Date | Text | |||
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100 years anniversary | ||||
08 Jun 1924 | George Kirby: Chicago, Illinois -- Comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show) | |||
08 Jun 1924 | Glidewell: Lord Justice | |||
08 Jun 1924 | Sheldon Allman: Chicago, Illinois -- Actor (Norm-Harris Against the World) | |||
08 Jun 1924 | William Barlow: CEO (BICC) | |||
08 Jun 1924 | Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013) | |||
08 Jun 1924 | Iain Glidewell, English lawyer and judge | |||
08 Jun 1924 | Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (d. 2006) | |||
08 Jun 1924 | Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist and academic (d. 2013) | |||
08 Jun 1924 | Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer (b. 1902) | |||
08 Jun 1924 | George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
08 Jun 1949 | Emmanuel Ax: Lvov, Poland -- Pianist (Artur Rubinstein Comp-1974) | |||
08 Jun 1949 | Hildegard Falck: German FR, 800m runner (1972 Olympics - Gold Medalist) | |||
08 Jun 1949 | Siam changes name to Thailand | |||
08 Jun 1949 | Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator | |||
08 Jun 1949 | Hildegard Falck, German runner | |||
08 Jun 1949 | Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (d. 1986) | |||
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. | |||
08 Jun 1949 | George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published. | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
08 Jun 1974 | Gabe Northern: Defensive end (Buffalo Bills) | |||
08 Jun 1974 | 106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2 | |||
08 Jun 1974 | Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes" | |||
08 Jun 1974 | US and Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract | |||
08 Jun 1974 | Pål Arne Fagernes, Norwegian javelin thrower (d. 2003) | |||
08 Jun 1974 | Maxim Gaudette, Canadian actor | |||
08 Jun 1974 | Alma Lepina, Latvian figure skater | |||
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. | |||
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. | |||
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. | |||
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. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
08 Jun 2004 | Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist (b. 1930) | |||
08 Jun 2004 | Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938) | |||
08 Jun 2004 | The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882. | |||
08 Jun 2004
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) | |||
08 Jun 2009 | Johnny Palermo, American actor (b. 1982) | |||
08 Jun 2009 | Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
08 Jun 2014 | Jean Geissinger, American baseball player (b. 1934) | |||
08 Jun 2014 | Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (b. 1903) | |||
08 Jun 2014 | Veronica Lazăr, Romanian-Italian actress (b. 1938) | |||
08 Jun 2014 | Harold Russell Maddock, Australian jockey (b. 1918) | |||
08 Jun 2014 | Billy McCool, American baseball player (b. 1944) | |||
08 Jun 2014 | Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (b. 1948) |