TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JUNE 8
0452 Attila the Hun invades Italy.
0793 The Vikings raid the Northumbrian coast of England.
1191 King Richard I of England arrives at Acre in modern day Israel to join the Siege of Acre during the Third Crusade
1786 1st commercially-made ice cream sold (NY)
1789 James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives
1790 The first loan for the U.S. was repaid. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was negotiated and secured on September 18, 1789 by Alexander Hamilton.
1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1861 The Confederate States are formed when Tennessee became the 11th and last state to secede from the Union.
1887 Herman Hollerith patents his punch card calculator
1908 King Edward VII of England visits Czar Nicholas II of Russia in an effort to improve relations between the two countries.
1915 U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.
1949 George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four
1953 The Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington, D.C.
1959 1st official “missile mail” lands (Jacksonville, Fla)
1967 Israeli airplanes attacked the USS Liberty in the Mediterranean during the 6-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. 34 U.S. Navy crewmen were killed. Israel later called the incident a tragic mistake due to the mis-identification of the ship. The U.S. has never publicly investigated the incident.
1968 James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., is captured at the London Airport.
1969 President Richard Nixon meets with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops will pull out by Augus
1972 Nick Út takes his famous “napalm girl” photo. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image officially entitled “The Terror of War” depicts nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc and other Vietnamese children fleeing a napalm attack. It has become one of the best-known symbols for the indescribable sufferings in armed conflicts
1978 A jury in Clark County, Nevada, ruled that the “Mormon will,” was a forgery. The work was supposedly written by Howard Hughes.
1982 President Reagan became the first American president to address a joint session of Britain’s Parliament.
1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
1987 New Zealand’s Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels in NZ. Only nation to legislate against nuclear power.
1998 In the U.S., the FTC brought an antitrust complaint against Intel Corp., alleging its policies punished other developers of microprocessor chips.
2004 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
