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

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