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 159th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 26, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,749,340,800 seconds 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 ‘hectapentacontaenneagon’ day.
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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 254 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 4,552 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 8 Historical Events
- 68 –The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
- 1191 –Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
- 1928 –Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping (“Northern peace”).
- 1949 –Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
- 1949 –George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 1953 –The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
- 1966 –Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an “F5” on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
- 1967 –Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
- 1984 –Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
Who were born on June 8?
- 1895 –Santiago Bernabeu Yeste, Real Madrid football player (d. 1978)
- 1916 –Francis Crick, English molecular biologist; Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
- 1921 –LeRoy Neiman, American painter
- 1942 –Nikos Konstantopoulos, Greek politician
- 1943 –Colin Baker, British actor
- 1954 –Sergei Storchak, Russian deputy finance minister
- 1979 –Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player
- 1983 –Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
- 1984 –Andrea Casiraghi, Monagasque royalty
- 1985 –Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver
Who died on June 8?
- 1376 –Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
- 1611 –Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
- 1612 –Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b. 1562)
- 1771 –George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
- 1889 –Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet(b. 1844)
- 1945 –Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
- 1951 –Eugène Fiset, Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
- 1969 –Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1987 –Alexander Iolas, Greek gallerist and collector (b. 1907)
- 2006 –Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)
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