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| June 8th, 2006 (June 08 2006) | Death | Robert Donner, American actor (born in 1931) | |
| June 8th, 2006 (June 08 2006) | Death | Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (born in 1919) | |
| June 8th, 1996 (June 08 1996) | Event | Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. | |
| June 8th, 1986 (June 08 1986) | Event | Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria. | |
| June 8th, 1986 (June 08 1986) | Birth | Patrick Kaleta, American hockey player | |
| June 8th, 1976 (June 08 1976) | Birth | Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player | |
| June 8th, 1976 (June 08 1976) | Birth | Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player | |
| June 8th, 1966 (June 08 1966) | Event | One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed. | |
| June 8th, 1966 (June 08 1966) | Event | 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.[1] | |
| June 8th, 1966 (June 08 1966) | Birth | Julianna Margulies, American actress | Julian Quotes |
| June 8th, 1966 (June 08 1966) | Birth | Doris Pearson, singer, Five Star | |
| June 8th, 1966 (June 08 1966) | Death | Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (born in 1890) | |
| June 8th, 1956 (June 08 1956) | Death | Marie Laurencin, French painter (born in 1883) | |
| June 8th, 1936 (June 08 1936) | Birth | James Darren, American actor and singer | |
| June 8th, 1936 (June 08 1936) | Birth | Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| June 8th, 1916 (June 08 1916) | Birth | Francis Crick, English molecular biologist; Nobel laureate (died in 2004) | Francis Crick Quotes |
| June 8th, 1916 (June 08 1916) | Birth | Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (died in 2007) | |
| June 8th, 1906 (June 08 1906) | Event | 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. | Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| June 8th, 1876 (June 08 1876) | Death | George Sand, French author (born in 1804) | |
| June 8th, 1856 (June 08 1856) | Event | The community of Pitcairn Islands and descendants of the mutineers of the HMS Bounty consisting of 194 people arrived on the Morayshire at Norfolk Island Commencing the Third Settlement of the Island. | |
| June 8th, 1776 (June 08 1776) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-RivieresAmerican attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. | |
| June 8th, 1716 (June 08 1716) | Death | Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (born in 1658) | |
| June 8th, 1476 (June 08 1476) | Death | George Neville, English archbishop and statesman | |
| June 8th, 1376 (June 08 1376) | Death | Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (born in 1330) | |
| June 8th, 0536 (June 08 0536) | Event | St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date). | |
