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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.
June 8: World Oceans Day 1783 – Iceland's Laki craters began an eight-month eruption , triggering major famine and massive fluorine poisoning. 1856 – Descendants of Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers settled on Norfolk Island , an abandoned British penal colony .
Lucy Arbell (8 June 1878 – 21 May 1947), was a French mezzo-soprano whose operatic career was largely centred in Paris. Her career was particularly associated with the composer Jules Massenet , who created a number of operatic roles for her before his death in 1912.
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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.
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.