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, 477,168 hours 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
- 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.
- 1690 –Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
- 1887 –Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’– his punched card calculator.
- 1949 –George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 1953 –Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115.
- 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.
- 1992 –The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 2004 –The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
Who were born on June 8?
- 1876 –Alexandre Tuffère, French-Greek athlete (d. 1958)
- 1921 –Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
- 1942 –Nikos Konstantopoulos, Greek politician
- 1960 –Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
- 1962 –John Gibbons, American Baseball Player/Manager
- 1964 –Butch Reynolds, American former 400m runner
- 1970 –Troy Vincent, American footballer
- 1972 –Troy Duffy, American director (The Boondock Saints)
- 1982 –Matteo Barbini, Italian rugby player
- 1983 –Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
Who died on June 8?
- 1383 –Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
- 1621 –Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
- 1628 –Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
- 1835 –Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
- 1924 –Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (b. 1902)
- 1969 –Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1982 –Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
- 1998 –Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
- 2004 –Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
- 2006 –Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
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