June 8
edit1924: Samuel B. Avis, a former member of United States House of Representatives, was struck and killed by lightning in Charleston, West Virginia.
1953: On the second day of a deadly three-day tornado outbreak, an F5 tornado killed 116 people in Flint, Michigan.
1966: A tornado, one of the costliest in history, tracked across Topeka, Kansas, destroying a large portion of the city and killing 18 people.