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| June 8th |
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| About June 8th is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. June 8th is World Ocean Day. Births 1847 - Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States 1925 - Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States 1939 - Herb Adderley, NFL Hall of Fame cornerback 1977 - Kanye West, rapper, singer Deaths 632 - Muhammad, founder of Islam 1809 - Thomas Paine, U.S. Founding Father, revolutionary 1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President 1970 - Abraham Harold Maslow, psychologist, father of humanistic psychology Events 1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse service to black customers. 1966 - Sixteen people are killed while hundreds more are injured as an F5 tornado devastates Topeka, Kansas. |
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