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Events on the 8th of June in history

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08 Jun 0065 Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem
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08 Jun 0068 Rome Senate accepts Emperor Galba
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08 Jun 2068 The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
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08 Jun 0218 Battle of Antioch: with the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
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08 Jun 0452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
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08 Jun 0536 St. Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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08 Jun 0570 Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
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08 Jun 0632 Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
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08 Jun 0793 Vikings plunder St. Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne
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08 Jun 0793 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
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08 Jun 0979 Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France
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08 Jun 1042 Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
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08 Jun 1191 Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
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08 Jun 1405 Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
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08 Jun 1551 Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma
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08 Jun 1624 Earthquake strikes Peru
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08 Jun 1632 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard
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08 Jun 1663 Battle at Amegical: English and Portugese fleet beats Spanish
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08 Jun 1690 Yadi Sakat, a Siddi general, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
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08 Jun 1694 English troop landing at Brest attack (300 killed)
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08 Jun 1761 British fleet occupies Belle Britain
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08 Jun 1776 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
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08 Jun 1783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
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08 Jun 1783 Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
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08 Jun 1786 Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC)
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08 Jun 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.
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08 Jun 1794 Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
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08 Jun 1815 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
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08 Jun 1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
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08 Jun 1829 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool
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08 Jun 1834 HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn
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08 Jun 1846 Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
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08 Jun 1856 Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island
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08 Jun 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.
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08 Jun 1861 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union
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08 Jun 1861 US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval
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08 Jun 1861 American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
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08 Jun 1862 Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
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08 Jun 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.
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08 Jun 1869 Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks)
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08 Jun 1872 Congress endorses penny post card
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08 Jun 1882 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43
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08 Jun 1886 1st Civil Rights Act passes
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08 Jun 1887 Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' – his punched card calculator.
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08 Jun 1889 Cable Cars begin service in LA
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08 Jun 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)
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08 Jun 1892 Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy vs. Ferguson)
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08 Jun 1896 1st car is stolen
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08 Jun 1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons" (BG)
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08 Jun 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.
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08 Jun 1911 Belgium government of Schollaert falls
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08 Jun 1912 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
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08 Jun 1915 William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State
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08 Jun 1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
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08 Jun 1921 Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4pm
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08 Jun 1927 Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
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08 Jun 1928 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
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08 Jun 1928 Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
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08 Jun 1929 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
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08 Jun 1929 Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap Governor Fruytier
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08 Jun 1929 Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
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08 Jun 1931 Duke and Duchess of Kent wed
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08 Jun 1931 Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo
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08 Jun 1935 39th US Golf Open: Sam Parks Jr shoots a 299 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
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08 Jun 1935 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6
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08 Jun 1935 Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds and leaves the game
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08 Jun 1936 1st parking meters are invented
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08 Jun 1939 British King George VI visits US
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08 Jun 1940 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6
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08 Jun 1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
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08 Jun 1940 Last British troops leave Narvik Norway
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08 Jun 1940 World War II: the completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
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08 Jun 1941 English and French troop overthrow pro-German Syria
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08 Jun 1941 World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
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08 Jun 1942 Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"
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08 Jun 1942 World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
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08 Jun 1944 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy
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08 Jun 1944 Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy
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08 Jun 1944 Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
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08 Jun 1946 "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 142 performances
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08 Jun 1946 Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia
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08 Jun 1948 "Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV
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08 Jun 1948 "Sally" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances
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08 Jun 1948 John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines
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08 Jun 1948 Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
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08 Jun 1949 Siam changes name to Thailand
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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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08 Jun 1950 Boston Red Sox beat St. Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs)
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08 Jun 1950 Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian Premier
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08 Jun 1950 Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
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08 Jun 1953 Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113
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08 Jun 1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
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08 Jun 1953 Tornadoes kill 110 in Michigan and Ohio
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08 Jun 1953 An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
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08 Jun 1953 The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
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08 Jun 1955 Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax
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08 Jun 1956 Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government
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08 Jun 1956 WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
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08 Jun 1958 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
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08 Jun 1959 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Florida)
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08 Jun 1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
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08 Jun 1959 The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
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08 Jun 1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
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08 Jun 1961 English Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley
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08 Jun 1961 Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron Joe Adcock & Frank Thomas)
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08 Jun 1962 Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8)
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08 Jun 1963 "Mr President" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 265 performances
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08 Jun 1963 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2
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08 Jun 1963 American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
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08 Jun 1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
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08 Jun 1965 USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
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08 Jun 1966 NFL and AFL announce plans to become NFC and AFC in 1970
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08 Jun 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. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
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08 Jun 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.
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08 Jun 1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen
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08 Jun 1967 Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
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08 Jun 1967 Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
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08 Jun 1968 1st reduced-gravity golf game is played on the Moon
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08 Jun 1968 Bermuda adopts its constitution
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08 Jun 1968 Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning
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08 Jun 1968 Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"
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08 Jun 1968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured
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08 Jun 1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
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08 Jun 1968 Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
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08 Jun 1969 "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour, " last airs on CBS-TV
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08 Jun 1969 21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams and Susan St. James
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08 Jun 1969 Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones
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08 Jun 1969 KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting
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08 Jun 1969 Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG)
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08 Jun 1969 Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August
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08 Jun 1969 Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
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08 Jun 1969 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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08 Jun 1970 Players and management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000
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08 Jun 1971 North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam
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08 Jun 1971 White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign
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08 Jun 1972 Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2
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08 Jun 1972 Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
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08 Jun 1973 Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed Premier of Spain
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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 1975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35
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08 Jun 1975 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
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08 Jun 1975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
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08 Jun 1976 Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1
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08 Jun 1977 Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game
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08 Jun 1978 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification
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08 Jun 1978 Braves draft Bob Horner #1
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08 Jun 1978 Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery
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08 Jun 1979 "The Source, " 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
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08 Jun 1979 Mariners draft Al Chambers #1
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08 Jun 1979 Wings release "Back to the Egg" album
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08 Jun 1980 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little
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08 Jun 1980 34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God and Evita win
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08 Jun 1980 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63)
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08 Jun 1981 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters
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08 Jun 1981 Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1
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08 Jun 1982 36th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2
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08 Jun 1982 Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
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08 Jun 1982 Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time
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08 Jun 1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
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08 Jun 1982 Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
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08 Jun 1983 "Trading Places, " "Ghostbusters, " and "Gremlins" premieres
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08 Jun 1983 Charlos Vieira begins 191 hour "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal
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08 Jun 1984 Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
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08 Jun 1985 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
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08 Jun 1985 Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit HRs in same game
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08 Jun 1986 "Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 70 performances
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08 Jun 1986 40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2
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08 Jun 1986 56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (63 62 64)
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08 Jun 1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria
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08 Jun 1986 Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Baltimore Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
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08 Jun 1987 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis
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08 Jun 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.
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08 Jun 1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
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08 Jun 1990 Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
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08 Jun 1991 123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28
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08 Jun 1991 61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64)
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08 Jun 1991 College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3
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08 Jun 1991 Former New York Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
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08 Jun 1991 Victory parade held in Washington DC (Persian Gulf War)
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08 Jun 1991 Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Division 1 golf title
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08 Jun 1992 26th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks
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08 Jun 1992 New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time
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08 Jun 1992 Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as President of Austria
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08 Jun 1992 The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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08 Jun 1993 Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns
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08 Jun 1994 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia
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08 Jun 1994 Mass murderer Joe Rifkind sentenced to 27 years
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08 Jun 1995 "Buttons on Broadway" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 40 performances
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08 Jun 1995 The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
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08 Jun 1996 66th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (63, 67, 108)
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08 Jun 1996 Dean Jones takes career-best 5-112 for Derbyshire vs. Hampshire
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08 Jun 1996 Lloyd and Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt Lancs vs. Essex
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08 Jun 1996 PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper
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08 Jun 1997 "Young Man From Atlanta" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 85 performances
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08 Jun 1997 67th French Mens Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten beats S Bruguera (63 64 62)
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08 Jun 1997 BellSouth Senior Golf Classic at Opryland
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08 Jun 1997 Pat Hurst wins LPGA Oldsmobile Classic
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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 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 a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
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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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08 Jun 2013 The Wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O'Neill takes place in Stockholm, Sweden.
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