On This Day — June 8

Here are some of the most significant historical events that happened on June 8.

• 2023: Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information.
• 2008: 7 people are killed and 11 more are injured in a massacre in Akihabara.
• 2007: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
• 2007: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-117 carrying two truss segments and solar arrays to the International Space Station.
• 2004: The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.

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