June 8 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for June 8
In the headlines today:

2000	Pulitzer Prize Winning cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, creator of the comic strip Shoe, dies of cancer at age 52.
1995	US Air Force Capt. Scott O'Grady is rescued by US Marines, after having to survive alone for several days when his F-16 fighter was shot down.
1968	James Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport.
1967	34 US servicemen are killed when Israeli warplanes mistakenly attack the Navy ship Liberty stationed in the Mediterranean.
1965	The Russian moon probe, Luna 6, is launched.
1947	Lassie makes its broadcast debut on the ABC radio network.
1917	A fire at the Granite Mountain Shaft copper mine near Butte, MT, results in the death of 163 miners, America's worst hard-rock mining disaster.
1867	Gold is discovered at South Pass, WY (Carissa Lode).
1861	Tennessee secedes from the Union and joins the Confederacy.
1845	Andrew Jackson, seventh US president, dies in Nashville.
1504	Michaelangelo's David is installed in the Palazzo (Florence, Italy).