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What to watch out for - in June

1^st June 2009

1997 1st New York Women Film Festival opens
1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1938 Superman Comics launched
1869 Voting Machine patented by Thomas Edison
1835 6th national black convention in Philadelphia
1495 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller

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2^nd June 2009

1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198
1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000, Ganges R India
1964 Lal Bahadur Shastri elected premier of India
1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea

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3^rd June 2009

1996 World's first conference with direct participation of NGOs: Istanbul Habitat Conference
1981 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt
1980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1972 First World Conference on the Environment
1947 British victroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan
1934 Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
1818 Maratha Wars between British and Maratha Confederacy in India ends

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4^th June 2009

Appalled by the great number of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese children victims of Israel's acts of aggression, on 19 August 1983, the United Nations General Assembly decided to commemorate 4 June of each year as the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. It reminds people that throughout the world there are many children suffering from different forms of abuse, and there is an urgent need to protect the rights of children.

1992 Carbon Dioxide Reduction Treaty, Rio
1989 Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in U.S.S.R., kills 100s
1989 Beijing cop shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
1984 Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"
1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
1956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public

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5^th June 2009

World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.

Commemorated yearly on 5 June, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.

1991 Space Shuttle STS-40 (Columbia 12) launched
1984 Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site, Golden Temple
1977 1st personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale
1953 U.S. Senate rejects China membership to U.N.
1940 Battle of France begins in WW II
1661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

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6^th June 2009

1994 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia, about 1000 killed
1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
1984 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
1979 'Give Peace a Chance,' song composed by John Lennon, 'Hymn to the United Nations,' by Pablo Casals, the 'UN March' by Dmitri Shosta-kovitch distributed to all schools in Connecticut
1971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1967 Israeli troops occupy Gaza
1935 Dalai Lama Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists

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7^th June 2009

2006 Terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is killed by U.S. forces in Iraq
1982 World Disarmament campaign began, led by Bruce Kent, London,
1979 Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
1955 India premier Nehru visit U.S.S.R.
1955 1st US President to appear on colour TV (Eisenhower)
1953 1st colour network telecast in compatible colour, Boston, Mass.
1930 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
1929 Vatican City becomes a soverign state
1864 Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party
1843 Susan Elizabeth Blow US, pioneered kindergarten education was born

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8^th June 2009

2007 Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-117, begins mission
1994 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia
1940 Discovery of chemical element 93, neptunium, announced
1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botonical Garden, 12' calla lily
1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1624 Earthquake strikes Peru
632 Mohammed prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition)

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9^th June 2009

1994 5.6 earthquake strikes South-Mexico
1980 Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
1971 Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan
1967 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
1956 Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed
1934 Donald Duck famous fowl was born, first cartoon, The Wise Little Hen, released
1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks
1822 Charles Graham receives 1st patent for false teeth

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10^th June 2009

1985 Coca Cola agrees to bring back their 99-year-old formula
1984 U.S. missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
1940 Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
1934 U.S.S.R. and Romania regain diplomatic relations
1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tyre

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11^th June 2009

1982 Pope John Paul II visits Argentina
1971 U.S. ends ban on China trade
1961 "Winston Churchill," last airs on ABC-TV
1959 Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover
1918 Nelson Mandela civil right activist in South Africa was born

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12^th June 2009

1989 Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
1982 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC
1968 United Nations General Assembly approved Non-Proliferation Treaty
1964 South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment 1952 U.S.S.R. declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
1950 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die
1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above the ground in NYC
1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city

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13^th June 2009

1983 Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
1982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
1980 U.N. Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1951 U.N. arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
1888 Congress creates Department of Labor
1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
323 -BC- Alexander the Great dies of fever at Babylon

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14^th June 2009

1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117
1967 U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
1961 106 degrees F, hottest temperature in San Francisco
1954 Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge
1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at US Census Bureau
1949 State of Vietnam formed
1946 Birthday of Donald Trump master builder
1934 Hitler and Mussolini meet in Vienna

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15^th June 2009

1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-213
1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabe
1931 Poland and U.S.S.R. sign friendship and trade treaty
1977 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936
1898 U.S. Marines attack Spanish off Guantanamo, Cuba
1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed
1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
1844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
1215 Magna Carta, a milestone for human rights and freedom, signed by King John

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16^th June 2009

1983 European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10
1972 Stockholm Declaration on the Environment
1964 Quake strikes Niigata Japan
1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
1947 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
1917 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
632 Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era

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17^th June 2009

1994 UN declares as "World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought â€œ
1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
1946 SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis
1916 U.S. troops under General Pershing march into Mexico
1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent

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18^th June 2009

1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st U.S. woman
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1980 Mrs. Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
1959 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
1953 Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president
1948 UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights
1942 British singer and song writer Paul McCartney born in England
1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Blocher

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19^th June 2009

1981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit
1981 India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched
1975 First International Women's Conference, Mexico City
1972 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27
1947 Birthday of Salman Rushdie novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses)
1945 Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Pro-Democracy Activist, born in Burma
1910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
1623 Blaise Pascal mathematician/physicist/religious writer was born

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20^th June 2009

In 2000 the United Nations General Assembly decided that as from 2001, 20 June will be celebrated as World Refugee Day to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. The Organization of African Unity had agreed for it to coincide with their Africa Refugee Day.[1]

1996 Space Shuttle STS-78, Columbia 20, launches into space
1990 Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of the US
1963 US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1895 1st female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1837 England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
1756 146 British soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die

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21^st June 2009

It is often pointed out that where Mother's Day was met with enthusiasm, Father's Day â€” a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting â€” was met with laughter.

Historically speaking, the first observance of Father's Day is believed to have been held in July 5 1908 a church in Fairmont, West Virginia, by Dr Robert Webb of West Virginia. Today, it involves gift-giving, and special dinners to fathers and family-oriented activities.

2001 Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Atl Ocean (4m56s)
1969 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)
1956 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1953 Pakistan ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto born in Pakistan
1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor-General of India
1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
1768 1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer)

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22^nd June 2009

2002 Earthquake kills at least 260 in western Iran
1991 Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Phillipines
1982 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle
1976 Capital punishment abolished in Canada
1962 French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed
1910 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
1847 Doughnut created
1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
1772 Slavery outlawed in England

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23^th June 2009

The United Nations General Assembly, on 20 December 2002, designated 23 June of each year as United Nations Public Service Day (resolution 57/277). It encouraged Member States to organize special events on that Day to highlight the contribution of public service in the development process.

1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
1972 Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
1961 Antarctic Treaty goes into effect
1960 Japan signs security treaty with the U.S.
1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
1784 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
930 World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established

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24^th June 2009

1966 Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
1938 500-tonne meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1931 U.S.S.R. and Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
1932 1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1915 800 dies as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago
1881 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1793 1st republican constitution in France adopted
1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI

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25^th June 2009

1991 Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
1979 Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium
1973 John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee
1961 Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1960 Earthquake in NE Belgium
1953 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1951 1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
1638 A lunar eclipse becomes the 1st astronomical event recorded in US

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26^th June 2009

In 1987, the UN General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse.

United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture In an important step to acknowledge that torture, and all forms of inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, are absolutely and universally illegal, the UN General Assembly in December 1997 marked the historic date - 26 June - as International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

1994 PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
1993 Clinton orders cruise missle strike on Iraqi secret service in Baghdad
1991 ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress
1919 1st issue of NY Daily News published
1848 1st pure food law enacted in US

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27^th June 2009

2008 Bill Gates resigns from Microsoft to focus on his charity work
1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency
1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
1961 1880 Helen Keller blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many was born
1838 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Bengali novelist and author of Vandematram, national song of India, was born.
1829 James Smithson dies, his will established Smithsonian Institute
1693 1st woman's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" published in London

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28^th June 2009

1983 NASA launches Galaxy-A
1973 UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
1956 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill
1954 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)
1940 Bangladeshi Economist, Founder Grammen Bank Muhammad Yunus born in Bangladesh
1919 Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed
1894 Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday
1820 Tomato is proven nonpoisonous

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29^th June 2009

1994 U.S. reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
1992 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern California
1990 Irving Wallace author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74
1990 93 nations agreed to halt chemical destruction of ozone layer
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
1976 Seychelles gains independence from Britain
1971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
1969 1st Jewish worship service at White House
1913 Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War
1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down

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30^th June 2009

1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile and Guam
1981 China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1974 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-minute solar eclipse
1966 National Organization For Women (NOW) founded
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1950 U.S. General MacArthur visits front in South Korea and asks for U.S. troops
1974 Martin Luther Kingâ€™s mother and wife murdered in church
1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
1936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published
1934 "Night of the Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa

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