18 Khordad 1384

Events

• 1783 (243 years ago) Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
• 1928 (98 years ago) Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Beijing, whose name is changed to Beiping ("Northern Peace").
• 1949 (77 years ago) George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in the United States
• 1987 (39 years ago) New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
• 1992 (34 years ago) The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 1995 (31 years ago) Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
• 2001 (25 years ago) Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
• 2023 (3 years ago) Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information.

Births

• 1810 (216 years ago) Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (died 1856)
• 1867 (159 years ago) Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (died 1959)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet (died 1987)
• 1916 (110 years ago) Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
• 1921 (105 years ago) Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (died 2008)
• 1933 (93 years ago) Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (died 2014)
• 1955 (71 years ago) Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web
• 1977 (49 years ago) Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer

Deaths

• 632 (1394 years ago) Muhammad, the central figure of Islam. (born 570/571)
• 1376 (650 years ago) Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (born 1330)
• 1809 (217 years ago) Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (born 1737)
• 1845 (181 years ago) Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (born 1767)
• 1876 (150 years ago) George Sand, French author and playwright (born 1804)
• 1970 (56 years ago) Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (born 1908)
• 2009 (17 years ago) Omar Bongo, Gabonese captain and politician, President of Gabon (born 1935)
• 2018 (8 years ago) Anthony Bourdain, American chef and travel documentarian (born 1956)

All 281 events, births and deaths of June 8