{"id":101,"date":"2013-10-14T14:14:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T14:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.indiavision.com\/about-india\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:19:20","slug":"day-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.indiavision.com\/about-india\/indian-history\/day-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Day In History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Day in History<\/h3>\r\n \r\n
\r\n Today: June 8, 2026<\/strong> <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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218<\/div>\r\n
\r\n Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.[1]<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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452<\/div>\r\n
\r\n Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.[2]<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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793<\/div>\r\n
\r\n Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.[3]<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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1042<\/div>\r\n
\r\n Edward the Confessor becomes King of England \u2013<\/span> the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.[4]<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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1191<\/div>\r\n
\r\n Richard I arrives in Acre, beginning the Third Crusade. <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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1663<\/div>\r\n
\r\n Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial ensures Portugal's independence from Spain.[5]<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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1772<\/div>\r\n
\r\n Alexander Fordyce flees to France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the credit crisis of 1772 in the British Empire and the Dutch Republic.[6]<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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1776<\/div>\r\n
\r\n American Revolutionary War: Continental Army attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivi\u00e8res. <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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1783<\/div>\r\n
\r\n Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine. <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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1789<\/div>\r\n
\r\n James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress. <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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