Today in History, English
Today in History, English


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65341June 8Event218 – 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.
65342June 8Event632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
65343June 8Event793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
65344June 8Event1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
65345June 8Event1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine)[disambiguation needed] thus beginning his crusade.
65346June 8Event1405 – Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
65347June 8Event1690 – Yadi Sakat, a Siddi general, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
65348June 8Event1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières: American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
65349June 8Event1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
65350June 8Event1789 – 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 t
65351June 8Event1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
65352June 8Event1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
65353June 8Event1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
65354June 8Event1862 – 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.
65355June 8Event1867 – Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
65356June 8Event1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
65357June 8Event1906 – 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.
65358June 8Event1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
65359June 8Event1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
65360June 8Event1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
65361June 8Event1940 – World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
65362June 8Event1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
65363June 8Event1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
65364June 8Event1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
65365June 8Event1949 – 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.
65366June 8Event1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
65367June 8Event1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
65368June 8Event1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
65369June 8Event1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
65370June 8Event1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.

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