On this day in History - June 8

1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.

1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.

1949 – George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in the United States

1972 – Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured in a photograph moments later while the young girl is seen running naked down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.

1984 – Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New South Wales.