What else has happened on June 8?
Other notable events in history on the same day.
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What other historic events have occurred on June 8 over the centuries? Here are some examples:
632: Mohammed, the prophet and founder of Islam dies.
1810: Birth of German composer Robert Schumann.
1928: Chiang Kai Shek seizes Peking (now Beijing) and ends the Chinese civil war.
1969: Spanish dictator General Franco closes the border with Gibraltar in the hope of ruining its economy and wresting it from Britain.
1986: Kurt Waldheim becomes president of Austria despite evidence he collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War.
