About June 8
June 8, 2022 is the 159th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 228 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 8
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
- 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.
- 1794 –Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution’s new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
- 1887 –Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’– his punched card calculator.
- 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.
- 1928 –Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping (“Northern peace”).
- 1941 –World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
- 1949 –Celebrities 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 –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.
- 1966 –An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2 destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
- 1967 –Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
- 1984 –Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
- 1995 –Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
- 2004 –The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
- 2008 –The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Katō drives a two-ton truck into a crowd before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife.
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