Wiki143:Selected anniversaries/June 8

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• Margaret Bondfield
  Margaret Bondfield
• George Orwell
  George Orwell
• Regulus cruise missile
  Regulus cruise missile
• Thomas Blamey
  Thomas Blamey
• The damaged USS Liberty
  The damaged USS Liberty
• Laki, as of July 2012
  Laki, as of July 2012
• Police activity in the aftermath of the Akihabara massacre
  Police activity in the aftermath of the Akihabara massacre

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; World Oceans Day	multiple issues
793 – Scandinavian raiders sacked the abbey at Lindisfarne (ruins pictured) in one of the earliest recorded incidents of Viking activity in the British Isles.	missing sources/incomplete refs/hobby website sourcing
1856 – Descendants of Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers settled on Norfolk Island, an abandoned British penal colony.	refimprove section
1867 – Author Mark Twain left America for aboard the Quaker City, a cruise which later served as the subject of his travelogue, The Innocents Abroad.	inappropriate tone
1912 – Filmmaker Carl Laemmle merged his movie studio with eight smaller companies to form what is known today as Universal Pictures.	refimprove section
1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by the English writer George Orwell about life under a fictional totalitarian government, was published.	unreferenced analysis
1959 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero fired a Regulus cruise missile, equipped with U.S. Post Office Department containers, in an attempt to deliver mail via rocket.	refimprove section
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law, giving the President of the United States authority to restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government by executive order.	refimprove section
: Feast of Corpus Christi (Western Christianity, 2023)	Tagged for citations
* 1995 – Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf released the first version of PHP, the most popular server-side language for websites.	Tagged for excessive detail

Eligible

• 218 – Led by the inexperienced Gannys, Elagabalus's legions defeated the forces of Roman emperor Macrinus at the Battle of Antioch.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last battle of the American invasion of Quebec.
• 1783 – Laki, a volcanic fissure in Iceland (pictured), began an eight-month eruption, triggering a major famine and causing widespread fluoride poisoning.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army won a resounding victory at the Battle of Cross Keys, one of the two decisive battles in Jackson's Valley campaign.
• 1950 – Thomas Blamey became the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal.
• 1967 – The Israeli Air Force attacked the U.S. Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty in international waters, killing 34 people and wounding 171 others.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of a naked nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing after being burned by napalm.
• 1982 – Falklands War: The Argentine Air Force attacked British transport ships while unloading supplies off Bluff Cove in the Falkland Islands, killing 56 British servicemen and wounding 150 others.
• 1982 – Falklands War: The Argentine Air Force attacked the neutral oil tanker Hercules while she was traversing the South Atlantic.
• 2007 – A major storm caused the bulk carrier Pasha Bulker to run aground in New South Wales, Australia.
• 2008 – A Japanese man drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in Akihabara, Tokyo, and proceeded to stab at least 12 people, killing 7 and wounding 10, before being apprehended.
• 2009 – Two American journalists, having been arrested for illegal entry into North Korea, were sentenced to twelve years hard labor before being pardoned two months later.

• Born/died this day: | Muhammad |d|632| Harthacnut |d|1042| William of York |d|1154| Richard Scrope |d|1405| George I Rákóczi |b|1593| John Q. A. Brackett |b|1842| Charlotte Scott |b|1858| Lucy Arbell |b|1878| Cora Agnes Benneson |d|1919| Barbara Bush |b|1925| Bonnie Tyler |b|1951| Leo Walmsley |d|1966| Lauren Burns |b|1974| Irina Lăzăreanu |b|1982| Kim Clijsters |b|1983| Keith Gill |b|1986| Omar Bongo |d|2009

Notes

• Mutiny on the Bounty appears on April 28, so Norfolk Island should not appear in the same year

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• 1826 – In York, Upper Canada, members of the Family Compact destroyed William Lyon Mackenzie's printing press in the Types Riot after Mackenzie accused them of corruption.
• 1929 – Margaret Bondfield (pictured) became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.
• 1941 – World War II: The Allies commenced the Syria–Lebanon campaign against Vichy French possessions in the Levant.
• 1953 – An F5 tornado struck Flint and Beecher, Michigan, causing 116 fatalities, 844 injuries and $19 million in damage during a larger tornado outbreak sequence.

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