June 8th

The June 8th is the 159e Jour of the Année (160e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1042 : Edouard III the Confessor is recalled of his exile in Normandy to go up on the throne of England.
1442 : The king Charles VII makes his solemn entry with Toulouse, where it comes for the meeting from the States from Languedoc.
1637 : Rene Descartes publishes the Discourse on Method with Leyde.
1866 : First meeting of the Canadian Parliament with Ottawa.

1938 : Foundation in France of the working Socialist party and peasant
1944: Massacre of Tulle. Division Das Reich (known thereafter for the massacre of Oradour-on-Glane) penetrates in the " city; libérée" day before by ftp. 99 inhabitants are hung, and 149 other deportees
1968: Arrest of James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King
1972: Formation of the Central of the democratic trade unions to the Quebec
1990:

1992 : With the Mali, nomination of the President Alpha Oumar Konaré, first President of IIIe Republic
1997: Alpha Oumar Konaré, president of the Republic of the Mali, starts second a five years mandate.

the first transit of Venus in front of the Sun since 1882; the following will take place the June 6th 2012
Dépôt of the heart of Louis XVII in the royal crypt of the Basilique Saint-Denis.

Clôture of the 33^ème top of G8 to Heiligendamm in Germany (State of the Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Western) to which Nicolas Sarkozy is suspected by the Belgian television of having made a drunk speech after being itself maintained with the president Vladimir Poutine. The chain was excused of that later.
Marine Soljačić, researcher of MIT research, discovers the electric method of tranfert without wire, which he baptizes: the WiTricité .

1625 : Jean-Dominique Cassini, astronomer and Engineer French. († September 14th 1712)
1724: John Smeaton, British Engineer . († October 28th 1792)
1772: Robert Stevenson, Civil engineer Scottish known to have built the Headlight Beautiful Rock'n'roll located in the the North Sea. († July 12th 1850)
1810: Robert Schumann, German Type-setter of the romantic movement . († July 29th 1856)
1829: John Everett Millais, painter and British Illustrator préraphaélite. († August 13rd 1896)
1903: Marguerite Yourcenar, writer E French, first woman elected with the French Academy. († December 17th 1987)
1926: Philippe Castelli, Actor French. († April 16th 2006)
1927: Wiktor Woroszylski, writer and Poet Polish. († September 13rd, 1996)
1937: Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut
1940: Nancy Sinatra, singer and actress states-unienne
1946:

545 : Holy Medard of Boundary-line and Medardus, with Boundary-line (° ^Ca 456)
632: Mahomet, prophet, war leader and unifier of the Arab peninsula, (° ^Ca 570)
1042: Knud II Bold the, king of England and Denmark. (° 1018 or 1019)
1409: Guy III of Roye, religious French, who was bishop of Verdun, of Dol and Castres, archbishop of Turns and Sens.
1675 : John Jonston, Doctor Polish, author of a zoological Encyclopedia . (° September 3rd 1603)
1794: Gottfried August Bürger, German Poet . (° January 1st 1748)
1795: Louis XVII (10 years), King de France, wire of Louis XVI. (° March 27th 1785)
1801: Perrucho (Francisco García), Spanish Matador (° 1745).
1876 : George Sand, writer French. (° July 1st 1804)
1896: Jules Simon ( Swiss François-Jules ), Philosopher and French statesman (° December 27th, 1814)
1945: Robert Desnos, Poet French, † with the Concentration camp of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia. (° July 4th, 1900)
1947: Amélie Zurcher, instigator of discovered potash in the Alsatian basement . (° August 27th, 1858)
1959: Jean of Varende, writer French. (° May 24th, 1887)
1963: Gaston Ramon, Veterinary and Biologist French. (° September 30th, 1886)
1966: Joseph A. Walker, Test pilot and American Astronaut . (° February 20th, 1921)
1969: Robert Taylor, American Actor . (° August 5th, 1911)
1970: Abraham Maslow, celebrates psychological American. (° April 1st, 1908)
1993: Rene Bousquet, senior official French. (° May 11th, 1909)

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