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

• 1776 –
  American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
• 1783 –
  The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
• 1861 –
  American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
• 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.
• 1928 –
  Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping (“Northern peace”).
• 1941 –
  World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1982 –
  Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine air attack on two landing ships : RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
• 2008 –
  The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Katō drives a two-ton truck into a crowd before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife.

Who were born on June 8?

• 1895 –
  Santiago Bernabeu Yeste, Real Madrid football player (d. 1978)
• 1897 –
  John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974)
• 1917 –
  Byron “Whizzer” White, American football player and Supreme Court Justice (d. 2002)
• 1924 –
  Lyn Nofziger, American political operative (d. 2006)
• 1946 –
  Alan Scarfe, British-born Canadian actor
• 1954 –
  Greg Ginn, American guitarist (Black Flag)
• 1960 –
  Thomas Steen, Swedish hockey player
• 1983 –
  Lee Harding, Australian punk rock singer
• 1986 –
  Patrick Kaleta, American hockey player
• 1987 –
  Coralie Balmy, French swimmer

Who died on June 8?

• 1042 –
  Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018)
• 1376 –
  Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
• 1384 –
  Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
• 1621 –
  Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
• 1795 –
  King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
• 1889 –
  Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet(b. 1844)
• 1984 –
  Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
• 1997 –
  George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
• 2007 –
  Richard Rorty, American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher (b. 1931)
• 2009 –
  Johnny Palermo American actor (b. 1982)