1991<\/strong> – A victory parade was held in Washington,\u00a0DC, to honor veterans of the Persian Gulf War.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – The warring factions in Bosnia agreed to a one-month cease-fire.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady was rescued by\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was shot down on June 2.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – China set off an underground nuclear test blast.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston to be its president.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – In the\u00a0U.S., the FTC brought an antitrust complaint against Intel Corp., alleging its policies punished other developers of microprocessor chips.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Honda agreed to pay $17.1 million for disconnecting anti-pollution devices in 1.6 million cars.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The space shuttle\u00a0Discovery<\/i>\u00a0pulled away from\u00a0Mir<\/i>, ending\u00a0America’s three-year partnership with Russia.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – The Dallas Stars and the New Jersey Devils played the\u00a0NHL’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 Modano that allowed the Stars to play a game six back in Dallas.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – Marc Chagall’s painting “Study for ‘Over Vitebsk” was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8×10 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.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Newcastle, 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\u00a0MV\u00a0Pasha Bulker<\/i>.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a\u00a0Ukrainian\u00a0coal mine causes\u00a0it to collapse.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong> \u2013 At least seven people are killed and ten injured in\u00a0a stabbing spree\u00a0in\u00a0Tokyo,\u00a0Japan.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Two American\u00a0journalists\u00a0are\u00a0found guilty\u00a0of illegally entering\u00a0North Korea\u00a0and sentenced to 12 years of\u00a0penal labor.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 At least 28 people are killed in an\u00a0attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan.<\/p>\n History of 8 June 1991 – A victory parade was held in Washington,\u00a0DC, to honor veterans of the Persian Gulf War. 1994 – The warring factions in Bosnia agreed to a one-month cease-fire. 1995 –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady was rescued by\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was shot down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[692,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-6896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-8-june","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-1Ne","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24213,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions\/24213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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