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June 8

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In A.D. 632, the prophet Mohammed died.  Mohammed's teachings, recorded in the Koran, forged a new religion, Islam.  By the time of Mohammed's death, nearly all of the Arabian peninsula accepted his religious and secular leadership.

In 1845, Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tenn.

In 1861, Tennessee seceded from the Union.

In 1869, Chicago inventor Ives W. McGaffey received a patent for a vacuum cleaner.

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Supreme Court Justice Byron White  (1917)

President Suharto  of Indonesia  (1921)

Actress Alexis Smith  (1921)

Singer Nancy Sinatra  (1940)

Musician Boz Scaggs  (1944)

Singer Bonnie Tyler  (1953)

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
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Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw  (1856-1950)