June 8 in History

The son of Ethelred II is helped to the throne by Godwin, Earl of Wessex. The English Line is restored. Harthacanute dies age 23 childless leading to the restoration of the English line

Richard enters the port of Acre & prepares for a siege

Opening of Henry VIIIs 6th Parliament

Commands English and Dutch forces assembled in order of battle at the Allied camp near Bethlem before the Oudenaarde campaign.

Leads the attack on Quebec rowing into Freshwater Cove

Breaks with Archbishop Colloredo and becomes a freelance musician in Vienna.

The Assembly selected Sieyes for its presidency while constitutional drafting continued.

Appointed Foreign Secretary

Appointed Home Secretary

Appointed High Priest for a festival of the supreme being

Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre was appointed High Priest for a festival of the supreme being.

Robespierre promotes the Festival of the Supreme Being as part of his vision of civic virtue

Robespierre promotes the Festival of the Supreme Being as part of his vision of civic virtue.

Presides over the deistic worship of the supreme being held on the Champ de Mars

Presides over the deistic worship of the supreme being held on the Champ de Mars.

Appointed High Priest for a festival of the supreme being

Polk signs the Independent Treasury Act restoring a federal treasury system separate from private banks

The Ten Hours Act limits daily factory labour for women and young people.

Moltke directs Prussian occupation of Holstein after Austria refers the dispute to the Federal Diet.

Receives Ottoman recognition of the title Khedive in return for a higher annual tribute.

Receives formal Ottoman recognition of the title Khedive.

Resigns over the issue of Irish Home Rule

Defeated by Liberal Unionists & 93 Liberal MPs, including Chamberlain, resigns

Resigns over the issue of Irish Home Rule. Defeated by Liberal Unionists & 93 Liberal MPs, including Chamberlain, resigns

Discusses registration measures intended to identify the nation’s available manpower.

Nasmith returns after a patrol that sinks or damages numerous Ottoman vessels.

Helps advance legislation establishing the new Ministry of Munitions.

Haig orders consolidation and exploitation after British Empire forces capture Messines Ridge.

Volsky helps establish the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly after anti-Bolshevik forces take Samara.

Nationalist forces enter Beijing, marking the military completion of the Northern Expedition.

Nationalist forces take Beijing and the city is subsequently renamed Beiping under the Nationalist government.

Appointed Foreign Minister

Carol returns from exile and is proclaimed king by Parliament.

Commands Gneisenau during Operation Juno.

Commands HMS Acasta and torpedoes Scharnhorst before being sunk.

Commands HMS Ardent during the defence of HMS Glorious.

Commands HMS Glorious when German battlecruisers sink the carrier.

Final day of the evacuation of the British forces from Norway

Uses the survival of Dietl's force as a German propaganda success.

Reoccupies Narvik after Allied forces complete their withdrawal.

Leads German naval forces against Allied shipping during the evacuation.

Marschall leads German heavy ships in a sortie intended to disrupt the Allied evacuation from Norway.

Commands destroyers escorting ships during the evacuation period.

Reoccupies Narvik after Allied forces complete their withdrawal.

Dietl's troops reoccupy Narvik after Allied forces evacuate northern Norway.

Commands Scharnhorst during the sinking of HMS Glorious.

DOyly-Hughes commands HMS Glorious when German battlecruisers sink the carrier during Operation Juno.

Allied evacuation from Narvik is completed despite the earlier victory.

British and Allied forces complete withdrawal from Narvik during Operation Alphabet.

British and Free French troops invade Syria

British and Free French troops invade Syria

Kuribayashi takes command of the Iwo Jima garrison and develops a defense based on caves, tunnels, and mutually supporting positions.

Arrives at the front in Caen

Bollaert signs an accord with Van Xuan recognizing Vietnams independence

Publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four.

States that Nineteen Eighty-Four is not an attack on socialism or the Labour Party.

The First Gaston Eyskens Government ends in Brussels, concluding this period as Prime Minister of Belgium.

Begins the Jean Duvieusart Government in Brussels and serves as Prime Minister of Belgium.

MacArthur orders the Japanese Government to create a 75,000 man Police Reserve Corps

Eisenhower has an ileitis attack & Nixon continues with Presidential responsibilities

Demonstrates the attacking possibilities of the modern full-back role.

Dribbles forward from defence and scores against Austria.

Ayub ends martial law as the 1962 Constitution becomes operational.

A new National Assembly convenes under the presidential Constitution.

Learns of US bombing of Communists in Kampuchea but allows their Embassy to reopen

Allows the American embassy in Phnom Penh to reopen

Arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King by Scotland Yard at London airport

Two months after King's death, escaped convict James Earl Ray is captured at London Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the United Kingdom on a false Canadian passport in the name of Ramon George Sneyd. Arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King by Scotland Yard at London airport

Retreats to his Cotchford Farm home in Sussex, formerly owned by Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne, drinking heavily in the local pub and planning his comeback with a blues band, within a month he is found dead in his swimming pool. Jones releases a statement announcing his departure

Jones is forced out of the band after a late-night visit to his rural home from Jagger, Richards and Charlie Watts to be replaced by twenty year-old jazz-influenced guitarist Mick Taylor, from John Mayalls Bluesbreakers

Jones is forced out of the band after a late-night visit to his rural home from Jagger, Richards and Charlie Watts to be replaced by twenty year-old jazz-influenced guitarist Mick Taylor, from John Mayalls Bluesbreakers

Leaves the Rolling Stones as the group prepares for a new guitarist and a US tour.

25,000 troops are withdrawn

Meets Nixon as the United States announces troop withdrawals

Meets Richard Nixon as Vietnamization is announced

Meets President Thieu on Midway Island who supports the US peace proposals. Announces the withdrawal of 25,000 American troops from Vietnam

Meets President Nixon on Midway Island & agrees to his peace proposals

Becomes a leading diplomat of the Provisional Revolutionary Government

At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him.

Jones is forced out of the band after a late-night visit to his rural home from Jagger, Richards and Charlie Watts to be replaced by twenty-year-old jazz-influenced guitarist Mick Taylor, from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.

At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him

The Stones decided that following the release of the Let It Bleed album (scheduled for a July 1969 release in the US) they would start a North American tour in November 1969, however, the Stones management was informed that because of his drug convictions Jones would not receive a work

permit, at the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decided to add a new guitarist and on 8 June 1969, Jones was visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts where he was told that the group he had formed would continue without him.

At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him

At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him

At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him

Announces a first troop withdrawal under Vietnamization

Announces the first major US troop withdrawal under Vietnamization

Half of the group sneaks into East Berlin, and then heads to the Jordan desert to a Palestinian training camp, to be followed by the rest of the group a week later.

The RAF learn how to shoot guns, throw grenades, and thoroughly annoy their Palestinian hosts.

after two months the Palestinians are sick of their disrespectful German guests and send them on a plane out of Jordan, they return to Berlin.

Releases the controversial double album Self Portrait.

Ensslin is captured

Leads the government when the constitutional amendment permitting European Communities membership is signed.

Gives his Commencement Address condemning modern western culture

Israeli planes bomb a nuclear power plant near Iraq, the act is condemned by the UN

Bombed by Israel to prevent Iraq developing nuclear weapons

The Liberal Party win 25.4% of votes cast & 23 MPs

8-11 June, visits the Falkland Islands

Chris Evert-Lloyd wins the French Open

The achievement marks recovery of salyut 7 as an important Russian scientific milestone.

Manually docks with the unresponsive Salyut 7 space station.

Elected President of Austria

Russian Parliament votes its laws take precedence over the USSR

Yeltsin is elected President of Russia, the largest Republic

Czechoslovakia holds free parliamentary elections.

Konare takes office as Mali's first president elected under the new democratic constitution.

Sings on Forbidden, the final Black Sabbath studio album before the original-line-up reunion era.

Buried on the same day as his death without an autopsy fueling speculation that he may have been poisoned by political rivals

Abubakar had never before held public office and is quick to announce a transition to democratic civilian rule which led to the election of President Olusegun Obasanjo

Abubakar had never before held public office and is quick to announce a transition to democratic civilian rule which led to the election of President Olusegun Obasanjo

Majo General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Nigerias defence Chief of Staff, is sworn in as the countrys Head of State on the death of Abacha. Abubakar had never before held public office and is quick to announce a transition to democratic civilian rule which led to the election of President Olusegun Obasanjo

Sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for perjury

Sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for perjury

Putin takes personal control over Chechnya, a provisional Government is planned headed by a Kremlin-appointed official

Putin takes personal control over Chechnya, a provisional Government is planned headed by a Kremlin-appointed official

Brown begins a second Labour term as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Resigns as Conservative leader after the 2001 general election defeat.

Toure takes office after winning Mali's presidential election.

Rantissi is responsible for directing the Hamas-led attack in which four Israeli soldiers are killed at the Erez Checkpoint in the Gaza Strip

Pasachoff participates in scientific observations of the first transit of Venus visible since 1882.

Forms a new government after his appointment as prime minister

Appointed Minister of the Interior

Becomes president after Khamtai Siphandon

Appointed Prime Minister of Laos

Appointed Minister of Defence

Takes office after winning the May presidential election.

Meets G7 leaders to discuss security, the global economy, Ukraine and international cooperation.

Loses the Conservative majority in a Brexit-dominated general election.

Loses the Conservative majority in a Brexit-dominated general election.

Loses the Conservative majority in a snap general election.

Is appointed FC Porto head coach before the new season.

Starmer retains Holborn and St Pancras at the general election.

Returns to the club where he developed as a player.

Analysis of New Horizons imagery confirms dune fields near Sputnik Planitia, showing that Pluto's thin atmosphere can mobilize surface particles.

Maia Sandu becomes Prime Minister after a coalition deal

Announces New Zealand has no active COVID-19 cases after the first wave.

Ukraine begins major counteroffensive operations in the south.

Wins the French Open men's singles title.

Birth of Thojib Suharto

Birth of Tim Berners-Lee

Death of Edward the Black Prince

Death of Edward the Black Prince

Death of Elizabeth Woodville

Dies four days after she was struck by King George Vs horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913

General Abacha dies, allegedly of a heart attack, in June 1998 while at the presidential villa in Abuja. Buried on the same day as his death without an autopsy fueling speculation that he may have been poisoned by political rivals

Death of Sani Abacha

A British force defeats rebel troops at Badli-ki-Serai and secures the Delhi Ridge.

Allied withdrawal from Narvik is completed as Norway becomes untenable.

Reoccupies Narvik after Allied forces complete their withdrawal.

Uses Dietl's survival and Narvik's recovery as propaganda success.

Rommel returned to the Normandy front and reinforced the effort to hold Caen against Allied attacks.

Crowned at Kingston-on-Thames, Kingston is named after the ancient coronation stone