June 8
452 | Attila the Hun invades Italy. | |
632 | Mohammed, the founder of Islam and unifier of Arabia, dies. | |
793 | The Vikings raid the Northumbrian coast of England. | |
1861 | Tennessee votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. | |
1862 | The Army of the Potomac defeats Confederate forces at Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia. | |
1863 | Residents of Vicksburg flee into caves as General Ulysses S. Grant's army begins shelling the town. | |
1866 | Prussia annexes the region of Holstein. | |
1904 | U.S. Marines land in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizen. | |
1908 | King Edward VII of England visits Czar Nicholas II of Russia in an effort to improve relations between the two countries. | |
1915 | William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State under President Wilson. | |
1953 | The Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington, D.C. | |
1965 | President Johnson authorizes commanders in Vietnam to commit U.S. ground forces to combat. | |
1966 | Gemini astronaut Gene Cernan attempts to become the first man to orbit the Earth untethered to a space capsule, but is unable to when he exhausts himself fitting into his rocket pack. | |
1967 | Israel airplanes attack the USS Liberty, a surveillance ship, in the Mediterranean, killing 34 Navy crewmen. | |
1968 | James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., is captured at the London Airport. | |
1969 | President Richard Nixon meets with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops will pull out by August. | |
1995 | U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. |
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