June 8 in History

Historical Events on June 8

1776 American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.

1794 Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.

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.

1940 World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.

1953 The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C. cannot refuse to serve black patrons.

1967 Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.

1972 Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.

2008 At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in an Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.

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Famous Birthdays on June 8

1921 Suharto

1941 George Pell

1977 Kanye West

1983 Kim Clijsters

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Famous Deaths on June 8

632 Muhammad

1809 Thomas Paine

1845 Andrew Jackson

1982 Satchel Paige

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