{"id":55746,"date":"2023-06-08T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T05:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55746"},"modified":"2023-06-07T23:43:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T04:43:06","slug":"55746","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55746","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 8<\/p>\n<p>452 \u2013 Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy from the north.<\/p>\n<p>632 \u2013 Muhammad dies in Medina.<\/p>\n<p>793 \u2013 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.<\/p>\n<p>1191 \u2013 King Richard the Lion Heart arrives in Acre, beginning his part of the 3rd Crusade.<\/p>\n<p>1776 \u2013 American forces commanded by Gen. John Sullivan suffer heavy losses after defeat by British defenders of Trois-Rivi\u00e8res in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>1789 \u2013 Virginia Representative James Madison introduces 12 proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution.<br \/>\n<strong><em>THE\u00a0Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1845 \u2013 Andrew Jackson dies at his home, the Hermitage in Nashville, Tennessee<\/p>\n<p>1861 \u2013 Tennessee secedes from the Union.<\/p>\n<p>1862 \u2013Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.<\/p>\n<p>1874 \u2013 Cochise dies at the Chihuahua Reservation in the southeast corner of Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>1887 \u2013 Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the &#8216;Art of Compiling Statistics&#8217;, which was his punch card calculator.<\/p>\n<p>1906 \u2013 President Theodore Roosevelt signs the <em>Antiquities Act<\/em> into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.<\/p>\n<p>1912 \u2013 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>1949 \u2013 George Orwell&#8217;s book <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em> is published in London. It was not supposed to be an instruction manual.<\/p>\n<p>1953 \u2013 An F5 force tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116 people, injuring 844 more, and destroying 340 homes.<\/p>\n<p>1966 \u2013 An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft near Edwards Air Force Base. Test pilots Joseph A. Walker, and Carl Cross are both killed.<br \/>\nAn F5 force strikes Topeka, Kansas, killing 16 people and causing over $100 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>1967 \u2013 During the Six-Day War, the USS<em> Liberty, <\/em>sailing in international water in the Mediterranean<em>, <\/em>is attacked by Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats, killing 34 sailors and wounding 171 more.<\/p>\n<p>1968 &#8211; James Earl Ray is arrested in London.<\/p>\n<p>1995 \u2013 U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O&#8217;Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter is shot down.<\/p>\n<p>2001 \u2013 Mamoru Takuma kills 8 people and wounds 15 more in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in Ikeda Japan.<\/p>\n<p>2008 \u2013 Tomohiro Kat\u014d kills 7 people and wounds 10 more in a mass stabbing at a shopping area in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>2009 \u2013 American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, of CurrentTV\u00a0are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea in March and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, but are pardoned 2 months later and return to the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 8 452 \u2013 Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy from the north. 632 \u2013 Muhammad dies in Medina. 793 \u2013 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles. 1191 \u2013 King Richard the Lion Heart arrives in Acre, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55746\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55746"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93450,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55746\/revisions\/93450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}