June 8
632 - The prophet Muhammad died in Medina.
1845 - Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States (1829-1837), died in Nashville, Tennessee at age 78.
1861 - Tennessee became the 11th and final state to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the Civil War.
1864 - President Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term during the National Union (Republican) Party’s 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.
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 Martin Luther King Jr., was arrested in London.
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 American 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 was shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
1998 - The National Rifle Association elected actor Charlton Heston as its president.
2001 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party won a second term, overwhelming the opposition at the polls.
2008 - The average price of regular gasoline in the United States hit $4 a gallon for the first time.
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.)
2012 - President Barack Obama declared “the private sector is doing fine,” prompting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to ask, “Is he really that out of touch?” (Obama quickly clarified his remarks, saying it was “absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine.”)
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.
2017 - Former FBI Director James Comey, testifying before Congress, asserted that President Donald Trump fired him to interfere with his investigation of Russia’s ties to the Trump campaign.
2017 - British Prime Minister Theresa May’s strategy of calling an early election backfired as her Conservatives lost their majority in Parliament.
2020 - Thousands of mourners gathered at a church in Houston for a service for George Floyd, as his death during an arrest in Minneapolis continued to stoke protests in America and beyond over racial injustice.
2021 - A bipartisan Senate report on the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol found a broad intelligence breakdown across multiple agencies, along with widespread law enforcement and military failures; there were clear warnings and tips that right-wing extremist groups and other supporters of former President Donald Trump were planning to “storm the Capitol” with weapons and possibly infiltrate the tunnel system underneath it, but that intelligence never made it to top leaders.
2021 - Ratko Mladic, the military chief known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for orchestrating genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan nation’s 1992-95 war, lost his final legal battle when U.N. judges affirmed his life sentence.
Birthdays
22 - Charlotte Lawrence (singer)
25 - Jelena Ostapenko (tennis player)
28 - Liv Morgan (professional wrestler)
38 - Torrey DeVitto (actor)
39 - Kim Clijsters (tennis player)
44 - Maria Menounos (TV host/actress)
45 - Ye (Kanye West) (rapper)
46 - Lindsay Davenport (tennis player)
51 - Mark Feuerstein (actor)
52 - Kelli Williams (actress)
52 - Nicci Gilbert (singer)
52 - Kent Faulcon (actor)
53 - David Sutcliffe (actor)
55 - Dan Futterman (actor)
55 - Julianna Margulies (actress)
56 - Doris Pearson (singer)
64 - Keenen Ivory Wayans (actor/director)
67 - Griffin Dunne (actor)
71 - Bonnie Tyler (singer)
72 - Kathy Baker (actress)
72 - Sonia Braga (actress)
78 - Boz Scaggs (musician)
82 - Nancy Sinatra (singer)
86 - James Darren (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.
1969 - The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's uniform No. 7 during "Mickey Mantle Day" at Yankee Stadium.
1977 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels records his fourth career 19-strikeout game in a 2-1, 10-inning win over the Toronto Blue Jays.
1982 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in six games to win the NBA championship.
1983 - Negro Baseball League 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.
2002 - Serena Williams defeats her sister Venus to win her first French Open title.
2005 - Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player to reach 400 career home runs in a 12-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.
2008 - Rafael Nadal ties Bjorn Borg's Open Era record by winning his fourth consecutive French Open men's singles title.
2014 - Rafael Nadal wins his record ninth French Open and equals Pete Sampras' record of 14 major championships.
2018 - The Golden State Warriors sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers to win their third NBA championship in four seasons.
632 - The prophet Muhammad died in Medina.
1845 - Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States (1829-1837), died in Nashville, Tennessee at age 78.
1861 - Tennessee became the 11th and final state to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the Civil War.
1864 - President Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term during the National Union (Republican) Party’s 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.
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 Martin Luther King Jr., was arrested in London.
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 American 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 was shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
1998 - The National Rifle Association elected actor Charlton Heston as its president.
2001 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party won a second term, overwhelming the opposition at the polls.
2008 - The average price of regular gasoline in the United States hit $4 a gallon for the first time.
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.)
2012 - President Barack Obama declared “the private sector is doing fine,” prompting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to ask, “Is he really that out of touch?” (Obama quickly clarified his remarks, saying it was “absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine.”)
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.
2017 - Former FBI Director James Comey, testifying before Congress, asserted that President Donald Trump fired him to interfere with his investigation of Russia’s ties to the Trump campaign.
2017 - British Prime Minister Theresa May’s strategy of calling an early election backfired as her Conservatives lost their majority in Parliament.
2020 - Thousands of mourners gathered at a church in Houston for a service for George Floyd, as his death during an arrest in Minneapolis continued to stoke protests in America and beyond over racial injustice.
2021 - A bipartisan Senate report on the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol found a broad intelligence breakdown across multiple agencies, along with widespread law enforcement and military failures; there were clear warnings and tips that right-wing extremist groups and other supporters of former President Donald Trump were planning to “storm the Capitol” with weapons and possibly infiltrate the tunnel system underneath it, but that intelligence never made it to top leaders.
2021 - Ratko Mladic, the military chief known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for orchestrating genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan nation’s 1992-95 war, lost his final legal battle when U.N. judges affirmed his life sentence.
Birthdays
22 - Charlotte Lawrence (singer)
25 - Jelena Ostapenko (tennis player)
28 - Liv Morgan (professional wrestler)
38 - Torrey DeVitto (actor)
39 - Kim Clijsters (tennis player)
44 - Maria Menounos (TV host/actress)
45 - Ye (Kanye West) (rapper)
46 - Lindsay Davenport (tennis player)
51 - Mark Feuerstein (actor)
52 - Kelli Williams (actress)
52 - Nicci Gilbert (singer)
52 - Kent Faulcon (actor)
53 - David Sutcliffe (actor)
55 - Dan Futterman (actor)
55 - Julianna Margulies (actress)
56 - Doris Pearson (singer)
64 - Keenen Ivory Wayans (actor/director)
67 - Griffin Dunne (actor)
71 - Bonnie Tyler (singer)
72 - Kathy Baker (actress)
72 - Sonia Braga (actress)
78 - Boz Scaggs (musician)
82 - Nancy Sinatra (singer)
86 - James Darren (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.
1969 - The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's uniform No. 7 during "Mickey Mantle Day" at Yankee Stadium.
1977 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels records his fourth career 19-strikeout game in a 2-1, 10-inning win over the Toronto Blue Jays.
1982 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in six games to win the NBA championship.
1983 - Negro Baseball League 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.
2002 - Serena Williams defeats her sister Venus to win her first French Open title.
2005 - Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player to reach 400 career home runs in a 12-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.
2008 - Rafael Nadal ties Bjorn Borg's Open Era record by winning his fourth consecutive French Open men's singles title.
2014 - Rafael Nadal wins his record ninth French Open and equals Pete Sampras' record of 14 major championships.
2018 - The Golden State Warriors sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers to win their third NBA championship in four seasons.
