June 8
WORLD Oceans Day
NATIONAL Best Friends Day
NATIONAL Name Your Poison Day
NATIONAL Jerky Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1861 Tennessee votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy
1953 The Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington DC
1982 President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament
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