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 159^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 26, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,749,340,800 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 ‘hectapentacontaenneagon’ 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 254 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 4,552 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 8 Historical Events

• 218 –
  Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats with support of the Syrian legions the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
• 1191 –
  Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
• 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.
• 1887 –
  Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’– his punched card calculator.
• 1949 –
  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.
• 1950 –
  Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
• 1967 –
  Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
• 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.
• 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

Who were born on June 8?

• 1745 –
  Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
• 1842 –
  John Q. A. Brackett, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
• 1895 –
  Santiago Bernabeu Yeste, Real Madrid football player (d. 1978)
• 1942 –
  Chuck Negron, American singer (Three Dog Night)
• 1944 –
  Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
• 1953 –
  Ad Tak, Dutch cyclist
• 1969 –
  David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor
• 1970 –
  Troy Vincent, American footballer
• 1975 –
  Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
• 1982 –
  Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player

Who died on June 8?

• 632 –
  Muhammad, Prophet of Islam (b. 570)
• 1716 –
  Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
• 1727 –
  August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (b. 1663)
• 1795 –
  King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
• 1965 –
  Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b. 1884)
• 1969 –
  Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1972 –
  Jimmy Rushing, American blues singer (b. 1901)
• 1997 –
  George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
• 2006 –
  Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)
• 2009 –
  Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (b. 1935)