{"id":21784,"date":"2020-06-08T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T03:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=21784"},"modified":"2020-06-08T09:05:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T03:35:06","slug":"history-of-8-june-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-8-june-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 8 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 8 June<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1991 &#8211; A victory parade was held in Washington,\u00a0DC, to honor veterans of the Persian Gulf War.<\/li>\n<li>1994 &#8211; The warring factions in Bosnia agreed to a one-month cease-fire.<\/li>\n<li>1995 &#8211; U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O&#8217;Grady was rescued by U.S. Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was shot down on June 2.<\/li>\n<li>1996 &#8211; China set off an underground nuclear test blast.<\/li>\n<li>1998 &#8211; The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston to be its president.<\/li>\n<li>1998 &#8211; In the U.S., the FTC brought an antitrust complaint against Intel Corp., alleging its policies punished other developers of microprocessor chips.<\/li>\n<li>1998 &#8211; Honda agreed to pay $17.1 million for disconnecting anti-pollution devices in 1.6 million cars.<\/li>\n<li>1998 &#8211; The space shuttle <i>Discovery<\/i>\u00a0pulled away from\u00a0<i>Mir<\/i>, ending\u00a0America&#8217;s three-year partnership with Russia.<\/li>\n<li>2000 &#8211; The Dallas Stars and the New Jersey Devils played the NHL&#8217;s longest scoreless game in Stanley Cup finals history. The fifth game of the series lasted 106 minutes and 21 seconds. The game ended with a goal by Mike Madano that allowed the Stars to play a game six back in Dallas.<\/li>\n<li>2001 &#8211; Marc Chagall&#8217;s painting &#8220;Study for &#8216;Over Vitebsk&#8221; was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8&#215;10 painting was valued at about $1 million. A group called the International Committee for Art and Peace later announced that they would return the painting after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace.<\/li>\n<li>2004 &#8211; Nate Olive and Sarah Jones began the first known continuous hike of the 1,800-mile trail down the U.S. Pacific Coast. They completed the trek at the U.S.-Mexico border on September 28.<\/li>\n<li>2007\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State&#8217;s worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the\u00a0MV\u00a0<i>Pasha Bulker<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>2008\u00a0\u2013 At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a\u00a0Ukrainian\u00a0coal mine causes\u00a0it to collapse.<\/li>\n<li>2008 \u2013 At least seven people are killed and ten injured in\u00a0a stabbing spree\u00a0in\u00a0Tokyo,\u00a0Japan.<\/li>\n<li>2009\u00a0\u2013 Two American\u00a0journalists\u00a0are\u00a0found guilty\u00a0of illegally entering\u00a0North Korea\u00a0and sentenced to 12 years of\u00a0penal labour.<\/li>\n<li>2014\u00a0\u2013 At least 28 people are killed in an\u00a0attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alex Band, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer<\/li>\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author<sup id=\"cite_ref-13\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Matteo Meneghello, Italian race car driver<\/li>\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Sara Watkins, American singer-songwriter and fiddler<\/li>\n<li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matteo Barbini, Italian rugby player<\/li>\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Michael Cammalleri, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer<\/li>\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Irina L\u0103z\u0103reanu, Romanian-Canadian model and singer<\/li>\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Nadia Petrova, a Russian tennis player<\/li>\n<li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gaines Adams, American football player (d. 2010)<\/li>\n<li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Kim Clijsters, a Belgian tennis player<\/li>\n<li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer<\/li>\n<li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Coby Karl, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Javier Mascherano, the Argentinian footballer<\/li>\n<li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver<\/li>\n<li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Rosanna Pansino, American actress, writer, and TV personality<\/li>\n<li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Patrick Kaleta, American ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Andrej Sekera, Slovak ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Coralie Balmy, French swimmer<\/li>\n<li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Issiar Dia, Senegalese footballer<\/li>\n<li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Timea Bacsinszky, a Swiss tennis player<sup id=\"cite_ref-14\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Mitchell Schwartz, American football player<\/li>\n<li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Todd Barclay, New Zealand politician<\/li>\n<li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Mickey Bushell, English wheelchair racer<\/li>\n<li>1992\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Seb\u00e1, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li>1996\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Do\u011fanay K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7, Turkish footballer<\/li>\n<li>1997\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Je\u013cena Ostapenko, a Latvian tennis player<sup id=\"cite_ref-15\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 8 June 1991 &#8211; 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