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Jun 8, 1874: Apache Chief Cochise dies
Chief Cochise, one of the great leaders of the Apache Indians in their battles with the Anglo-Americans, dies on the Chiricahua reservation in southeastern Arizona.
Little is known of Cochise's early life. By the mid-19th century, he had become a prominent leader of the Chiricahua band of Apache Indians living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Like many other Chiricahua Apache, Cochise resented the encroachment of Mexican and American settlers on their traditional lands. Cochise led numerous raids on the settlers living on both sides of the border, and Mexicans and Americans alike began to call for military protection and retribution.
War between the U.S. and Cochise, however, resulted from a misunderstanding. In October 1860, a band of Apache attacked the ranch of an Irish-American named John Ward and kidnapped his adopted son, Felix Tellez. Although Ward had been away at the time of the raid, he believed that Cochise had been the leader of the raiding Apache. Ward demanded that the U.S. Army rescue the kidnapped boy and bring Cochise to justice. The military obliged by dispatching a force under the command of Lieutenant George Bascom. Unaware that they were in any danger, Cochise and many of his top men responded to Bascom's invitation to join him for a night of entertainment at a nearby stage station. When the Apache arrived, Bascom's soldiers arrested them.
Cochise told Bascom that he had not been responsible for the kidnapping of Felix Tellez, but the lieutenant refused to believe him. He ordered Cochise be kept as a hostage until the boy was returned. Cochise would not tolerate being imprisoned unjustly. He used his knife to cut a hole in the tent he was held in and escaped.
During the next decade, Cochise and his warriors increased their raids on American settlements and fought occasional skirmishes with soldiers. Panicked settlers abandoned their homes, and the Apache raids took hundreds of lives and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damages. By 1872, the U.S. was anxious for peace, and the government offered Cochise and his people a huge reservation in the southeastern corner of Arizona Territory if they would cease hostilities. Cochise agreed, saying, "The white man and the Indian are to drink of the same water, eat of the same bread, and be at peace."
The great chief did not have the privilege of enjoying his hard-won peace for long. In 1874, he became seriously ill, possibly with stomach cancer. He died on this day in 1874. That night his warriors painted his body yellow, black, and vermilion, and took him deep into the Dragoon Mountains. They lowered his body and weapons into a rocky crevice, the exact location of which remains unknown. Today, however, that section of the Dragoon Mountains is known as Cochise's Stronghold.
About a decade after Cochise died, Felix Tellez--the boy whose kidnapping had started the war--resurfaced as an Apache-speaking scout for the U.S. Army. He reported that a group of Western Apache, not Cochise, had kidnapped him.
Jun 8, 1941: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon
On this day in 1941, British and Free French forces enter Syria and Lebanon in Operation Exporter.
In May, the pro-Axis Rashid Ali rose to power in Iraq and refused to allow British maneuvers within his country in accordance with the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930. Britain quickly restored the status quo ante by driving Ali and his followers out of Iraq. And to ensure that German military supplies shipped to Ali via Syria did not result in Axis control of that country and neighboring Lebanon, Britain decided to take preventive action. With Australian and Indian support, as well as that of Free French forces, Britain invaded both Syria and Lebanon, fighting Vichy French garrisons loyal to Germany. Resistance lasted five weeks before an armistice was finally signed on July 14, giving the Allies control of both Syria and Lebanon. Among those wounded in the fighting was the 26-year-old leader of Palestinian volunteer forces, Moshe Dayan, the future hero in the fight for an independent Jewish state. He lost an eye.
Jun 8, 1967: Israel attacks USS Liberty
During the Six-Day War, Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attack the USS Liberty in international waters off Egypt's Gaza Strip. The intelligence ship, well-marked as an American vessel and only lightly armed, was attacked first by Israeli aircraft that fired napalm and rockets at the ship. The Liberty attempted to radio for assistance, but the Israeli aircraft blocked the transmissions. Eventually, the ship was able to make contact with the U.S. carrier Saratoga, and 12 fighter jets and four tanker planes were dispatched to defend the Liberty. When word of their deployment reached Washington, however, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered them recalled to the carrier, and they never reached the Liberty. The reason for the recall remains unclear.
Back in the Mediterranean, the initial air raid against the Liberty was over. Nine of the 294 crewmembers were dead and 60 were wounded. Suddenly, the ship was attacked by Israeli torpedo boats, which launched torpedoes and fired artillery at the ship. Under the command of its wounded captain, William L. McGonagle, the Liberty managed to avert four torpedoes, but one struck the ship at the waterline. Heavily damaged, the ship launched three lifeboats, but these were also attacked--a violation of international law. Failing to sink the Liberty, which displaced 10,000 tons, the Israelis finally desisted. In all, 34 Americans were killed and 171 were wounded in the two-hour attack. In the attack's aftermath, the Liberty managed to limp to a safe port.
Israel later apologized for the attack and offered $6.9 million in compensation, claiming that it had mistaken the Liberty for an Egyptian ship. However, Liberty survivors, and some former U.S. officials, believe that the attack was deliberate, staged to conceal Israel's pending seizure of Syria's Golan Heights, which occurred the next day. The ship's listening devices would likely have overheard Israeli military communications planning this controversial operation. Captain McGonagle was later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic command of the Liberty during and after the attack.
Jun 8, 632: Founder of Islam dies
In Medina, located in present-day Saudi Arabia, Muhammad, one of the most influential religious and political leaders in history, dies in the arms of Aishah, his third and favorite wife.
Born in Mecca of humble origins, Muhammad married a wealthy widow at 25 years old and lived the next 15 years as an unremarkable merchant. In 610, in a cave in Mount Hira north of Mecca, he had a vision in which he heard God, speaking through the angel Gabriel, command him to become the Arab prophet of the "true religion." Thus began a lifetime of religious revelations, which he and others collected as the Qur'an. These revelations provided the foundation for the Islamic religion. Muhammad regarded himself as the last prophet of the Judaic-Christian tradition, and he adopted the theology of these older religions while introducing new doctrines. His inspired teachings also brought unity to the Bedouin tribesmen of Arabia, an event that had sweeping consequences for the rest of the world.
By the summer of 622, Muhammad had gained a substantial number of converts in Mecca, leading the city's authorities, who had a vested interest in preserving the city's pagan religion, to plan his assassination. Muhammad fled to Medina, a city some 200 miles north of Mecca, where he was given a position of considerable political power. At Medina, he built a model theocratic state and administered a rapidly growing empire. In 629, Muhammad returned to Mecca as a conqueror. During the next two and a half years, numerous disparate Arab tribes converted to his religion. By his death on June 8, 632, he was the effective ruler of all southern Arabia, and his missionaries, or legates, were active in the Eastern Empire, Persia, and Ethiopia. During the next century, vast conquests continued under Muhammad's successors and allies, and the Muslim advance was not halted until the Battle of Tours in France in 732. By this time, the Muslim empire, among the largest the world had ever seen, stretched from India across the Middle East and North Africa, and up through Western Europe's Iberian peninsula. The spread of Islam continued after the end of the Arab conquest, and many cultures in Africa and Asia voluntarily adopted the religion. Today, Islam is the world's second-largest religion.
Jun 8, 1944: As British and American troops meet up at Normandy, Stalin rejoices
U.S. General Omar Bradley, following orders from General Eisenhower, links up American troops from Omaha Beach with British troops from Gold Beach at Colleville-sur-Mer. Meanwhile, Russian Premier Joseph Stalin telegraphs British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to announce that the Allied success at Normandy "is a source of joy to us all," and promises to launch his own offensive on the Eastern Front, as had been agreed upon at the Tehran Conference in late '43, and thereby prevent Hitler from transferring German troops from the east to support troops at Normandy.
Jun 8, 1968: King assassination suspect arrested
James Earl Ray, an escaped American convict, is arrested in London, England, and charged with the assassination of African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
On April 4, 1968, in Memphis, King was fatally wounded by a sniper's bullet while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine. That evening, a Remington .30-06 hunting rifle was found on the sidewalk beside a rooming house one block from the Lorraine Motel. During the next several weeks, the rifle, eyewitness reports, and fingerprints on the weapon all implicated a single suspect: escaped convict James Earl Ray. A two-bit criminal, Ray escaped a Missouri prison in April 1967 while serving a sentence for a holdup. In May 1968, a massive manhunt for Ray began. The FBI eventually determined that he had obtained a Canadian passport under a false identity, which at the time was relatively easy.
On June 8, Scotland Yard investigators arrested Ray at a London airport. Ray was trying to fly to Belgium, with the eventual goal, he later admitted, of reaching Rhodesia. Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) was at the time ruled by an oppressive and internationally condemned white minority government. Extradited to the United States, Ray stood before a Memphis judge in March 1969 and pleaded guilty to King's murder in order to avoid the electric chair. He was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Three days later, he attempted to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming he was innocent of King's assassination and had been set up as a patsy in a larger conspiracy. He claimed that in 1967, a mysterious man named "Raoul" had approached him and recruited him into a gunrunning enterprise. On April 4, 1968, however, he realized that he was to be the fall guy for the King assassination and fled for Canada. Ray's motion was denied, as were his dozens of other requests for a trial during the next 29 years.
During the 1990s, the widow and children of Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke publicly in support of Ray and his claims, calling him innocent and speculating about an assassination conspiracy involving the U.S. government and military. U.S. authorities were, in conspiracists' minds, implicated circumstantially. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover obsessed over King, who he thought was under communist influence. For the last six years of his life, King underwent constant wiretapping and harassment by the FBI. Before his death, Dr. King was also monitored by U.S. military intelligence, who may have been called to watch over King after he publicly denounced the Vietnam War in 1967. Furthermore, by calling for radical economic reforms in 1968, including guaranteed annual incomes for all, King was making few new friends in the Cold War-era U.S. government.
Over the years, the assassination has been reexamined by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, the Shelby County, Tennessee, district attorney's office, and three times by the U.S. Justice Department. All of these investigations have ended with the same conclusion: James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King, Jr. The House committee acknowledged that a low-level conspiracy might have existed, involving one or more accomplices to Ray, but uncovered no evidence definitively to prove this theory. In addition to the mountain of evidence against him, such as his fingerprints on the murder weapon and admitted presence at the rooming house on April 4, Ray had a definite motive in assassinating King: hatred. According to his family and friends, he was an outspoken racist who told them of his intent to kill King. Ray died in 1998.
Jun 8, 1776: Patriots retreat from Battle of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec
On this day in 1776, Canadian Governor Sir Guy Carleton defeats American Patriot forces under John Sullivan, who were already in retreat from Quebec toward Montreal.
After General Richard Montgomery's early success in Montreal, he and Colonel Benedict Arnold attempted to take Quebec in the middle of the night between December 31, 1775 and January 1, 1776. Montgomery lost his life and Arnold was wounded in the action; half of their men were also lost to death, injury or capture and Quebec remained in British control. The colonists' ill-conceived, pre-emptive attack on Canada ended in disaster. Instead of winning French Canadians to the Patriot cause, it led only to a huge loss of life among Patriot forces.
After the defeat at Quebec, the battered and ailing Patriots remained outside the city with the help of additional supplies and reinforcements. As the Royal Navy sailed towards Quebec in May, the Patriots were already in retreat towards Montreal. Governor Carleton pursued the Patriots, who turned to fight on June 8 at Trois-Rivieres, halfway between the two cities. Although the highly trained Redcoats and German mercenaries made quick work of the colonists, killing 25, wounding 140 and capturing 236, Carleton allowed the rest of the 2,500-man force to complete their retreat to Montreal. It was a temporary respite for the Patriots: by June 15, Montreal too had returned to British control. Arnold saw that the Patriots' priorities had changed and wrote to Sullivan, "let us quit and secure our own country before it is too late."
Jun 8, 1969: Brian Jones leaves the Stones
Publicly, the move would be cast as an amicable split, with Brian Jones stating of his fellow Rolling Stones, "I no longer see eye-to-eye with the others over the discs we are cutting." Behind the scenes, however, Jones' prodigious appetite for drugs and alcohol had long rendered him almost a non-functioning member of the band. A prodigious musical talent who was said to be able to master a new instrument in a single day, Jones had helped pioneer the use of exotic instruments in rock and roll on such classic Stones tracks as "Lady Jane" (featuring Jones on dulcimer), "Under My Thumb" (marimba) and "Paint It Black" (sitar). On this day in 1969, however, Jones' band mates declared his decadence more than they could bear, firing the once-brilliant instrumentalist who had given so many early Rolling Stones songs their distinctive sound.
It was Brian Jones who had brought the Rolling Stones together in the first place and given the group its name back in 1962. Though he was barely out his teens, Jones had already established himself as one of the most talented guitarists on the burgeoning blues revival scene in Britain. He had also earned a reputation as a committed nonconformist, having shocked his upper middle class family by leaving school and fathering two children out of wedlock by the time he was 16. "Many attitudes and sounds of the 60s were developed from Brian's style and determination," wrote fellow-Stone Bill Wyman in his 1990 book Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock 'n' Roll Band. "He was the archetypal middle-class kid screaming to break away from his background, bumming around in dead end jobs before finally finding his niche. And when he found it, he hammered it across to the world, with idealism and commitment."
It was Mick Jagger and Keith Richards who went to Jones with the news that he was out of the group on this day in 1969. "Nowadays, you could say, 'Brian, you have to go to this centre in Arizona for a couple of months to clean up,'" Mick Jagger has said, "but in those days that wasn't as obvious an option."
Less than one month after his departure from the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones was found dead in his swimming pool at his Sussex, England, home. He was 27 years old.
Jun 8, 1966: NFL and AFL announce merger
On this day in 1966, the rival National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) announce that they will merge. The first "Super Bowl" between the two leagues took place at the end of the 1966 season, though it took until the 1970 season for the leagues to unite their operations and integrate their regular season schedules.
In 1958, the National Football League championship game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants drew 45 million viewers on NBC and established pro football as an entertainment commodity to rival baseball. The NFL suddenly had a line of businessmen waiting to purchase new franchises in new markets, but most were arrogantly turned away. This prompted Lamar Hunt, the wealthy son of an oil tycoon, to recruit seven businessmen from cities hungry for pro football to form a rival league. The resulting American Football League was publicly welcomed by NFL Commissioner Bert Bell, who said that competition would stimulate both leagues. However, the NFL did not sit idly by and wait for the AFL to gain market share. Instead, it quickly expanded into Hunt’s hometown of Dallas and into Minneapolis, another of the cities the AFL had designated for a franchise.
The American Football League chose Oakland as a replacement for Minneapolis, as well as Los Angeles, Dallas (for Hunt’s franchise, which moved to Kansas City in 1962), New York, Buffalo, Boston, Denver and Houston as the original eight AFL cities. The league piqued fan interest with an entertaining product on the field, a high-flying aerial brand of football that contrasted with the stingy defenses and running attacks of the older NFL. By 1962, the AFL had drawn 1 million fans to its games.
In 1965, the AFL scored a television contract with NBC. That same year, New York Jets owner Sonny Werblin lured quarterback Joe Namath out of the University of Alabama to the AFL with the biggest contract in pro football history. The NFL’s prediction and hope that the AFL would field only second-rate players and washed-up former NFL players was not to be: Instead, the two leagues began to compete over fans, players and coaches. An unspoken agreement that one league would not sign the other league’s players was broken in 1966 when the NFL’s New York Giants signed place-kicker Pete Gogolak away from the AFL’s Buffalo Bills. As neither league could afford a bidding war, owners soon began to talk of a merger.
Under the merger agreement announced on June 8, 1966, the new league would be called the NFL, and split into the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC) All eight of the original AFL teams would all be absorbed by the NFL, unlike in 1946 when the NFL merged with the rival All-America Football Conference but only took in its Baltimore, Cleveland and San Francisco franchises and dissolved four other teams.
The first two Super Bowls proved the NFC (the former NFL) to be the better league, with Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers handling their AFC challenger easily. In Super Bowl III, however, Joe Namath and the New York Jets upset the favored Baltimore Colts and ushered in a new era of greater parity between the two leagues.
The Super Bowl, played between the AFC and NFC champions at the end of every NFL season, is now the most watched televised sporting event in the world with more than 140 million viewers.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
65 - Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia
in Jerusalem
68 - Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba
452 - Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
536 - St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
793 - Vikings plunder St Cuthbert's monestary on Lindisfarne
979 - Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France
1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre 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.
1551 - Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese
of Parma
1624 - Earthquake strikes Peru
1632 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard
1663 - Battle at Amegical: English & Portugese fleet
beats Spanish
1690 - Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in
Mumbai.
1694 - English troop landing at Brest attack (300 killed)
1761 - British fleet occupies Belle Île off the Brittany
Coast
1783 - Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month
eruption
1786 - Commercially made icecream 1st advertised (Mr Hall,
NYC)
1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in
the U.S. House of Representatives.
1809 - William Hyde Wollaston invents the first reflective
goniometer
4th US President James Madison4th US President James Madison
1815 - 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
1824 - Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1829 - 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London
opens in Liverpool
1834 - HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn
1846 - Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
1856 - Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island
1861 - US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval
1861 - American Civil War: Tennessee votes to secede from
the Union.
1862 - Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
1865 - Tristanderl und Zusholde, premieres
1869 - Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner
1872 - Congress endorses penny post card
1878 - 12th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Duke of Magenta wins in
2:43.5
1882 - 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in
2:43
1887 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card
calculator.
1889 - Cable Cars begin service in LA
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe
Valley Mystery" (BG)
1892 - Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car
(Plessy v Ferguson)
1896 - 1st car is stolen
1900 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6
Napoleons" (BG)
1911 - Belgium government of Schollaert falls
1912 - Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1914 - 34.7°F (1.5°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1915 - 92°F (33.3°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1917 - Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
1918 - Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of
1604, discovered
1920 - Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long
infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay
of game
Baseball Great Babe RuthBaseball Great Babe Ruth 1921 - Babe
Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM
1927 - Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
1928 - 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles
Kingford)
1929 - 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins
in 2:32.8
1929 - Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort
Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap governor Fruytier
1931 - Duke of Kent wed Princess Marina of Greece and
Denmark
1931 - Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in
Paramaribo
1933 - A's Jimmie Foxx homers his 1st 3 at bats for 4
consecutive HRs
1935 - 39th US Golf Open: Sam Parks Jr shoots a 299 at
Oakmont CC PA
1935 - 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in
2:30.6
1935 - Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds & leaves
the game
1936 - 1st parking meters are invented
1937 - World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden,
12' calla lily
1940 - 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in
2:29.6
1940 - Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
Baseball Player Lou GehrigBaseball Player Lou Gehrig 1940 -
Last British troops leave Narvik Norway
1941 - British & French troops overthrow pro-German
Syria
1942 - Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"
1944 - 1st SS-Panzer Korps counter attacks at Normandy
1944 - Allies occupy Port-en-Bessin Normandy
1944 - Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
1944 - General Montgomery lands in Normandy, sets up HQ in
Chateau de Creully
1946 - "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC
after 142 performances
1946 - Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia
1948 - "Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV
1948 - "Sally" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
after 36 performances
1948 - John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in
US marines
1949 - Siam changes name to Thailand
1950 - Boston Red Sox beat St Louis Browns 29-4 (win by
record 25 runs)
1950 - Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier
1950 - Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin & Valentine (8-104
1st inn) v England
1950 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian
history.
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open
1953 - Cluster of 6 tornadoes touches down in Flint Michigan
killing 113
1953 - Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme
Court
1953 - Tornadoes kill 110 in Michigan & Ohio
1955 - Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster
for Sandy Koufax
1956 - Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government
1956 - WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC)
begins broadcasting
1958 - 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1959 - 1st official "missile mail" lands
(Jacksonville, Fla)
1959 - X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at
11,500 m
1960 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel
House"
1960 - Argentine government demands release of Adolf
Eichmann
1961 - Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, v England
at Edgbaston, 57
Baseball Player Hank AaronBaseball Player Hank Aaron 1961 -
Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe
Adcock & Frank Thomas)
1962 - Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8)
1963 - "Mr President" closes at St James Theater
NYC after 265 performances
1963 - 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in
2:30.2
1963 - American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign
against cigarettes
1965 - A's draft Rick Monday #1
1965 - US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1965 - USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000
miles
1966 - NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC
in 1970
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 - Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing
34 US crewmen
1968 - Bermuda adopts its constitution
1968 - Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive
scoreless inning
1968 - Gary Puckett & Union Gap release "Lady Will
Power"
1968 - James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther
King Jr, captured
1968 - New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
1968 - Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F.
Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
1969 - "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour" last airs
on CBS-TV
1969 - 21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams & Susan St
James win
1969 - Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones
Spanish Dictator and General Francisco FrancoSpanish
Dictator and General Francisco Franco 1969 - General Franco closes Spain's
frontier with Gibraltar
1969 - KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins
broadcasting
1969 - Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was
there-BTG)
1969 - Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by
end of August
1969 - Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian
Jones
1969 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 - Players & management end labor dispute up min
salary to $12,000
1971 - North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam
1971 - White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign
1972 - Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick
Manning #2
1972 - Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, v Australia at Old
Trafford (57/62)
1973 - Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of
Spain
1974 - 106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current
wins in 2:29.2
1974 - Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group
"Yes"
1974 - US & Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
1975 - 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany
killing 35
1975 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1975 - USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
1976 - Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1
1977 - Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game
1978 - 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins
spelling deification
1978 - Braves draft Bob Horner #1
1978 - Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon
Will" is a forgery
1979 - "The Source," 1st computer public
information service, goes on-line
1979 - Mariners draft Al Chambers #1
1979 - Wings release "Back to the Egg" album
1980 - "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" closes at
Martin Beck NYC after 8 perfs
1980 - 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little
1980 - 34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God &
Evita win
1980 - 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia
Ruzici (60 63)
1981 - 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters
1981 - Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1
1982 - 36th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4
games to 2
1982 - Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
1982 - Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci
loses for 3rd time
US President & Actor Ronald ReaganUS President &
Actor Ronald Reagan 1982 - US President Reagan addresses joint session of
British Parliament
1983 - "Trading Places", "Ghostbusters"
& "Gremlins" premiere
1983 - Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop"
cycling in Leiria, Portugal
1983 - Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81)
1984 - Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New
South Wales, Australia.
1985 - 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins
in 2:27
1986 - "Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater NYC
after 70 performances
1986 - 40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous
Rockets, 4 games to 2
1986 - 56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael
Pernfors (63 62 64)
1986 - Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
1986 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1986 - Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Balt Orioles beat
Yankees 18-9
1987 - 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis
1987 - Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at
Iran-Contra hearing
1987 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against
nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels in NZ. Only nation to legislate
against nuclear power
1988 - Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on
Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
1989 - Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since
1942), prompts Pirate broadcaster Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to
Phila if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season
1990 - "It's Garry Shandling's Show" last airs on
Fox-TV
1990 - Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole
history
1991 - "Our Country's Good" closes at Nederlander
Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1991 - 123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in
2:28
1991 - 61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S
Vicario (63 64)
1991 - College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita
State 6-3
1991 - Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing
fight in 12 seconds
1991 - Victory parade held in Wash DC (Persian Gulf War)
1991 - Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Div 1
golf title
1992 - 26th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson
& Garth Brooks
1992 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball
for 7th time
1992 - Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of
Austria
1993 - Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns
1994 - 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia
1994 - Mass murderer Joe Rifkind sentenced to 27 years
1995 - "Buttons on Broadway" opens at Ambassador
Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1995 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is
rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1996 - 128th Belmont: Rene Douglas aboard Editor's Note wins
in 2:28.96
Tennis Player Steffi GrafTennis Player Steffi Graf 1996 -
66th French Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (6-3, 6-7, 10-8)
1996 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1996 - Dean Jones takes career-best 5-112 for Derbyshire v
Hampshire
1996 - Lloyd & Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt
Lancs v Essex
1996 - PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper
1996 - Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention
copyright treaty.
1996 - Revival of the legendary procession of Lady Godiva
(Godgifu) naked through Coventry, England
1997 - "Young Man From Atlanta" closes at Longacre
Theater NYC after 85 perfs
1997 - 67th French Mens Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten beats S
Bruguera (63 64 62)
1997 - BellSouth Senior Golf Classic at Opryland
1997 - Justin Leonard wins golf's Kemper Open at TPC at
Avenel
1997 - Pat Hurst wins LPGA Oldsmobile Classic
2002 - 134th Belmont: Edgar Prado aboard Sarava wins in
2:29.71
2003 - 57th Tony Awards: Hairspray & Take Me Out win
2003 - 49th LPGA Championship won by Annika Sörenstam
2004 - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
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 took place on the
Sunday-pedestrian-zoned Chūōdōri street. A man killed seven in an attack on a
crowd using a truck and a dagger.
2008 - 54th LPGA Championship won by Yani Tseng
Singer-songwriter Taylor SwiftSinger-songwriter Taylor Swift
2011 - 45th CMT Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton
wins
2012 - A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35
people
2013 - Serena Williams defeats Maria Sharapova to win the
French Open in tennis
2013 - 145th Belmont: Mike Smith aboard Palace Malice wins
in 2:30.70
0452 - Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun. 0793 - The Vikings raided the Northumbrian coast of England. 1786 - In New York City, commercially manufactured ice cream was advertised for the first time. 1790 - The first loan for the U.S. was repaid. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was negotiated and secured on September 18, 1789 by Alexander Hamilton. 1861 - Tennessee voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy. 1866 - Prussia annexed the region of Holstein. 1869 - Ives W. McGaffey received a U.S. patent for the suction vacuum cleaner. 1872 - The penny postcard was authorized by the U.S. Congress. 1904 - U.S. Marines landed in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens. 1915 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania. 1947 - "Lassie" debuted on ABC radio. It was a 15-minute show. 1948 - Milton Berle hosted "Texaco Star Theater" NBC-TV. It was the show's debut. 1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregated restaurants in Washington, DC. 1961 - The Milwaukee Braves set a major league baseball record when four consecutive home runs in the seventh inning. 1965 - U.S. troops in South Vietnam were given orders to begin fighting offensively. 1967 - Israeli airplanes attacked the USS Liberty in the Mediterranean during the 6-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. 34 U.S. Navy crewmen were killed. Israel later called the incident a tragic mistake due to the mis-identification of the ship. The U.S. has never publicly investigated the incident. 1969 - The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's number (7). 1969 - It was announced that there would be a single schedule for both the NFL and AFL. 1969 - U.S. President Richard Nixon met with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops would pull out by August. 1978 - A jury in Clark County, Nevada, ruled that the "Mormon will," was a forgery. The work was supposedly written by Howard Hughes. 1982 - U.S. President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament. 1986 - The Boston Celtics won their 16th NBA championship. 1987 - Fawn Hill began testifying in the Iran-Contra hearings. She said that she had helped to shred some documents. 1988 - The judge in the Iran-Contra conspiracy case ruled that Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim had to be tried separately. 1991 - A victory parade was held in Washington, DC, to honor veterans of the Persian Gulf War. 1994 - The warring factions in Bosnia agreed to a one-month cease-fire. 1995 - U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady was rescued by U.S. Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was shot down on June 2. 1996 - China set off an underground nuclear test blast. 1998 - The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston to be its president. 1998 - In the U.S., the FTC brought an antitrust complaint against Intel Corp., alleging its policies punished other developers of microprocessor chips. 1998 - Honda agreed to pay $17.1 million for disconnecting anti-pollution devices in 1.6 million cars. 1998 - The space shuttle Discovery pulled away from Mir, ending America's three-year partnership with Russia. 2000 - The Dallas Stars and the New Jersey Devils played the NHL's longest scoreless game in Stanley Cup finals history. The fifth game of the series lasted 106 minutes and 21 seconds. The game ended with a goal by Mike Madano that allowed the Stars to play a game six back in Dallas. 2001 - Marc Chagall's painting "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8x10 painting was valued at about $1 million. A group called the International Committee for Art and Peace later announced that they would return the painting after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace. 2004 - Nate Olive and Sarah Jones began the first known continuous hike of the 1,800-mile trail down the U.S. Pacific Coast. They completed the trek at the U.S.-Mexico border on September 28.
632 The prophet Muhammad died. 1845 Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States, died in Tennessee. 1861 Tennessee became the 11th and last state to secede from the Union. 1968 James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, assassin, was arrested. 1982 President Reagan became the first American president to address a joint session of Britain’s Parliament. 1983 Negro Baseball League great Satchel Paige died. 2001 Tony Blair and his Labour Party won a second term, overwhelming the opposition at the polls.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jun08.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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