About June 8
June 8, 2024 is the 160th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 235 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 8
- 68 –The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
- 1191 –Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) 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.
- 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.
- 1856 –A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
- 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 Beiping (“Northern peace”).
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
- 1949 –George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 1953 –Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115.
- 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 Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
- 1967 –Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
- 1968 –Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City.
- 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.
- 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.
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