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June 8 is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 206 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 218 – ...
Events. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.; 1789 – James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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June 8. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 42. The Eighth Day of the Month of June. Orthodoxy in China. June 8. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
Births. 1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856); 1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959); 1916 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
Emily Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was a suffragette who fought for votes for women in the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century. She grew up in a middle-class family, and studied at Royal Holloway College, London, and St Hugh's College, Oxford, before taking jobs as a teacher and governess.
The white swamphen (Porphyrio albus) was a rail found on Lord Howe Island, east of the Australian mainland.All contemporary accounts and illustrations were produced between 1788 and 1790, when the bird was first encountered by British ship crews.
A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Friday, June 8 and Saturday, June 9, 1956, [1] with a magnitude of 1.0581. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.