Historical Events for 8th June 2024
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Historical Events for 8th June 2024

1929 - 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8 1963 - American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes 1965 - USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles 1974 - US and Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract 1979 - "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line 1982 - Falklands War: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sir Gahalad attacked in San Carlos Water ("Bomb Alley") by Argentine aircraft: 48 soldiers and crewman were killed. 1982 - Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time 1985 - French Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova 6-3, 6-7, 7-5 for her 17th Grand Slam title and 6th French singles crown 1996 - PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper 2018 - World's most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia More Historical Events »