On This Day for June 8 - Michelangelo's David installed in Florence, Frank Lloyd Wright is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-08 10:04 Updated: 2020-06-08 10:04 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 08

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Michelangelo's David installed in Florence

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2002: Serena Williams defeated her sister Venus Williams to win her first French Open tennis title. [Sort fact from fiction in our tennis quiz.]

1977: American producer and rapper Kanye West—who parlayed his production success into a career as a popular critically acclaimed solo artist—was born. [Test your knowledge of hip-hop.]

1966: The National Football League and the American Football League announced a merger, which became effective in 1970. [Take our quiz about American football.]

1949: British author George Orwell published his dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-four, a warning against totalitarianism that introduced such concepts as Big Brother and the Thought Police. [Take our quiz about the authors of classic literature.]

1916: Biophysicist Francis Crick, who along with James Dewey Watson and Maurice Wilkins received the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their determination of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), was born in Northampton, England. [How much do you know about the Nobel Prize?]