June 8

This page lists news articles and events for June 8.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Recurring Events

One-time Events/News

• 1783:
  • Event: Volcanic Eruption at Lakagígar killed 25% of the population in Iceland. It also killed over 20,000 people as far away as London via poisoning.
• 1958:
  • Event: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, largest freighter on the Great Lakes for it's time, launched from the Great Lakes Engineering Works, of River Rouge, Michigan.