June 2015 in History

Events in History

Jun 1 Cruise ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze River, less than 50 survive
Jun 2 100 volunteers in Bhutan set a world record for tree planting - 49,672 in 1 hour

Election of Interest

Jun 2 FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his resignation, 5 days after his re-election, amid FIFA's involvement in a bribery scandal

Jun 2 US Congress passes new legislation to reform National Security Agency procedures, restricting gathering of phone records
Jun 3 200 people are killed by an explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana
Jun 3 Dr. Jesse Selber performs the world's first partial-skull and scalp transplant at Houston Methodist Hospital
Jun 5 6.0 magnitude earthquake (strongest to affect Malaysia since 1978) strikes Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia, killing 18 people on Mount Kinabalu
Jun 6 236th Epsom Derby: Golden Horn ridden by Frankie Dettori wins
Jun 6 Convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat break out of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York
Jun 7 -8 41st G7 summit held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria
Jun 12 Al-Qaeda's 2nd-in-command Nasser al-Wuhayshi (Osama Bin Laden's former private secretary) is killed in a US air strike in Yemen
Jun 12 Zimbabwe discards its own currency, offering an exchange of $1 for 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars
Jun 13 Floods in Tbilisi, Georgia, kill 12 people and free animals from the city's zoo, including bears and hippos, to roam the city
Jun 13 Philae, 1st spacecraft to land on a comet in European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission re-awakes after 7 months

Magna Carta

Jun 15 800 year anniversary of "the birthplace of modern democracy", the signing of the Magna Carta by King John at Runymede, England

Event of Interest

Jun 15 Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida, announces he will run for the US Presidency in Miami

Jun 15 Remains of a 2,000 year old women dubbed "the sleeping beauty" are announced discovered in Northern Ethiopia from ancient kingdom of Aksum
Jun 17 9 people are shot and killed inside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a 21 year old gunman

Event of Interest

Jun 17 US Treasury announced that the image of Alexander Hamilton will be replaced from the US $10 bill by an image of a woman

Jun 18 18 vigilantes are killed & 53 are injured after an accidental detonation of an explosive device in Monguno, Nigeria

Catholic Encyclical

Jun 18 Pope Francis blames human selfishness for global warming in his encyclical, named "Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home"

Jun 19 The right-wing Venstre block wins the 2015 Danish general election
Jun 20 1000 humanoid robots named "Pepper" sell out in under a minute ($1,600 each) in Japan, according to its creator SoftBank Robotics Corp.
Jun 20 Heat wave peaks in southern Pakistan, goes on to kill about 2,000 people from dehydration and heat stroke
Jun 21 94 people die & 45 are hospitalized after drinking moonshine in Mumbai, India
Jun 21 Hackers ground 1400 passengers by attacking IT system at Warsaw Chopin airport in Poland
Jun 22 JAMA Internal Medical Journal announces obese Americans now outnumber those just overweight

Event of Interest

Jun 22 South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley calls for the removal of the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds in wake of killings in a Charleston church

Event of Interest

Jun 25 The Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare') subsidies preserved by US Supreme Court Ruling in King v Burwell 6-3

Important Vote

Jun 26 Greek Credit Crisis: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls for a Greek referendum on new bailout terms

Jun 26 Gunman opens fire at beach resort in Sousse, Tunisia, killing 38. Isis claims responsibility.
Jun 26 Saudi suicide bomber kills 27 at Shia Imam al-Sadiq mosque in Kuwait, 227 injured
Jun 26 US President Barack Obama sings "Amazing Grace" as part of his eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney and 8 church members killed during a bible study in Charleston, South Carolina
Jun 26 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right across all US states
Jun 28 David Sweat shot and captured near Canadian border. 2nd prisoner to escape maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility June 6
Jun 28 Greek Credit Crisis: Greek government says banks closed for a week and ATM withdrawals restricted after European Central Bank refused to supply emergency funds
Jun 29 Beijing Times reports 30% of the Great Wall of China has disappeared due to natural forces and stealing of bricks
Jun 30 A man self-immolates aboard a Nozomi Shinkansen train and kills one other passenger in Japan
Jun 30 Hercules transporter plane crashes minutes after take-off in Medan, Indonesia killing 116

Birthdays in History

Jun 15 Prince Nicolas of Sweden, Duke of Ångermanland, born in Danderyd

Deaths in History

Jun 1 Charles Kennedy, British politician (Liberal Democrat leader 1999-2006), dies at 55
Jun 2 Irwin Rose, American biologist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004), dies at 88
Jun 4 Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (Palatino and Optima), dies at 96
Jun 5 Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician and close adviser to Saddam Hussein, dies at 79
Jun 6 Ludvik Vaculik, Czech writer (Two Thousand Words), dies at 88
Jun 6 Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney and author (Helter-Skelter), dies at 80
Jun 7 Michael Oliver, British cardiologist (linked cholesterol with coronary artery disease), dies at 89
Jun 8 Marie-Louise Grog-Carven, French fashion designer (Ma Griffe perfume), dies at 105
Jun 15 Jean Doré, Canadian politician (39th Mayor of Montreal), dies at 70
Jun 15 Kirk Kerkorian, American CEO and "father of the mega-resort" (MGM, UA), dies at 98
Jun 16 Charles Correa, Indian architect (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT), dies at 84
Jun 17 Suleyman Demirel, Turkish leader, President (1993-2000) and Prime Minister, dies at 90
Jun 18 Ralph J Roberts, American businessman and founder of Comcast, dies of natural causes at 95
Jun 20 Nazar Singh, British great-grandfather, believed to be Europe's oldest man, dies at 111
Jun 21 Veijo Meri, Finnish writer, dies at 86
Jun 22 Gabriele Wohmann, German writer, dies at 83
Jun 24 Mario Biaggi, American politician (Rep-D&R-NY, 1969-88), dies at 97
Jun 24 Marva Nettles Collins, American educator (West Side Preparatory School), dies at 78
Jun 26 Ash Brownridge, American conservationist (National Wildlife Federation) creator of Ranger Rick, dies at 98
Jun 26 Richard Matt, American murderer who escaped prison, shot and killed on the run at 49
Jun 29 Glenn Ford, American freed death row inmate (wrongly spent 30 years in prison), dies at 65