It happenned on a… June, 8th

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.