8 Juin

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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.

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)