History of the Day for:
June 8
- 632: The prophet Mohammed died.
- 1786: Ice cream was first sold in New York City.
- 1845: Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tenn.
- 1861: Tennessee seceded from the Union.
- 1872: Congress endorsed the penny post card.
- 1948: The "Texaco Star Theater" made its debut on NBC.
- 1953: The Supreme Court ruled District of Columbia restaurants could not refuse to serve blacks.
- 1968: London police said they had captured James Earl Ray, the confessed assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1915: Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the "Lusitania."
- 1961: A major-league baseball record was set as four Milwaukee Braves batters hit consecutive home runs in the seventh inning of a game against the Cincinnati Reds.
- 1967: Thirty-four U.S. servicemen were killed when Israeli forces raided the "Liberty," a Navy ship stationed in the Mediterranean.
- 1969: Yankee Stadium in New York City was sold out as No. 7, Mickey Mantle, formally retired from baseball.
- 1974: An F4 tornado strikes Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
- 1984: Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australia state of New South Wales.
- 1984: An F5 tornado strikes Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing nine, injuring 200, 90% of the town is destroyed.
- 1986: Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, is elected president of Austria.
- 1987: New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
- 1992: The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 1995: Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
- 1995: The first release of the PHP programming language is released by Rasmus Lerdorf.
- 2001: Mamoru Takuma stabs 8 elementary school pupils to death during the Osaka school massacre.
- 2007: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
- 2008: The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Kato drives a two-ton truck into a crowded pedestrianised area before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife, killing seven and injuring ten.