On June 8, 632, the prophet Muhammad died; he was believed to be in his early 60s.
In 1625 French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini was born in Perinaldo in present-day Italy.
In 1809 American revolutionary pamphleteer Thomas Paine died in New York; he was 72.
In 1810 romantic composer Robert Schumann was born in Zwickau, Germany.
In 1845 Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president, died in Nashville at 78.
In 1861 Tennessee seceded from the Union.
In 1867 architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wis.
In 1874 Apache Indian leader Cochise died in Arizona.
In 1876 author George Sand, 71, died in Nohant, France.
In 1917 Byron White, a Supreme Court justice from 1962-93, was born in Ft. Collins, Colo.
In 1925 Barbara Bush, wife of ex-President George H.W. Bush, was born in Rye, N.Y.
In 1947 mystery writer Sara Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa.
In 1948 “Texaco Star Theater,” the long-running TV variety program, made its debut on NBC with Milton Berle as host.
In 1955 Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist generally acknowledged as the inventor of the World Wide Web, was born in London.
In 1967 Israeli torpedo boats and warplanes attacked the U.S. communications ship Liberty, killing 34 sailors, during the Six Day War. (Israel said the attack was a mistake.)
In 1968 James Earl Ray, indicted in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., was arrested in London.
In 1970 psychologist Abraham Maslow died in Menlo Park, Calif., at 62.
In 1995 Marines rescued Capt. Scott O’Grady, whose fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
In 1996 China set off an underground nuclear test blast.
In 1998 actor Charlton Heston was elected president of the National Rifle Association.
In 2003 “Hairspray” won eight Tony Awards, including best musical.
