Editing June 8 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[218]] &ndash; [[Battle of Antioch (218)|Battle of Antioch]]: With the support of the Syrian [[Roman legion|legions]], [[Elagabalus]] defeats the forces of emperor [[Macrinus]].<ref>{{cite book|author=David Braund|title=The Roman Army in the East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWJoAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Journal of Roman Archaeology|isbn=978-1-887829-18-2|pages=140–141}}</ref>
* [[452]] &ndash; [[Attila]] leads a [[Huns|Hun]] army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.<ref>{{cite book|first=Edwarde Arthur|last=Thompson|title=The Huns. People of Europe Series|date=4 May 1999 |publisher=Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-0-631-21443-4}}</ref>
* [[793]] &ndash; Vikings raid the abbey at [[Lindisfarne]] in [[Northumbria]], commonly accepted as the beginning of [[Norse activity in the British Isles]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Deirdre O'Sullivan|author2=Robert Young|title=Book of Lindisfarne: Holy Island|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ONMWAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=B.T. Batsford|isbn=978-0-7134-7307-0|page=38}}</ref>
*[[1042]] &ndash; [[Edward the Confessor]] becomes [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|King of England]] &ndash; the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.<ref name="Cheney1945">{{cite book|author=Christopher Robert Cheney|title=Handbook of Dates for Students of English History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MCRnAAAAMAAJ|year=1945|publisher=Offices of the Royal Historical Society|page=18}}</ref>
*[[1191]] &ndash; King [[Richard I]] of England arrives in [[Acre, Israel|Acre]], beginning the [[Third Crusade]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=McLynn |first=Frank |author-link=Frank McLynn |title=Richard and John: Kings at War |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] |year=2007 |isbn=9780306815799 |edition=1st Da Capo Press |location=Cambridge |pages=182}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1663]] &ndash; [[Portuguese Restoration War]]: Portuguese victory at the [[Battle of Ameixial]] ensures Portugal's independence from Spain.<ref>Rui Natário, As Grandes Batalhas da História de Portugal, Marcador Editora, Barcarena, 2013 (in Portuguese)</ref>
*[[1772]] &ndash; [[Alexander Fordyce]] flees to [[Kingdom of France|France]] to avoid debt repayment, triggering the [[British credit crisis of 1772–1773|credit crisis of 1772]] in the [[British Empire]] and the [[Dutch Republic]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=5 of the World's Most Devastating Financial Crises {{!}} Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/list/5-of-the-worlds-most-devastating-financial-crises|access-date=2022-01-13|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Continental Army]] attackers are driven back at the [[Battle of Trois-Rivières]].
*[[1783]] &ndash; [[Laki]], a [[volcano]] in [[Iceland]], begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year [[famine]].
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[James Madison]] introduces [[United States Bill of Rights|twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution]] in Congress.
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Maximilien Robespierre]] inaugurates the [[French Revolution]]'s new state religion, the [[Cult of the Supreme Being]], with large organized festivals all across France.
*[[1856]] &ndash; A group of 194 [[Pitcairn Islands|Pitcairn Islanders]], descendants of the mutineers of {{HMS|Bounty}}, arrives at [[Norfolk Island]], commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Tennessee in the American Civil War|Tennessee]] secedes from the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]].
*[[1862]] &ndash; American Civil War: A [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] victory by forces under General [[Stonewall Jackson]] at the [[Battle of Cross Keys]], along with the [[Battle of Port Republic]] the next day, prevents [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] forces from reinforcing General [[George B. McClellan]] in his [[Peninsula campaign]].
*[[1867]] &ndash; Coronation of [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Joseph]] as [[King of Hungary]] following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (''[[Ausgleich]]'').
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Herman Hollerith]] applies for US [[patent]] #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his [[punched card]] [[calculator]].

===1901–present===
*[[1906]] &ndash; [[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.
*[[1924]] &ndash; [[1924 British Mount Everest expedition|British Mount Everest expedition]]:<ref>{{cite news |title=Irvine and Mallory: In hobnail boots they took on Everest |author= Gentleman, Amelia |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/may/04/ameliagentleman |newspaper=The Guardian |date=3 May 1999 |access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref> British mountaineers [[Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)|Andrew Irvine]] and [[George Mallory]] go missing.
*[[1928]] &ndash; [[Second Northern Expedition]]: The [[National Revolutionary Army]] captures [[Beijing]], whose name is changed to Beiping ("Northern Peace").<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Beijing |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Beijing.aspx |encyclopedia=[[The Columbia Encyclopedia]] |edition=6th |year=2008 |access-date=2012-01-19 |archive-date=2010-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212121906/http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Beijing.aspx |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1929]] &ndash; [[Margaret Bondfield]] is appointed [[Secretary of State for Employment|Minister of Labour]]. She is the first woman appointed to the [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite book | author-link=David Marquand | last= Marquand | first= David | title=Ramsay MacDonald | publisher=Jonathan Cape | location=London | year=1977 | isbn= 0-224-01295-9 | page=492}}</ref>
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The completion of [[Operation Alphabet]], the evacuation of Allied forces from [[Narvik]] at the end of the [[Norwegian Campaign]].
*[[1941]] &ndash; World War II: The [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] commence the [[Syria&ndash;Lebanon Campaign]] against the possessions of [[Vichy France]] in the [[Levant]].
*[[1942]] &ndash; World War II: The [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] submarines [[Japanese submarine I-21|I-21]] and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]].
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: The two-day [[Battle of Porta]] between the [[Royal Italian Army]] and the [[Greek People's Liberation Army]] begins.<ref>{{cite book | last = Grigoriadis | first = Solon | author-link = Solon Grigoriadis | title = Συνοπτική Ιστορία της Εθνικής Αντίστασης, 1941-1944 | trans-title = Concise History of the National Resistance, 1941-1944  | publisher = Kapopoulos | location = Athens | year = 1982 | language = el | oclc = 165816421 | pages = 244–245}}</ref>
*[[1953]] &ndash; [[1953 Flint&ndash;Beecher tornado|An F5 tornado]] hits [[Beecher, Michigan]], United States, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
*  1953   &ndash; The [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] rules in ''[[District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.]]'' that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
*[[1959]] &ndash; {{USS|Barbero|SS-317|6}} and the [[United States Postal Service]] attempt the delivery of mail via [[Missile Mail]].
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Wedding of Prince Edward and Katharine Worsley|Marriage]] of [[Prince Edward, Duke of Kent]] to [[Katharine, Duchess of Kent|Katharine Worsley]] at [[York Minster]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Wedding at York of Prince Edward (1961)|url=https://www.britishpathe.com/video/wedding-at-york |website=[[Pathé News|British Pathé]] |accessdate=21 September 2023}}</ref>
*[[1966]] &ndash; An [[Lockheed F-104 Starfighter|F-104 Starfighter]] collides with [[North American XB-70 Valkyrie|XB-70 Valkyrie]] prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near [[Edwards Air Force Base]]. [[Joseph A. Walker]], a [[NASA]] test pilot, and Carl Cross, a [[United States Air Force]] test pilot, are both killed.
*  1966   &ndash; [[Topeka, Kansas]], United States is [[Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966|devastated by a tornado]] that registers as an "F5" on the [[Fujita scale]], exceeding US$200 million in damages. Seventeen people are killed, over five hundred more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=US Department of Commerce |first=NOAA |title=June 8th 1966 Topeka Tornado |url=https://www.weather.gov/top/1966TopekaTornado |access-date=2023-10-24 |website=www.weather.gov |language=EN-US}}</ref>
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Six-Day War]]: The [[USS Liberty incident|USS ''Liberty'' incident]]: A [[United States Navy]] [[spy ship]] is attacked by the [[Israeli Air Force]] and Navy, resulting in 34 deaths and 171 wounded.<ref>{{cite report |first1=William D. |last1=Gerhard |first2=Henry W. |last2=Millington |title=Attack on a SIGINT Collector, the USS ''Liberty'' |year=1981 |work=NSA History Report, U.S. Cryptologic History series |publisher=National Security Agency |url=http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/uss_liberty/attack_sigint.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030155345/http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/uss_liberty/attack_sigint.pdf |pages=1–2, 5, 25–26, 28}}</ref> 
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[James Earl Ray]], the man who [[Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|assassinated]] [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] is arrested at [[Heathrow Airport|London Heathrow Airport]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2016-06-08|title=When Martin Luther King Jr's assassin fled to London|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36434706|access-date=2021-06-08}}</ref>
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: Nine-year-old [[Phan Thi Kim Phuc|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 naked down a road, in what would become an iconic, [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning photo.
*[[1982]] &ndash; [[Bluff Cove Air Attacks]] during the [[Falklands War]]: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an [[Argentines|Argentine]] air attack on two landing ships, {{ship|RFA|Sir Galahad|1966|6}} and {{ship|RFA|Sir Tristram|L3505|6}}.
*  1982   &ndash; [[VASP Flight 168]] crashes in [[Pacatuba, Ceará]], Brazil, killing 128 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 727-212 PP-SRK Sierra de Pacatuba, CE|url=https://www.aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19820608-0|access-date=2021-06-08|website=www.aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1984]] &ndash; [[Homosexuality]] is decriminalized in the [[States and territories of Australia|Australian state]] of [[New South Wales]].
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[New Zealand]]'s [[Fourth Labour Government of New Zealand|Labour government]] establishes a [[New Zealand nuclear-free zone|national nuclear-free zone]] under the [[New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987]].
*[[1992]] &ndash; The first [[World Oceans Day]] is celebrated, coinciding with the [[Earth Summit]] held in [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil.
*1992   &ndash; [[GP Express Airlines Flight 861]] crashes on approach to [[Anniston Regional Airport]] in [[Anniston, Alabama]], killing three.<ref name="ntsb">{{cite web |date=1993-03-02 |title=Controlled Collision with Terrain; GP Express Airlines Flight 861; Beechcraft C99 N118GP; Anniston, Alabama; June 8, 1992 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR9303.pdf |publisher=[[National Transportation Safety Board]] |id=NTSB/AAR-93/03}} - [https://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR93-03.pdf Copy at] [[Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University]].</ref>
*[[1995]] &ndash; Downed U.S. Air Force pilot [[Captain (United States O-3)|Captain]] [[Scott O'Grady]] is rescued by [[U.S. Marines]] in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]].
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Mamoru Takuma]] kills eight and injures 15 in [[Ikeda school massacre|a mass stabbing]] at an elementary school in the [[Osaka Prefecture]] of [[Japan]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Struck|first=Doug|title=School Stabbings Diminish Japan's Feelings of Safety|url=http://www.msnbc.com/news/584902.asp|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=June 9, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010610151408/http://www.msnbc.com/news/584902.asp?cp1=1|archive-date=June 10, 2001}}</ref>
*[[2004]] &ndash; The first [[Transit of Venus, 2004|Venus Transit]] in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in [[1882 transit of Venus|1882]].
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[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 a trade ship, the {{MV|Pasha Bulker}}.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Ships ignored warning to leave |author=Ben Cubby and Edmund Tadros |work=Sydney Morning Herald |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/ships-ignored-warning-to-leave/2007/06/08/1181089338446.html |date=9 June 2007 |access-date=9 April 2008 |archive-date=17 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417164805/http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/ships-ignored-warning-to-leave/2007/06/08/1181089338446.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; Former US President [[Donald Trump]] is [[Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (classified documents case)|indicted]] on federal charges of misusing classified information.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-09 |title=Trump indictment highlights: Former president faces seven charges in classified docs probe |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/live-updates-trump-classified-documents-florida-grand-jury-rcna88233 |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>