All Events

Historical Events on June 8

  • American Revolutionary War

    1776

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

  • Maximilien Robespierre

    1794

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

  • American Civil War

    1861

    American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    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.

  • World War II

    1940

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

  • Supreme Court of the United States

    1953

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

  • Six-Day War

    1967

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

  • Vietnam War

    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.

  • Ukraine

    2008

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

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