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 160^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 26, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 477,168 hours 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 ‘hectahexacontagon’ day.

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 235 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 4,187 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 8 Historical Events

• 218 –
  Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats with support of the Syrian legions the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
• 1191 –
  Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
• 1405 –
  Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV’s orders.
• 1776 –
  American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
• 1861 –
  American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
• 1862 –
  American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
• 1950 –
  Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
• 2004 –
  The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
• 2007 –
  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 trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
• 2008 –
  The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Katō drives a two-ton truck into a crowd before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife.

Who were born on June 8?

• 1923 –
  Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest and author
• 1939 –
  Bernie Casey, American football player and actor
• 1951 –
  Bonnie Tyler, Welsh country, pop and rock singer
• 1956 –
  Udo Bullmann, German politician
• 1958 –
  Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor and director
• 1969 –
  Marcos Siega, American director
• 1970 –
  Kwame Kilpatrick, former mayor of Detroit, Michigan
• 1970 –
  Troy Vincent, American footballer
• 1982 –
  Irina Lazareanu, Romanian/Canadian model
• 1986 –
  Patrick Kaleta, American hockey player

Who died on June 8?

• 1505 –
  Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)
• 1621 –
  Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
• 1795 –
  King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
• 1857 –
  Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
• 1874 –
  Cochise, Apache leader
• 1987 –
  Alexander Iolas, Greek gallerist and collector (b. 1907)
• 2004 –
  Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
• 2007 –
  Richard Rorty, American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher (b. 1931)
• 2009 –
  Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
• 2010 –
  Andreas Voutsinas Greek actor and theater director (b. 1932)