Saturday, June 8, 2013

What happened on June 8th?

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65AD: Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem


68 - Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba


452 - Italy invaded by Attila the Hun

536 - St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope

793 - Vikings plunder St Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne

979 - Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France

1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.

1405 - Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.

1551 - Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma

1624 - Earthquake strikes Peru

1632 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard

1663 - Battle at Amegical: English & Portugese fleet beats Spanish

1690 - Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.

1694 - English troop landing at Brest attack (300 killed)

1761 - British fleet occupies Belle Britain

1783 - Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption

1786 - Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC)

1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.

1815 - 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation

4th US President James Madison 1824 - Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec

1829 - 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool

1834 - HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn

1846 - Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu

1856 - Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island

1861 - US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval

1861 - American Civil War: Tennessee votes to secede from the Union.

1862 - Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia

1865 - Tristanderl und Zusholde, premieres

1869 - Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks)

1872 - Congress endorses penny post card

1878 - 12th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:43.5

1882 - 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43

1886 - 1st Civil Rights Act passes

1887 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.

1889 - Cable Cars begin service in LA

1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)

1892 - Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy v Ferguson)

1896 - 1st car is stolen

1900 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons" (BG)

1911 - Belgium government of Schollaert falls

1912 - Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.

1914 - 34.7°F (1.5°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands

1915 - 92°F (33.3°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands

1917 - Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School

1918 - Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered

1920 - Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game

Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1921 - Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM

1927 - Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11

1928 - 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)

1929 - 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8

1929 - Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap governor Fruytier

1931 - Duke & Duchess of Kent wed

1931 - Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo

1933 - A's Jimmie Foxx homers his 1st 3 at bats for 4 consecutive HRs

1935 - 39th US Golf Open: Sam Parks Jr shoots a 299 at Oakmont CC PA

1935 - 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6

1935 - Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds & leaves the game

1936 - 1st parking meters are invented

1937 - World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily

1939 - British king George VI visits US

1940 - 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6

1940 - Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced

1940 - Last British troops leave Narvik Norway

1941 - English & French troop overthrow pro-German Syria

1942 - Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"

1944 - 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy

1944 - Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy

1944 - Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested

1944 - Gen Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully

1946 - "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 142 performances

1946 - Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia

1948 - "Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV

1948 - "Sally" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances

1948 - John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines

1949 - Siam changes name to Thailand

1950 - Boston Red Sox beat St Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs)

1950 - Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier

1950 - Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin & Valentine (8-104 1st inn) v England

1950 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.

1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open

1953 - Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113

1953 - Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court

1953 - Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich & Ohio

1955 - Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax

1956 - Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government

1956 - WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting

1958 - 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright

1959 - 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Fla)

1959 - X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m

1960 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"

1960 - Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann

1961 - Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, v Eng at Edgbaston, 57

Baseball Player Hank Aaron 1961 - Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock & Frank Thomas)

1962 - Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8)

1963 - "Mr President" closes at St James Theater NYC after 265 performances

1963 - 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2

1963 - American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes

1965 - A's draft Rick Monday #1

1965 - US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam

1965 - USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon

1966 - NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970

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.

1967 - Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen

1968 - Bermuda adopts its constitution

1968 - Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning

1968 - Gary Puckett & Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"

1968 - James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured

1968 - New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted

1968 - Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

1969 - "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour," last airs on CBS-TV

1969 - 21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams & Susan St James

1969 - Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones

Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco 1969 - General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar

1969 - KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting

1969 - Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired
1969 - Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August

1969 - Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones

1969 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open

1970 - Players & management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000

1971 - North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam

1971 - White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign

1972 - Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2

1972 - Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, v Australia at Old Trafford (57/62)

1973 - Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain

1974 - 106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2

1974 - Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes"

1974 - US & Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract

1975 - 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35

1975 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic

1975 - USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing

1976 - Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1

1977 - Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game

1978 - 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification

1978 - Braves draft Bob Horner #1

1978 - Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery

1979 - "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line

1979 - Mariners draft Al Chambers #1

1979 - Wings release "Back to the Egg" album

1980 - "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 8 perfs

1980 - 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little

1980 - 34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God & Evita win

1980 - 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63)

1981 - 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters

1981 - Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1

1982 - 36th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2

1982 - Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die

1982 - Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time

1982 - Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament

1983 - "Trading Places," "Ghostbusters," & "Gremlins," premieres

1983 - Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal

1983 - Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81)

1984 - Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

1985 - 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27

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

1986 - "Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 70 performances

1986 - 40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2

1986 - 56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (63 62 64)

1986 - Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria

1986 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship

1986 - Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Balt Orioles beat Yankees 18-9

1987 - 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis

1987 - Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing

1987 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as of June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.

1988 - Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%

1989 - Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Phila if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season broa

1990 - "It's Garry Shandling's Show," last airs on Fox-TV

1990 - Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history

1991 - "Our Country's Good" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 48 perfs

1991 - 123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28

1991 - 61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64)

1991 - College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3

1991 - Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds

1991 - Victory parade held in Wash DC (Persian Gulf War)

1991 - Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Div 1 golf title

1992 - 26th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Garth Brooks

1992 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time

1992 - Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria

1993 - Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns

1994 - 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia

1994 - Mass murderer Joe Rifkind sentenced to 27 years

1995 - "Buttons on Broadway" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 40 perfs

1995 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.

1996 - 128th Belmont: Rene Douglas aboard Editor's Note wins in 2:28.96

Tennis Player Steffi Graf 1996 - 66th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (63, 67, 108)

1996 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1996 - Dean Jones takes career-best 5-112 for Derbyshire v Hampshire

1996 - Lloyd & Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt Lancs v Essex

1996 - PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper

1996 - Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1997 - "Young Man From Atlanta" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 85 perfs

1997 - 67th French Mens Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten beats S Bruguera (63 64 62)

1997 - BellSouth Senior Golf Classic at Opryland

1997 - Justin Leonard wins golf's Kemper Open at TPC at Avenel

1997 - Pat Hurst wins LPGA Oldsmobile Classic

2004 - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs

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 trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.

2008 - The Akihabara massacre took place on the Sunday-pedestrian-zoned Chūōdōri street. A man killed seven in an attack on a crowd using a truck and a dagger.

2012 - A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people


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