Right now in Historical past: June 8, FBI director testifies he was fired over Russia investigation

Right now is Sunday, June 8, the 159th day of 2025. There are 206 days left within the 12 months.

Right now in historical past:

On June 8, 2017, former FBI Director James Comey, testifying earlier than Congress, asserted that President Donald Trump fired him to intervene with Comey’s investigation of Russia’s ties to the Trump marketing campaign.

Additionally on this date:

In 1789, in an deal with to the U.S. Home of Representatives, James Madison proposed amending the Structure to incorporate a Invoice of Rights.

In 1949, George Orwell’s novel “1984” was first printed.

In 1966, a merger was introduced between the Nationwide and American Soccer Leagues, to take impact in 1970.

In 1967, throughout the Six-Day Struggle, 34 American crew members had been killed when Israel attacked the united statesLiberty, a Navy intelligence-gathering ship within the Mediterranean Sea. (Israel later mentioned the Liberty had been mistaken for an Egyptian vessel.)

In 1968, U.S. authorities introduced the seize in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected murderer of civil rights chief the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1978, a jury in Clark County, Nevada, dominated the so-called “Mormon Will,” purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery.

In 1995, U.S. Marines rescued Capt. Scott O’Grady, whose F-16C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.

In 2009, North Korea’s highest court docket sentenced American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years’ arduous labor for trespassing and “hostile acts.” (The ladies had been pardoned in early August 2009 after a visit to Pyongyang by former President Invoice Clinton.)

In 2021, Ratko Mladić, the army chief referred to as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for orchestrating genocide, crimes towards humanity and struggle crimes within the Balkan nation’s 1992-95 struggle, misplaced his last authorized battle when U.N. judges rejected his enchantment and affirmed his life sentence.

In 2023, Donald Trump was indicted by a grand jury in Miami on 37 felony counts associated to the alleged mishandling of categorised paperwork that had been moved to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida dwelling. (The case towards Trump was deserted following Trump’s November 2024 presidential election victory.)

Right now’s Birthdays:

Singer Nancy Sinatra is 85.
Musician Boz Scaggs is 81.
Pianist Emanuel Ax is 76.
Actor Sonia Braga is 75.
Actor Kathy Baker is 75.
Singer Bonnie Tyler is 73.
Laptop scientist Tim Berners-Lee is 70.
Actor Griffin Dunne is 70.
“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams is 68.
Actor-director Keenen Ivory Wayans is 67.
Singer Mick Hucknall (Merely Pink) is 65.
Musician Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran) is 63.
Actor Julianna Margulies is 59.
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat from Arizona, is 55.
Tennis Corridor of Famer Lindsay Davenport is 49.
TV personality-host Maria Menounos is 47.
Nation singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson is 47.
Guitarist-songwriter Derek Vehicles is 46.
Tennis Corridor of Famer Kim Clijsters is 42.
U.S. Olympic observe gold medalist Athing Mu-Nikolayev is 23.