8 June ...

... H&B alerted me to this game.
Go visit Professor Wiki, type in your birth day & month and see what comes up. You're supposed to list two birthdays, three events and one holiday that are of interest - but like H&B I'm just going to go with the interesting ....

• 793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known.
• 1783 - The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
• 1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published.
• 1967 - Six-Day War.
• 1984 - Homosexuality is declared not a crime in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
• 1987 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as at June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.
• 2007 - MV Pasha Bulker bulk cargo ship runs aground on Nobby's Beach in Newcastle, Australia.
• It's World Ocean Day.