Wikipedia:Main Page history/2015 June 8

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• ... that though Ali Mardan Khan was a successful engineer and administrator his tomb in Lahore (pictured) is considered a shrine by the locals?
• ... that Ximena Bedregal was the editor of La Jornada's supplement, Triple Jornada?
• ... that
  terabytes of RAM, won a Texas hold 'em
  poker championship for computers, but it was defeated by a team of humans?
• ... that the songs in Kim Hyung-jun's Japanese single "Long Night" were used as Korean soundtracks before and after the single was released?
• ... that art around 1600 AD illustrating the proverb Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes may reflect the patronage of Haarlem's brewers?
• ... that the
  women's national rugby sevens teams cannot select Northern Irish players for the Olympics due to the Irish Rugby Football Union
  ?
• ... that the star S Sagittae changes its radius, temperature, luminosity, and colour over an eight-day period?
• ... that art historian and museum curator Pratapaditya Pal owes his career to University of Calcutta not offering anthropology courses in 1957?

• In horse racing, American Pharoah (pictured) wins the Belmont Stakes to become the first U.S. Triple Crown winner since 1978.
• In
  the final
  .
• At least 200 people are killed in the explosion of a petrol station in Accra, Ghana, which was being used as a shelter from several days of flooding.
• Sepp Blatter announces his resignation as president of FIFA in the wake of corruption indictments of FIFA officials.
• At least 430 people are confirmed dead and 11 missing after a Chinese cruise ship is
  struck by a tornado and sinks in the Yangtze
  .

• Ongoing events:
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
• Recent deaths
  :
  • Tariq Aziz
  • Nicholas Liverpool
  • Charles Kennedy

June 8

• 1783 – Iceland's Laki craters began an eight-month eruption, triggering major famine and massive fluorine poisoning.
• 1887 – German-American statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card tabulator.
• Oceania
  , was first published.
• server-side
  language on nearly 40% of all web sites.
• 2009 – Two American journalists, having been arrested for illegal entry into North Korea, were sentenced to 12 years hard labor before being pardoned two months later.

• More anniversaries:
  • June 7
  • June 8
  • June 9