8 Juin

The 8t o Juin is the 159t day o the year (160t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 206 days ti come.

 Events 
1783 - The volcanae Laki, in Iceland, begins an aicht-month eruption which kills ower 9,000 fowk an stairts a seiven-year faimin.
1861 - Tennessee secedes frae the Unitit States.
1867 - Franz Joseph I o Austrick is crouned King o Hungary.
1929 - Margaret Bondfield becomes the first female cabinet meenister in the Unitit Kinrick.
1953 - A tornado in the US state o Michigan kills 116 fowk.
1958 - The 1958 FIFA Warld Cup stairts: Hosts Swaden defeat Mexico 3-0 in the openin gemme.
1972 - Vietnam War: A photograph is taken o Phan Thi Kim Phuc, a girl badly burnt in a napalm attack.
1990 - The 1990 FIFA Warld Cup in Italy stairts.
1996 - The UEFA European Championship in Ingland stairts.
2003 - A referendum in Poland on European Union membership results in a majority (77%) votin in favour.
2004 - The first transit o Venus in ower a century takes place.
2012 - UEFA Euro 2012 in Poland an Ukraine stairts: Co-hosts Poland draw 1-1 wi Greece in the openin gemme.
2017 - Unitit Kinrick general election, 2017: Theresa May's Conservatives lose thair overaw majority despite gains in Scotland; Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Pairty performs better nor expectit across the kintra; The Scots Naitional Pairty retains its status as the lairgest Scots pairty despite the loss o 21 seats.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit cases warldwide passes 7 million.

 Births 
 1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French astronomer (d. 1712)
 1772 - Robert Stevenson, Scots ceevil ingineer (d. 1850)
 1810 - Robert Schumann, German componer (d. 1856)
 1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American airchitect (d. 1959)
 1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-born French-American novelist (d. 1987)
 1916 - Francis Crick, Inglis biologist (d. 2004)
 1921 - Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell o Croy, Scots politeecian (d. 2005)
 1921 - Suharto, 2nt Preses o Indonesie (d. 2008)
 1925 - Barbara Bush, First Lady o the Unitit States (d. 2018)
 1932 - Hugh McLeod, Scots rugby union player (d. 2014)
 1933 - Joan Rivers, American actress an comedienne (d. 2014)
 1936 - Kenneth G. Wilson, American theoretical pheesicist (d. 2013)
 1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American actress an sangster
 1943 - Colin Baker, Inglis actor
 1951 - Bonnie Tyler, Welsh sangster
 1955 - Tim Berners-Lee, Inglis internet pioneer
 1969 - George Adam, Scots politeecian
 1970 - Gabrielle Giffords, American politeecian
 1975 - Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
 1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
 1977 - Kanye West, American rapper an actor
 1982 - Kelly Brown, Scots rugby union player
 1982 - Nadia Petrova, Roushie tennis player
 1983 - Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
 1984 - Javier Mascherano, Argentine fitbawer
 1997 - Jelena Ostapenko, Latvie tennis player

 Daiths 
 632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet (b. 570)
 1042 – Harthacnut, Dens-Inglis King (b. 1018)
 1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, Prince o Wales (b. 1330)
 1501 – George Gordon, 2nt Yerl o Huntly, Scots nobleman
 1505 – Hongzhi Emperor o Cheenae (b. 1470)
 1795 – Louis XVII o Fraunce (b. 1785)
 1845 – Andrew Jackson, 7t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1867)
 1876 – George Sand, French writer (b. 1804)
 1882 – John Scott Russell, Scots ceevil ingineer, naval airchitect an shipbigger (b. 1808)
 1913 – Emily Davison, Inglis suffragette (b. 1872)
 1924 – George Mallory, Inglis mountaineer (b. 1886)
 1924 – Andrew Irvine, Inglis mountaineer (b. 1902)
 2009 – Omar Bongo, Preses o Gabon (b. 1935)
 2018 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef (b. 1956)
 2019 – Andre Matos, Brazilian muisicker (b. 1971)
 2020 – Pierre Nkurunziza, Preses o Burundi (b. 1964)

 Halidays 
 Warld Oceans Day
 Engineers' Day (Peru)
 Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)
 Primoz Trubar Day (Slovenie)

Category:Days o the year