Lucifer Jones “The Real Devil”

Hello my pets, This is Beelzebub bringing you “This Day In Hell” for June 8th.

Throughout history June 8th has been a busy day,

793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.

1783 – The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.

1949 – Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.

1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.

1966 – Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an “F5″ on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.

1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.

1968 – James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australia state of New South Wales

1995 – The first release of the PHP programming language is released by Rasmus Lerdorf.

2008 – The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Kat? drives a two-ton truck into a crowded pedestrianised area before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife, killing seven and injuring ten.

Many people were born on June 8th, here’s a few destined to join us here in Hell when they die:

1927 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor

1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedian and author

1944 – Boz Scaggs, American singer and songwriter

1962 – Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran)

1977 – Kanye West, American rapper

And June 8th has brought many a soul through the gates of Hell, some of which include:

1809 – Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer

1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor

1970 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist

1998 – Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria

-Beelzebub -

                 

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