Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 8
This is a list of selected June 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Thomas Blamey
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 793 – Scandinavian Vikings destroyed the abbey at Lindisfarne, Northumbria, England, to begin the Viking Age. | refimprove |
| 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law, giving the President of the United States authority to restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government by executive order, bypassing oversight by the U.S. Congress. | unreferenced section |
| 1912 – Filmmaker Carl Laemmle merged his movie studio with eight smaller companies to form what is known today as Universal Studios. | refimprove |
| 1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by English writer George Orwell about life under the fictional totalitarian government of Oceania, was first published. | refimprove section |
| 1953 – Two tornadoes killed more than 200 people in Flint, Michigan and Worcester, Massachusetts. | refimprove |
| 1967 – The Israeli Air Force attacked the U.S. Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty in international waters, killing 34 and wounding at least 173. | refimprove section, too many external links |
Eligible
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last major battle fought on Quebec soil that was part of the American colonists' invasion of Quebec.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army won a resounding victory at the Battle of Cross Keys, one of the two decisive victories in Jackson's Valley Campaign.
- 1887 – German-American statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.
- 1950 – Thomas Blamey became the first Australian to attain the rank of Field Marshal.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
- 1995 – Danish-Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf released the first version of the scripting language PHP, which is now used as the server-side language on 75% of all Web servers.
- 2008 – A Japanese man drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in the Akihabara district of Tokyo, then proceeded to stab at least 12 people before being apprehended.
Notes
- A blurb about Herman Hollerith getting a patent also appears on January 8
- 1783 – Iceland's Laki craters began an eight-month eruption, triggering major famine and massive fluorine poisoning.
- 1856 – Descendants of Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers settled on Norfolk Island, an abandoned British penal colony.
- 1959 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero fired a Regulus cruise missile (example pictured), equipped with US Post Office Department containers, in an attempt to deliver mail via rocket.
- 1982 – Falklands War: The Argentine Air Force attacked British transport ships as they were unloading their supplies off Bluff Cove in the Falkland Islands, killing 56 British servicemen and wounding 150 others.
- 2007 – A major storm in New South Wales, Australia, beached the bulk carrier ship MV Pasha Bulker.