| 65379 | June 8 | Event | 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. |
| 65380 | June 8 | Event | 1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| 65381 | June 8 | Event | 1995 – The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. |
| 65382 | June 8 | Event | 2001 – Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan. |
| 65383 | June 8 | Event | 2004 – The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882. |
| 65384 | June 8 | Event | 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 MV Pasha Bulker. |
| 65385 | June 8 | Event | 2008 – At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in an Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse. |
| 65386 | June 8 | Event | 2008 – At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 65387 | June 8 | Event | 2009 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour. |
| 65388 | June 8 | Event | 2013 – The Wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O'Neill takes place in Stockholm, Sweden. |
| 65389 | June 8 | Event | 2014 – At least 28 people are killed in an attack on Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. |
| 65390 | June 8 | Birth | 862 – Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888) |
| 65391 | June 8 | Birth | 1552 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet and author (d. 1638) |
| 65392 | June 8 | Birth | 1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712) |
| 65393 | June 8 | Birth | 1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1751) |
| 65394 | June 8 | Birth | 1717 – John Collins, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1795) |
| 65395 | June 8 | Birth | 1724 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (d. 1794) |
| 65396 | June 8 | Birth | 1745 – Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (d. 1818) |
| 65397 | June 8 | Birth | 1757 – Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (d. 1824) |
| 65398 | June 8 | Birth | 1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (d. 1856) |
| 65399 | June 8 | Birth | 1829 – John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator (d. 1896) |
| 65400 | June 8 | Birth | 1831 – Thomas J. Higgins, Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1917) |
| 65371 | June 8 | Event | 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. |
| 65372 | June 8 | Event | 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. |
| 65373 | June 8 | Event | 1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171. |
| 65374 | June 8 | Event | 1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs. |
| 65375 | June 8 | Event | 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. |
| 65376 | June 8 | Event | 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 phot |
| 65377 | June 8 | Event | 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 RFA Sir Tristram. |
| 65378 | June 8 | Event | 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales. |