Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 8
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- 632 - Muhammad, founder of Islam, died in Medina.
- 1887 - Herman Hollerith (pictured) received a patent for his punch card calculator.
- 1949 - George Orwell's dystopian political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published.
- 1953 - Two tornadoes killed more than 200 people in Flint, Michigan and Worcester, Massachusetts.
- 1966 - One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
- 2004 - Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele broke the world record for outdoor 10,000 m in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
