June 8th
Today in America's Present Past
1789 | Congress: James Madison introduced a proposed Bill of Rights.
1806 | Founder George Wythe died.
1809 | Writer Thomas Paine died.
1845 | POTUS: President Jackson died.
1847 | POTUS: First Lady Ida McKinley was born.
1859 | Entrepreneur Walter Hunt died.
1861 | Civil War: Tennessee votes to secede from the Union.
1867 | Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born.
1869 | Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents the first vacuum cleaner.
1874 | Cochise, Chiricahua Apache leader died.
1899 | Entrepreneur Noel Wein was born.
1912 | Universal Pictures is formed by Carl Laemmle.
1917 | SCOTUS: Justice Byron White was born.
1924 | Journalist Lyn Nofziger was born.
1925 | POTUS: First Lady Barbara Bush was born.
1933 | Comedian Joan Rivers was born.
1940 | Musician Nancy Sinatra was born.
1942 | Bing Crosby records “Silent Night.”
1957 | Cartoonist Scott Adams was born.
1968 | James Earl Ray was arrested for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1970 | Psychologist Abraham Maslow died.
1977 | Musician Kanye West was born.
1982 | POTUS: President Reagan addresses the British Parliament in his "ash heap of history" speech.
1995 | U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady was rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
2013 | Author John Boyd died.
2018 | Culinary entertainer Anthony Bourdain died.
2023 | POTUS: Federal prosecutors file a 37-count indictment against former President Trump.