June 8 birthdays & history

Famous people born on June 8

• 1867Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater
• 1955Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web
• 1810Robert Schumann, German composer and critic
• 1921Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia
• 1977Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
• 1916Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1903Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet
• 1933Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host
• 1925Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
• 1625Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer

What happened on June 8

• 1042Edward the Confessor becomes King of England – the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.
• 1867Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
• 1887Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
• 1906Theodore 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.
• 1924British Mount Everest expedition: British mountaineers Andrew Irvine and George Mallory go missing.
• 1949Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by the English writer George Orwell about life under a fictional totalitarian government, was published.
• 1961Marriage of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent to Katharine Worsley at York Minster.
• 1984Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New South Wales.
• 1992The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2004The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
• 2007Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-117 carrying two truss segments and solar arrays to the International Space Station.
• 2023Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information.

Also observed on June 8

• Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)
• Engineer's Day (Peru)
• Primož Trubar Day (Slovenia)
• World Brain Tumor Day
• World Oceans Day