UN
Day
World
Oceans Day Events
of the day
68 – The Roman Senate proclaims
Galba as emperor.
218 – Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats
with support of the Syrian legions the forces
of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured
near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne
in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning
of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine)
thus beginning his crusade.
1405 – Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York
and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed
in York on Henry IV's orders.
1690 – Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon
Fort in Mumbai.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of
Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven
back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
1783 – The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins
an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000
people and starts a seven-year famine.
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed
amendments to the United States Constitution
in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten
of them are ratified by the state legislatures
and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually
ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's
new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme
Being, with large organized festivals all across
France.
1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants
of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk
Island commencing the Third Settlement of the
Island.
1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes
from the Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys
– Confederate forces under General Stonewall
Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from
a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by
General George B. McClellan.
1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent
#395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics'
– his punched card calculator.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities
Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict
the use of certain parcels of public land with
historical or conservation value.
1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National
Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name
is changed to Beiping ("Northern peace").
1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and
Lebanon.
1942 – World War II: Japanese imperial submarines
I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of
Sydney and Newcastle.
1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco
Star Theater.
1949 – Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker,
Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul
Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an
FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
is published.
1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born
Field Marshal in Australian history.
1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence:
A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115.
1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules
that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not
refuse to serve black patrons.
1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal
Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile
Mail.
1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70
Valkyrie prototype no. 2 destroying both planes
during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force
Base. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United
States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross are both
killed.
1966 – Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado
that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita
Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in
damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds
more injured, and thousands of homes damaged
or destroyed.
1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident
occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters
Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place
at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Cathedral,
New York City.
1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer
Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo
of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running
down a road after being burned by napalm.
1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands
War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine
air attack on two landing ships : RFA Sir Galahad
and RFA Sir Tristram.
1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the
Australian state of New South Wales.
1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes
a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand
Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control
Act 1987
1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated,
coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott
O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history
takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia,
is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding
in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people
and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha
Bulker.
2008 – The Akihabara massacre takes place in
the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo,
Japan. Tomohiro KatĹŤ drives a two-ton truck
into a crowd before leaving the truck and attacking
people with a knife.
Holidays
and observances
Bounty
Day (Norfolk Island)
Christian Feast Day:
Chlodulf of Metz
Medard
William of York
June 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Queen's Birthday can fall,
while June 14 is the latest; celebrated on the
second Monday in June. (Australia, except Western
Australia)
PrimoĹľ Trubar Day (Slovenia)
World Brain Tumor Day
World Oceans Day (International)
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