). Northern Irish politician.
• 1941 - Fuzzy Haskins was born. American musician (P Funk).
• 1942 - World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
• 1942 - Doug Mountjoy was born. Welsh snooker player.
• 1942 - Chuck Negron was born. American singer (Three Dog Night).
• 1943 - Colin Baker was born. British actor.
• 1943 - William Calley was born. American war criminal.
• 1943 - Willie Davenport was born (d. 2002). American athlete.
• 1944 - Mark Belanger was born (d. 1998). American baseball player.
• 1944 - Marc Ouellet was born. Archbishop of Quebec City.
• 1944 - Boz Scaggs was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1945 - James Baird was born. American architect.
• 1946 - Camacho Costa was born in Odemira (d. 1 Mar 2003). Portuguese actor/ Nascimento, em Odemira, de Camacho Costa (m. 1 Mar 2003 em Lisboa). Grande actor português.
• 1947 - Eric F. Wieschaus was born. American biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1947 - Jaime Gama was born. Portuguese politician.
  
• 1948 - Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
• 1948 - Jürgen von der Lippe was born. German show master.
• 1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published.
• 1949 - Red Scare: Such celebrities as 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 - Emanuel Ax was born. Polish-born pianist.
• 1950 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
• 1950 - Sonia Braga was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1951 - Bonnie Tyler was born. Welsh singer and guitarist.
• 1951 - Tony Rice was born. American acoustic guitarist.
• 1951 - José Jorge Letria was born. Portuguese writer and journalist.
• 1951 - Eugène Fiset dies (b. 1874). French Canadian military officer and politician.
• 1953 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hits in 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.
• 1953 - Olav Stedje was born. Norwegian singer-songwriter.
• 1953 - Ad Tak was born. Dutch cyclist.
• 1955 - Tim Berners-Lee was born. English internet developer.
• 1955 - Griffin Dunne was born. American actor.
• 1955 - Greg Ginn was born. American guitarist (Black Flag).
• 1955 - José Antonio Camacho was born. Spanish ex-football player and now coach.
• 1956 - Marie Laurencin dies (b. 1883). French painter.
• 1957 - Scott Adams was born. American cartoonist.
• 1957 - Don Robinson was born. Baseball player.
• 1958 - Portugal - O almirante Américo Tomás é eleito presidente da república. Humberto Delgado é o candidato da oposição vencido. A fraude eleitoral parece ter sido maciça.
• 1958 - Keenen Ivory Wayans was born. American actor and director.
• 1959 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
• 1960 - Agostinho Neto, futuro presidente de Angola, é preso em Angola.
• 1960 - Mick Hucknall was born. English singer and songwriter (Simply Red).
• 1960 - Thomas Steen was born. Swedish hockey player.
• 1962 - Nick Rhodes was born. English musician (Duran Duran).
• 1962 - Kristine W was born. American musician.
• 1963 - Ward charged over 'immoral earnings' Dr Stephen Ward, a London osteopath and friend of Christine Keeler, is arrested and charged with living on immoral earnings.
• 1963 - Keti Garbi was born. Greek singer.
• 1965 - Kevin Farley was born. American actor.
• 1965 - Rob Pilatus was born (d. 1998), member of Milli Vanilli.
• 1965 - Chris Chavis was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1965 - Edmondo Rossoni dies (b. 1884). Italian fascist.
• 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 USAF test pilot Carl Cross were 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 - Julianna Margulies was born. American actress (ER).
• 1966 - Anton Melik dies (b. 1890). Slovenian geographer.
• 1967 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
• 1968 - James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr..
• 1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1969 - After the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) cancels the program, the last Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour airs.
• 1969 - J.P. Manoux was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Marcos Siega was born. American director.
• 1969 - David Sutcliffe was born. Canadian actor.
• 1969 - Robert Taylor dies (b. 1911). American actor.
• 1970 - Gabrielle Giffords was born. American politician.
• 1970 - Abraham Maslow dies (b. 1908). American psychologist.
• 1970 - Kelli Williams was born. American actress (The Practice).
• 1970 - Seu Jorge was born. Brazilian musician and actor.
• 1971 - Troy Vincent was born. American football player.
• 1971 - Mark Feuerstein was born. American actor.
• 1972 - Lexa Doig was born. Canadian actress.
• 1972 - Jimmy Rushing dies. American blues singer.
• 1973 - Lucija Šerbedžija was born. Croatian actress.
• 1973 - Lexa Doig was born. Canadian actress (Andromeda).
• 1974 - An F4 tornado strikes the U.S. city of Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
• 1975 - Bryan McCabe was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1975 - Shilpa Shetty was born. Indian actress.
• 1976 - Lindsay Davenport was born. American tennis player.
• 1976 - Kenji Johjima was born. Japanese baseball player.
• 1977 - Kanye West was born. American rapper.
• 1978 - Woman takes world sailing record Yachtswoman Naomi James breaks the solo round-the-world sailing record by two days.
• 1978 - Maria Menounos was born. American actress and television host.
• 1979 - Pete Orr was born. Canadian baseball player.
• 1979 - Derek Trucks was born. American guitarist.
• 1979 - Adine Wilson was born. New Zealand netball player.
• 1979 - Herb Polesie dies. Playwright.
• 1980 - Manduca was born. Brazilian football player who represented Benfica and at present time AEK Athenas.
• 1980 - Ernst Busch dies (b. 1980). German singer and actor.
• 1981 - Acidente ferroviário na India, ao tentar evitar-se o atropelamento de uma vaca. Cerca de 3.000 muertos.
• 1981 - Sara Watkins was born. American fiddle player.
• 1981 - Ai Nonaka was born. Japanese voice actor.
• 1981 - Matteo Meneghello was born. Italian racing driver.
• 1982 - Katy Morgan-Davies was born. British politician.
• 1982 - Satchel Paige dies (b. 1906). Baseball player.
• 1982 - Nadia Petrova was born. Russian tennis player.
• 1982 - Fifty die in Argentine air attack -Up to 50 British servicemen are killed in an Argentine air attack on two supply ships in the Falklands.
• 1982 - President Reagan became the first American president to address a joint session of Britain’s Parliament.
• 1983 - Kim Clijsters was born. Belgian tennis player.
• 1983 - Nadia Petrova was born. Russian tennis player.
• 1983 - Lee Harding was born. Australian punk-rock singer.
• 1983 - Mamoru Miyano was born. Japanese seiyuu.
• 1983 - Satchel Paige dies. Great baseball player.
• 1984 - Homosexuality is decriminalised in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
• 1984 - Andrea Casiraghi was born. Son of Princess Caroline of Monaco.
• 1984 - Javier Mascherano was born. Argentinian soccer player.
• 1984 - Maxi Pereira was born. Uruguyan footballer (Uruguay National Team and Benfica).
• 1984 - Gordon Jacob dies (b. 1895). English composer.
• 1985 - Alexandre Despatie was born. French Canadian diver.
• 1986 - Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.
• 1987 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as at June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.
• 1987 - Danielle Foote was born. Australian singer.
• 1989 - Tony de Matos dies in Lisbon (b. 28 Oct 1924 in Porto). Portuguese singer.
• 1992 - The first World Ocean Day celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil.
• 1993 - Root Boy Slim dues (b. 1945). American entertainer.
• 1995 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
• 1995 - Rasmus Lerdorf launched version 1.0 of the popular scripting language PHP.
• 1996 - Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1998 - Charlton Heston assumes the presidency of the National Rifle Association.
• 1998 - Sani Abacha dies (b. 1904). President of Nigeria.
• 1998 - Maria Reiche dies (b. 1903). German-born mathematician and archaeologist.
• 1999 - War on Drugs: The government of Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national produt.
  
• 1999 - Liar Aitken jailed for 18 months Ex-cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken is jailed for 18 months after admitting he lied during a libel action.
• 2000 - Jeff MacNelly dies. American political cartoonist.
• 2001 - Popular editorial site suck.com, one of the first original content sites on the internet, publishes its final article, "Gone Fishin".
• 2001 - Tony Blair and his Labour Party won a second term, overwhelming the opposition at the polls.
• 2003 - Leighton Rees dies (b. 1940). Welsh darts player.
• 2004 - First Transit of Venus in this millennium.
• 2004 - Mack Jones dies (b. 1938). American baseball player.
• 2004 - Leopoldo Zea dies. Mexican philosopher.
• 2006 - Abouna Matta El Meskeen dies (b. 1919). Coptic Orthodox monk.
• 2006 - Robert Donner dies (b. 1931). American actor.
• 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.
• 2007 - Kenny Olsson dies (b. 1977). Swedish speedway racer.
• 2007 - Richard Rorty dies (b. 1931). American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher.
• 2008 - The Akihabara massacre took place on the Sunday-pedestrian-zoned Chūōdōri street. A man killed seven in an attack on a crowd using a truck and a dagger.
• 2008 - Šaban Bajramović dies (b. 1936). Serbian Romani musician.
• 2009 – Omar Bongo dies (b. 1935). President of Gabon.
  
• World Ocean Day / Dia Mundial dos Oceanos.
• World Brain Tumor Day.
• Norfolk Island Anniversary Day, also known as Bounty Day.
• Germanic Neopaganism: Lindisfarne Day, commemorating the Viking raid on Lindisfarne in 793.
• Temotu Province: Province Day.