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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The American Adventure: TV History Series 1607-1876 DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, June 8, 2026

June 8: Thomas Paine Day (Freethinkers Day): -- June 8, 1809: #DOTD: #RIP: Thomas Paine, English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, revolutionary, pamphleteer, author, possible Freemason, Founding Father of the United States (b. February 9, 1737) #dies in the morning at 59 Grove Street in Greenwich Village, New York City, aged 72. Thomas Paine Day (Freethinkers Day) is observed on this date in honor of his passing. Although the original building no longer exists, the present building has a plaque noting that Paine died at this location. His remains then went on a strange and, as of 2023, unresolved journey. After his death, Paine's body was brought to New Rochelle, but the Quakers would not allow it to be buried in their graveyard as per his last will, so his remains were buried under a walnut tree on his farm. In 1819, English agrarian radical journalist William Cobbett, who in 1793 had published a hostile continuation of Francis Oldys (George Chalmer)'s The Life of Thomas Paine, dug up his bones and transported them back to England with the intention to give Paine a heroic reburial on his native soil, but this never came to pass. The bones were still among Cobbett's effects when he died over fifteen years later, but were later lost. There is no confirmed story about what happened to them after that, although various people have claimed throughout the years to own parts of Paine's remains, such as his skull and right hand. He was taken care of at the end of his life and buried by Marguerite Brazier, a Parisian woman, the wife of author Nicholas Bonneville, and mother of Paine's godson, the explorer Benjamin Bonneville. In his will, Paine left the bulk of his estate to Marguerite, including 100 acres (40.5 ha) of his farm so she could maintain and educate Benjamin and his brother Thomas. At the time of his death, most American newspapers reprinted the obituary notice from the New York Evening Post that was in turn quoting from The American Citizen, which read in pAesthetics: Art: "He had lived long, did some good, and much harm". Only six mourners came to his funeral, as he had been ostracized for his ridicule of Christianity and his attacks on the nation's leaders. Two of the mourners were black, most likely freedmen. Months later, there appeared a hostile biography by James Cheetham, who had admired him since the latter's days as a young radical in Manchester, and who had been friends with Paine for a short time before the two fell out. Many years later the writer and orator Robert G. Ingersoll wrote: "Thomas Paine had passed the legendary limit of life. One by one most of his old friends and acquaintances had deserted him. Maligned on every side, execrated, shunned and abhorred - his virtues denounced as vices - his services forgotten - his character blackened, he preserved the poise and balance of his soul. He was a victim of the people, but his convictions remained unshaken. He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his death. Even those who loved their enemies hated him, their friend - the friend of the whole world - with all their hearts. On the 8th of June 1809, death came - Death, almost his only friend. At his funeral no pomp, no pageantry, no civic procession, no military display. In a carriage, a woman and her son who had lived on the bounty of the dead - on horseback, a Quaker, the humanity of whose heart dominated the creed of his head - and, following on foot, two negroes filled with gratitude - constituted the funeral cortege of Thomas Paine." Thomas Paine was #born Thomas Pain on January 29, 1737 O.S. (February 9, 1737 N.S.) in Thetford, England. Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. He authored two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution - Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-1783), the latter which began "These are the times that try men's souls" - which provided inspiration to undecided Americans that a new nation, independent from Britain, might eventually become "...an asylum for mankind!", and he helped to inspire the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. Virtually every American Patriot read his 47-page pamphlet Common Sense, which catalyzed the call for independence from Great Britain. The American Crisis was a pro-independence pamphlet series. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of human rights. He served in the Continental Army and observed the hardships of American troops fighting the world's most powerful army. He refused to accept the profits from his writings and wound up destitute after the Revolution. Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution. While in England, he wrote Rights of Man (1791), in part a defense of the French Revolution against its critics. His attacks on Anglo-Irish conservative writer Edmund Burke led to a trial and conviction in absentia in England in 1792 for the crime of seditious libel. The British government of William Pitt the Younger was worried by the possibility that the French Revolution might spread to Britain and had begun suppressing works that espoused radical philosophies. Paine's work advocated the right of the people to overthrow their government and was therefore targeted with a writ for his arrest issued in early 1792. Paine fled to France in September, despite not being able to speak French, but he was quickly elected to the French National Convention. The Girondins regarded him as an ally; consequently, the Montagnards regarded him as an enemy, especially Maximilien Robespierre. In December 1793, he was arrested and was taken to Luxembourg Prison in Paris. While in prison, he continued to work on The Age of Reason (1793-1794). James Monroe used his diplomatic connections to get Paine released in November 1794. Paine became notorious because of his pamphlets and attacks on his former allies, who he felt had betrayed him. In The Age of Reason and other writings, he advocated Deism, promoted reason and freethought, and argued against religion in general and Christian doctrine in particular. In 1796, he published a bitter open letter to George Washington, whom he denounced as an incompetent general and a hypocrite. He published the pamphlet Agrarian Justice (1797), discussing the origins of property and introducing the concept of a guaranteed minimum income through a one-time inheritance tax on landowners. In 1802, he returned to the U.S., where he died seven years later. Though there is no definitive evidence Paine himself was a Freemason, upon his return to America from France he penned "An Essay on the Origin of Free-Masonry" (1803-1805) about Freemasonry being derived from the religion of the ancient Druids. Marguerite de Bonneville published the essay in 1810 after Paine's death, but she chose to omit certain passages from it that were critical of Christianity, most of which were restored in an 1818 printing. In the essay, Paine stated that "the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun." Paine also had a negative attitude toward Judaism. While never describing himself as a Deist, he openly advocated Deism in his writings, and called Deism "the only true religion": "The opinions I have advanced ... are the effect of the most clear and long-established conviction that the Bible and the Testament are impositions upon the world, that the fall of man, the account of Jesus Christ being the Son of God, and of his dying to appease the wrath of God, and of salvation, by that strange means, are all fabulous inventions, dishonorable to the wisdom and power of the Almighty; that the only true religion is Deism, by which I then meant, and mean now, the belief of one God, and an imitation of his moral character, or the practice of what are called moral virtues - and that it was upon this only (so far as religion is concerned) that I rested all my hopes of happiness hereafter. So say I now - and so help me God." National Carnation Day was established in his honor as he always wore a red carnation on his lapel. The carnation was said to be his favorite flower, and he always wore one for good luck. According to legend, when President McKinley was shot by an assassin's bullet in September of 1901, it was just after he took off the carnation he was wearing and gave it to a young girl. People believe luck left him when he took off the carnation. After his death, National Carnation Day started in his honor. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-american-adventure-series-us-1st-century-4-dv14.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Attack On The Liberty USS Liberty Incident DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, June 8, 2026

June 8: USS Liberty Remembrance Day: -- June 8, 1967: The Cold War: The Arab Cold War (July 23, 1952 - February 11, 1979): The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Six-Day War ((Hebrew: Milhemet Seset HaYamim; Arabic: An-Naksah, "The Setback", Harb 1967, "The War Of 1967") (The June War, The 1967 Arab-Israeli War, The Third Arab-Israeli War): The USS Liberty Incident: -- The United States Navy technical research ship USS Liberty is attacked in international waters by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats during the Six-Day War. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, and one civilian), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship. Israel apologized for the attack, saying that the USS Liberty had been attacked in error after being mistaken for an Egyptian ship. At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nautical miles northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish. Officailly, both the Israeli and U.S. governments conducted inquiries and issued reports that concluded the attack was a mistake due to Israeli confusion about the ship's identity; however, at the time, evidence and the testimony of the survivors of the attack as well as Israeli radar and communication signals data clearly showed that the attack upon the clearly-marked US Navy ship was deliberate as the Israelis suspected that the ship was covertly providing Egypt with military intelligence, a likely assertion. In May 1968, the Israeli government made payment to the U.S. government in compensation to the families of the 34 men killed in the attack. In March 1969, Israel made a furthur payment to the men who had been wounded. In December 1980, Israel agreed to make a payment as the final settlement for material damage to Liberty, itself plus 13 years of interest. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/attack-on-the-liberty-dvd-six-day-war-documentary.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Great Polynesian Navigators Of The Pacific DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, June 8, 2026

June 8: World Oceans Day: -- A day coordinated by The Ocean Project concerning this crucial environmental issue. We get both foods and medicines from the deep blue, and it helps to keep the climate in check. The ocean is also the "lungs of the earth" - as it turns out, the majority of oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean. We always felt that the waves breathed some life into us. (Alright, once or twice it was the lifeguard, but that doesn't diminish the worth of one our most valuable resources.) However, if we don't take the steps to conserve it, we'll lose a lot more than a spot for a weekend getaway. So dive in and do your part to keep big blue going strong. For many people, the beach spells fun in the sun. While taking a dip feels great, we sometimes don't think about what that water really means to us. It's essential to the biosphere and we want to make sure that future generations get to enjoy it. Chances are, the creatures that live there will also appreciate it (there are over 1 million of them!). And when you look out into the distance and see ships going to who knows where, it's a strong reminder that we're all connected. So much of our waste isn't biodegradable, and the ocean is left cleaning up our mess. Dumping recyclables into the proper bin is a good first step, but we have to carry that habit back home. Even if you don't live near the coast, let your friends and family know how recycling puts a big smile on the ocean's face. We never need an excuse to go to the beach, but we'll gladly take one. At times, we just have to pinch ourselves at how gorgeous the place can be; a sunset reflected on the water is like something out of a painting. Most importantly, the ocean gives us the perfect opportunity to empty our heads and relax. Some moments speak for themselves so we don't have to. It's not like the squawking seagulls would let us get a word in anyway. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-great-polynesian-navigators-of-the-pacific-dvd-mp3-us3.html

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Today, June 8, 2026

June 8: Bounty Day (Anniversary Day) (Australia): -- On June 8, 1856, a group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrived at Norfolk Island on their ship Morayshire, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island. On June 8, Bounty Day celebrates this event, observed by the people of Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, with a re-enactment of the mutiny along with wreathe-laying, parades, singing of hymns, and a picnic with traditional food. The Pitcairners are descendants of the English sailors and the Tahitian women who began a new life on Pitcairn Island under the leadership of Fletcher Christian. In 1856, Queen Victoria gave Norfolk Island to the expanding Pitcairn community. Pitcairn Island, the original island of the Islanders of Norfolk, has a fascinating story. In 1787, Lieutenant William Bligh set sail in the HMS Bounty to Tahiti to gather breadfruit plants for Caribbean slave colonies. A lot of disputes took place during the journey. Finally, Fletcher Christian and some of the crewmembers staged a mutiny. This very mutiny is re-enacted by the people of Norfolk on Bounty Day. The mutineers captured the Bounty and set Lieutenant Bligh and his followers adrift to reach the Dutch East Indies, north of Australia. The mutineers eventually found the island of Pitcairn by 1790 and they were welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, who were settled there. By the 1850s, their population had grown significantly and they needed a larger place to settle. Finally, when the people of Pitcairn asked the British Government for a larger home, Queen Victoria gave them Norfolk Island. And by the time they resettled there, the Pitcairners had already formed their own culture and language, both of which are still alive to this day. On Bounty Day, the descendants of the original Norfolk settlers stage a re-enactment of the mutiny along with a parade, and they lay wreaths on the graves of the dead and more. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/damn-the-defiant-alec-guinness-napoleonic-british-naval-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Attila The Hun 2 Part Documentary Series DVD MP4 Video Download
Today, June 8, 2026

June 8, 452: The Huns: The Hunnic Invasions: The Hunnic Invasion Of Italy: -- Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome. Attila had returned to Italy to renew his marriage claim with Honoria, sister of the Roman Emperor Valentinian III, who had sent the Hunnish king a plea for help - and her engagement ring - in order to escape her forced betrothal to a Roman senator in the spring of 450. Honoria may not have intended a proposal of marriage, but Attila chose to interpret her message as such. He accepted, asking for half of the western Empire as dowry. When Valentinian discovered the plan, only the influence of his mother Galla Placidia convinced him to exile Honoria, rather than killing her. He also wrote to Attila, strenuously denying the legitimacy of the supposed marriage proposal. Attila sent an emissary to Ravenna to proclaim that Honoria was innocent, that the proposal had been legitimate, and that he would come to claim what was rightfully his. As Attila invaded and ravaged Italy, communities became established in what would later become Venice as a result of these attacks, when the residents fled to small islands in the Venetian Lagoon. His army sacked numerous cities and razed Aquileia so completely that it was afterwards hard to recognize its original site. Roman general Flavius Aetius, who had in the past been on good terms with Attila, led the battle against him, but lacked the strength to offer effective opposition, though he managed to harass and slow Attila's advance with only a shadow force. Attila finally halted at the River Po. However, by this point, disease and starvation had taken hold in Attila's camp, hindering his war efforts and ultimately bringing about the cessation of invasion. Despite this state of affairs, Emperor Valentinian III, who did not know the dire state of Attila's forces, sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome Leo I, to meet Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua to buy off Attila with gold, and thereby obtain from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the Emperor. Prosper of Aquitaine gives a short description of the historic meeting, but gives all the credit to Leo for the successful negotiation. Priscus reports that superstitious fear of the fate of Alaric gave Attila pause to think, as Alaric died shortly after sacking Rome in 410 - pause that ultimately proved valid, as Attila died some nine months later. As Italy had suffered from a terrible famine in 451, and her crops were faring little better in 452, Attila's devastating invasion of the plains of northern Italy this year did not improve the harvest. To advance on Rome would have required supplies which were not available in Italy, and taking the city would not have improved Attila's supply situation. Therefore, it was more profitable for Attila to take the gold, conclude peace and retreat to his homeland. Nevertheless, this did not prevent Attila from conducting The Sack Of Aquileia, an ancient Roman city in Italy at the head of the Adriatic Sea, on July 18, 452 during his retreat. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/attila-the-hun-2-part-documentary-series-dvd-mp4-video-downlo24.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Vikings: A Documentary History MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, June 8, 2026

June 8, 793: The Vikings: Viking Expansion: Viking Activity In The British Isles: The Viking Age (793-1066 CE): -- The Viking Age begins as a Viking raiding party sacks the Anglo-Saxon abbey at Lindisfarne, an island off England's eastern coast in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the first date-and-year documented Norse activity in the British Isles. The first known account of a Viking raid in Anglo-Saxon England comes from 789, when three ships from Hordaland (in modern Norway) landed in the Isle of Portland on the southern coast of Wessex. They were approached by Beaduheard, the royal reeve from Dorchester, whose job it was to identify all foreign merchants entering the kingdom, and they proceeded to kill him. There were almost certainly unrecorded earlier raids. In a document dating to 792, King Offa of Mercia set out privileges granted to monasteries and churches in Kent, but he excluded military service "against seaborne pirates with migrating fleets", showing that Viking raids were already an established problem. In a letter of 790-92 to King AEthelred I of Northumbria, Alcuin berated English people for copying the fashions of pagans who menaced them with terror. This shows that there were already close contacts between the two peoples, and the Vikings would have been well informed about their targets. The following year, they sacked the nearby Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey. In 795, they once again attacked, this time raiding Iona Abbey off Scotland's west coast. This monastery was attacked again in 802 and 806, when 68 people living there were killed. After this devastation, the monastic community at Iona abandoned the site and fled to Kells in Ireland. In the first decade of the ninth century, Viking raiders began to attack coastal districts of Ireland. In 835, the first major Viking raid in southern England took place and was directed against the Isle of Sheppey. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-vikings-a-documentary-history-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Portraits Of American Presidents Nos. 1-42 TV Series MP4 Download DVD
Today, June 8, 2026

June 8, 1789: The United States: The History Of The United States: The Constitution Of The United States: The United States Bill Of Rights: -- U.S. House Representative From Virginia James Madison, future 4th POTUS, introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution at The 1st United States Congress (March 4, 1789, to March 4, 1791). These proposed amendments resulted in The Bill Of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Largely because of the efforts of Representative James Madison, who studied the deficiencies of the Constitution pointed out by anti-federalists and then crafted a series these twelve proposals corrective proposals, Congress approved these amendments on September 25, 1789, and submitted them to the states for ratification. Contrary to Madison's proposal that the proposed amendments be incorporated into the main body of the Constitution (at the relevant articles and sections of the document), they were proposed as supplemental additions (codicils) to it. Articles Three through Twelve were ratified as additions to the Constitution on December 15, 1791, and became Amendments One through Ten of the Constitution. Article Two became part of the Constitution on May 5, 1992, as the Twenty-seventh Amendment. Article One, The Congressional Apportionment Amendment, which addresses the number of seats in the House of Representatives, is still pending before the states. Although Madison's proposed amendments included a provision to extend the protection of some of the Bill of Rights to the states, the amendments that were finally submitted for ratification applied only to the federal government. The door for their application upon state governments was opened in the 1860s, following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. Since the early 20th century both federal and state courts have used the Fourteenth Amendment to apply portions of the Bill of Rights to state and local governments. The process is known as incorporation. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/portraits-of-american-presidents-nos-142-tv-series-mp4-download1424.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The French Revolution Series + Irish Rebellion & You Are There MP4 DVD
Today, June 8, 2026

June 8, 1794: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: The French First Republic (French: Premiere Republique; Revolutionary France, Officially The French Republic [French: Republique Francaise]): The National Convention (French: Convention Nationale): The Cult Of The Supreme Being (French: Culte De L'Etre Supreme): -- Maximilien Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France. On May 7, 1794, Robespierre introduced the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic. The Cult of the Supreme Being was a form of deism intended as a replacement for Roman Catholicism and its rival, the Cult of Reason, France's first established state sponsored atheistic religion. Robespierre believed that reason is only a means to an end, and the singular end is virtue. He sought to move beyond simple deism (often described as Voltairean by its adherents) to a new and, in his view, more rational devotion to the godhead. The primary principles of the Cult of the Supreme Being were a belief in the existence of a god and the immortality of the human soul. Though not inconsistent with Christian doctrine, these beliefs were put to the service of Robespierre's fuller meaning, which was of a type of civic-minded, public virtue he attributed to the Greeks and Romans. This type of virtue could only be attained through active fidelity to liberty and democracy.] Belief in a living god and a higher moral code, he said, were "constant reminders of justice" and thus essential to a republican society. To inaugurate the new state religion, Robespierre declared that 20 Prairial Year II (8 June 1794) would be the first day of national celebration of the Supreme Being, and future republican holidays were to be held every tenth day, the days of rest (decadi) in the new French Republican Calendar. Every locality was mandated to hold a commemorative event, but the event in Paris was designed on a massive scale. The festival was organized by the artist Jacques-Louis David and took place around a man-made mountain on the Champ de Mars. Robespierre assumed full leadership of the event, forcefully, and, to many, ostentatiously, declaring the truth and "social utility" of his new religion. The Cult of the Supreme Being and its festival may have contributed to the Thermidorian Reaction (On 9 Thermidor Year II [27 July 1794], Robespierre was denounced by members of the National Convention as "a tyrant", leading to Robespierre and twenty-one associates including Louis Antoine de Saint-Just being arrested that night and beheaded on the following day). With Robespiere's execution by guillotine on 28 July 1794, the cult lost all official sanction, and disappeared from public view. It was officially banned by Napoleon Bonaparte on April 8, 1802 with his Law On Cults of 18 Germinal, Year X. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-french-revolution-dvd-3-part-tv-documentary-serie3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Music Documentaries IV Moods & Music Code & Cypher MP4 DVD USB
Today, June 8, 2026

June 8, 1810: #BOTD: #HBD! Robert Schumann, German composer and an influential music critic (d. July 29, 1856) is #born in Zwickau, Kingdom of Saxony (today Central Germany). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck, a German pianist, that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; one opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in C are among his most famous. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded. In 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara, against the wishes of her father, following a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favor of Clara and Robert. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert career as a pianist, the earnings from which, before her marriage, formed a substantial part of her father's fortune. Robert Schumann died in Bonn, Rhine Province, Prussia, aged 46, most likely caused by syphilis. His medical records from this illness were released in 1991, and suggest a "progressive paralysis", a term used for neurosyphilis at the time, although a diagnostic test for the Treponema pallidum syphilis bacterium did not become available until 1906. These records and his reported symptoms have contributed to a modern view is that he did indeed die from syphilis, which he could have contracted during his student days, and which could have remained latent during most of his marriage. According to studies by the musicologist and literary scholar Eric Sams, Schumann's symptoms during his terminal illness and death appear consistent with those of mercury poisoning; mercury was a common treatment for syphilis and other conditions. Another possibility is that his neurological problems were a result of an intracranial mass. A report by Janisch and Nauhaus on Schumann's autopsy indicates that he had a "gelatinous" tumor at the base of the brain; it may have represented a colloid cyst, a craniopharyngioma, a chordoma, or a chordoid meningioma. In particular, meningiomas are known to produce musical auditory hallucinations such as Schumann reported; Schumann heard a persistent A-note at the end of his life, which may have been a form of tinnitus, or perhaps an auditory hallucination caused by meningioma or to his major depressive episode. At times, he had musical hallucinations that were longer than just the single A, but his diaries include comments about hearing the annoying single note. Schumann suffered from a mental disorder, first manifesting itself in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode, which recurred several times alternating with phases of 'exaltation' and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", Schumann's symptoms increased in late February 1854, with angelic visions sometimes being replaced by demonic ones. He warned his wife Clara that he feared he might do her harm. On February 27, he attempted suicide by throwing himself from a bridge into the Rhine River (his elder sister Emilie had died by suicide in 1825, possibly by drowning herself). Rescued by boatmen and taken home, he asked to be taken to an asylum for the insane. He entered Dr. Franz Richarz's sanatorium in Endenich, a quarter of Bonn, and remained there until he died. During his confinement, he was not allowed to see Clara, although Brahms was free to visit him. Clara finally visited him two days before his death. He appeared to recognize her, but was able to speak only a few words. After Robert's death, Clara continued her career as a concert pianist, which supported the family. From mid-career on, she mainly performed music by leading composers. A hired cook and housekeeper tended to the children while she traveled. In 1856, she first visited England. The critics received Robert's music coolly, with Henry Chorley being particularly harsh. She returned to London in 1865 and made regular appearances there in later years, often performing chamber music with the violinist Joseph Joachim and others. She became the authoritative editor of her husband's works for Breitkopf & Hartel. It was rumoured that she and Brahms destroyed many of Schumann's later works, which they thought were tainted by his madness, but only the Five Pieces for Cello and Piano are known to have been destroyed. Most of Schumann's late works, particularly the Violin Concerto, the Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra and the Violin Sonata No. 3, all from 1853, have entered the repertoire. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/music-documentaries-iv-dvd-moods-amp-music-code-amp-cypher.html

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Today, June 8, 2026

June 8, 1861: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Secession Of The Southern States Of America: The Secession Of Tennessee From The United States Of America: -- In reaction to Abraham Lincoln's call to provide troops from the "militia of the several states" to put down the rebellion of secessionist states against the Union, Tennessee becomes the tenth state to secede from the Union. The title of "last to join the Confederacy" is a problematic one; although Tennessee's informal secession on May 7, 1861 preceded North Carolina's official secession on May 20, the Tennessee legislature did not formally vote to secede until June 8, 1861; nevertheless, in effect, Tennessee is considered to be the 10th state to secede, followed by North Carolina. In February 1861, secessionists in Tennessee's state government led by Governor Isham Harris sought voter approval for a convention to sever ties with the United States, but Tennessee voters rejected the referendum by a 54-46% margin. The strongest opposition to secession came from East Tennessee, which later tried to form a separate Union-aligned state. Following the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter in April and Lincoln's call for troops from Tennessee and other states in response, Governor Isham Harris began military mobilization, submitted an ordinance of secession to the General Assembly, and made direct overtures to the Confederate government. The Tennessee legislature ratified an agreement to enter a military league with the Confederate States on May 7, 1861. On June 8, 1861, with people in Middle Tennessee having significantly changed their position, voters approved a second referendum calling for secession, becoming the last state to do so. On March 4, 1861, Lincoln was sworn in as President. In his inaugural address, he argued that the Constitution was a "more perfect union" than the earlier Articles Of Confederation and Perpetual Union, that it was a binding contract, and called any secession "legally void". He stated he had no intent to invade the Southern states, nor did he intend to end slavery where it existed, but that he would use force to maintain possession of federal property belonging to the United States. His speech closed with a plea for restoration of the bonds of union. By 1856, the South had lost control of Congress, and was no longer able to silence calls for an end to slavery, which came mostly from the more populated, free states of the North. The Republican Party, founded in 1854, pledged to stop the spread of slavery beyond those states where it already existed. After Abraham Lincoln was elected the first Republican president in 1860, seven cotton states - South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas respectively - declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America before Lincoln was inaugurated. The United States government, both outgoing and incoming, refused to recognize the Confederacy, and when the new Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered his troops to open fire on Fort Sumter in April 1861, there was an overwhelming demand, North and South, for war. Only the state of Kentucky attempted to remain neutral, and it could only do so briefly, and chose to remain in the Union. When Lincoln called for troops to suppress what he referred to as "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary" judicial or martial means, four more states - Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina - decided to secede and join the Confederacy, which then moved its capital to Richmond, Virginia. Residents of the western counties of Virginia did not wish to secede along with the rest of the state. This section of Virginia was admitted into the Union as the state of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. Four slave states decided to stay in the Union: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Although divided in their loyalties, a combination of political maneuvering and Union military pressure kept these states from seceding. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/lincoln-and-the-war-within-election-to-sumter-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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June 8, 1867: #BOTD: #HBD! Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designer, writer, and educator (d. April 9, 1959) is #born in the town of Richland Center, Wisconsin. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright was the pioneer of what came to be called the Prairie School movement of architecture and also developed the concept of the Usonian home in Broadacre City, his vision for urban planning in the United States. He also designed original and innovative offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, museums, and other commercial projects. Wright-designed interior elements (including leaded glass windows, floors, furniture and even tableware) were integrated into these structures. He wrote several books and numerous articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time". In 2019, a selection of his work became a listed World Heritage Site as The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Raised in rural Wisconsin, Wright studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin and then apprenticed in Chicago, first with Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1887) and then with Louis Sullivan (1888). He opened his own successful Chicago practice in 1893 and established a studio in his Oak Park, Illinois home in 1898. His personal life made headlines: leaving his first wife, Catherine Tobin, for Mamah Cheney in 1909; the murders at his Taliesin estate by a staff member in 1914; his tempestuous marriage with second wife Miriam Noel in 1923; and his relationship with Olgivanna Lazovic, whom he married in 1928. Frank Lloyd Wright died of natural causes at the age 91 in a Phoenix, Arizona hospital. The body was returned to his 1,600 acre estate at Spring Green, Wisconsin. After a service, a horse and wagon carried his body from Unity Chapel to where the graves of many members of the Wright family (his mother, his mistress Mamah and her two children) are interred. His first wife, Kitty had died at age 92 a few weeks before. However, after the death of Olgivanna Wright his last wife, his body was disinterred, his remains cremated and his ashes mixed with Olgivanna's and then divided: some spread over the Arizona desert and the rest interred on the Wright estate. His cenotaph (a marker within a cemetery placed in honor of a person whose remains are elsewhere) is at The Taliesin West Burial Site in Scottsdale, Arizona. He once wrote, "No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/frank-lloyd-wright-documentaries-dvd.html

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June 8, 1887: The Industrial Revolution: The Third Industrial Revolution (1947-Present) (The Information Age, The Computer Age, The Digital Age, The Digital Electronics Revolution, The Silicon Age, The New Media Age, The Media Age): The Computer: The History Of The Computer: Digital Computers: -- Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art Of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator. A punched card (also punch card or punched-card) is a piece of stiff paper that holds digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Punched cards were once common in computing for data processing applications or to directly control automated machinery. Punched cards were widely used through much of the 20th century in the data processing industry, where specialized and increasingly complex unit record machines, organized into semiautomatic data processing systems, used punched cards for data input, output, and storage. The IBM 12-row/80-column punched card format came to dominate the industry. Many early digital computers used punched cards as the primary medium for input of both computer programs and data. While punched cards are now obsolete as a storage medium, as of 2012, some voting machines still used punched cards to record votes. They also had a significant cultural impact. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-machine-that-changed-the-world-the-computer-dvd-mp4-downloa4.html

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Today, June 8, 2026

June 8, 1906: The Environment: The Progressive Era In The United States: United States Federal Environmental Legislation: United States Federal Public Land Legislation: The Antiquities Act (The Antiquities Act Of 1906): -- In order to restrict the use of parcels of public land deemed by The President Of The United States to have historical or conservation value, President Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act Of 1906 into law. The Antiquities Act of 1906 gives the President the authority by presidential proclamation to create national monuments from federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features. The Act has been used more than a hundred times since its passage. The Antiquities Act was signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt during his second term in office. The act resulted from concerns about protecting mostly prehistoric Native American ruins and artifacts-collectively termed "antiquities"-on federal lands in the West, such as at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Removal of artifacts from these lands by private collectors, "pot hunters," had become a serious problem by the end of the 19th century. In 1902, Iowa Congressman John F. Lacey, who chaired the House Committee on the Public Lands, traveled to the Southwest with the rising anthropologist Edgar Lee Hewett, to see for himself the extent of the pot hunters' impact. His findings, supported by an exhaustive report by Hewett to Congress detailing the archaeological resources of the region, provided the necessary impetus for the passage of the legislation. The Act failed to deter purposeful, criminal looting at these protected sites and was deemed too vague, resulting in passage of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979. The Antiquities Act has been praised by several groups for its ability to protect important sites, including The Wilderness Society, the National Parks Conservation Association, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and the National Trust For Historic Preservation. Since the Antiquities Act became law, all but three presidents, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, have chosen to enlarge or dedicate new national monuments. President Obama established more monuments than any president, with 29 in total. The previous record was held by President Clinton with 19 monuments. President Carter dedicated the most acreage to national monuments, mostly in areas in Alaska. On April 26, 2017, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13792 directing a disgraceful review of the law and its uses. On December 4, 2017, President Donald Trump reduced the sizes of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, removing protections on about 2.8 million acres of land where mining could resume. Three lawsuits challenged the legality of this action in federal court. On June 5, 2020, Trump signed a proclamation purporting to lift the restrictions on commercial fishing at Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument but without modifying the boundaries. In October 2021 President Joe Biden appropriatedly reversed these three changes. Due to Biden's action, the district court stayed the lawsuits. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tr-the-life-of-theodore-roosevelt-dvd-2-disc-se2.html

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June 8, 1919: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Transcontinental Flight: The History Of Transatlantic Flight: The Transatlantic Flight Of Albert Cushing Read: -- The first transatlantic flight is completed when the Curtiss NC-4, a Curtiss NC flying boat commanded by U.S. Navy's Naval Aviator Number 24, Lieutenant Commander Albert Cushing Read, lands with its crew of six men in Plymouth, England. The flight began 23 days before at take-off from Trepassey, Newfoundland on May 16, 1919, headed for Lisbon via the Azores, a couple of weeks before Alcock and Brown's non-stop flight, and eight years before Charles Lindbergh's solo, non-stop flight. The flight started from Rockaway Beach, Long Island with the NC-4 carrying a crew of six: Albert Cushing Read, the commander and navigator; Walter Hinton and Elmer Fowler Stone (Coast Guard Aviator #1), the two pilots; James L. Breese and Eugene S. Rhoads, the two flight engineers; and Herbert C. Rodd, the radio operator. It made six stops, including layovers at Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland, the Azores, and Lisbon, Portugal. Its flight from the Azores to Lisbon completed the first transatlantic flight between North America and Europe, and two more flights from Lisbon to northwestern Spain to Plymouth, England, completed the first flight between North America and Great Britain. This accomplishment was somewhat eclipsed in the minds of the public by the first nonstop transatlantic flight, made by the Royal Air Force pilots John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown two weeks later. On June 3, 1919, Read was made a commander of the Order of the Tower and Sword by the Portuguese government. After returning to the United States, Read was awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, which at the time was a more prestigious award than the Navy Cross that the other five NC-4 crew members received (the order of award precedence was switched in 1942). In 1929, Read and the rest of the flight crew of NC-4 were awarded Congressional Gold Medals. The Curtiss NC-4 aircraft was designed by Glenn Curtiss and his team, and manufactured by Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, with the hull built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Corporation in Bristol, Rhode Island. Later in 1919, upon returning to the U.S., Read predicted: "It soon will be possible to drive an airplane around the world at a height of 60,000 feet and 1,000 miles per hour." The next day, The New York Times ran an editorial in reaction, stating: "It is one thing to be a qualified aviator, and quite another to be a qualified prophet. Nothing now known supports the Lieutenant Commander's forecast. An airplane at the height of 60,000 feet would be whirling its propellers in a vacuum, and no aviator could live long in the freezing cold of interstellar space." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/frontiers-of-flight-aviation-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-download-us4.html

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June 8, 1921: #BOTD: Suharto (or Soeharto), Indonesian soldier, politician, military dictator and political mass murderer, 2nd and the longest serving President Of Indonesia (d. January 27, 2008) is #born Haji Muhammad Suharto to ethnic Javanese parents in a plaited-bamboo-walled house in the Java hamlet of Kemusuk, a part of the larger village of Godean in the administrative divisions of the Dutch East Indies of Bantoel Regentschap, 15 kilometres (9 mi) west of Yogyakarta, the cultural heartland of the Javanese, in the Yogyakarta Sultanate, then part of the Dutch East Indies. Like many Javanese, Suharto had only one name. Religious contexts in recent years have sometimes called him as "Haji" or "Al-Haj Mohammed Suharto", but these names were not part of his formal name nor generally used. The spelling "Suharto" reflects modern Indonesian orthography, although the general approach in Indonesia is to rely on the spelling preferred by the person concerned. At the time of his birth, the standard transcription was "Soeharto", and he used the original spelling throughout his life. The international English-language press generally uses the spelling 'Suharto' while the Indonesian government and media use 'Soeharto'. He was the second President of Indonesia, holding the office for 31 years from the ousting of Sukarno in 1967 until his resignation in 1998. During the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, Suharto served in Japanese-organised Indonesian security forces. Indonesia' independence struggle saw his joining the newly formed Indonesian army. Suharto rose to the rank of major general following Indonesian independence. An attempted coup on September 30, 1965 allegedly backed by the Indonesian Communist Party was countered by Suharto-led troops. The army subsequently led an anti-communist purge which the CIA described as "one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century" resulting in between 400,000 and 3,000,000 deaths after Suharto wrested power from Indonesia's founding president, Sukarno. With Suharto increasingly seen as the source of the country's mounting economic and political crises, prominent political figures, including Muslim politician Amien Rais, spoke out against his presidency, and in January 1998 university students began organizing nationwide demonstrations. The crisis climaxed while Suharto was on a state visit to Egypt on May 12, 1998, when security forces killed four demonstrators from Jakarta's Trisakti University. Rioting and looting across Jakarta and other cities over the following days destroyed thousands of buildings and killed over 1,000 people. Ethnic Chinese and their businesses were particular targets in the violence. Theories on the origin of the violence include rivalry between military chief General Wiranto and Army Strategic Commander Lt. Gen. Prabowo Subianto, and the suggestion of deliberate provocation by Suharto to divert blame for the crisis to the ethnic-Chinese and discredit the student movement. On May 16, tens of thousands of university students demanded Suharto's resignation, and occupied the grounds and roof of the parliament building. Upon Suharto's return to Jakarta, he offered to resign in 2003 and to reshuffle his cabinet. These efforts failed when his political allies deserted him by refusing to join the proposed new cabinet. According to Wiranto, on May 18, Suharto issued a decree which provided authority to him to take any measures to restore security; however, Wiranto decided not to enforce the decree to prevent conflict with the population. On May 21, 1998, Suharto announced his resignation, upon which vice-president Habibie assumed the presidency in accordance with the constitution. Documents from the United States Department of State indicate that the Clinton Administration sought to maintain close ties with the Indonesian military in the aftermath of Suharto's fall from power. After resigning from the presidency, Suharto became a recluse in his family's compound in the Menteng area of Jakarta, protected by soldiers and rarely making public appearances. Suharto's family spent much of their time fending off corruption investigations. However, Suharto himself was protected from grave prosecution by politicians who owed their positions to the former president, as indicated in the leaked telephone conversation between President Habibie and attorney-general Andi Muhammad Ghalib in February 1999. In May 1999, Time Asia estimated Suharto's family fortune at 15B USD in assets. Suharto sued the magazine seeking more than 27B USD in damages for libel over the article. On September 10, 2007, Indonesia's Supreme Court awarded Suharto damages against Time Asia magazine, ordering it to pay him one trillion rupiah (128.59M USD). The High Court reversed the judgment of an appellate court and Central Jakarta district court (made in 2000 and 2001). Suharto was placed highest on Transparency International's list of corrupt leaders with alleged misappropriation of between 15-35B USD during his 32-year presidency. On May29 , 2000, Suharto was placed under house arrest when Indonesian authorities began to investigate the corruption during his presidency. In July 2000, it was announced that he was to be accused of embezzling 571M USD of government donations to one of several foundations under his control and then using the money to finance family investments. However, in September court-appointed doctors announced that he could not stand trial because of his declining health. State prosecutors tried again in 2002, but then doctors cited an unspecified brain disease. On 26 March 2008, a civil court judge acquitted Suharto of corruption but ordered his charitable foundation, Supersemar, to pay 110M USD (55M PS). In 2002, Suharto's son Tommy was sentenced to 15 years' jail for ordering the killing of a judge (who had previously convicted him of corruption), illegal weapons possession, and fleeing justice. In 2006, he was paroled on "conditional release". In 2003, Suharto's half-brother Probosutedjo was tried and convicted for corruption and the loss of 10M USD from the Indonesian state. He was sentenced to four years in jail. He later won a reduction of his sentence to two years, initiating a probe by the Corruption Eradication Commission into the alleged scandal of the "judicial mafia" which uncovered offers of 600K USD to various judges. Probosutedjo confessed to the scheme in October 2005, leading to the arrest of his lawyers. His full four-year term was reinstated. After a brief standoff at a hospital, in which he was reportedly protected by a group of police officers, he was arrested on 30 November 2005. On July 9, 2007, Indonesian prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit against Suharto, to recover state funds (440M USD or 219M PS, which allegedly disappeared from a scholarship fund, and a further 1.1B USD in damages). After resigning from the presidency, Suharto was hospitalised repeatedly for stroke, heart, and intestinal problems. His declining health hindered attempts to prosecute him as his lawyers successfully claimed that his condition rendered him unfit for trial. Moreover, there was little support within Indonesia for any attempts to prosecute him. In 2006, Attorney General Abdurrahman announced that a team of twenty doctors would be asked to evaluate Suharto's health and fitness for trial. One physician, Brigadier-General Dr Marjo Subiandono, stated his doubts about by noting that "[Suharto] has two permanent cerebral defects." In a later Financial Times report, Attorney General Abdurrahman discussed the re-examination, and called it part of a "last opportunity" to prosecute Suharto criminally. Attorney General Abdurrahman left open the possibility of filing suit against the Suharto estate. On January 4, 2008, Suharto was taken to the Pertamina Central Hospital, Jakarta with complications arising from poor health, swelling of limbs and stomach, and partial renal failure. His health fluctuated for several weeks but progressively worsened with anaemia and low blood pressure due to heart and kidney complications, internal bleeding, fluid on his lungs, and blood in his faeces and urine which caused a haemoglobin drop. On January 23, Suharto's health worsened further, as a sepsis infection spread through his body. His family consented to the removal of life support machines if his condition did not improve, and he died on January 27 at 1:09 pm. He is buried in Astana Giribangun (also "Giri Bangun"), a mausoleum complex for the Suharto's family of the former President of Indonesia, located in Karang Bangun, Matesih, Karanganyar Regency, Central Java province. It is on the slopes of Mount Lawu, approximately 35 kilometres east of the city of Surakarta. The archaic Javanese name translates as "Palace of the risen mountain". Minutes after his death, then-Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono held a news conference declaring Suharto as one of Indonesia's "best sons" and invited the country to give the highest respect and honour to the ex-president. Suharto's body was taken from Jakarta to the Astana Giribangun mausoleum complex in Karanganyar Regency, near the Central Java city of Solo. He was buried alongside his late wife in a state military funeral with full honours, with the Kopassus elite forces and KOSTRAD commandos as the honour guard and pallbearers and Commander of Group II Kopassus Surakarta Lt. Colonel Asep Subarkah. In attendance were President Yudhoyono, who presided over the ceremony, as well as the vice-president, government ministers, and armed forces chiefs of staff. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets to see the convoy. Condolences were offered by many regional heads of state. President Yudhoyono that afternoon declared a week of official mourning starting from Suharto's day of death. During this period, all flags of Indonesia were flown at half-mast. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/decades-the-1960s-dvd-set-peter-jennings-tv-series-3-19603.html

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June 8, 1927: #BOTD: #HBD! Jerry Stiller, American actor, comedian and producer (d. May 11, 2020) is #born Gerald Isaac Stiller at Unity Hospital in Brooklyn, New York City into a Jewish family. He spent many years in the comedy team Stiller and Meara with his wife, Anne Meara. He later played Frank Costanza on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld and Arthur Spooner on the CBS comedy series The King of Queens. Stiller and Meara are the parents of actor Ben Stiller, with whom Stiller co-starred in the films Zoolander, Heavyweights, Hot Pursuit, The Heartbreak Kid and Zoolander 2. Stiller is known for his angry, yelling acting style. Jerry Stiller died of natural causes at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at the age of 92. The accounts of his burial conflict; FindAGrave states that he, like his wife Anne, is buried at Nantucket Jewish Cemetery in Nantucket, Massachusetts. However, IMDB states that, also like his wife, his remains were cremated, and his ashes are scattered at Hessian Lake, Bear Mountain State Park in Rockland and Orange Counties, New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/presenting-america39s-new-comedy-sensations-stiller-and-meara-39.html

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June 8, 1928: China: The History Of China: The Century Of Humiliation (The Hundred Years Of National Humiliation): The Sino-Japanese Wars: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Warlord Era: China: The History Of China: The Century Of Humiliation (The Hundred Years Of National Humiliation): The Sino-Japanese Wars: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Warlord Era: The Northern Expedition: The Second Northern Expedition: -- The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital"). The Northern Expedition was a military campaign launched by the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Kuomintang (KMT), also known as the "Chinese Nationalist Party", against the Beiyang government and other regional warlords in 1926. The purpose of the campaign was to reunify China, which had become fragmented in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1911. The expedition was led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and was divided into two phases. The first phase ended in a 1927 political split between two factions of the KMT: the right-leaning Nanjing faction, led by Chiang, and the left-leaning faction in Wuhan, led by Wang Jingwei. The split was partially motivated by Chiang's Shanghai Massacre of Communists within the KMT, which marked the end of the First United Front. In an effort to mend this schism, Chiang Kai-shek stepped down as the commander of the NRA in August 1927, and went into exile in Japan. The second phase of the Expedition began in January 1928, when Chiang resumed command. By April 1928, the nationalist forces had advanced to the Yellow River. With the assistance of allied warlords, including Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang, nationalist forces secured a series of decisive victories against the Beiyang Army. As they approached Beijing, Zhang Zuolin, leader of the Manchuria-based Fengtian clique, was forced to flee, and was assassinated shortly thereafter by the Japanese. His son, Zhang Xueliang, took over as the leader of the Fengtian clique, and in December 1928, announced that Manchuria would accept the authority of the nationalist government in Nanjing. With the final piece of China under KMT control, the Northern Expedition concluded successfully and China was reunified, heralding the start of the Nanjing decade. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/china-in-revolution-19111949-dvd-2-part-tv-documenta191119492.html

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June 8, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, writer, producer, fashion icon and television host (d. September 4, 2014) is #born Joan Alexandra Molinsky. She was noted for her often controversial comedic persona, heavily self-deprecating and sharply acerbic, especially towards celebrities and politicians. Rivers rose to prominence in 1965 as a guest on The Tonight Show. Hosted by her mentor, Johnny Carson, the show established Rivers' comedic style. In 1986, with her own rival program, The Late Show with Joan Rivers, Rivers became the first woman to host a late night network television talk show. She subsequently hosted The Joan Rivers Show (1989-1993), winning a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show Host. From the mid-1990s, she became known for her comedic red carpet awards show celebrity interviews,. Rivers co-hosted the E! celebrity fashion show Fashion Police from 2010 to 2014 and starred in the reality series Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? (2011-2014) with daughter Melissa Rivers. She was the subject of the documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010). In addition to marketing a line of jewelry and apparel on the QVC shopping channel, Rivers authored 12 best-selling books and three LP comedy albums under her own name: Mr. Phyllis And Other Funny Stories (Warner Bros 1965), The Next To Last Joan Rivers Album (Buddah 1969), and What Becomes A Semi-Legend Most? (Geffen 1983). She was nominated in 1984 for a Grammy Award for her album What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most?; and was nominated in 1994 for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance of the title role in Sally Marr ... and Her Escorts. In 2009, Rivers competed alongside her daughter Melissa on the second season of The Celebrity Apprentice, ultimately winning the season. Joan Rivers died at Mount Sinai Hospital in East Harlem, New York City of brain damage caused by a lack of oxygen during a botched minor throat procedure at an outpatient clinic in Yorkville, Manhattan, aged 81. On August 28, 2014, Rivers experienced serious complications and stopped breathing while undergoing the operation. Resuscitated an hour later, Rivers was transferred to Mount Sinai and later put on life support. She died while in a medically induced coma. The New York City Medical Examiner's Office declared her cause of death. After nearly two months of investigations, federal officials said on November 10 that the clinic made a number of mistakes both before and during the procedure. Among those were the clinic's failure to respond to Rivers' deteriorating vital signs, including a severe drop in her blood pressure, possibly administering an incorrect anesthetic dosage, performing a surgical procedure without her consent, and other medical-clinic irregularities. On September 7, after the cremation of Rivers' body at Garden State Crematory in North Bergen, New Jersey, a private memorial service took place at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan. The service was attended by an estimated 1,500 people. The guest list included Rivers' many celebrity friends and public figures such as Howard Stern, Louis C.K., Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Joy Behar, Michael Kors, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rosie O'Donnell, Bernadette Peters, Kathy Griffin, and Donald Trump. The musical performances included Hugh Jackman singing "Quiet Please, There's a Lady On Stage", as well as the New York City Gay Men's Chorus singing old show tunes. Talk show host Howard Stern, who delivered the eulogy, described Rivers as "brassy in public [and] classy in private ... a troublemaker, trail blazer, pioneer for comics everywhere, ... [who] fought the stereotypes that women can't be funny." Daughter Melissa read a comedic note to her mother as part of her eulogy. Some of Rivers' ashes were scattered by her daughter in Wyoming; she later stated "(We) scattered some of her ashes there so we can still be together every August as a family" during what had been their annual family vacation. On January 26, 2015, Melissa Rivers filed a malpractice lawsuit against the clinic and the doctors who performed surgery on her mother. The suit was settled for an undisclosed amount in May 2016, with the doctors accepting responsibility for Rivers' death. In 2015, Rivers posthumously received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for her book, Diary of a Mad Diva. In 1968, The New York Times television critic Jack Gould called Rivers "quite possibly the most intuitively funny woman alive". In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked her sixth on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time, and in October the same year, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/fubustlistco.html

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June 8, 1940: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The German Invasion Of Denmark And Norway (Operation Weserubung [German: Unternehmen Weserubung, "Operation Weser Exercise]): The Norwegian Campaign: The Battles Of Narvik: Operation Alphabet (The Allied Evacuation Of Narvik): -- The Norwegian Campaign concludes with the Allied evacuation of Narvik, Norway, codenamed Operation Alphabet, ending The Battles Of Narvik. The Allies did this when it was in fact only a matter of time before the Germans would have to surrender. They were pushed from the north by the Norwegians, from the west by the French and from the southwest by the Poles. It appeared that Bjornfjell would be the Germans' last stand, but the stunning German victories elsewhere in Europe came to their rescue. London had already secretly decided to evacuate on May 24, and that became apparent in the following days. On the night of May 24/25, Lord Cork received orders to retreat, but under cover so the Germans would be prevented from interfering. The Allied commanders agreed that an attack on Narvik would disguise the retreat and allow the destruction of the iron ore harbour. The Norwegian government and commanders were first told in early June and the news was met with disbelief and bitterness. The Norwegians still hoped to defeat the Germans alone and, as late as June 5, one of the two Norwegian brigades was ordered to attack. The Norwegian government also explored the possibility of creating a neutral, but free Northern Norway. This plan proved futile, and on June 7 the King and government were evacuated to Britain. All Allied troops were evacuated from Narvik between June 4 and 8. Three Polish passenger ships, MS Sobieski, Batory and Chrobry, took part in the evacuation operation. Chrobry was sunk on May 14-15 by German bombers. On June 8, General Dietl retook Narvik, and on June 10 the last Norwegian forces in Norway surrendered. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/winston-churchill-the-valiant-years-dvd-set-all-26-shows-7-d267.html

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June 8, 1940: #BOTD: #HBD! Nancy Sinatra, American singer, actress and beauty is #born Nancy Sandra Sinatra in Jersey City, New Jersey. She is the elder daughter of Frank Sinatra and Nancy (nee Barbato) Sinatra, and is widely known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". Other defining recordings include "Sugar Town", the 1967 number one "Somethin' Stupid" (a duet with her father), the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood, such as "Jackson", "Summer Wine" and her cover of Cher's "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)". Nancy Sinatra began her career as a singer and actress in November 1957 with an appearance on her father's ABC-TV variety series, but initially achieved success only in Europe and Japan. In early 1966 she had a transatlantic number-one hit with "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". She appeared on TV in high boots, and with colorfully dressed go-go dancers, creating a popular and enduring image of the Swinging Sixties. The song was written by Lee Hazlewood, who wrote and produced most of her hits and sang with her on several duets, including "Some Velvet Morning". In 1966 and 1967, Sinatra charted with 13 titles, all of which featured Billy Strange as arranger and conductor. Sinatra also had a brief acting career in the mid-1960s, including a co-starring role with Elvis Presley in the movie Speedway, and with Peter Fonda in The Wild Angels. In Marriage on the Rocks, Frank and Nancy Sinatra played a fictional father and daughter. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/i-want-my-music-tv-dvd-late-1980s-vi1980.html

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June 8, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Chuck Negron, American singer and songwriter, best known as one of the founders and three lead vocalists of the rock band Three Dog Night, is #born Charles Negron II in Manhattan, New York City. In 1967, singer Danny Hutton invited Negron to join him and Cory Wells to found the band Three Dog Night. The group became one of the most successful bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s, selling approximately 60 million records and earning gold records for singles that featured Negron as lead singer, including "One," "Easy To Be Hard," "Joy to the World," "Old Fashioned Love Song" and "The Show Must Go On." Negron developed a serious heroin addiction, which began in the early 1970s. In July 1975, the British music magazine NME reported that Negron had been arrested for cocaine possession in Kentucky. Three Dog Night disbanded in 1976. After many attempts at rehabilitation, Negron overcame his addiction in September 1991 and embarked on a solo career, recording seven albums. Negron wrote his autobiography, Three Dog Nightmare (1999), in which he describes his life as a high school athlete and a member of a successful rock band. He writes about his descent into drug abuse and attributes his recovery from heroin addiction to his turning to God in desperation after dropping out from more than thirty drug treatment facilities. A revised edition with several new chapters was released in 2008 and an updated version was released in 2018. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-rock-39n39-roll-dvd-complete-tv-series-5-39395.html

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June 8, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, is #born William Royce Scaggs in Canton, Ohio. He became prominent for his series of albums in the late 1970s, and songs "Lido Shuffle" and "Lowdown" from Silk Degrees (1976), which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Scaggs continues to write, record music, and tour. He got the nickname "Boz" when he attended a Dallas private school, St. Mark's School of Texas, where schoolmate Mal Buckner gave him the nickname "Bosley", which was later shortened to "Boz". After learning guitar at the age of 12, Scaggs met Steve Miller at St. Mark's School. In 1959, he became the vocalist for Miller's band, the Marksmen. The pair later attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison together, playing in blues bands like the Ardells and the Fabulous Knight Trains. Leaving school, Scaggs briefly joined the burgeoning R & B scene in London, then traveled on to Sweden as a solo performer, and in 1965 recorded his solo debut album, Boz, which failed commercially. He also had a brief stint with the band the Other Side with Mac MacLeod and Jack Downing. Returning to the U.S., Scaggs promptly headed for the booming psychedelic music center of San Francisco in 1967. Linking up with Steve Miller again, he appeared on the Steve Miller Band's first two albums, Children of the Future and Sailor in 1968. Scaggs secured a solo contract with Atlantic Records in 1968, releasing his second album, Boz Scaggs, featuring the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and session guitarist Duane Allman, in 1969. Despite good reviews, this release achieved only moderate sales. He then briefly hooked up with Bay Area band Mother Earth in a supporting role on their second album Make a Joyful Noise on guitar and backup vocals. Scaggs next signed with Columbia Records releasing the albums Moments in 1971 and My Time in 1972. His first two Columbia albums were modest sellers and seeking a new more soulful direction his record company brought in former Motown producer Johnny Bristol for 1974's Slow Dancer album. Although the album only made # 81 on the US Billboard Album Chart, it subsequently attained gold status no doubt getting a boost from the huge success of Scaggs's next album Silk Degrees. In 1976, using session musicians who later formed Toto, he recorded Silk Degrees, with Joe Wissert on producing duties. The album, which received a Grammy nomination for album of the year and a further nomination for Wissert as Producer of The Year, reached #2 on the US Billboard 200, and #1 in a number of other countries, spawning four hit singles: "It's Over", "Lowdown", "What Can I Say", and "Lido Shuffle", as well as the poignant ballad "We're All Alone", later recorded by Rita Coolidge and Frankie Valli. "Lowdown" sold over one million copies in the US and won the Grammy Award for Best R & B Song, which was shared by Scaggs and David Paich. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-best-of-sunday-night-w-jools-holland-amp-david-sanborn-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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June 8, 1949: Anti-Communism In The United States: The Red Scare: The Second Red Scare: The Hollywood Blacklist: -- Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members; most of those on the list were employed by the movie industry, and as a result of this and other lists, they brought about the Hollywood blacklist, as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally known. The next day, 1949 J. Edgar Hoover released the confidential report that named scores of influential Americans, most of them in the movie and entertainment business as members of the Communist Party. Hoover had this list created at the request of Attorney General Tom Clark in 1946, who had asked for the names of potentially "disloyal Americans" who might be detained in event of a "national emergency". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-secret-files-of-j-edgar-hoover-documentary-dvd.html

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June 8, 1949: First Publications: -- George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is published (often printed as "1984"). It is a dystopian novel set in the year 1984, when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. In the novel, Great Britain ("Airstrip One") has become a province of a superstate named Oceania. Oceania is ruled by the "Party", who employ the "Thought Police" to persecute individualism and independent thinking. The Party's leader is Big Brother (Orwell's pun on the name BBC, i.e. "The Big Brother Corporation"; Orwell was working at the BBC when he wrote much of the novel in the former-broom-closet office he was provided), who enjoys an intense cult of personality but may not even exist. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a rank-and-file Party member, whom Orwell named Winston after Winston Churchill. Smith is an outwardly diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. Smith rebels by entering a forbidden relationship with fellow employee Julia. As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot, and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory hole, have entered into common usage since its publication in 1949. Nineteen Eighty-Four popularised the adjective Orwellian, which describes official deception, secret surveillance, brazenly misleading terminology, and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 13 on the editor's list, and 6 on the readers' list. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 8 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/1984-george-orwell-edmond-o39brien-michael-redgra198439.html

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June 8, 1953: Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1896-1954) (The Jim Crow Era): Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Jim Crow Laws: The History Of The United States: The Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS): District Of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. -- The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C. cannot refuse to serve black patrons. The case which began on April 30, 1953 over the validity of the local Washington Acts of 1872 and 1873. The Acts prohibited segregation in public places within the District. With the court's support, the legal ramifications of the 1872 and 1873 Acts could once again be enforced. The case transpired during growing racial tension in the nation's capital. Throughout Washington, the black community had grown tired of unfair treatment regarding housing, businesses, and education. But, change came soon enough through the courts. On June 8, 1953, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the segregating policies practiced by Thompson's Cafeteria were illegal, marking a huge victory for the national black community. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-road-to-brown-battle-against-plessy-v-ferguson-dvd-download-usb.html

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June 8, 1958: #BOTD: #HBD! Keenen Ivory Wayans, African American actor, comedian, producer, film director and filmmaker, member of the Wayans family of entertainers, is #born Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans in Harlem, New York City. Wayans first came to prominence as the host and the creator of the 1990-1994 Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. He has produced, directed and/or written several films, starting with Hollywood Shuffle, which he cowrote, in 1987. A majority of his films have included him and one or more of his brothers and sisters in the cast. One of these films, Scary Movie (2000), which Wayans directed, was the highest-grossing movie directed by an African American until it was surpassed by Tim Story's Fantastic Four in 2005. From 1997 to 1998, he hosted the talk show The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show. Most recently, he was a judge for the eighth season of Last Comic Standing. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/mo39-funny-black-comedy-in-america-dvd-video-downlo39.html

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June 8, 1972: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): Phan Thi Kim Phuc OOnt (The Girl In The Picture, The Napalm Girl): -- Nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography-winning photo. Phan Thi Kim Phuc, OOnt, referenced informally as the Napalm girl, is a Vietnamese-Canadian. In a December 21, 2017, article for the Wall Street Journal, Kim Phuc wrote that the trauma she suffered in the napalm strike still requires treatment, but that the psychological trauma was greater: "But even worse than the physical pain was the emotional and spiritual pain." This led directly to her conversion to Christianity, which she credits with healing the psychological trauma of living over forty years being known to the world as "Napalm Girl". "My faith in Jesus Christ is what has enabled me to forgive those who had wronged me," she wrote, "no matter how severe those wrongs were." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-vietnam-war-with-walter-cronkite-tv-series-3-dvd-se3.html

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June 8, 1982: The British Empire: The Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas): The Falkland Islands Sovereignty Dispute: The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra De Las Malvinas): The Bluff Cove Air Attacks: -- Fifty-six British servicemen are killed and 150 wounded by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram. These British troop transport ships were bombed by the Argentine Air Force (FAA) while unloading at Bluff Cove, a sea inlet and settlement on East Falkland, with significant damage and casualties. The incident marked the greatest loss of life among British forces in a single incident since World War II, and accounted for one-fifth of British fatalities in the entire conflict. Sir Galahad was damaged beyond repair and scuttled with torpedoes by submarine HMS Onyx on June 21; but her sister ship Sir Tristam survived to be re-built post-war. American author Robert Bolia blames the disaster on the use of large LST ships instead of LCUs and other small vessels. At approximately 14:00 local time the ships RFA Sir Tristram and RFA Sir Galahad were badly damaged by five A-4Bs of Grupo 5. Three A-4s targeted Sir Galahad, which was hit by three bombs released from the Skyhawk flown by First Lieutenant Carlos Cachon. The second Skyhawk was unable to drop its bombs, and the third overshot the British ship. The remaining two aircraft attacked Sir Tristram, which was struck by two bombs released by package leader Lieutenant Daniel Galvez; the bombs of the last A-4 fell short. The explosions and subsequent fires killed 48 men aboard Sir Galahad, of whom 32 were soldiers from the Welsh Guards, 11 were other army personnel, and five were crewmen of the Sir Galahad, among them two Hong Kong Chinese sailors. The attack on Sir Tristram killed two crewmen, both of them also Hong Kong Chinese sailors. At 16:50 a second wave, composed by four A-4Bs of Grupo 5 hit and sank the Landing Craft Utility (LCU) Foxtrot-4 from HMS Fearless in Choiseul Sound. The landing craft was transporting the vehicles and communications equipment and nine soldiers, of 5 Brigade's headquarters, from Darwin to Bluff Cove. Six crew on board were killed, Colour Sergeant Brian Johnston, Sergeant R. J. Rotherham, Marine R. D. Griffin, Marine A. J. Rundle, Royal Navy MEA A. S. James and LMEM D. Miller. However, this time the Sea Harrier combat air patrol was already on scene and responded; three Skyhawks were shot down and their pilots, First Lieutenant Danilo Bolzan, Lieutenant Juan Arraras, and Ensign Alfredo Vazquez were killed. Bolzan and Vazquez were shot down by Flight Lieutenant David Morgan while Arraras was shot down by Morgan's wingman, Lieutenant David Smith. The fourth aircraft, which was flown by First Lieutenant Hector Sanchez, suffered combat damage and lost a large amount of fuel, but returned to the mainland assisted by a KC-130 tanker. A third wave, by A-4Cs of Grupo 4, arrived minutes later and struck ground targets without visible success. In a separate incident, the frigate HMS Plymouth on her own passing through Falkland Sound was attacked by the Daggers from Rio Grande, which struck her with four 1,000-pound bombs. The warship sustained severe damage, and five crewmen were injured. Although all the bombs were duds, the attack caused the explosion of at least one depth charge on her flight deck. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-falklands-war-1992-93-3-part-docuseries-2-mp4s-or-2-dvds-set.html

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June 8, 632: #DOTD: #RIP: Muhammad, Arab religious, social, and political leader, founder and prophet of the world religion of Islam (b. c. 570) #dies on a Monday aged of 62 or 63 in the house of his wife Aisha in Medina, Hejaz, Arabia (modern Saudi Arabia) having suffered for several days with fever, head pain, and weakness. With his head resting on Aisha's lap, he asked her to dispose of his last worldly goods (seven coins), then spoke his final words: "O Allah, exalted Friend (highest Friend or the uppermost, highest Friend in heaven)". His body is buried in the Sacred Chamber of the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi Mosque known as The Prophet's Mosque at Al-Haram, Al-Medinah 42311, Al-Hejaz, Saudi Arabia. Muhammad was born Muhammad ibn Abdullah in Mecca, Hejaz, western Saudi Arabia. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet, divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. He is believed to be the final prophet of God in all the main branches of Islam, though the modern Ahmadiyya movement diverges from this belief. Muhammad united Arabia into a single Muslim polity, with the Quran as well as his teachings and practices forming the basis of Islamic religious belief. Muhammad was born approximately 570 CE in Mecca. He was the son of Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib and Amina bint Wahb. His father Abdullah was the son of Quraysh tribal leader Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim, and he died a few months before Muhammad's birth. His mother Amina died when he was six, leaving Muhammad an orphan. He was raised under the care of his grandfather, Abd al-Muttalib, and paternal uncle, Abu Talib. In later years, he would periodically seclude himself in a mountain cave named Hira for several nights of prayer. When he was 40, Muhammad reported being visited by Gabriel in the cave and receiving his first revelation from God. In 613, Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly, proclaiming that "God is One", that complete "submission" (islam) to God is the right way of life (din), and that he was a prophet and messenger of God, similar to the other prophets in Islam. Muhammad's followers were initially few in number, and experienced hostility from Meccan polytheists for 13 years. To escape ongoing persecution, he sent some of his followers to Abyssinia in 615, before he and his followers migrated from Mecca to Medina (then known as Yathrib) later in 622. This event, the Hijra, marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar, also known as the Hijri Calendar. In Medina, Muhammad united the tribes under the Constitution of Medina. In December 629, after eight years of intermittent fighting with Meccan tribes, Muhammad gathered an army of 10,000 Muslim converts and marched on the city of Mecca. The conquest went largely uncontested and Muhammad seized the city with little bloodshed. In 632, a few months after returning from the Farewell Pilgrimage, he fell ill and died. By the time of his death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam. The revelations (each known as Ayah - literally, "Sign [of God]") that Muhammad reported receiving until his death form the verses of the Quran, regarded by Muslims as the verbatim "Word of God" on which the religion is based. Besides the Quran, Muhammad's teachings and practices (sunnah), found in the Hadith and sira (biography) literature, are also upheld and used as sources of sharia (Islamic law). https://store.earthstation1.com/legacy-with-michael-wood-world-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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June 8, 1862: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater Of The American Civil War: Jackson's Valley Campaign (The Shenandoah Valley Campaign Of 1862): The Battle Of Cross Keys: -- Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save The Army Of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan. The Battle Of Cross Keys was fought in Rockingham County as part of Jackson's Valley Campaign through the Shenandoah Valley. The following day, June 9, 1862 The Battle Off Port Republic was fought, bringing Jackson's Valley Campaign to a successful conclusion; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world. He employed audacity and rapid, unpredictable movements on interior lines, with Jackson marching 17,000 men 646 miles (1,040 km) in 48 days and winning several minor battles while successfully engaging three Union armies (52,000 men), preventing them from reinforcing the Union offensive against Richmond. The battles of Cross Keys and Port Republic were together the decisive victories in of the campaign, forcing the Union armies to retreat and leaving Jackson free to reinforce Gen. Robert E. Lee for The Seven Days Battles outside Richmond, Virginia. Jackson's Valley Campaign https://store.earthstation1.com/stonewall-jackson-bios-american-civil-war-amp-mexican-war-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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June 8, 1940: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The German Invasion Of Denmark And Norway (Operation Weserubung [German: Unternehmen Weserubung, "Operation Weser Exercise]): The Norwegian Campaign: The Battles Of Narvik: Operation Alphabet (The Allied Evacuation Of Narvik): -- The Norwegian Campaign concludes with the Allied evacuation of Narvik, Norway, codenamed Operation Alphabet, ending The Battles Of Narvik. The Allies did this when it was in fact only a matter of time before the Germans would have to surrender. They were pushed from the north by the Norwegians, from the west by the French and from the southwest by the Poles. It appeared that Bjornfjell would be the Germans' last stand, but the stunning German victories elsewhere in Europe came to their rescue. London had already secretly decided to evacuate on May 24, and that became apparent in the following days. On the night of May 24/25, Lord Cork received orders to retreat, but under cover so the Germans would be prevented from interfering. The Allied commanders agreed that an attack on Narvik would disguise the retreat and allow the destruction of the iron ore harbour. The Norwegian government and commanders were first told in early June and the news was met with disbelief and bitterness. The Norwegians still hoped to defeat the Germans alone and, as late as June 5, one of the two Norwegian brigades was ordered to attack. The Norwegian government also explored the possibility of creating a neutral, but free Northern Norway. This plan proved futile, and on June 7 the King and government were evacuated to Britain. All Allied troops were evacuated from Narvik between June 4 and 8. Three Polish passenger ships, MS Sobieski, Batory and Chrobry, took part in the evacuation operation. Chrobry was sunk on May 14-15 by German bombers. On June 8, General Dietl retook Narvik, and on June 10 the last Norwegian forces in Norway surrendered. https://store.earthstation1.com/world-war-ii-the-war-years-17-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-174.html

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June 8, 1845: #DOTD: Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, statesman and politician, 7th President of the United States from1829 to 1837 (b. June 8, 1767) #dies of dropsy, tuberculosis and heart failure at The Hermitage, his home in Nashville, Tennessee. aged 78. He was surrounded by family and friends at his deathbed, and his last words were, "Oh, do not cry. Be good children and we will all meet in Heaven." He is buried in the same tomb as his wife Rachel at The Hermitage. Jackson was born March 15, 1767 in a log cabin in Waxhaw, South Carolina. Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress. As president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to preserve the Union. Born to a Scotch-Irish family in the decade before the American Revolutionary War, as a boy he volunteered to serve in the American Revolution. Captured by the British, he refused an order to clean an officer's boots and was slashed by his sword. Jackson later became a frontier lawyer and married Rachel Donelson Robards. He served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate representing Tennessee. After resigning, he served as a justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1798 until 1804. Jackson purchased a property later known as the Hermitage, and became a wealthy, slaveowning planter. In 1801, he was appointed colonel of the Tennessee militia and was elected its commander the following year. He led troops during the Creek War of 1813-1814, winning the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The subsequent Treaty of Fort Jackson required the Creek indians surrender of vast lands in present-day Alabama and Georgia. In the concurrent war ongoing against the British, Jackson's victory in 1815 at the Battle Of New Orleans made him a national hero. Jackson then led U.S. forces in the First Seminole War, which caused the annexation of Florida from Spain. Jackson briefly served as Florida's first territorial governor before returning to the Senate. He ran for president in 1824, winning a plurality of the popular and electoral vote. As no candidate won an electoral majority, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams in a contingent election. In reaction to the alleged "corrupt bargain" between Adams and Henry Clay and the ambitious agenda of President Adams, Jackson's supporters founded the Democratic Party. Jackson ran again in 1828, defeating Adams in a landslide. Jackson faced the threat of secession by South Carolina over what opponents called the "Tariff of Abominations." The crisis was defused when the tariff was amended, and Jackson threatened the use of military force if South Carolina attempted to secede. In Congress, Henry Clay led the effort to reauthorize the Second Bank of the United States. Jackson, regarding the Bank as a corrupt institution, vetoed the renewal of its charter. After a lengthy struggle, Jackson and his allies thoroughly dismantled the Bank. In 1835, Jackson became the only president to completely pay off the national debt, fulfilling a longtime goal. His presidency marked the beginning of the ascendancy of the party "spoils system" in American politics, a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government civil service jobs to its supporters, friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory. In 1830, Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which forcibly relocated most members of the Native American tribes in the South to Indian Territory. The relocation process dispossessed the Indians and resulted in widespread death and disease. Jackson opposed the abolitionist movement, which grew stronger in his second term. In foreign affairs, Jackson's administration concluded a "most favored nation" treaty with Great Britain, settled claims of damages against France from the Napoleonic Wars, and recognized the Republic of Texas. In January 1835, he survived the first assassination attempt on a president. In his retirement, Jackson remained active in Democratic Party politics, supporting the presidencies of Martin Van Buren and James K. Polk. Though fearful of its effects on the slavery debate, Jackson advocated the annexation of Texas, which was accomplished shortly before his death. Jackson was widely revered in the United States as an advocate for democracy and the common man, but his reputation has declined since the civil rights movement, largely due to his role in Indian removal and support for slavery. Surveys of historians and scholars have ranked Jackson favorably among United States presidents. https://store.earthstation1.com/native-north-american-indian-history-documentaries-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Vietnam War Films & Documentaries Collection DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, June 8, 2026
June 8, 1943: #BOTD: William Calley, American lieutenant and war criminal, convicted by court-martial of murdering 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, is #born William Laws Calley Jr. in Miami, Florida. On November 12, 1969, Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. On November 24, 1969, the U.S. Army announced that Lt. William L. Calley had been charged with premeditated murder in the massacre of civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai in March of 1968. On November 17, 1970 Calley went on trial for the massacre. On March 29, 1971, Calley was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison; however, his sentence was later commuted to house arrest by President Richard Nixon, pending appeal. While not technically exonerated, after three and a half years of house arrest, Calley was released pursuant to a ruling by federal judge J. Robert Elliott who found that Calley's trial had been prejudiced by pre-trial publicity, denial of subpoenas of certain defense witnesses, refusal of the United States House Of Representatives to release testimony taken in executive session of its My Lai investigation, and inadequate notice of the charges. His initial conviction faced widespread public opposition both due to the campaign circumstances of civilian embedded Viet Cong, and due to Calley being singled out as the sole officer convicted with respect to the massacre. The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968. It was committed by U.S. Army soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated. Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years under house arrest. The massacre, which was later called "the most shocking episode of the Vietnam War", took place in two hamlets of Son My village in Quang Ngai Province. These hamlets were marked on the U.S. Army topographic maps as My Lai and My Khe. The U.S. Army slang name for the hamlets and sub-hamlets in that area was Pinkville, and the carnage was initially referred to as the Pinkville Massacre. On November 12, 1969, independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the My Lai Massacre, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Later, when the U.S. Army started its investigation, the media changed it to the Massacre at Songmy. Currently, the event is referred to as the My Lai Massacre in the United States and called the Son My Massacre in Vietnam. The incident prompted global outrage when it became public knowledge as a result of Hersh' story. The My Lai massacre increased domestic opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War when the scope of killing and cover-up attempts were exposed. Initially, three U.S. servicemen who had tried to halt the massacre and rescue the hiding civilians were shunned, and even denounced as traitors by several U.S. Congressmen, including Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Only after thirty years were they recognized and decorated, one posthumously, by the U.S. Army for shielding non-combatants from harm in a war zone. Along with the No Gun Ri massacre in Korea eighteen years earlier, My Lai was one of the largest single massacres of civilians by U.S. forces in the 20th century. As of 2018, Calley was living in Gainesville, Florida, where he died at the age of 80. His death was not reported until July 29, when it was discovered in public records. On his death certificate, a question asking if he had ever served "in [the] U.S. Armed Forces" was marked down falsely as: "No". He is buried at Southern Memorial Park in North Miami, Florida. https://store.earthstation1.com/vietnam-war-films-2-dual-layer--dvd-se2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Armed Forces Radio Presents Jubilee! WWII Radio DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, June 8, 2026
June 8, 1972: #DOTD: #RIP: Jimmy Rushing, African American blues shouter, balladeer, swing jazz singer, pianist and bandleader from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948 (b. August 26, 1901) #dies of leukemia aged 70 at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City. He is buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York. Until weeks before his death, he was singing on weekends at the Half Note Club in Manhattan. Jimmy Rushing was born James Andrew Rushing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma into a family with musical talent and accomplishments. His father, Andrew Rushing, was a trumpeter, and his mother, Cora, and her brother were singers. He studied music theory with Zelia N. Breaux at Frederick A. Douglass High School in Oklahoma City and was unusual among his musical contemporaries for having attended college at Wilberforce University. James Andrew Rushing was known as "Mr. Five by Five" and was the subject of an eponymous 1942 popular song that was a hit for Harry James and others; the lyrics describe Rushing's rotund build: "he's five feet tall and he's five feet wide". He joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1927 and then joined Bennie Moten's band in 1929. He stayed with the successor Count Basie band when Moten died in 1935. Rushing said that his first time singing in front of an audience was in 1924. He was playing piano at a club when the featured singer, Carlyn Williams, invited him to do a vocal. "I got out there and broke it up. I was a singer from then on," he said. Rushing was a powerful singer who had a range from baritone to tenor. He could project his voice so that it soared over the horn and reed sections in a big-band setting. Basie claimed that Rushing "never had an equal" as a blues vocalist, though Rushing "really thought of himself as a ballad singer." George Frazier, the author of Harvard Blues, called Rushing's distinctive voice "a magnificent gargle". Dave Brubeck defined Rushing's status among blues singers as "the daddy of them all." Late in his life Rushing said of his singing style, "I don't know what kind of blues singer you'd call me. I just sing 'em." Among his best-known recordings are "Going to Chicago", with Basie, and "Harvard Blues", with a famous saxophone solo by Don Byas. https://store.earthstation1.com/armed-forces-radio-presents-jubilee-otr-jazz-music-mp3-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC Radio Airchecks MP3 Collection 1960s-1980s DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, June 8, 2026
June 8, 2005: #DOTD: #RIP: Roy Hensley, Rhythm guitarist of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota) one hit wonder rock band The Castaways (b. December 31, 1947) #dies in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the age of 57. He was survived by his mother, Donna Hart; two brothers, Philip & Richard Hensley, his widow, Dawn Hensley, three sons, one daughter, five grandchildren, many cousins and millions of adoring fans. Services were held at 4:00 PM Sunday, June 12, 2005 at the Lakeview Funeral Home in Fairmont, MN, and he was buried in Antrim Township Cemetery in Lewisville, Minnesota. Roy Hensley was born Roy Merlin Hensley in Olmsted County, part of the Rochester Metropolitan area of Rochester, Minnesota. The Castaways was formed in 1963. The band's only hit single was "Liar, Liar", reaching number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965. It was written by keyboardist and band leader Jim Donna and drummer (and band co-founder) Dennis Craswell, produced by Timothy D. Kehr and released by Soma Records. The original members were Jim Donna on keyboards, Robert Folschow and Roy Hensley on guitars, Dick Roby on bass guitar and vocal, and Dennis Craswell on drums. Folschow sang the distinctive falsetto vocal on "Liar, Liar" (which some listeners routinely mistake as being sung by a woman due to its high pitch), and Dick Roby contributed the scream. "Liar, Liar" was later featured in the films Good Morning, Vietnam and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and was covered by Debbie Harry in Married to the Mob. The Castaways performed "Liar, Liar" in the 1967 beach movie, It's a Bikini World. Their follow up, "Goodbye Babe", was another local hit, but did not break nationally. Although the group released several more singles throughout the 1960s, they never released an album, until the appearance of their 1999 Greatest Hits compilation. In 1966 Jim Donna left the band, and Bob Folschow ended up being drafted into the army. The band ended up breaking up 2 years after this in 1968. Jim Donna restarted The Castaways in the 1970s with new members. Following the dissolution of the band, original drummer Dennis Craswell (co-author of the song "Liar Liar"), went on to join Crow, a Minneapolis-based rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s. and now plays under the name: The Original Castaways (summers) and plays under the name: The Castaway in the Rio Grande Valley playing dances in the 55+ parks, and on South Padre Island (winters). In the early 1980s, Folschow and Craswell led a West Coast version of the band under the name The Castaways in Pismo Beach, California. Folschow, who was using the stage name of Bob LaRoy, played guitar and a keytar on many songs, including "Liar, Liar". At some point, this lineup also included fellow original members Roby and Hensley, leaving Donna as the only original member not participating. In 2006, all five members of the classic Castaways lineup were inducted into the Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with the group's former producer, Timothy B. Kehr accepting the award on behalf of posthumous inductee Hensley. In 2022 Jim Donna wrote a book about The Castaways called, ''Liar, Liar From Garage Band to Rockstars, the Story of Minnesota's Castaways in the 1960's''. As of 2025, The Castaways, with original band leader Jim Donna, continue to perform for fairs, festivals, and private events in the upper Midwest. The modern line up consists of Bob Donna on Guitar, Rick Snider on the drums, Ralph Hintz on bass guitar and lead vocals and Jim Donna on the keyboards. https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War Jets: The North American XB-70 Valkyrie DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, June 8, 2026
June 8, 1966: #DOTD: #RIP: When an F-104N Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype No. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base, Joseph A. Walker - American World War II pilot, experimental physicist, NASA test pilot, and astronaut who was the first person to fly an airplane to space - and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot - Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, #dies. At an altitude of about 25,000 ft (7.6 km)[13] Walker's Starfighter was one of five aircraft in a tight group formation for a General Electric publicity photo when his F-104 drifted into contact with the XB-70's right wingtip. The USAF summary report of the accident investigation stated that, given the position of the F-104 relative to the XB-70, the F-104 pilot would not have been able to see the XB-70's wing, except by uncomfortably looking back over his left shoulder; the report stated that it was likely that Walker, piloting the F-104, maintained his position by looking at the fuselage of the XB-70, forward of his position. The F-104 flipped over, and, rolling inverted, passed over the top of the XB-70, striking both its vertical stabilizers and its left wing in the process, and exploded, killing Walker. The Valkyrie entered an uncontrollable spin and crashed into the ground north of Barstow, California, killing co-pilot Carl Cross. The The Valkyrie's pilot, Alvin White, one of Walker's colleagues from the Man In Space Soonest program, ejected and was the sole survivor. The F-104 was estimated to be 70 ft (20 m) to the side of, and 10 ft (3 m) below, the fuselage of the XB-70. The USAF summary report concluded that from that position, without appropriate sight cues, Walker was unable to properly perceive his motion relative to the Valkyrie, leading to his aircraft drifting into contact with the XB-70's wing. The accident investigation also pointed to the wake vortex off the XB-70's right wingtip as the reason for the F-104's sudden roll over and into the bomber. A sixth plane in the incident was a civilian Learjet 23 that held the photographer. Because the formation flight and photo were unauthorized, the careers of several Air Force colonels ended as a result of this aviation accident. https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-the-north-american-xb70-valkyrie-d70.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War Jets: The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter MP4 Video Download Or DVD
Today, June 8, 2026
June 8, 1966: #DOTD: #RIP: When an F-104N Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype No. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base, Joseph A. Walker - American World War II pilot, experimental physicist, NASA test pilot, and astronaut who was the first person to fly an airplane to space - and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot - #dies. At an altitude of about 25,000 ft (7.6 km)[13] Walker's Starfighter was one of five aircraft in a tight group formation for a General Electric publicity photo when his F-104 drifted into contact with the XB-70's right wingtip. The USAF summary report of the accident investigation stated that, given the position of the F-104 relative to the XB-70, the F-104 pilot would not have been able to see the XB-70's wing, except by uncomfortably looking back over his left shoulder; the report stated that it was likely that Walker, piloting the F-104, maintained his position by looking at the fuselage of the XB-70, forward of his position. The F-104 flipped over, and, rolling inverted, passed over the top of the XB-70, striking both its vertical stabilizers and its left wing in the process, and exploded, killing Walker. The Valkyrie entered an uncontrollable spin and crashed into the ground north of Barstow, California, killing co-pilot Carl Cross. The The Valkyrie's pilot, Alvin White, one of Walker's colleagues from the Man In Space Soonest program, ejected and was the sole survivor. The F-104 was estimated to be 70 ft (20 m) to the side of, and 10 ft (3 m) below, the fuselage of the XB-70. The USAF summary report concluded that from that position, without appropriate sight cues, Walker was unable to properly perceive his motion relative to the Valkyrie, leading to his aircraft drifting into contact with the XB-70's wing. The accident investigation also pointed to the wake vortex off the XB-70's right wingtip as the reason for the F-104's sudden roll over and into the bomber. A sixth plane in the incident was a civilian Learjet 23 that held the photographer. Because the formation flight and photo were unauthorized, the careers of several Air Force colonels ended as a result of this aviation accident. https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-the-lockheed-f104-starfighter-104.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Civil Rights OTR: Destination Freedom, New World A-Coming CD MP3 USB
Today, June 8, 2026
June 8, 1982: #DOTD: #RIP: Satchel Paige, African American baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB) in a career spanning five decades culminating in his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, actor, author, sheriff and political candidate (b. July 7, 1906) #dies of a heart attack after a power failure at his home in Kansas City, aged 75. He is buried on Paige Island in the Forest Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Kansas City. He was born Leroy Robert Paige in Mobile, Alabama. A right-handed pitcher, Paige first played for the semi-professional Mobile Tigers from 1924 to 1926. He began his professional baseball career in 1926 with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts of the Negro Southern League and became one of the most famous and successful players from the Negro leagues. On town tours across the United States, Paige would sometimes have his infielders sit down behind him and then routinely strike out the side. At age 42 in 1948, Paige made his debut for the Cleveland Indians; to this day, this makes him the oldest debutant in the National League or American League history. Additionally, Paige was 59 years old when he played his last major league game, which is also a record that stands to this day. Paige was the first black pitcher to play in the American League and was the seventh black player to play in Major League Baseball. Also in 1948, Paige became the first player who had played in the Negro leagues to pitch in the World Series; the Indians won the Series that year. He played with the St. Louis Browns from 1951 to 1953, representing the team in the All-Star Game in 1952 and 1953. He played his last professional game on June 21, 1966, for the Peninsula Grays of the Carolina League, two weeks shy of 60. In 1971, Paige became the first electee of the Negro League Committee to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. After the 1957 season, Paige went to the Mexican state of Durango to appear in a United Artists movie, The Wonderful Country, starring Robert Mitchum and Julie London. Paige played Sgt. Tobe Sutton, a hard-bitten cavalry sergeant of the Buffalo Soldiers. Late in 1960, Paige began collaborating with writer David Lipman on his autobiography, which was published by Doubleday in April 1962, and ran to three printings. In 1968, Paige assumed the position of deputy sheriff in Jackson County, Missouri, with the understanding that he need not bother to actually come to work in the sheriff's office. The purpose of the charade was to set up Paige with political credentials. Soon after, he ran for a Missouri state assembly seat with the support of the local Democratic club against incumbent Representative Leon Jordan, a race which Paige lost. On December 19, 1987, Mia Farrow gave birth to Satchel Farrow (later known as Ronan Farrow), so named by Woody Allen in honor of Satchel Paige. https://store.earthstation1.com/destination-freedom-new-world-a39comin39-mp3-cd-civil-rights-39393.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Golden Age Of Comedy 5 Album Set CD, MP3, USB Stick
Today, June 8, 2026
June 8, 1923: #BOTD: #HBD! George Kirby, African American comedian, impressionists, singer, and actor (d. September 30, 1995) is #born in Chicago, Illinois. Kirby broke into show business in the 1940s at the Club DeLisa, a South Side establishment that employed a variety-show format and preferred to hire local singers, dancers, and comedians. His first recording was as a stand-up blues singer, performing "Ice Man Blues" on a Tom Archia session done in 1947 for Aristocrat Records. He was one of the first African American comedians to appeal to white as well as black audiences during the height of the Civil Rights era, appearing between 1963 and 1972 on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Jackie Gleason Show, The Temptations Show, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. As an impressionist, he mimicked - provocatively for 1960s performance venues - white actors such as John Wayne and Walter Brennan rather than solely black stars such as Bill Cosby and Pearl Bailey. He also did vocal impressions of such singers as Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Williams. In 1970, he was allowed to produce The George Kirby Show, a television special, to gauge whether he could attract an audience for a weekly series. This led to his hosting Half the George Kirby Comedy Hour, a sketch comedy and variety show, which lasted for 22 episodes in 1972; it was one of the actor-comedian Steve Martin's first credits in front of the camera. The series was in many ways an uneasy compromise between Kirby's natural gifts and what the public would accept of black actors at the time; a regular feature was a shaggy dog story segment entitled the "Funky Fable". He was also a regular in the ABC series The Kopykats, with other impressionists such as Rich Little, Charlie Callas, Marilyn Michaels, and Frank Gorshin. Following the demise of his show, Kirby's career declined, especially as audiences began to look for more cutting-edge comedy. His career never again reached its former heights, but he did register featured guest appearances on Gimme a Break with Nell Carter, What's Happening Now!!, Crazy Like a Fox, and 227. In 1983 he did a USO tour with Bob Hope to entertain the troops in Beirut, Lebanon as part of the multinational peacekeeping force. Arrested in 1977 for selling cocaine and heroin to an undercover officer, Kirby served three and a half years in prison. After his release, he visited schools to tell students to stay off drugs. Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in his later years, Kirby made his last public appearance at an all-star benefit in May 1995 given by his friends for his mounting medical bills. George Kirby died of Parkinson's disease at a nursing home in Las Vegas at the age of 72; he was survived by his wife, Rosemary. He was buried at Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois. https://store.earthstation1.com/golden-age-of-comedy-narrated-by-george-burns-5-album-set-mp3-53.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Who Killed Martin Luther King? Case Against James Earl Ray DVD MP4 USB
Today, June 8, 2026
June 8, 1968: Assassinations Of Human Rights Activists: Assassinations Of American Civil Rights Activists: Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism In The United States: The Assassination Of Martin Luther King, Jr.: -- James Earl Ray, the man convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is arrested at London Heathrow Airport. In a 1999 civil trial, a jury unanimously concluded that Martin Luther King Jr. was the victim of a conspiracy, and that various United States governmental agencies had conspired to murder King and frame Ray. The King family has consistently said that they believe Ray was innocent, though this conclusion has been disputed by the United States Department of Justice. James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 - April 23, 1998) was an American fugitive convicted for assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. After this, Ray was on the run and was captured in the UK. Ray was convicted in 1969 after entering a guilty plea-thus forgoing a jury trial and the possibility of a death sentence-and was sentenced to 99 years of imprisonment. https://store.earthstation1.com/who-killed-martin-luther-king-dvd.html