History Events on June 08

At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.

#Ukraine

Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.

#Carl_Laemmle

Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Th? Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.

#Vietnam_War

A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.

#Pitcairn_Islands

Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina.

#Muhammad

World War II: The Allies commence the Syria–Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.

#Allies_of_World_War_II

Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.

#Captain_(United_States_O-3)

Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

#Margaret_Bondfield

Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.

#Lindisfarne

Nova Aquilae, the brightest nova since Kepler's Supernova of 1604, is discovered.

#V603_Aquilae

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.

#Battle_of_Antioch_(218)

Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.

#Six-Day_War

Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.

#Laki

Italy invaded by Attila the Hun.

#Italy

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.

#Battle_of_Cross_Keys

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.

#Topeka,_Kansas

At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.

#Akihabara_massacre

Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.

#Journalist

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.

#Newcastle,_New_South_Wales

Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.

#Herman_Hollerith

Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial ensures Protugal's independece from Spain.

#Battle_of_Ameixial

The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

#World_Oceans_Day

At least 28 people are killed in an attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan.

#2014_Jinnah_International_Airport_attack

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.

#George_Orwell

World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.

#World_War_II

Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.

#Edward_the_Confessor

James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.

#James_Madison

A solar eclipse is observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.

#Solar_eclipse_of_June_8,_1918

Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).

#Franz_Joseph_I_of_Austria

An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.

#1953_Flint-Beecher_tornado

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.

#Helen_Keller

American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.

#American_Civil_War

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.

#Theodore_Roosevelt

The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.

#Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.

#American_Revolutionary_War

Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.

#Maximilien_Robespierre

The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.

Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.

New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.

Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.

Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, Template:RFux and RFA Sir Tristram.

The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970.

An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.

USS Barbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.

World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.

Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").

Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.

Richard I arrives in Acre, beginning his crusade.