What day of the week was June 8, 1972?

The day of the week June 8th, 1972 fell on was a Thursday.

Jimmy Rushing the American singer (Oklahoma City Blue Devils) (b. 1901) died on this day in 1972.

Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize- winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.