June 8
People born on this day are Gemini.
- 1983
Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 loses one of its propellers in flight resulting in damage to the flight controls. The Lockheed L-188 Electra makes an emergency landing at Anchorage International Airport and there are no injuries.
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Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New South Wales.
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New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
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The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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GP Express Airlines Flight 861 crashes on approach to Anniston Regional Airport in Anniston, Alabama, killing three.
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Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
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Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
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The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
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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.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-117 carrying two truss segments and solar arrays to the International Space Station.
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Seven people are killed and 11 more are injured in a massacre in Akihabara.
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Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information.
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2000Jan Paul van Hecke, Dutch footballer
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1997Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
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1995Jean Butez, French footballer
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1995Ferland Mendy, French footballer
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1994Liv Morgan, American professional wrestler
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1989Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
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1985Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver, twice Olympic silver 3m springboard silver medallist
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1984Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer and manager
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1983Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player; winner of six Grand Slam tournament titles.
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1982Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
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1981Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author (died 2019)
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1981Sara Watkins, American fiddle, ukulele, and guitar player
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