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The following events took place on June 8. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 50 events. Showing 31 - 50.

• 1959

  The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
• 1966

  An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
• 1966

  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.
• 1967

  Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
• 1967

  Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
• 1968

  Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral takes place at the St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.
• 1972

  Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
• 1982

  Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
• 1984

  Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
• 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

  The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
• 2001

  Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
• 2004

  The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
• 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 a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
• 2008

  At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in an Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
• 2008

  At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
• 2009

  Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
• 2013

  The Wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O'Neill takes place in Stockholm, Sweden.
• 2014

  At least 28 people are killed in an attack on Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan.

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