June 8: Facts & Historical Events On This Day

2,000 members of the National Guard were deployed against anti-ICE protestors in Los Angeles, California.

Protests began in LA on June 6 when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a number of locations across the city. By the end of the next day, Donald Trump federalized California's National Guard and ordered them to quell the protests, only adding fuel to the flames.

Former US President Donald Trump was formally accused of mishandling classified documents.

Dr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.

This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.

Cristiano Ronaldo topped Forbes’ Highest-Paid Athletes List, becoming the first soccer player to do so.

Two American journalists were sentenced to 12 years of penal labor after illegally entering North Korea.

World Oceans Day was celebrated for the first time.

Canada's International Center for Ocean Development proposed the idea of World Oceans Day at the 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil, suggesting it could bring much-needed attention to the better caretaking of our oceans. Since then, countless people worldwide have celebrated World Oceans Day by doing whatever they can to help protect our planet's most precious resource.

New South Wales, Australia, celebrated the first day of homosexuality being legal.

Senator Robert Kennedy was laid to rest.

The service came three days after he was assassinated in Los Angeles during a campaign.

Soviet spacecraft Luna 6, destined for a moon landing, failed after flying right past it.

The United States Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC, could not refuse to serve Black patrons.

This ruling is known as District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. Inc.

The discovery of the chemical element Neptunium was announced.

Neptunium has an atomic number 93 and uses the symbol "Np."

Margaret Bondfield became the first female cabinet minister in the UK.

Born into a working-class family, Bondfield became a prominent women's rights activist and trade unionist before being appointed Minister of Labour.

The sweeping machine (vacuum cleaner) was patented in Chicago, US, by Ives W. McGaffey.

Noah Cushing patented the washing machine in Quebec, Canada.

A violent eight-month volcano eruption in Iceland started.

The Laki fissure was a colossal disaster that poured out around 42 billion tons of lava. More than half the island's livestock was killed, and many crops were destroyed, which led to a famine, ultimately killing around 12,500 people, which was about a quarter of Iceland's population.

Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England. He was considered the last king of the House of Wessex.

The King of France, Louis V, was crowned.