June 8 is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of the year.
Railways
8 June 1933 The law numbered 2285 has been issued to authorize the signing of the operation of the Railways.
8 June 2003 Ankara-İstanbul High Speed Train Project, which will reduce Ankara-Istanbul to 3 hours, was laid by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Events
632 – Death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
632 – Abu Bakr is elected first caliph.
793 – The Viking Age begins with the Vikings plundering the island of Lindisfarne.
1624 – Earthquake hit Peru.
1783 – Iceland’s Laki Volcano begins its eight-month eruption. More than 9000 people died, a seven-year famine began.
1866 – The Canadian Parliament held its first meeting in Ottawa.
1887 – Herman Hollerith patented his card printing calculator.
1912 – Carl Laemmle founded the Universal Pictures film production company.
1949 – George Orwell’s 1984 His novel was published.
1949 – In a report by the FBI, the names of Hollywood celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson were included as Communist Party members.
1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the first and only Field Marshal in Australian history.
1951 – The first heart surgery in Turkey was performed at the Gülhane Military Medical Academy.
1952 – King Paul I of Greece and Queen Frederika arrived in Turkey.
1953 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington cannot refuse to serve black people.
1968 – James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
1968 – U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who died as a result of an assassination, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
1975 – The Constitution of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus was put to a popular vote and approved.
1986 – Kurt Waldheim wins the Austrian Presidential election.
1993 – State Minister Tansu Çiller resigned from her post and announced that she was a candidate for the DYP General Presidency.
1995 – Rasmus Lerdorf released the first version of the PHP language.
1995 – The Turkish Grand National Assembly authorized the government to fight against Greece, which was making preparations to extend its territorial waters to 12 miles in the Aegean.
2000 – NATO-Ukraine Commission met in Brussels at the level of Defense Ministers.
2004 – Venus passed in front of the Sun for the first time in 223 years.
2012 – European Football Championship started with the opening match between Poland and Greece, which ended with a score of 1-1.
2021 – El Salvador becomes the first country to declare Bitcoin the official currency with the bill passed by the Senate.
Births
1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712)
1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
1810 – Robert Schumann, German romantic composer and critic (d. 1856)
1825 – Charles Joshua Chaplin, French landscape, portrait painter, and printmaker (d. 1891)
1829 – John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator (d. 1896)
1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)
1897 – John Godolphin Bennett, British soldier (d. 1974)
1899 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, II. Doctor and SS-Reichsarzt in Nazi Germany during World War II (d. 1945)
1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-American writer (d. 1987)
1907 – Aleš Bebler, Slovenian, Yugoslav lawyer, diplomat (d. 1981)
1916 – Francis Crick, English scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine or Physiology (d. 2004)
1918 – Robert Preston, American stage and screen actor and singer (d. 1987)
1921 – Suharto, President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
1924 – Kenneth Waltz, American politician (d. 2013)
1925 – Barbara Bush, wife of 41st President of the United States, George HW Bush (d. 2018)
1927 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor (d. 2020)
1930 – Robert J. Aumann, mathematician and economist who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics
1931 – Dana Wynter, German-American actress (d. 2011)
1933 – Joan Rivers, American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and presenter (d. 2014)
1933 – Ertuğrul Yeşiltepe, Turkish journalist (d. 1986)
1936 – Kenneth Wilson, American theoretical physicist (d. 2013)
1937 Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut (d. 2017)
1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer
1941 – George Pell, Australian cardinal (d. 2023)
1943 – Colin Baker, English actor
1943 – William Calley, american soldier
1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American developmental biologist
1950 – Kathy Baker, an American actress
1950 – Sônia Braga, Brazilian-American actress
1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer
1953 – Ivo Sanader, former Prime Minister of Croatia
1955 – José Antonio Camacho, Spanish national football player and manager
1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, British computer programmer (who founded the World Wide Web (www) information sharing system)
1955 – Merete Armand, Norwegian actress (d. 2017)
1958 – İskender Pala, Turkish academic, writer and Divan Literature researcher
1961 Janina Hartwig, German actress
1963 – Frank Grillo, American actor
1965 – Karin Alvtegen, Swedish crime writer
1965 – İsmail Türt, Turkish folk music artist
1965 – Stanley G. Love, American astronaut
1967 – Jasmin Tabatabai, Iranian-German singer and actress
1969 – Jörg Hartmann, German actor
1976 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
1977 – Kanye West, American record producer and hip-hop singer
1979 – İpek Şenoğlu, Turkish national tennis player
1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentine football player
1987 – Issiar Dia, French-born Senegalese football player
1989 – Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
1989 – Amaury Vassili, French singer
1994
Song Yoo-jung,South Korean Actress and model
Allison Reed, American figure skater
Kemal Mert Özyiğit, Turkish football player
Liv Morgan, American wrestler
Brian Lenihan, Irish football player
1996 – Doğanay Kılıç, Turkish football player
1997 – Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
1998 – Begüm Dalgalar, Turkish basketball player
Deaths
62 – Claudia Octavia, Roman Empress, half-sister and first wife of Roman Emperor Nero
632 – Muhammad, prophet of Islam (b. 570/571)
1042 – Harthacnut, King of Denmark from 1035 to 1042 and King of England from 1040 to 1042
1505 – Hongzhi, ninth emperor of China’s Ming Dynasty (b. 1470)
1795 – XVII. Louis XVI. Second son of Louis and Queen Marie Antoinette (b. 1785)
1809 – Thomas Paine, American politician (b. 1737)
1845 – Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1846 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss writer, teacher, painter, cartoonist, and comics (b. 1799)
1876 – George Sand, French writer (b. 1804)
1895 – Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
1896 – Jules Simon, French politician (b. 1814)
1869 – John Campbell, English former football player (b. 1869)
1945 – Karl Hanke, Nazi Germany politician and SS officer (nicknamed the “Breslau executioner”) (b. 1903)
1945 – Robert Desnos, French poet (b. 1900)
1959 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor, painter, and composer (b. 1869)
1964 – Şerif Güralp, Turkish writer (b. 1885)
1967 – Sergei Gorodetsky, Russian poet (b. 1884)
1970 – Abraham Maslow, American scientist (b. 1908)
1973 – Emmy Göring, German actress and stage performer (b. 1893)
1979 – Reinhard Gehlen, German soldier and spy (b. 1902)
1980 – Ernst Busch, German singer, actor and director (b. 1900)
1985 – Afet Inan, Turkish historian and professor of sociology (Ataturk’s adopted daughter) (b. 1908)
1991 – Heidi Brühl, German singer (b. 1942)
1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
2007 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher (b. 1931)
2008 – Saban Bayramovic, Serbian musician (b. 1936)
2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese politician (b. 1935)
2013 – Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli author, painter, journalist and theater critic (b. 1930)
2014 – Alexander Imich, American parapsychologist (b. 1903)
2017 – Rıdvan Ege, Turkish academic and general surgeon (b. 1925)
2017 – Glenne Headly, American actress (b. 1955)
2017 – Jan Notermans, Dutch football player and coach (b. 1932)
2018 – Anthony Bourdain, American author (b. 1956)
2018 – Per Ahlmark, Swedish politician and writer (b. 1939)
2018 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (b. 1939)
2018 – Erdoğan Demirören, Turkish industrialist and founder of Demirören Holding (b. 1938)
2018 – Eunice Gayson, English actress (b. 1928)
2018 – Danny Kirwan, English blues-rock guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1950)
2019 – Lucho Avilés, Uruguay-born Argentine writer, television host and journalist (b. 1938)
2019 – Wim Betz, Belgian physicist, educator, and scientist (b. 1943)
2019 – Spencer Bohren, American musician, singer, songwriter, educator, and artist (b. 1950)
2019 – Jorge Brovetto, Uruguayan chemical engineer, academic, and politician (b. 1933)
2019 – Andre Matos, Brazilian singer, musician and composer (b. 1971)
2020 – Klaus Berger, German academic and theologian (b. 1940)
2020 – Manuel Felguérez, Mexican abstract artist (b. 1928)
2020 – Marion Hänsel, French-Belgian film producer, director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1949)
2020 – Sardar Dur Mohammed Nasser, Pakistani politician (b. 1958)
2020 – Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundian lecturer, soldier and politician (b. 1963)
2020 – Bonnie Pointer, American black female singer (b. 1950)
2021 – Sylvain Ducange, a Haitian Roman Catholic charity bishop (b. 1963)
2021 – Édith Moskovic, Hungarian-born French female Holocaust survivor activist (b. 1931)
2021 – Kamla Verma, Indian politician (b. 1928)
2022 – Tarhan Erdem, Turkish politician, researcher, writer (b. 1933)
2022 – Julio Jiménez, Spanish professional cyclist (b. 1934)
2022 – Paula Rego, Portuguese painter and illustrator (b. 1935)
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