3rd June 2006

The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro’s formal declaration of independence.

4th June 1991

Robert Strauss becomes US ambassador to Soviet Union.

5th June 1942

USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania.

6th June 1986

Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself.

7th June 1996

Julia & Noah wed on “All My Children”

8th June 1998

James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime.

9th June 1958

HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

10th June 2012

A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister

11th June 2002

Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.

12th June 2008

Ireland rejects the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform programme of the European Union.

13th June 2000

Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

14th June 2012

The world’s first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl

15th June 1991

Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc Québécois.

16th June 1980

Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents.

17th June 1990

“Zoya’s Apartment” closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 45 perfs

18th June 2003

Google launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads targeted to the specific content of their individual web pages, many of which like HistoryOrb.com go on to start their own publishing businesses

19th June 2006

Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial “laying of the first stone” at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway.

20th June 1991

The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.

21st June 2001

A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.

22nd June 2002

An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.

23rd June 1990

A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Stat of Liberty

24th June 1997

Seat Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Oakland A’s but loses

25th June 1997

Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop

26th June 1993

The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.

27th June 2007

The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.

28th June 1978

Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected

29th June 2008

Thomas Beatie, the world’s first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.

30th June 1995

Indians’ Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits