Events in June 2008
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Jun. 1
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Phoenix Mars Lander starts digging for life. |
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Jun. 2
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Six persons are killed and 30 injured in a car bomb blast outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad. |
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The U.S. shuttle Discovery docks with the International Space Station delivering a bus-sized Japanese laboratory. |
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Jun. 3
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the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon maps out a twin tack strategy to tackle soaring food prices at a summit hosted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome |
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Jun. 4
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Barack Obama wins presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in the battle for the White House against Republican John McCain. |
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Jun. 5
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The 18th Global Summit of Women informally called the “Davos for Women” opens in the Vietnam capital Hanoi. |
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Turkish constitutional court overturns a law allowing women to wear headscarves at university. |
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The U.S. Chief of Naval Staff Michael Moseley and Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne are sacked over problems with handling nuclear weapons. |
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Jun. 6
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The External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee confers the Padma Bhushan award on Chinese Indologist Ji Xianlin (97) in Beijing. |
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Luisa Dias Diago, first woman Prime Minster of Mozambique receives the Global Women’s Leadership Award in Hanoi. |
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Jun. 8
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Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone bag the best male and female debut of the year award for roles in “Saawariya” and “Om Shanti Om” at IIFA awards in Bangkok. |
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Shahbaz Sharif takes over as Chief Minister of Punjab province in Pakistan. |
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Seven people are killed in a stabbing spree in Japan’s Akihabara district by a youth Tomohiro Kato. |
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Jun. 10
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Nepal’s former king Gyanendra leaves the Narayanhiti palace. |
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The former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is freed after 11 months in jail. |
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Jun. 11
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The Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, formally apologises to the natives for abuse of children in government-run residential schools. |
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Jun. 12
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A “long march” from Lahore to Islamabad seeking reinstatement of sacked judges is launched. |
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Jun. 13
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Ireland rejects Lisbon reforms treaty in a tense referendum plunging the European Union into a crisis. |
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The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and the Straits Exchange Foundation sign two agreements on weekend chartered flights and Chinese tourists’ travel to Taiwan. |
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One Thousand and one hundred inmates escape after Taliban rebels raid a jail in Kandahar. |
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Jun. 14
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Zac Sunderland (16), a U.S. sailor sets sail for a solo circum navigation form Marina del Rey in California. |
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Elian Gonzalez, who was at the centre of an international custody battle eight years ago, joins Cuba’s Young Communist Union. |
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Jun. 15
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The Kathmandu palace of Nepal’s deposed king is opened to the public as a national museum. |
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Jun. 16
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California begins issuing same-sex marriage licences as a historic court ruling legalising gay and lesbian weddings takes effect. |
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Six hundred Taliban militants take over villages in Arghandab district on the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan. |
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Jun. 18
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Afghan troops and NATO forces launch a huge offensive against Taliban militants in Arghandab district. |
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Jun. 20
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Jason 2, a French-U.S. satellite designed to provide precise monitoring of rising sea level is launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. |
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Jun. 21
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The Pakistan government decides to commute the sentences of all prisoners on death row to life term. |
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Hundreds of people are feared killed after a ferry mv Princess of the Stars sinks in rough seas during Typhoon Fengshen off Sibuyan island in central Philippines. |
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Jun. 22
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Zimbabwe Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai quits the June 27 Presidential run-off. |
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Jun. 23
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European Union states slap new sanctions against Iran, including an asset freeze on Bank Melli its biggest bank over its refusal to curb nuclear programme. |
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The Lahore High Court bars the Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader Nawaz Sharif from contesting the June 28 by election to the National Assembly. |
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Jun. 25
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India-born British author Salman Rushdie is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his “services to literature”. |
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Jun. 26
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The U.S. Supreme Court says Americans have the right to own guns for self-defence and hunting. The ruling strikes down Washington’s 32-year-old ban on handguns. |
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Girija Prasad Koirala resigns as Nepal Prime Minister. |
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North Korea hands over detailed “Nuclear list.” U.S. says it will lift key trade sanctions and remove it from the terrorism black list. |
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Jun. 27
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North Korea demolishes cooling lower at the Yongbyon nuclear complex. |
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Jun. 28
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Bill Gates leaves the job of running Microsoft. |
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An Indonesian-born Indian Varsha Sabhanani is sentenced to 11 years in jail in the U.S. for enslaving her two Indonesian housekeepers. |
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Jun. 29
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Robert Mugabe is sworn in Zimbabwe President for a sixth term. |
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Israel approves prisoner exchange with Hizbollah. |
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Thomas Beatie (34), a U.S. man who was born a woman before undergoing gender realignment surgery gives birth to a baby girl at a hospital in Bend, Oregon. |
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