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 159th 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, 29,155,680 minutes 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.
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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.
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June 8 Historical Events
- 1191 –Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) 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.
- 1789 –James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
- 1912 –Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
- 1941 –World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
- 1953 –Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115.
- 1959 –The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on June 8?
- 1872 –Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
- 1903 –Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator from Texas (d. 1996)
- 1925 –Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player (d. 1961)
- 1942 –Chuck Negron, American singer (Three Dog Night)
- 1942 –Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
- 1943 –Colin Baker, British actor
- 1973 –Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
- 1979 –Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
- 1981 –Sara Watkins, American fiddler
- 1982 –Irina Lazareanu, Romanian/Canadian model
Who died on June 8?
- 1505 –Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)
- 1628 –Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
- 1857 –Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
- 1924 –George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (b. 1886)
- 1951 –Eugène Fiset, Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
- 1969 –Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1980 –Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
- 1997 –George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
- 2004 –Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
- 2008 –Šaban Bajramović, Serbian Romani musician (b. 1936)
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