Today in History: June 8, FBI director testifies he was fired over Russia investigation
Currently is Sunday June the th day of There are days left in the year Currently in history On June former FBI Director James Comey testifying before Congress asserted that President Donald Trump fired him to interfere with Comey s study of Russia s ties to the Trump campaign Also on this date In in an address to the U S House of Representatives James Madison proposed amending the Constitution to include a Bill of Rights Related Articles Protesters decrying ICE arrests taken into custody in lower Manhattan Miley Cyrus admits she used to hide thousands of dollars in drugs from accountant Jared Leto accused by multiple women of 'sexual impropriety' Harvard gets other universities backing in Trump funding fight Trump asks Supreme Court to allow Training Department purge In George Orwell s novel was first published In a merger was stated between the National and American Football Leagues to take effect in In during the Six-Day War American crew members were killed when Israel attacked the USS Liberty a Navy intelligence-gathering ship in the Mediterranean Sea Israel later declared the Liberty had been mistaken for an Egyptian vessel In U S government broadcasted the capture in London of James Earl Ray the suspected assassin of civil rights leader the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr In a jury in Clark County Nevada ruled the so-called Mormon Will purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes was a forgery In U S Marines rescued Capt Scott O Grady whose F- C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June In North Korea s highest court sentenced American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee to years hard labor for trespassing and hostile acts The women were pardoned in early August after a trip to Pyongyang by former President Bill Clinton In Ratko Mladi the military chief known as the Butcher of Bosnia for orchestrating genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan nation s - war lost his final legal battle when U N judges rejected his appeal and affirmed his life sentence In Donald Trump was indicted by a grand jury in Miami on felony counts related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents that had been moved to Mar-a-Lago Trump s Florida home The occurrence against Trump was abandoned following Trump s November presidential ballot success In the current era s Birthdays Singer Nancy Sinatra is Musician Boz Scaggs is Pianist Emanuel Ax is Actor Sonia Braga is Actor Kathy Baker is Singer Bonnie Tyler is Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee is Actor Griffin Dunne is Dilbert creator Scott Adams is Actor-director Keenen Ivory Wayans is Singer Mick Hucknall Entirely Red is Musician Nick Rhodes Duran Duran is Actor Julianna Margulies is Former U S Rep Gabrielle Giffords a Democrat from Arizona is Tennis Hall of Famer Lindsay Davenport is TV personality-host Maria Menounos is Country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson is Guitarist-songwriter Derek Trucks is Tennis Hall of Famer Kim Clijsters is U S Olympic track gold medalist Athing Mu-Nikolayev is