Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 8
This is a list of selected June 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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June 8: Whit Monday (Eastern Christianity, 2009); World Ocean Day
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last major battle fought on Quebec soil that was part of the American colonists' invasion of Quebec.
- 1783 – Iceland's Laki craters began an eight-month eruption, triggering major famine and massive fluorine poisoning.
- 1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by English writer George Orwell (pictured) about life in the fictional totalitarian government of Oceania, was first published.
- 1950 – Thomas Blamey became Australia's first and currently only Field Marshal.
- 1995 – Danish-Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf released the first public version of the scripting language PHP for producing dynamic web pages.