June 2007
June 2007 is the sixth month of that year. It began on a Friday and 30 days later, ended on a Saturday.
[edit] International holidays
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- Flag Day (continued)
- Father's Day
- June 5 - Denmark
- June 17 (3rd Sunday) - Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
- June 23 - Poland and Nicaragua
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- The British Antarctic Survey announces that the flow rate of 300 previously unmeasured glaciers increased by 12% between 1993 and 2003, adding to concerns over glacier retreat and the rise in sea levels caused by global warming. (British Antarctic Survey)
- A Guyanese suspect who allegedly planned an attack on New York City's JFK Airport surrenders in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Sky)
- United States v. Libby: I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr., former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, is sentenced to 30 months in prison after being convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the CIA leak grand jury investigation. (CNN)
- U.S. President George W. Bush begins his tour of Europe in Prague before the G8 summit in Germany. During his visit, he intends to address the deployment of interceptor rockets, the establishment of radar bases in Poland and the Czech Republic, and the related tension that has arisen between the United States and Russia. (BBC)
- Spanish Basque separatist group ETA announces it will end its 15-month cease-fire tonight at midnight (CEST). (RTÉ)
- Thailand's interim government removes a ban on political party activities. (BBC)
- Eleven people are killed and around 30 injured in a train crash 10 kilometres north of Kerang, Victoria, Australia. (BBC) (RTÉ)
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- A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia rules that the United States government cannot indefinitely detain U.S. residents as "enemy combatants." (AP via CNN)
- At least 78 die in monsoons in Bangladesh. (AP via CNN)
- Two-thirds of the Iraqi Council of Representatives removes Speaker of the Council of Representatives Mahmoud al-Mashhadani due to repeated acts of violence to other members by him or his staff. (New York Times)
- Flooding in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Fujian, and Jiangxi damage agricultural land and crops, kill 66 people, and force 600,000 people from their homes. (BBC)
- Majeedah Bolkiah—daughter of Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei—marries Khairul Khalil, an official in the office of the Prime Minister in a lavish Islamic wedding ceremony. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Newcastle, New South Wales remains on alert for rising floodwaters from the Hunter River as people evacuated from Maitland, New South Wales return to their home. (AAP via the West Australian)
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- Zimbabwean Minister of Lands Didymus Mutasa says the government will remove all remaining white farmers from their farms and divide their land among landless black citizens. (ReliefWeb)
- Ireland's Green Party (Comhaontas Glas) agrees to go into government with Fianna Fáil as part of Ireland's 30th Dáil when it opens on 14 June. (RTÉ)
- A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hits south of Puerto Quetzal, on Guatemala's Pacific Coast. (USA Today)
- Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom awards Sir Tim Berners-Lee the Order of Merit for his pioneering work on the worldwide web. (BBC)
- Gigantoraptor erlianensis, a gigantic birdlike dinosaur, is discovered in Inner Mongolia by paleontologist Xu Xing. (AFP via Discovery Channel)
- Shimon Peres is elected as the President of Israel after opponents bow out in the first round of the Israeli presidential elections. (Haaretz) (Los Angeles Times)
- An explosion in Beirut kills at least 10 people, including MP Walid Eido. (MSNBC)
- Hamas militants kill at least 16 Palestinians, including 2 UNRWA workers and 13 Fatah members, as clashes intensify in the Gaza Strip. (Haaretz)
- Hamas and Fatah officials claim that they have agreed on a cease-fire, but fighting continues. (BBC)
- A South African public sector strike closes down most of the schools and hospitals in that country. (BBC)
- EADS Astrium unveils its space tourism project, one week ahead of the Paris Air Show. (BBC)
- A landmark ruling by the UK's highest appeal court, the Law Lords, allows the family of an Iraqi who died in UK military custody to sue the British Government and demand a public inquiry into the circumstances of his death. (The Times) (Scotsman)
- A strike by Indian Airlines ground staff disrupts air traffic throughout India. (CNN-IBN)
- An explosion at the Al-Askari Mosque in Samarra, Iraq is reported to have destroyed two of its minarets. (Reuters Alertnet) (BBC) (Reuters)
- Indonesian police claim to have arrested Abu Dujana, the military leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings. (BBC)
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- A U.S. federal jury convicts former Klansman James Ford Seale of kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the 1964 deaths of two African-American teenagers in Mississippi. (AP via USA Today)
- Fatah-Hamas conflict:
- Golf's U.S. Open begins at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. (ESPN)
- Music producer and alleged con artist Lou Pearlman is arrested in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia and deported to the United States territory of Guam. He is accused of defrauding over 1,800 individual investors out of a total of $317-million. He will eventually be returned to Florida to face criminal charges and a growing list of civil litigation. (Orlando Sentinel)
- Bertie Ahern of Fianna Fáil is elected as Ireland's Taoiseach for a record third term upon the opening of the 30th Dáil; the Taoiseach then announces his new cabinet with ministries. (RTÉ)
- Entertainer Michael Barrymore is arrested in the UK along with two others over the murder of Stuart Lubbock, who was found dead in Barrymore's swimming pool in 2001. (Sky)
- Lebanon prepares to bury anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido and nine others killed in yesterday's bombing, with a national day of mourning declared. (CNN)
- Iraq War: Three Sunni mosques near Baghdad are burned in apparent retaliation for the latest Al-Askari Mosque bombing. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
- The Indian Airlines strike continues for a second day, causing continuing disruption to Indian aviation. (BBC)
- New Zealand condemns the expulsion of its High Commissioner to Fiji, Mike Green, by Frank Bainimarama's military government, which gave no reason for the expulsion. (BBC)
- Cuba introduces a United Nations resolution on Puerto Rico calling on the United States to expedite Puerto Rico's self-determination process; the text also requests the General Assembly to consider the question and urges cleanup of Vieques island and release of Puerto Rican political prisoners. (UN)
- The San Antonio Spurs defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of the 2007 NBA Finals to win the 2007 National Basketball Association Championship. (SI)
- Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins wins the Hart Memorial Trophy as the National Hockey League's most valuable player during the 2006–07 season in the annual NHL awards. (TSN)
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