Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 8

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 * 218 – Led by the inexperienced Gannys, Elagabalus's legions defeated the forces of Roman emperor Macrinus at the Battle of Antioch.
 * 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last battle of the American invasion of Quebec.
 * 1783 – Laki, a volcanic fissure in Iceland (pictured), began an eight-month eruption, triggering a major famine and causing widespread fluoride poisoning.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army won a resounding victory at the Battle of Cross Keys, one of the two decisive battles in Jackson's Valley campaign.
 * 1950 – Thomas Blamey became the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal.
 * 1967 – The Israeli Air Force attacked the U.S. Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty in international waters, killing 34 people and wounding 171 others.
 * 1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of a naked nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing after being burned by napalm.
 * 1982 – Falklands War: The Argentine Air Force attacked British transport ships while unloading supplies off Bluff Cove in the Falkland Islands, killing 56 British servicemen and wounding 150 others.
 * 2007 – A major storm caused the bulk carrier Pasha Bulker to run aground in New South Wales, Australia.
 * 2008 – A Japanese man drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in Akihabara, Tokyo, and proceeded to stab at least 12 people, killing 7 and wounding 10, before being apprehended.
 * 2009 – Two American journalists, having been arrested for illegal entry into North Korea, were sentenced to twelve years hard labor before being pardoned two months later.


 * Born/died this day: | Muhammad |d|632| Harthacnut |d|1042| William of York |d|1154| Richard Scrope |d|1405| George I Rákóczi |b|1593| John Q. A. Brackett |b|1842| Charlotte Scott |b|1858| Lucy Arbell |b|1878| Cora Agnes Benneson |d|1919| Barbara Bush |b|1925| Bonnie Tyler |b|1951| Lauren Burns |b|1974| Irina Lăzăreanu |b|1982| Kim Clijsters |b|1983| Keith Gill |b|1986| Omar Bongo |d|2009