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Anniversary on the 8th of June 0154

Anniversary
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100 years anniversary
08 Jun 1924   George Kirby: Chicago, Illinois -- Comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show)
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08 Jun 1924   Glidewell: Lord Justice
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08 Jun 1924   Sheldon Allman: Chicago, Illinois -- Actor (Norm-Harris Against the World)
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08 Jun 1924   William Barlow: CEO (BICC)
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08 Jun 1924   Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
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08 Jun 1924   Iain Glidewell, English lawyer and judge
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08 Jun 1924   Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (d. 2006)
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08 Jun 1924   Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist and academic (d. 2013)
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08 Jun 1924   Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer (b. 1902)
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08 Jun 1924   George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886)
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75 years anniversary
08 Jun 1949   Emmanuel Ax: Lvov, Poland -- Pianist (Artur Rubinstein Comp-1974)
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08 Jun 1949   Hildegard Falck: German FR, 800m runner (1972 Olympics - Gold Medalist)
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08 Jun 1949   Siam changes name to Thailand
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08 Jun 1949   Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator
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08 Jun 1949   Hildegard Falck, German runner
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08 Jun 1949   Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (d. 1986)
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08 Jun 1949   The 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.
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08 Jun 1949   George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
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50 years anniversary
08 Jun 1974   Gabe Northern: Defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
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08 Jun 1974   106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2
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08 Jun 1974   Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes"
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08 Jun 1974   US and Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
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08 Jun 1974   Pål Arne Fagernes, Norwegian javelin thrower (d. 2003)
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08 Jun 1974   Maxim Gaudette, Canadian actor
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08 Jun 1974   Alma Lepina, Latvian figure skater
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08 Jun 1974   Bill Wyman became the first Rolling Stone to release a solo album with Monkey Grip, (it peaked at No.39 in the UK and No.99 in the US). The album featured guest appearances by, Dr John, Leon Russell and Lowell George.
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08 Jun 1974   David Bowie started a four-week run at the top of the UK charts with his third No.1 album 'Diamond Dogs'. The cover art features Bowie as a striking half-man, half-dog grotesque painted by Belgian artist Guy Peellaert. It was controversial as the full painting clearly showed the hybrid's genitalia. Very few copies of this original cover made their way into circulation at the time of the album's release.
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08 Jun 1974   Dolly Parton was at No.1 on the US country chart with 'I Will Always Love You'. Elvis Presley indicated that he wanted to cover the song. Parton was interested until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded. Parton refused. 'I Will Always Love You' later became a worldwide No.1 hit for Whitney Houston in 1992 when featured in The Bodyguard.
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08 Jun 1974   Paul McCartney and Wings went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Band On The Run', his third solo US No.1, a No.3 hit in the UK. McCartney later stated that George Harrison unwittingly contributed the first line of one part of the song: "If we ever get out of here" when he said it during one of the many Beatles' business meetings.
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20 years anniversary
08 Jun 2004   Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist (b. 1930)
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08 Jun 2004   Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
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08 Jun 2004   The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
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08 Jun 2004 Transit of Venus
Transit of Venus

   Transit of Venus (astronomy)
Transit of Venus across the Sun.
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15 years anniversary
08 Jun 2009   Omar Bongo, Gabonese politician, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
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08 Jun 2009   Johnny Palermo, American actor (b. 1982)
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08 Jun 2009   Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
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10 years anniversary
08 Jun 2014   Jean Geissinger, American baseball player (b. 1934)
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08 Jun 2014   Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (b. 1903)
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08 Jun 2014   Veronica Lazăr, Romanian-Italian actress (b. 1938)
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08 Jun 2014   Harold Russell Maddock, Australian jockey (b. 1918)
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08 Jun 2014   Billy McCool, American baseball player (b. 1944)
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08 Jun 2014   Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (b. 1948)
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