It happenned on a… June, 8th

Crédit:

2018

World’s most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia


2001

Ray Bourque plays the final game in his NHL career


1972

Vietnam War: The photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Th? Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.


1953

The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.


1949

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.


1947

“Lassie” debuted on ABC radio. It was a 15-minute show.

1869

Ives W. McGaffey received a U.S. patent for the suction vacuum cleaner.