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==Events== * 68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor. * 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia. * 632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. * 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England. *1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England. *1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade. *1405 – Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders. *1690 – Yadi Sakat, a Siddi general, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai. *1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières: American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec. *1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine. *1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment. *1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France. *1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of , arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island. *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. *1867 – Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (''Ausgleich''). *1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator. *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. *1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures. *1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital"). *1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. *1940 – World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign. *1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon. *1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle. *1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of ''Texaco Star Theater.'' *1949 – The 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. *1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history. *1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes. * 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons. *1959 – The and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail. *1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed. * 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. * 1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs. *1968 – Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. *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. *1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA ''Sir Galahad'' and . *1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales. *1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987. *1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. *1995 – The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. *2001 – Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan. *2004 – The first Venus Transit in well over a century 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 a trade ship, the . *2008 – At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in an Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse. * 2008 – At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan. *2009 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour. *2013 – The Wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O'Neill takes place in Stockholm, Sweden. *2014 – At least 28 people are killed in an attack on Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「June 8」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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