June 8
632 - The Prophet Muhammad died in Medina.
1845 - Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tennessee at age 78.
1861 - Tennessee became the 11th and final state to secede from the Union during the Civil War.
1864 - Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore.
1915 - Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.
1953 - The Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.
1953 - Eight tornadoes struck Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, killing 126 people.
1962 - 20th Century Fox fired Marilyn Monroe from its production “Something’s Got to Give,” saying she was unreliable. (Fox later changed its mind, but Monroe died before filming could resume, and the movie was abandoned.)
1967 - During the six-day Middle East war, 34 American servicemen were killed when Israel attacked the USS Liberty, a Navy intelligence-gathering ship in the Mediterranean Sea. (Israel later said the Liberty had been mistaken for an Egyptian vessel.)
1968 - James Earl Ray, the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was arrested in London.
1972 - During the Vietnam War, an Associated Press photographer took a picture of a screaming 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, as she ran naked and severely burned from the scene of a South Vietnamese napalm attack.
1978 - A jury in Clark County, Nevada, ruled the so-called “Mormon will,” purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery.
1982 - President Ronald Reagan became the first U.S. president to address a joint session of Britain's Parliament.
1987 - Fawn Hall, secretary to national security aide Oliver L. North, testified at the Iran-Contra hearings, saying she had helped to shred some documents.
1995 - U.S. Marines rescued Capt. Scott O'Grady, whose F16-C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
1998 - The National Rifle Association elected actor Charlton Heston its president.
2001 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party won a second term, overwhelming the opposition at the polls.
2009 - North Korea’s highest court sentenced American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years’ hard labor for trespassing and “hostile acts.” (The women were pardoned in early August 2009 after a trip to Pyongyang by former President Bill Clinton.)
2011 - Rep. Allyson Schwartz of Pennsylvania became the first Democratic House colleague to call for Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York to resign after he admitted sending a lewd photo of himself to a woman via Twitter and lying about it.
2015 - Siding with the White House in a foreign-policy power struggle with Congress, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Americans born in the disputed city of Jerusalem could not list Israel as their birthplace on passports.
Birthdays
24 - Jelena Ostapenko (tennis player)
37 - Torrey DeVitto (actress)
38 - Kim Clijsters (tennis player)
43 - Sturgill Simpson (country singer)
43 - Maria Menounos (TV personality)
44 - Kanye West (rapper)
45 - Lindsay Davenport (tennis player)
50 - Mark Feuerstein (actor)
51 - Kelli Williams (actress)
51 - Nicci Gilbert (singer)
51 - Kent Faulcon (actor)
52 - David Sutcliffe (actor)
54 - Dan Futterman (actor)
54 - Julianna Margulies (actress)
55 - Doris Pearson (singer)
63 - Keenen Ivory Wayans (actor/director)
66 - Griffin Dunne (actor)
70 - Bonnie Tyler (singer)
71 - Kathy Baker (actress)
71 - Sonia Braga (actress)
77 - Boz Scaggs (musician)
81 - Nancy Sinatra (singer)
85 - James Darren (actor)
87 - Millicent Martin (actor)
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Today in Sports History - June 8
1934 - The Cincinnati Reds became the first Major League team to use an airplane to travel from one city to another. They flew from Cincinnati to Chicago.
1961 - The Milwaukee Braves set a major league baseball record with four consecutive home runs in the seventh inning.
1966 - A merger was announced between the National and American Football Leagues, to take effect in 1970.
1969 - The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's uniform No. 7 during "Mickey Mantle Day" at Yankee Stadium.
1977 - Nolan Ryan pitches his fourth career 19-strikeout game.
1982 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers in six games to win the NBA championship.
1983 - Negro League baseball star Satchel Paige died.
1986 - The Boston Celtics won their 16th NBA championship, defeating the Houston Rockets in six games.
1995 - Mickey Mantle received a liver transplant at a Dallas hospital; however, the baseball great died two months later.
2000 - The Dallas Stars and the New Jersey Devils played the NHL's longest scoreless game in Stanley Cup finals history. The fifth game of the series lasted 106 minutes and 21 seconds. The game ended with a goal by Mike Modano that allowed the Stars to play a game six back in Dallas.
2002 - The Detroit Red Wings and the Carolina Hurricanes began playing the third game of their Stanley Cup Finals. The game lasted until 14 minutes and 47 seconds of the third overtime. The game ended past 1 a.m. the next day and was the third-longest Stanley Cup finals game in NHL history.
2005 - Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player to reach 400 career home runs in a 12-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.
2016 - Maria Sharapova was suspended for two years by the International Tennis Federation for testing positive for meldonium at the Australian Open. (The ban, which was backdated to Jan. 26, 2016, was later reduced to 15 months.)
2018 - The Golden State Warriors win their third NBA championship in four seasons after sweeping the Cleveland Cavaliers.
632 - The Prophet Muhammad died in Medina.
1845 - Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tennessee at age 78.
1861 - Tennessee became the 11th and final state to secede from the Union during the Civil War.
1864 - Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore.
1915 - Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.
1953 - The Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.
1953 - Eight tornadoes struck Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, killing 126 people.
1962 - 20th Century Fox fired Marilyn Monroe from its production “Something’s Got to Give,” saying she was unreliable. (Fox later changed its mind, but Monroe died before filming could resume, and the movie was abandoned.)
1967 - During the six-day Middle East war, 34 American servicemen were killed when Israel attacked the USS Liberty, a Navy intelligence-gathering ship in the Mediterranean Sea. (Israel later said the Liberty had been mistaken for an Egyptian vessel.)
1968 - James Earl Ray, the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was arrested in London.
1972 - During the Vietnam War, an Associated Press photographer took a picture of a screaming 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, as she ran naked and severely burned from the scene of a South Vietnamese napalm attack.
1978 - A jury in Clark County, Nevada, ruled the so-called “Mormon will,” purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery.
1982 - President Ronald Reagan became the first U.S. president to address a joint session of Britain's Parliament.
1987 - Fawn Hall, secretary to national security aide Oliver L. North, testified at the Iran-Contra hearings, saying she had helped to shred some documents.
1995 - U.S. Marines rescued Capt. Scott O'Grady, whose F16-C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
1998 - The National Rifle Association elected actor Charlton Heston its president.
2001 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party won a second term, overwhelming the opposition at the polls.
2009 - North Korea’s highest court sentenced American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years’ hard labor for trespassing and “hostile acts.” (The women were pardoned in early August 2009 after a trip to Pyongyang by former President Bill Clinton.)
2011 - Rep. Allyson Schwartz of Pennsylvania became the first Democratic House colleague to call for Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York to resign after he admitted sending a lewd photo of himself to a woman via Twitter and lying about it.
2015 - Siding with the White House in a foreign-policy power struggle with Congress, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Americans born in the disputed city of Jerusalem could not list Israel as their birthplace on passports.
Birthdays
24 - Jelena Ostapenko (tennis player)
37 - Torrey DeVitto (actress)
38 - Kim Clijsters (tennis player)
43 - Sturgill Simpson (country singer)
43 - Maria Menounos (TV personality)
44 - Kanye West (rapper)
45 - Lindsay Davenport (tennis player)
50 - Mark Feuerstein (actor)
51 - Kelli Williams (actress)
51 - Nicci Gilbert (singer)
51 - Kent Faulcon (actor)
52 - David Sutcliffe (actor)
54 - Dan Futterman (actor)
54 - Julianna Margulies (actress)
55 - Doris Pearson (singer)
63 - Keenen Ivory Wayans (actor/director)
66 - Griffin Dunne (actor)
70 - Bonnie Tyler (singer)
71 - Kathy Baker (actress)
71 - Sonia Braga (actress)
77 - Boz Scaggs (musician)
81 - Nancy Sinatra (singer)
85 - James Darren (actor)
87 - Millicent Martin (actor)
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Today in Sports History - June 8
1934 - The Cincinnati Reds became the first Major League team to use an airplane to travel from one city to another. They flew from Cincinnati to Chicago.
1961 - The Milwaukee Braves set a major league baseball record with four consecutive home runs in the seventh inning.
1966 - A merger was announced between the National and American Football Leagues, to take effect in 1970.
1969 - The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's uniform No. 7 during "Mickey Mantle Day" at Yankee Stadium.
1977 - Nolan Ryan pitches his fourth career 19-strikeout game.
1982 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers in six games to win the NBA championship.
1983 - Negro League baseball star Satchel Paige died.
1986 - The Boston Celtics won their 16th NBA championship, defeating the Houston Rockets in six games.
1995 - Mickey Mantle received a liver transplant at a Dallas hospital; however, the baseball great died two months later.
2000 - The Dallas Stars and the New Jersey Devils played the NHL's longest scoreless game in Stanley Cup finals history. The fifth game of the series lasted 106 minutes and 21 seconds. The game ended with a goal by Mike Modano that allowed the Stars to play a game six back in Dallas.
2002 - The Detroit Red Wings and the Carolina Hurricanes began playing the third game of their Stanley Cup Finals. The game lasted until 14 minutes and 47 seconds of the third overtime. The game ended past 1 a.m. the next day and was the third-longest Stanley Cup finals game in NHL history.
2005 - Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player to reach 400 career home runs in a 12-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.
2016 - Maria Sharapova was suspended for two years by the International Tennis Federation for testing positive for meldonium at the Australian Open. (The ban, which was backdated to Jan. 26, 2016, was later reduced to 15 months.)
2018 - The Golden State Warriors win their third NBA championship in four seasons after sweeping the Cleveland Cavaliers.
