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Richard I<\/a> of England arrived in the Holy Land, reinforcing the crusader army that was besieging the port of Acre, which soon surrendered.<\/p>\n German Romantic composer Robert Schumann was born in Zwickau, Saxony. He decided to concentrate on composition after a self-inflicted hand injury dashed his hopes of becoming a concert pianist.<\/p>\n It is announced that former shop worker Margaret Bondfield has become Britain\u2019s first female cabinet minister. She is appointed minister of labour in Ramsay MacDonald\u2019s\u00a0new government.<\/p>\n Fifty British servicemen lost their lives in Argentine air attacks upon RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram in Bluff Cove, East Falkland, six days\u00a0before the surrender of all Argentine forces on the Falkland Islands. | Read more about the Falklands War<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Browse more\u00a0On this day in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> By Elinor Evans Published: Wednesday, 08 June 2022 at 12:00 am 8 June 793 Viking raiders attacked the island of Lindisfarne, off the north-east coast of England, destroying the abbey there, killing its monks and carrying away its treasures. 8 June 1191 Richard I of England arrived in the Holy Land, reinforcing the crusader army […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15083,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/8-june-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/8-june-on-this-day-in-history-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/8-june-on-this-day-in-history-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/8-june-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/8-june-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/8-june-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/8-june-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Elinor Evans Published: Wednesday, 08 June 2022 at 12:00 am 8 June 793 Viking raiders attacked the island of Lindisfarne, off the north-east coast of England, destroying the abbey there, killing its monks and carrying away its treasures. 8 June 1191 Richard I of England arrived in the Holy Land, reinforcing the crusader army…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/15082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}8 June 1810<\/h3>\n
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