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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law, giving the President of the United States authority to restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government by executive order, bypassing oversight by the U.S. Congress. | refimprove |
| 1912 – Filmmaker Carl Laemmle merged his movie studio with eight smaller companies to form what is known today as Universal Studios. | refimprove |
| 1950 – Thomas Blamey became Australia's first, and currently only, Field Marshal. | refimprove section |
| 1953 – Two tornadoes killed more than 200 people in Flint, Michigan and Worcester, Massachusetts. | refimprove |
| 1967 – The Israeli Air Force attacked the U.S. Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty in international waters, killing 34 and wounding at least 173. | too many external links |
Eligible
- 1783 – Iceland's Laki craters began an eight-month eruption, triggering major famine and massive fluorine poisoning.
- 1887 – German-American statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.
- 1959 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero fired a Regulus cruise missile, equipped with U.S Post Office Department containers, in an attempt to deliver mail via "rocket mail".
- 1982 – Falklands War: The Argentine Air Force attacked British transport ships as they were unloading their supplies off Bluff Cove in the Falkland Islands, killing 56 British servicemen and wounding 150 others.
- 1995 – Danish-Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf released the first public version of the scripting language PHP for producing dynamic web pages.
- 2007 – A major storm in New South Wales, Australia, beached the bulk carrier ship MV Pasha Bulker.
Notes
- A blurb about Herman Hollerith getting a patent also appears on January 8
June 8: Shavuot (Judaism, 2011); World Ocean Day
- 793 – Scandinavian Vikings destroyed the abbey at Lindisfarne, Northumbria, England, to begin the Viking Age.
- 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.
- 1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by English writer George Orwell about life under the fictional totalitarian government of Oceania, was first published.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
- 2004 – The first transit of Venus since 1882 (pictured) took place.