Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: June 8
June 8, 2024 is the 160th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Pearl is your modern birthstone. Moonstone is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: June 8
- 793 –Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
- 1789 –James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
- 1906 –Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
- 1949 –George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 1953 –The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
- 1959 –The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
- 1966 –Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an “F5” on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
- 1982 –Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine air attack on two landing ships : RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
- 1984 –Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
Who were born on June 8?
- 1724 –John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1794)
- 1859 –Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
- 1912 –Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist (d. 1987)
- 1918 –Robert Preston, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1944 –Annie Haslam, English painter and singer (Renaissance)
- 1956 –Udo Bullmann, German politician
- 1969 –David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor
- 1970 –Teresa Strasser, American writer and television personality
- 1972 –Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer
- 1981 –Jess Weixler, American actress
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