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08 June, 1999
Liar Aitken jailed for 18 months - Ex-cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken is jailed for 18 months after admitting he lied during a libel action. War on Drugs: The government of Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national product.
08 June, 1995
Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
08 June, 1992
The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
08 June, 1987
New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as at June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.
08 June, 1984
Homosexuality is declared not a crime in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
08 June, 1982
Fifty die in Argentine air attack - Up to 50 British servicemen are killed in an Argentine air attack on two supply ships in the Falklands.
08 June, 1978
Woman takes world sailing record Yachtswoman Naomi James breaks the solo round-the-world sailing record by two days.
08 June, 1968
James Earl Ray quizzed over King death - A man is arrested in London in connection with the murder of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King. The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
08 June, 1966
One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
08 June, 1953
The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
08 June, 1949
Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published.
08 June, 1942
World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
08 June, 1926
Antoni Gaudí, the famous Catalan architect, is run over by a tram. He dies 2 days later in hospital.
08 June, 1906
Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
08 June, 1789
James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
08 June, 1783
The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
08 June, 1405
Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
08 June, 793
The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known.

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