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Today in History

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65CEJun 8Jews revolted against Rome, capturing the fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem.
452Jun 8Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun.
1376Jun 8Edward (b.1330), the “Black Prince” of Wales, son of King Edward III of England and Queen Philippa of Hainault, died at Westminster Palace, Middlesex.
1671Jun 8Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor), was born.
1724Jun 8John Smeaton, English engineer, was born.
1743Jun 8Alessandro Cagliostro, adventurer, was born in Palermo, Italy.
1794Jun 8Maximilian Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader, worried about the influence of French atheists and philosophers, staged the “Festival of the Supreme Being” in Paris.
1810Jun 8Robert Schumann (d.1856), German composer, was born in Zwickau, Germany.
1813Jun 8David D. Porter, Union Admiral, was born.
1824Jun 8A washing machine was patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec.
1829Jun 8John Everett Millais, painter (Order of Release), was born in England.
1861Jun 8Tennessee voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy.
1862Jun 8The Army of the Potomac defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia, during the Peninsula Campaign.
1863Jun 8Residents of Vicksburg, Miss., fled into caves as Grant’s army began shelling the town.
1864Jun 8Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term as president during the National Union (Republican) Party’s convention in Baltimore.
1866Jun 8Prussia annexed the region of Holstein.
1889Jun 8Gerard Manley Hopkins (54), poet, died.
1896Jun 8The 1st car was stolen.
1904Jun 8U.S. Marines landed in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens.
1905Jun 8US Pres. Theodore Roosevelt offered to act as a mediator in the Russo-Japanese War.
1915Jun 8William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State, resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania. [see Jun 7]
1916Jun 8Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (Nobel 1962), was born.
1917Jun 8Byron R. White (d.2002), later US Supreme Court Justice (1962-1993), was born in Fort Collins, Colo.
1918Jun 8Robert Preston, actor (The Music Man), was born.
1921Jun 8Suharto (d.2008), later dictator of Indonesia, was born.
1937Jun 8Joan Rivers (comedienne, talk show host: Can We Talk), was born.
1942Jun 8Bing Crosby recorded “Adeste Fideles” and “Silent Night” in Los Angeles for Decca Records.
1944Jun 8The 1st SS-Panzer Korps counter attack was at Normandy.
1947Jun 8Sara Paretsky, detective novelist, was born.
1949Jun 8Emmanuel Ax, pianist (Artur Rubinstein Comp-1974), was born in Lvov, Poland.
1950Jun 8Alex Van Halen, drummer for the hard rock group Van Halen, was born.
1951Jun 8Paul Bobel, Werner Braune, Erich Naumann, Otto Ohlendorf, Oswald Pohl, W. Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt, last Nazi war criminals, were hanged by Americans at Landsberg Fortress.
1953Jun 8The Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, D.C. could not refuse to serve blacks.
1957Jun 8Mao ordered an “anti-rightist” witch hunt and Deng Xiaoping executed it.
1959Jun 8The NASA rocket powered X-15 made its first glide flight.
1965Jun 8President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized commanders in Vietnam to commit U.S. ground forces to combat.
1966Jun 8Gemini astronaut Gene Cernan attempted to become the first man to orbit the Earth untethered to a space capsule, but was unable to when he exhausts himself fitting into his rocket pack.
1968Jun 8Authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1978Jun 8A jury in Clark County, Nev., ruled the so-called “Mormon will,” purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery.
1982Jun 8President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.
1986Jun 8Kurt Waldheim, an alleged Nazi, was elected president of Austria.
1987Jun 8Fawn Hall began testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings, describing how, as secretary to National Security aide Oliver L. North, she helped to shred some documents and spirit away others.
1988Jun 8The judge in the Iran-Contra conspiracy case ruled that Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim had to be tried separately.
1989Jun 8Chinese Premier Li Peng appeared on TV, praising a group of army soldiers, apparently for their role in crushing the student-led pro-democracy movement.
1990Jun 8Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir announced he had succeeded in forming a new right-wing coalition government, ending a three-month-old political crisis.
1991Jun 8Preakness winner “Hansel” won the Belmont Stakes.
1992Jun 8US Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev met in Washington to try to pave the way for a new round of strategic arms cuts.
1993Jun 8Los Angeles voters elected their first registered Republican mayor since 1961, choosing Richard Riordan over City Councilman Michael Woo.
1994Jun 8President Clinton returned to Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar, to receive an honorary doctorate.
1995Jun 8US Marines rescued U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady, whose F-16C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June second.
1996Jun 8Editor’s Note won the Belmont Stakes.
1997Jun 8Jon Nakamatsu of San Jose won the Van Cliburn Int’l. Piano Competition in Texas.
1998Jun 8The US FTC filed a suit against Intel Corp. for using its monopoly power to bully other computer companies.
1999Jun 8President Clinton announced new restrictions aimed at making it tougher for teens to sneak into R-rated movies.
2000Jun 8In Nigeria rioting in Lagos and a nationwide strike began after a 50% increase in fuel prices.
2001Jun 8British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party swept to a second term, winning re-election by a crushing margin.
2002Jun 8Serena Williams won the French Open, defeating her older sister, Venus.
2003Jun 8A coalition of US mayors meeting in Denver asked federal officials to bypass state governments and give them the money they needed to beef up homeland security.
2004Jun 8John Ashcroft, US Attorney General, told Congress he would not release a 2002 policy memo on the degree of pain and suffering legally permitted during enemy interrogations.
2005Jun 8The US Senate confirmed California judge Janice Rogers Brown for the federal appeals court, ending a two-year battle.
2006Jun 8The US offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the capture of Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez, a reputed Mexican drug cartel chieftain, whose group allegedly smuggles tons of cocaine and marijuana north each year.
2007Jun 8US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that bitter divisions over the Iraq war on Capitol Hill led the Bush administration to replace Gen. Peter Pace with Adm. Mike Mullen, currently chief of naval operations.
2008Jun 8In Ohio a small plane crashed in a residential area of Sandusky County and all 6 people aboard were killed.
2009Jun 8The US border patrol said a Mexican truck driver was arrested over the weekend at a checkpoint in San Diego County after 73 illegal Mexican immigrants were found in the back of his rig.
2010Jun 8The US Supreme Court derailed a key part of Arizona’s campaign finance system by at least temporarily blocking extra money for publicly funded candidates outspent by privately financed rivals or targeted by independent groups’ spending.
2011Jun 8An increasing number of Democratic and Republican members of congress called for scandal-plagued New York Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. Meanwhile, sources revealed that his wife, Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is pregnant.
2012Jun 8US federal regulators approved pertuzumab (Perjeta), a new, less toxic breast cancer drug made by Genentech.
Source: Timelines of History  

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