Page 8: Historical Events In June - 08

2005  On June - 08 birth of Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain   

2007  The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on mission STS-117 on this day in history.   

2012  A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people on this day in history.   

2013  On June - 08 serena Williams defeats Maria Sharapova to win the French Open in tennis   

2014  Peng Shuai of China and Hsieh Su-wei win the women's tennis doubles at the French Open on this day in history.   

2017  On June - 08 ex-FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that US President Donald Trump told "lies plain and simple"   

2017  UN states Islamic State forces have shot and killed hundreds of fleeing civilians during battle for Mosul, Iraq in past two weeks on this day in history.   

2017  British General Election results in a hung parliament, Prime Minster Theresa May and the Conservative party lose their majority on this day in history.   

2017  US prisoner Richard Anthony Jones freed after 17 years in Roeland Park, Kansas when his lookalike discovered on June - 08.   

2018  NBA Finals: Golden State Warriors win their 3rd title in 4 years with a 108-85 over the Cleveland Cavaliers for a 4-nil sweep. Kevin Durant MVP on June - 08.   

2018  On this day in history whatsApp rumours of child kidnappers in India prompt two men to be beaten to death by a mob in Karbi Angong district, Assam   

2018  On this day in history iMF agrees to lend Argentina up to 50 billion dollars   

2018  On June - 08 world's most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia   

2018  The 44th G7 summit is held in Canada. President Trump pushes for the reinstatement of the G8 (to include Russia). He also proposes the elimination of tariffs on June - 08.   

2020  [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 7 million worldwide on this day in history.   

2023  US federal prosecutors file 37 count indictment against former US President Donald Trump , for unlawful retention of defense information, for storing dozens of classified documents at his Florida resort, and obstruction of justice [1] [2] on this day in history.   

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1318  Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Eduard II/wife of Reinald II was born on June - 08.   

1625  Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer (4 moons of Saturn) was born on June - 08.   

1652  On this day in history birth of william Dampier, English explorer/pirate   

1671  On this day in history birth of tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor)   

1717  On June - 08 birth of john Collins, American politician (d. 1795)   

1722  Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer was born on this day in history.   

1724  John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer was born on this day in history.   

1740  Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer was born on this day in history.   

0218  On June - 08 opellius Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-8), dies in battle at 54   

0632  Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition) on June - 08.   

1042  On June - 08 death of hardicanute, King of England (1040-42), Lambeth   

1115  On June - 08 peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64   

1376  On June - 08 "Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46   

1383  Death of Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338) on this day in history.   

1384  On June - 08 death of kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)   

1476  On June - 08 death of george Neville, English archbishop and statesman