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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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; World Oceans Day | like advertisement |
| 793 – Scandinavian Vikings destroyed the abbey at Lindisfarne, Northumbria, England, to begin the Viking Age. | multiple issues |
| 1867 – Author Mark Twain left America for a cruise aboard the Quaker City, a cruise which would later serve as the subject of his travelogue, The Innocent's Abroad. | date not in article; no footnotes |
| 1912 – Filmmaker Carl Laemmle merged his movie studio with eight smaller companies to form what is known today as Universal Pictures. | 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 |
| 1959 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero fired a Regulus cruise missile, equipped with US Post Office Department containers, in an attempt to deliver mail via rocket. | refimprove section |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 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.
- 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 tabulator.
- 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.
- 1929 – Margaret Bondfield became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.
- 1953 – Two tornadoes caused by the same storm system killed more than 200 people in Flint, Michigan, and Worcester, Massachusetts, cities more than 650 miles (1,050 km) apart.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 nearly 40% of all web sites.
- 2007 – A major storm in New South Wales, Australia, beached the bulk carrier ship MV Pasha Bulker.
- 2009 – Two American journalists, having been arrested for illegal entry into North Korea, were sentenced to 12 years hard labor before being pardoned two months later.
- Born/died this day: Muhammad (d. 632)
Notes
- A blurb about Herman Hollerith getting a patent also appears on January 8
- Mutiny on the Bounty appears on April 28, so Norfolk Island should not appear in the same year
- 218 – With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeated the forces of Roman emperor Macrinus.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last major battle during the American colonists' invasion of Quebec to be fought on Quebec soil.
- 1941 – World War II: The Allies commenced the Syria–Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
- 1950 – Thomas Blamey (pictured) became the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal.
- 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.
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