Events in History
Agreement of Interest
Jun 1 US President Donald Trump announces the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement
- Jun 2 "Wonder Woman" directed by Patty Jenkins released, earns over $100 million in North American in its opening weekend - domestic record for a female director
Event of Interest
Jun 3 Largest-ever exhibition of works by Piet Mondrian opens at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Netherlands to mark centenary of De Stijl movement
- Jun 3 Rock climber Alex Honnold makes first-ever free solo climb of El Capitan, Yosemite National Park (depicted in "Free Solo" Academy Award winning Best Documentary 2018)
- Jun 3 Terrorist attack in Borough Market, London by three men who drive van into pedestrians then stab and kill 7 and wound 48. Attackers shot dead by British police.
- Jun 5 Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt sever ties with Qatar, citing its support of terrorist groups, Yemen, the Maldives and Libya follow suit
- Jun 5 Bus crashes with a truck in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India, 22 die in resulting fire
- Jun 5 Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO
- Jun 5 Puerto Rico declares its Zika virus epidemic over
- Jun 6 Floods in Salto, Paysandú and Artigas in Uruguay displace over 3,000 people
- Jun 6 Indian Arundhati Roy publishes her 2nd novel "The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness" 20 years after her first
- Jun 6 Syrian Democratic Forces backed by the US launch offensive to take Raqqa from Islamic State in Syria
- Jun 7 Earliest-ever evidence of Homo Sapiens from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco unearthed by archaeologists published in "Nature", at 300,000 years old
- Jun 7 Police warn bald men against attacks in Mozambique after 5 men murdered for the gold believed in their heads
Event of Interest
Jun 7 Suicide bombers attack Iranian parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini killing 12, 1st Islamic State attacks in Iran
Conservatives Lose Majority
Jun 8 British General Election results in a hung parliament, Prime Minister Theresa May and the Conservative party lose their majority
- Jun 8 Ex-FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that US President Donald Trump told "lies plain and simple"
- Jun 8 UN states Islamic State forces have shot and killed hundreds of fleeing civilians during battle for Mosul, Iraq in past two weeks
- Jun 8 US prisoner Richard Anthony Jones freed after 17 years in Roeland Park, Kansas when his lookalike discovered
- Jun 11 Jailbreak by militants in Beni, DR Congo kills 11 and frees 900 prisoners
- Jun 11 Puerto Rico votes overwhelming in favor of statehood in a status referendum with 97% in favor despite a low turnout of 23%
Navalny Sentenced
Jun 12 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sentenced to 30 days administrative arrest for organizing rallies
- Jun 13 Otto Warmbier returns to the US in an unresponsive state after being held in Norther Korean jail for 17 months,
Event of Interest
Jun 13 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, denies secretly meeting Russians
- Jun 14 Fire in Grenfell Tower block in London, England kills 79 and injures 37
- Jun 14 Leo Varadkar formally elected Irish Prime Minister (taoiseach) in Dáil ceremony in Dublin - youngest Irish Prime Minister at 38 and 1st openly gay
- Jun 14 US Library of Congress names Tracey K. Smith as Poet Laureate
- Jun 14 US Senate approves new sanctions against Russia as punishment for meddling in the 2016 election
- Jun 15 New record set for price of a parking lot in Hong Kong - $664,000
- Jun 15 Scotland Yard launches criminal inquiry and British Prime Minister Theresa May announces a public inquiry a day after the Grenfell Tower fire
- Jun 16 Amazon announces it is buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion
- Jun 16 US President Donald Trump reinstates Cuban travel and business restrictions after they were loosened by President Obama
- Jun 17 Collision at sea between U.S.S. Fitzgerald and ACX Crystal, a Philippine cargo ship kills 7 US sailors in Japanese waters
- Jun 17 Forest fires in Pedrógão Grande, Portugal begin, kill 62 people, more than 1,600 firefighters fight 156 fires
Election of Interest
Jun 18 French President Emmanuel Macron's party La République en Marche and allies win a majority in 2nd round French legislative elections
- Jun 18 Rare magnitude-four earthquake causes a tsunami to hit Nuugaatsiaq in northwestern Greenland
- Jun 19 Bexit negotiations begin between United Kingdom and the European Union in Brussels
- Jun 19 First full genetic study of cats published in "Nature Ecology and Evolution", reveals domesticated 9,000 years ago, descended from one species (African wildcat)
- Jun 19 Record 65.6 million people displaced around the world in 2016 reported by UN refugee agency
- Jun 19 Russia warns the US it will target US and allied aircraft over Syria after US fighter shoots down Syrian warplane
- Jun 20 Uber founder Travis Kalanick resigns as CEO after a shareholder revolt
- Jun 20 US toymaker Mattel releases 15 new body types for their Ken doll, including one with a man bun
- Jun 21 In landmark case Israeli woman wins sexism case against airline El Al after asked to change seat away from a man
- Jun 21 Romanian Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu outed after losing no-confidence vote 241-7
Historic Publication
Jun 22 Prince Harry claims no one in UK royal family wants to be King or Queen in article published in Newsweek
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Jun 23 "Bridge Over Troubled Water" single organized by Simon Cowell for those affected by Grenfell tower fire reaches No. 1 in UK charts
- Jun 23 Landslide in Xinmo village, Sichuan province, China kills 15 with more than 100 missing
- Jun 23 Saudi Arabia and allies, Egypt, UAE and Bahrain issue list of 13 conditions to Qatar in return for lifting sanctions, including closing Al Jazeera TV
- Jun 24 UN states Yemen cholera epidemic reached 200,000 cases, with 1,300 deaths. Worst cholera outbreak anywhere in the world.
- Jun 25 Tanker carrying fuel bursts into flames near Ahmedpur East, Pakistan, killing more than 200 people
Event of Interest
Jun 26 Brazilian state prosecutors file corruption charges against President Michel Temer
- Jun 26 Helicopter with rogue police pilot attacks Venezuelan Supreme Court in Caracas
- Jun 26 Theresa May's UK Conservative minority party strike deal to govern with Northern Ireland's DUP with guarantee of 1 billion funding
- Jun 27 African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina wins the World Food Prize
Event of Interest
Jun 27 Colombia's rebel group FARC officially end armed existence after 52 years in ceremony with President Juan Manuel Santos in Mesetas
- Jun 27 European Union fines Google record $2.7 billion for unfair competition practices
Event of Interest
Jun 27 Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook has reached 2 billion monthly users
- Jun 27 Petya malware cyber-attack affects organisations in more than 64 countries
Event of Interest
Jun 28 China’s president, Xi Jinping begins 3 day trip to Hong Kong to mark 20 years since the territory handed back to China
- Jun 28 Wilshire Grand Center becomes the tallest building in Los Angeles and in the US west of the Mississippi at 1,100 ft
- Jun 29 Battle for Mosul: Iraqi forces retake destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri from Islamic State - symbolic site where their leader declared a "caliphate"
- Jun 29 Mihai Tudose confirmed as Romanian Prime Minister, by parliament, succeeding Sorin Grindeanu
- Jun 29 Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell charged with historic sexual offenses in Victoria, Australia
- Jun 30 Germany votes to legalize same-sex marriage in a snap vote
Deaths in History
- Jun 6 Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman (arms dealing), dies at 81
- Jun 10 Samuel V. Wilson, American ex-director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former Army lieutenant general, dies of lung cancer at 93
- Jun 13 A. R. Gurney, American playwright (The Dining Room), dies at 86
- Jun 15 James W. McCord Jr., American CIA officer who led the Watergate break-in, dies of pancreatic cancer at 93
- Jun 15 John Robert Jones [John Dalmas], American sci-fi author (White Regiment, Lizard War), dies at 90
Helmut Kohl (1930-2017)
Jun 16 German chancellor (West Germany, 1982-90, unified Germany, 1990-98), dies at 87
- Jun 18 Hope Ryden, American wildlife activist and photographer, dies at 87
- Jun 18 Lord Joffe [Joel Goodman Joffe], South African-born British lawyer (instructing solicitor for Nelson Mandela’s defence team) and businessman, dies at 85
- Jun 19 Brian Kenny, British Army officer, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander (Europe), dies at 83
- Jun 25 Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician (Leader of the Scottish National Party), dies at 79
- Jun 30 Simone Veil, French politician (first female President of the European Parliament 1979-82), dies at 89
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