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| June 8th, 2007 (June 08 2007) | Event | 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. | |
| June 8th, 2007 (June 08 2007) | Death | Kenny Olsson, Swedish speedway racer (born in 1977) | |
| June 8th, 2007 (June 08 2007) | Death | Richard Rorty, American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher (born in 1931) | Philo Quotes |
| June 8th, 1987 (June 08 1987) | Event | New Zealand s Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as of June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory. | |
| June 8th, 1977 (June 08 1977) | Birth | Kanye West, American rapper | Kanye West Quotes |
| June 8th, 1967 (June 08 1967) | Event | Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171. | |
| June 8th, 1957 (June 08 1957) | Birth | Scott Adams, American cartoonist | Scott Adams Quotes |
| June 8th, 1957 (June 08 1957) | Birth | Don Robinson, American baseball player | |
| June 8th, 1947 (June 08 1947) | Birth | Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| June 8th, 1927 (June 08 1927) | Birth | Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor | |
| June 8th, 1917 (June 08 1917) | Birth | Byron White, American athlete and Supreme Court Justice (died in 2002) | Byron White Quotes |
| June 8th, 1897 (June 08 1897) | Birth | John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (died in 1974) | |
| June 8th, 1887 (June 08 1887) | Event | Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator. | |
| June 8th, 1867 (June 08 1867) | Birth | Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (died in 1959) | Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
| June 8th, 1857 (June 08 1857) | Death | Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (born in 1803) | Douglas William Jerrold Quotes |
| June 8th, 1847 (June 08 1847) | Birth | Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (died in 1907) | |
| June 8th, 1757 (June 08 1757) | Birth | Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal (died in 1824) | |
| June 8th, 1727 (June 08 1727) | Death | August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (born in 1663) | |
| June 8th, 1717 (June 08 1717) | Birth | John Collins, American politician (died in 1795) | |
