About June 8
June 8, 2021 is the 159th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 238 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 8
- 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 (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.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers 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.
- 1794 –Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution’s new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1912 –Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
- 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 –George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 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.
- 1959 –The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
- 1967 –Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
- 1984 –Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
- 2004 –The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
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