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
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Michelangelo: David
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Michelangelo's David installed in Florence
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Serena Williams
2002: Serena Williams defeated her sister Venus Williams to win her first French Open tennis title. [Sort fact from fiction in our tennis quiz.]
Kanye West
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.]
George Orwell
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.]
Francis Crick
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?]
Franz Joseph
1867: Franz Joseph was crowned king of Hungary. [ Take our quiz about kings and emperors.]
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1955
Tim Berners-Lee
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1867
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect
1933
Joan Rivers
American entertainer
1966
Julianna Margulies
American actress
1970
Gabrielle Giffords
American politician
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