Friday, June 8, 2012

June 8th in History


452 - Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun. 

793 - The Vikings raided the Northumbrian coast of England. 

1786 - In New York City, commercial ice cream was manufactured for the first time. 

1861 - Tennessee voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy. 

1866 - Prussia annexed the region of Holstein.

1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregated restaurants in Washington, DC. 

1965 - U.S. troops in South Vietnam were given orders to begin fighting offensively. 

1969 - U.S. President Richard Nixon met with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops would pull out by August. 

1982 - U.S. President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament. 

1996 - China set off an underground nuclear test blast.  

Famous Birthdays:

1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Mathematician and Astronomer

1810 - Robert Schumann, Composer

1925 - Barbara Bush, Wife of former President George H.W. Bush

1940 - Nancy Sinatra, Singer

1957 - Scott Adams, Cartoonist

1977 - Kanye West, Singer, rapper

1983 - Kim Clijsters, Tennis player






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