| 452 |
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Attila the Hun invades Italy. |
| 632 |
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Mohammed, the founder of Islam and unifier of Arabia, dies. |
| 793 |
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The Vikings raid the Northumbrian coast of England. |
| 1861 |
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Tennessee votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. |
| 1862 |
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The Army of the Potomac defeats Confederate forces at Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia. |
| 1863 |
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Residents of Vicksburg flee into caves as General Ulysses S. Grant's army begins shelling the town. |
| 1866 |
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Prussia annexes the region of Holstein. |
| 1904 |
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U.S. Marines land in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizen. |
| 1908 |
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King Edward VII of England visits Czar Nicholas II of Russia in an effort to improve relations between the two countries. |
| 1915 |
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William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State under President Wilson. |
| 1953 |
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The Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington, D.C. |
| 1965 |
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President Johnson authorizes commanders in Vietnam to commit U.S. ground forces to combat. |
| 1966 |
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Gemini astronaut Gene Cernan attempts to become the first man to orbit the Earth untethered to a space capsule, but is unable to when he exhausts himself fitting into his rocket pack. |
| 1967 |
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Israel airplanes attack the USS Liberty, a surveillance ship, in the Mediterranean, killing 34 Navy crewmen. |
| 1968 |
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James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., is captured at the London Airport. |
| 1969 |
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President Richard Nixon meets with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops will pull out by August. |
| 1995 |
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U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. |
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Born on June 8 |
| 1625 |
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer. |
| 1724 |
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John Smeaton, English engineer. |
| 1810 |
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Robert Schumann, German composer. |
| 1813 |
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David D. Porter, Union admiral during the American Civil War. |
| 1867 |
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Frank Lloyd Wright, influential American architect. |
| 1916 |
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Francis Crick, British scientist who co-discoverered of the structure of DNA. |
| 1918 |
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Robert Preston, actor (The Music Man). |
| 1925 |
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Barbara Pierce Bush, First Lady to 41st President, George Bush. |
| 1939 |
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Herb Adderley, American football player. |
| 1942 |
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Andrew Weil, physician and author (Spontaneous Healing). |
| 1947 |
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Sara Paretsky, detective novelist. |
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