June 2001 in History

Events in History

Jun 7 Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election

Jun 10 Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa

Jun 11 Saudi Arabia seizes ownership, effective June 7, of the 1.6-million-barrels-per-day IPSA pipeline that had carried Iraqi crude oil to the Saudi Red Sea port of Mu'jiz prior to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
Jun 14 China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Jun 15 ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum sign a letter of intent for a natural gas to liquids (GTL) project that would be the largest in the world
Jun 18 Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India
Jun 21 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen

Jun 21 Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the 1st Hispanic woman to be honored on a US postage stamp

Jun 21 Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Indian Ocean (4m56s)
Jun 27 Pope John Paul II beatifies 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification takes place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
Jun 27 The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
Jun 30 ENI of Italy signs a $550 million contract to develop Iran's Darquain field, expected to produce 160,000 barrels of petroleum per day

Jun 10 Sasha [Natasha] Obama, American daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama, born in Chicago, Illinois
Jun 29 Elsa Majimbo, Kenyan internet comedienne, born in Nairobi, Kenya

Jun 1 Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal (1972-2001), killed by his son Dipendra in the Nepalese Royal Massacre at 55
Jun 1 Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), dies of prostate cancer at 81
Jun 1 Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, killed by her son Dipendra in the Nepalese Royal Massacre at 51
Jun 2 Frank Stagg, American Baptist Theologian (b. 1911)
Jun 4 Dipendra of Nepal, Nepal prince who shot his parent and seven other family members, dies in a coma while technically King at 29
Jun 5 Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist, dies at 93
Jun 7 Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
Jun 9 Ciro Kroon, Curaçao politician (Premier of Dutch Antilles 1968-69), dies at 85
Jun 10 Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)
Jun 10 Princess Leila Pahlavi of Iran, youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, dies at 31

Jun 11 American Oklahoma City bomber and terrorist, executed for bombing Oklahoma City at 33

Jun 17 Donald J. Cram, American biochemist (development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity - Nobel 1987), dies at 82
Jun 23 Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
Jun 25 Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 53