June 8, 2023: This Day in History
Release time:
2023-06-08
June 8, 632: Death of Muhammad, the founder and reviver of Islam
June 8, 649: Death of Li Jing, Duke of Wei
June 8, 760: Li Bai pardoned
June 8, 927: Ma Yin establishes the Chu Kingdom
June 8, 1505: Death of Ming Xiaozong, Zhu Youzang, ending the "Hongzhi Era of Restoration"
June 8, 1529: Outbreak of the Kappel Wars, a major religious war of the Middle Ages
June 8, 1810: Birth of German composer Robert Schumann
June 8, 1881: The Qing government recalls students studying in the United States
June 8, 1912: Fengtian warlord Wu Junsheng strikes against the "Manchu-Mongolian independence" movement instigated by Japan
June 8, 1924: First unsuccessful human attempt to summit Mount Everest
June 8, 1932: Death of Liu Tianhua, composer and performer of national instruments
June 8, 1932: The Rural Work-Study Program begins to be promoted
June 8, 1937: KMT-CCP talks at Mount Lu
June 8, 1939: The Chinese Nationalist Government issues a warrant for the arrest of Wang Jingwei, the traitor
June 8, 1948: Zhu Ziqing chooses to starve rather than accept American food
June 8, 1950: China and Myanmar establish diplomatic relations
June 8, 1957: The Anti-Rightist Movement begins in China
June 8, 1958: The Great Leap Forward movement releases its first "high-yield" satellite
June 8, 1967: Death of Jiang Guangnai, an anti-Japanese general
June 8, 1978: Intel releases the 8086 processor
June 8, 1979: China's first windsurfing board is created
June 8, 1990: Opening of the 14th FIFA World Cup
June 8, 1994: The first group of foreign academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are elected
June 8, 1995: China develops a high-power helium-neon laser
June 8, 1998: Over 2,000 people die from a heatwave in India
June 8, 2003: Foundation stone laid for the Ningbo Hangzhou Bay Cross-Sea Bridge
June 8, 2004: Transit of Venus observed in China
June 8, 2007: Death of Wang Ping, founding major general
June 8, 2009: First World Oceans Day
June 8, 2009: Beijing Kexing Company officially starts mass production of the H1N1 influenza vaccine
June 8, 2010: North Korea requests a UN investigation into the sinking of the Cheonan
June 8, 2010: Collapse of the Jilin Jinjiang Bridge
June 8, 2015: Cross-bank transfers officially launched at ATMs in China
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