June 08
632
The prophet Muhammad died.
1845
Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States, died in Tennessee.
1861
Tennessee became the 11th and last state to secede from the Union.
1968
James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, assassin, was arrested.
1982
President Reagan became the first American president to address a joint session of Britain’s Parliament.
1983
Negro Baseball League great Satchel Paige died.
2001
Tony Blair and his Labour Party won a second term, overwhelming the opposition at the polls.
Birthdays
Frank Lloyd Wright
1867–1959, American architect, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
Robert Schumann
composer (1810)
Virginia Randolph
educator (1874)
Barbara Bush
former first lady (1925)
Leroy Neiman
painter and printmaker (1927)
Scott Adams
cartoonist (1957)