What is June 8?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1950 === * [[68]] &ndash; The [[Roman Empire|Roman]] Senate proclaims [[Galba]] Emperor. * [[218]] &ndash; [[Battle of Antioch]]. * [[793]] &ndash; [[Vikings]] or raiding tribes from [[Scandinavia]], attack and steal valuable objects from [[Lindisfarne]], a [[monastery]] off the coast of [[Northumbria]] in [[England]]. * [[1042]] &ndash; [[Edward the Confessor]] becomes [[King of England]]. * [[1191]] &ndash; [[Richard I of England]] arrives in Acre, [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], beginning his [[Crusade]]. * [[1776]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Battle of Trois Rivieres]] – American attackers are driven back at [[Trois-Rivières]], [[Quebec]], present-day [[Canada]]. * [[1783]] &ndash; An eruption occurs in the [[Laki]] crater in [[Iceland]]. It causes widespread famine, killing several thousand [[Iceland]]ers and also has devastating effects on other parts of [[Europe]] and in other parts of the [[World]]. * [[1794]] &ndash; [[Maximilien Robespierre]] founds the [[cult]] of Supreme Being. * [[1856]] &ndash; A group of [[Pitcairn Island]]ers, descendents of Bounty mutineers, land on [[Norfolk Island]] and settle there. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Tennessee]] secedes from the [[United States|Union]]. * [[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Cross Keys]] – [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces save the army of Northern [[Virginia]] from a Union assault on the James Peninsula. * [[1866]] &ndash; [[Canada]]'s [[Parliament]] meets at [[Parliament Hill]] in [[Ottawa]] for the first time. * [[1867]] &ndash; Emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria]] and [[Elisabeth of Bavaria]] are crowned [[King]] and [[Queen]] of [[Hungary]] in [[Budapest]]. * [[1887]] &ndash; [[Herman Hollerith]] applies for a [[US]] [[patent]] for his [[punched card]] [[calculator]]. * [[1895]] &ndash; In [[Ecuador]], [[Eloy Alfaro]] comes to power in a military coup and starts a series of liberal reforms. * [[1906]] &ndash; [[Theodore Roosevelt]] si