What are the important events that happened on June 8? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 8: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 8 is the 160th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 26, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,717,804,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontagon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 235 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,187 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 8 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
- 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.
- 1948 –Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
- 1949 –George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 1950 –Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
- 1953 –Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115.
- 1953 –The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
- 1968 –Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City.
- 1972 –Vietnam War: 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.
Who were born on June 8?
- 1717 –John Collins, American politician (d. 1795)
- 1916 –Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (d. 2007)
- 1925 –Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States
- 1936 –James Darren, American actor and singer
- 1951 –Bonnie Tyler, Welsh country, pop and rock singer
- 1957 –Scott Adams, American cartoonist
- 1976 –Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player
- 1979 –Derek Trucks, American guitarist
- 1983 –Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer
- 1984 –Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer
Who died on June 8?
- 1376 –Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
- 1768 –Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German scholar and archaeologist (b. 1717)
- 1809 –Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer (b. 1737)
- 1835 –Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
- 1874 –Cochise, Apache leader
- 1876 –George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
- 1889 –Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet(b. 1844)
- 1945 –Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
- 1982 –Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
- 1987 –Alexander Iolas, Greek gallerist and collector (b. 1907)
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