{"id":208014,"date":"2020-01-01T13:16:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T13:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/day\/june-8\/"},"modified":"2024-01-14T00:31:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T00:31:17","slug":"june-8","status":"publish","type":"otd_day","link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/day\/june-8\/","title":{"rendered":"June 8: Facts & Historical Events On This Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

June 8th observes World Oceans Day and Best Friends Day.

This day marks the 159^{th day of 2025, and there’s another days remaining until the end of the year.}

Is today a special day for you? Ever wondered who was born and died on this day? Well you’re about to find out all that and so much more as here we look at events that happened on June 8 throughout history.

Did you know that on this day in 1940, the discovery of the chemical element Neptunium was announced? It was the first element found to have a higher proton number than Uranium.

Keep reading for more fun & interesting facts about June 8^{th in history!\r\n\r\n}

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What memorable events happened on June 8 in history? Keep reading to find out!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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2023\r\n\r\n
Former US President Donald Trump was formally accused of mishandling classified documents.\r\n\r\n
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2020\r\n\r\n
Dr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
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2016\r\n\r\n
Cristiano Ronaldo topped Forbes’ Highest-Paid Athletes List, becoming the first soccer player to do so.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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2009\r\n\r\n
Two American journalists were sentenced to 12 years of penal labor after illegally entering North Korea.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1992\r\n\r\n
World Oceans Day was celebrated for the first time.\r\n\r\n
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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.\r\n\r\n
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1984\r\n\r\n
New South Wales, Australia, celebrated the first day of homosexuality being legal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1968\r\n\r\n
Senator Robert Kennedy was laid to rest.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The service came three days after he was assassinated in Los Angeles during a campaign.\r\n\r\n
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1965\r\n\r\n
Soviet spacecraft Luna 6, destined for a moon landing, failed after flying right past it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1953\r\n\r\n
The United States Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC, could not refuse to serve Black patrons.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This ruling is known as District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. Inc.\r\n\r\n
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1940\r\n\r\n
The discovery of the chemical element Neptunium was announced.\r\n\r\n
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Neptunium has an atomic number 93 and uses the symbol “Np.”\r\n\r\n
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1929\r\n\r\n
Margaret Bondfield became the first female cabinet minister in the UK.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Born into a working-class family, Bondfield became a prominent women’s rights activist and trade unionist before being appointed Minister of Labour.\r\n\r\n
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1869\r\n\r\n
The sweeping machine (vacuum cleaner) was patented in Chicago, US, by Ives W. McGaffey.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1824\r\n\r\n
Noah Cushing patented the washing machine in Quebec, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1783\r\n\r\n
A violent eight-month volcano eruption in Iceland started.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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.\r\n\r\n
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1042\r\n\r\n
Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England. He was considered the last king of the House of Wessex.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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979 AD\r\n\r\n
The King of France, Louis V, was crowned.\r\n\r\n
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