History for June 8

History for June 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Frank Lloyd Wright 1867, Francis Crick 1916, Barbara Bush 1925 - Wife of President George H.W. Bush


Bonnie Tyler 1953, Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee 1955 - Inventor of the World Wide Web, Scott Adams 1957 - Cartoonist (Dilbert)


0793 - The Vikings raided the Northumbrian coast of England.


1790 - The first loan for the U.S. was repaid. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was negotiated and secured on September 18, 1789 by Alexander Hamilton.


1869 - Ives W. McGaffey received a U.S. patent for the suction vacuum cleaner.


1904 - U.S. Marines landed in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens.


1967 - Israeli airplanes attacked the USS Liberty in the Mediterranean during the 6-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. 34 U.S. Navy crewmen were killed. Israel later called the incident a tragic mistake due to the mis-identification of the ship. The U.S. has never publicly investigated the incident.


1995 - U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady was rescued by U.S. Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was shot down on June 2.


1998 - The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston to be its president.