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This is a list of selected June 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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; World Oceans Day multiple issues
793 – Scandinavian raiders sacked the abbey at Lindisfarne (ruins pictured) in one of the earliest recorded incidents of Viking activity in the British Isles. missing sources/incomplete refs/hobby website sourcing
1856 – Descendants of Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers settled on Norfolk Island, an abandoned British penal colony. refimprove section
1867 – Author Mark Twain left America for aboard the Quaker City, a cruise which later served as the subject of his travelogue, The Innocents Abroad. inappropriate tone
1912 – Filmmaker Carl Laemmle merged his movie studio with eight smaller companies to form what is known today as Universal Pictures. refimprove section
1949Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by the English writer George Orwell about life under a fictional totalitarian government, was published. unreferenced analysis
1959 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero fired a Regulus cruise missile, equipped with U.S. Post Office Department containers, in an attempt to deliver mail via rocket. refimprove section
1906Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law, giving the President of the United States authority to restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government by executive order. refimprove section
: Feast of Corpus Christi (Western Christianity, 2023) Tagged for citations
* 1995 – Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf released the first version of PHP, the most popular server-side language for websites. Tagged for excessive detail

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June 8

Margaret Bondfield
Margaret Bondfield
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