8 Juin

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 Laki crater in Iceland, pictured here in 2004

2003: Referendum results in Poland

• 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.

Births

Bonnie Tyler

Tim Berners-Lee

• 1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French astronomer (d. 1712)
• 1772 - Robert Stevenson, Scots ceevil ingineer (d. 1850)
• 1810 - Robert Schumann, German componer (d. 1856)
• 1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American airchitect (d. 1959)
• 1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-born French-American novelist (d. 1987)
• 1916 - Francis Crick, Inglis biologist (d. 2004)
• 1921 - Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell o Croy, Scots politeecian (d. 2005)
• 1921 - Suharto, 2nt Preses o Indonesie (d. 2008)
• 1925 - Barbara Bush, First Lady o the Unitit States (d. 2018)
• 1932 - Hugh McLeod, Scots rugby union player (d. 2014)
• 1933 - Joan Rivers, American actress an comedienne (d. 2014)
• 1936 - Kenneth G. Wilson, American theoretical pheesicist (d. 2013)
• 1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American actress an sangster
• 1943 - Colin Baker, Inglis actor
• 1951 - Bonnie Tyler, Welsh sangster
• 1955 - Tim Berners-Lee, Inglis internet pioneer
• 1969 - George Adam, Scots politeecian
• 1970 - Gabrielle Giffords, American politeecian
• 1975 - Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
• 1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
• 1977 - Kanye West, American rapper an actor
• 1982 - Kelly Brown, Scots rugby union player
• 1982 - Nadia Petrova, Roushie tennis player
• 1983 - Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
• 1984 - Javier Mascherano, Argentine fitbawer
• 1997 - Jelena Ostapenko, Latvie tennis player

Daiths

• 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)

Halidays

• Warld Oceans Day
• Engineers' Day (Peru)
• Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)
• Primoz Trubar Day (Slovenie)