June 2010 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 2010 The 2010 Yellowstone National Park quarter-dollar coin is now in circulation by the US Mint.
• 02 Jun 2010 Crew of the Libyan M/V Rim captures the ship from Somali pirates in Gulf of Aden. Another ship is captured, the Panamanian M/V QSM Dubai.
• 03 Jun 2010 At Yellowstone Park, the US Mint officially launched the Yellowstone National Park quarter-dollar 2010.
• 04 Jun 2010 SpaceX, a California-based firm, launches the Falcon 9 rocket in its maiden flight from Cape Canaveral (Florida). The rocket successfully orbits Earth.
• 05 Jun 2010 The leaking pipe from the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig is sealed with a cap. This allows the spillage to slow down but not stop.
• 06 Jun 2010 According to a Sudan tribal leader, 41 people were killed during fighting in Sudan's western region.
• 07 Jun 2010 Four Palestinians were killed by the Israeli Navy in diving gear. Israel claims they were planning an attack and carrying weapons off Gaza's coast.
• 08 Jun 2010 In Iraq, at least 11 people are killed and many others are injured in several fatal incidents, including several civilians and a Sunni imam.
• 09 Jun 2010 Many people have died in ethnic riots between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan.
• 10 Jun 2010 Afghanistan War:
• 11 Jun 2010 RPET5's 20th Birthday!
• 12 Jun 2010 Arkansas floods have claimed 18 lives.
• 13 Jun 2010 Egyptian security forces beat protesters during a demonstration against Egypt's human rights violations. Also, a police incident that led to the death of a young boy a week earlier resulted in a case of police brutality.
• 14 Jun 2010 No one is eligible to receive the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership for the second consecutive year.
• 15 Jun 2010 Iran's Human Rights:
• 16 Jun 2010 The Jamaican Government has ordered civilians to stay off the streets for 2 days in several Kingston slums, because authorities are still searching for Christopher Coke (assumed to be a drug lord by the United States).
• 17 Jun 2010 Due to the upcoming G20 summit, the United States has issued a warning about travel for Toronto.
• 18 Jun 2010 Ronnie Lee Gardner, a 49-year-old murderer, is executed by firing squad at Draper (Salt Lake City), Utah (USA). Gardner was sentenced to death for the murder of a lawyer in an attempt to escape from a court hearing. He spent 25 years behind bars. This was the first execution by firing squad in America in 14 years.
• 19 Jun 2010 Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese Democracy activist, turns 65 as domestic and international pressures for her release from house detention intensify. She is allowed to have a cake and bouquet of flowers delivered by political supporters because she has been protected at her home.
• 20 Jun 2010 Manute Bol (7-foot-7-inch, 2.3m), NBA basketball legend (Washington Bullets), from southern Sudan, has died at 47 years old due to kidney problems in Virginia, USA.
• 21 Jun 2010 Mara gang members from El Salvador attacked a bus near San Salvador. They shot at it, before lighting it on fire with gasoline. Two more people were killed when gang members opened fire on another bus.
• 22 Jun 2010 After a train derailed plunges into a ravine, at least 60 people were killed and many more were injured in the Republic of the Congo. After the train had left Pointe-Noire, a coastal town on the Chemin de Fer Congo Ocean line to Brazzaville, the accident occurred.
• 23 Jun 2010 General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander of forces for Afghanistan, is forced to resign. He was replaced by General David Petraeus.
• 24 Jun 2010 John Isner, USA, defeats Nicolas Mahut, France at Wimbledon in the longest match of professional tennis history.
• 25 Jun 2010 After an overcrowded bus collides with a truck in Patna district in Bihar state, India, at least 24 people were killed and 50 others injured.
• 26 Jun 2010 Four people were killed when gunmen attacked a jewelry shop in western Iraq Saturday morning. They then fled with large quantities of gold from Fallujah, which is located 40 miles (65 km) west of Baghdad.
• 27 Jun 2010 Algirdas Brazauskas is the first president of independent Lithuania. He dies in Vilnius.
• 28 Jun 2010 U.S. U.S.
• 29 Jun 2010 S&P 500's stock market index falls to 1050.47, its lowest point in eight months. The Dow Jones industrial average drops 268.22 point, or 2.65 percent to 9,870.30. The Nasdaq Composite index drops 85.47 point, or 3.85%, to 2,135.18.
• 30 Jun 2010 United States

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• Lilia Jean

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Famous Deaths

• Rue McClanahan

  American actress of stage, film and TV who is most famous for playing Blanche Devereaux in the TV hit show "The Golden Girls.

• Manute Bol

  American pro basketball player, the 7 foot 7 inch NBA center came to the US in 1984 as a Dinka tribesman from Sudan to play basketball.

• John Wooden

  Basketball coach (UCLA-10 national championships).

• Robert Byrd

  American politician, the longest-serving Senator in United States history as of June 12, 2006.

• Sergio Vega

  Mexican Banda singer (Born1969).

• Stuart Cable

  Welsh musician (Born 1970).

• Adriana Xenides

  Australian TV personality (Born 1956).

• Omar Rayo

  Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist.

• Andreas Voutsinas

  Greek actor and theater director (Born 1932).

• Metropolitan Basil Schott

  Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (Born 1939).

• Zenani Mandela

  Nelson Mandela's great granddaughter (Born 1997).

• Jose Saramago

  Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1922).

• Harry Blackmore Whittington

  British palaeontologist (Born 1916).

• K S Rajah

  Singaporean jurist (Born 1930).

• Richard B Sellars

  American business executive (Born 1915).

• Marc Bazin

  Haitian lawyer and politician 49th President of Haiti (d. 2010).

• Anthony Quinton

  Baron Quinton English physician and philosopher (d. 2010).

• Park Yong-ha

  South Korean singer and actor (d. 2010).

• Algirdas Brazauskas

  Lithuanian politician 2nd President of Lithuania (d. 2010).

• Trent Acid

  American professional wrestler (Born1980).

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