Today in History - June 2
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575 Jun 2,
Benedict I began his reign as Catholic Pope.
(SC, 6/2/02)
657 Jun 2, St. Eugene I ended his
reign as Catholic Pope.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1537 Jun 2, Pope Paul III banned
the enslavement of Indians in the New World.
(HN, 6/2/99)
1731 Jun 2, Martha Dandridge, the
first First Lady of the United States, was born. Widow of Daniel Park
Custis, she married George Washington in 1759.
(HN, 6/2/00)
1740 Jun 2, Donatien Alphonse
Francois, writer, Marquis de Sade, was born in Paris. He was the French
nobleman who was imprisoned for holding orgies in which he whipped and
sodomized prostitutes. He wrote “The 120 Days of Sodom” and “Justine.”
In 1998 Francine du Plessix Gray authored “At Home With the Marquis de
Sade.”
(http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/3539/)
(WUD, 1994, p.1259)(WSJ, 2/7/96, p.A-12)(WSJ,
11/5/98, p.A20)(WSJ, 2/7/96, p.A-12)(HN, 6/2/99)
1774 Jun 2, The Quartering Act,
requiring American colonists to allow British soldiers into their
houses, was reenacted.
(HN, 6/2/98)
1793 Jun 2, Maximillian
Robespierre, a member of France’s Committee on Public Safety, initiated
the "Reign of Terror," a purge of those suspected of treason against
the French Republic. Months of the Great Terror, followed the
Revolution in France as thousands died beneath the guillotine.
(V.D.-H.K.p.231)(HN, 6/2/98)
1797 Jun 2, 1st ascent of "Great
Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack, NY, was by C. Broadhead.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1818 Jun 2, The British army
defeated the Maratha alliance in Bombay, India.
(HN, 6/2/98)
1821 Jun 2, Ion Bratianu (Lib),
premier of Romania (1876-88), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1834 Jun 2, The 5th national black
convention met in NYC.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1835 Jun 2, St. Pius X, 257th
Roman Catholic pope (1903-14), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1835 Jun 2, P.T. Barnum and his
circus began 1st tour of US.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1840 Jun 2, Thomas Hardy, English
novelist and poet, was born in Higher Bockhampton and almost given up
for dead until an observant midwife noticed he was breathing. He was
driven by a sense of somber doom by the failure of his readers to wake
up to the dreary fraud of their beliefs, and he devoted the last half
of his long life to writing poems that expressed his haunted vision.
When Hardy died (1928) his heart was removed and buried in the
churchyard of St. Michael’s in Stinsford in the grave of his first
wife, Emma, and his second wife, Florence. His ashes were buried in the
Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey in London. His work included "Tess
of D'Ubervilles" and "Jude the Obscure."
(SFC, 12/4/94, p. T-4)(V.D.-H.K.p.279)(HN, 6/2/99)
1851 Jun 2, Maine became the first
state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol. By the Civil War 13 Northern
states had bans on alcohol sales. In 1998 Thomas R. Pegram authored
“Battling Demon Rum,” a history of anti-alcohol movements in the US.
(AP, 6/2/97)(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A28)
1857 Jun 2, Edward Elgar
Broadheath, English composer (Pomp & Circumstance), was born in
Worcester, England.
(AP, 6/2/07)
1857 Jun 2, Karl Gjellerup, poet,
novelist (Nobel 1917), was born in Denmark.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1857 Jun 2, James Gibbs of
Virginia patented a chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1858 Jun 2, Donati Comet was 1st
seen and named after it's discoverer.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1859 Jun 2, French forces crossed
the Ticino River, the last natural barrier between themselves and Milan
with the Austrians in retreat.
(HN, 6/2/00)
1863 Jun 2, Felix Weingartner,
conductor (Zara, Dalmatia), was born in Germany.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1864 Jun 2, This was day 2 in the
Battle of Cold Harbor, Va.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1865 Jun 2, At Galveston,
Confederate General Kirby-Smith surrendered the Trans-Mississippi
Department to Northern Forces.
(HN, 6/2/98)
1866 Jun 2, Renegade Irish Fenians
surrendered to US forces.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1873 Jun 2, Ground was broken on
Clay St. in SF for the world's 1st cable railroad.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1875 Jun 2, James A. Healy, the
1st black Roman Catholic bishop in the US, was consecrated in
Portland, Maine.
(www.portlanddiocese.net/info.php?info_id=132)
1875 Jun 2, Alexander Graham Bell
made his 1st complex sound transmission.
(ON, 1/03, p.2)
1882 Jun 2, Giuseppi Garibaldi
(b.1807), Italian rebel leader, died. His autobiography was published
in 1889. In 2007 Lucy Riall authored “Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi)(Econ, 5/26/07, p.98)
1883 Jun 2, The first baseball
game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
(HN, 6/2/98)
1883 Jun 2, Chicago's "El" opened
to traffic.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1883 Jun 2, Four gentlemen
departed London on velocipedes and spent the next 2 weeks bicycling 800
miles to John O’Grouts in Scotland.
(ON, 1/00, p.5)
1886 Jun 2, President Cleveland
married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony. Cleveland's bride,
Frances Folsom, was the 22-year-old daughter of Cleveland's late law
partner and friend, Oscar Folsom. The intimate wedding ceremony took
place in the White House Blue Room with fewer than 40 people
present.(To date, Cleveland is the only president to marry in the
Executive Mansion while in office.)
(AP, 6/2/97)(WSJ, 9/23/97, p.A1)(HNQ, 6/2/98)
1890 Jun 2, Hedda Hopper, gossip
columnist (From Under My Hat), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1897 Jun 2, Responding to rumors
that he was dying or perhaps even dead, humorist Mark Twain, 61, was
quoted by the New York Journal in London as saying that "the report of
my death was an exaggeration."
(AP, 6/2/97)
1898 Jun 2, Dr. Paul-Louis Simond
discovered the connections between rats, fleas and humans in the
transmittance of the Plague in Bombay, India.
(NG, 5/88, p.678)
1899 Jun 2, Black Americans
observed a day of fasting to protest lynchings.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1901 Jun 2, Michael Todd, producer
(Around the World in 80 Days), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1902 Jun 2, 2nd statewide
initiative and referendum law was adopted in Oregon.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1903 Jun 2, Robert Morris Page,
physicist, inventor of pulse radar, was born.
(HN, 6/2/01)
1904 Jun 2, Johnny Weissmuller,
American gold-winning Olympic swimmer (1924), was born. He portrayed
Tarzan in the movies.
(HN, 6/2/99)(SC, 6/2/02)
1910 Jun 2, Charles Stewart Rolls,
one of the founders of Rolls-Royce, becomes the first man to fly an
airplane nonstop across the English Channel both ways. Tragically, he
became Britain's first aircraft fatality the following month when his
biplane broke up in midair.
(HN, 6/2/00)
1910 Jun 2, Pygmies were
discovered in Dutch New Guinea (Papua).
(SC, 6/2/02)
1913 Jun 2, Bert Farber, orchestra
leader (Arthur Godfrey, Vic Damone), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1913 Jun 2, Barbara Pym (Mary
Crampton), English novelist (Less Than Angels, Quartet in Autumn), was
born.
(HN, 6/2/01)
1913 Jun 2, The 1st strike
settlement mediated by US Dep't of Labor for the RR clerks.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1914 Jun 2, Glenn Curtiss flew his
Langley Aerodrome.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1917 Jun 2, Max Showalter, actor,
composer (Stockard Channing Show), was born in Caldwell, Ks.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1919 Jun 2, There were coordinated
bombings in Washington, DC, and 6 other cities. Militant followers of
anarchist Luigi Galleani were blamed. A campaign this month involved 8
bombs that killed several people including an anarchist.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_United_States_anarchist_bombings)(Econ,
11/6/10, p.74)
1924 Jun 2, Congress granted U.S.
citizenship to all American Indians. The Snyder Act Granted full
citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S.
(AP, 6/2/97)(HN, 6/2/98)(HNQ, 3/1/99)
1925 Jun 2, NY Yankee Lou Gehrig
began his 2,130 consecutive game streak.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1926 Jun 2, Milo O'Shea, actor
(Barbarella, Romeo & Juliet), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1927 Jun 2, Phillip Burton,
historian (Vanishing Eagles), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1928 Jun 2, Nationalist Chiang
Kai-shek captured Peking, China, in a bloodless takeover.
(HN, 6/2/98)
1930 Jun 2, Charles Conrad
(d.1999), astronaut, was born in Philadelphia. He walked on the moon
during the Apollo XII mission in 1969.
(SFC, 7/9/99, p.A6)
1930 Jun 2, Sarah Dickson became
the 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US in Cincinnati.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1932 Jun 2, Sammy Turner, singer
(Lavender Blue Moods), was born in Patterson, NJ.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1932 Jun 2, George W. Perry (19),
a Georgia farmer, caught a record 22-pound, 4-ounce largemouth bass
with a Chubb Wiggle Fish lure. The record still stood in 2001.
(WSJ, 5/18/01, p.A1)
1933 Jun 2, Bob Rozario, orchestra
leader (Tony Orlando, Marie), was born in Shanghai, China.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1934 Jun 2, Sunny Jim Rolph
(b.1869), former mayor of SF (1912-1931) and Governor of California
(1931-1934), died. He lived at his home at 288 San Jose Ave. in the
Mission throughout his life.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, Z1 p.5)(SSFC, 5/31/09, DB p.50)
1936 Jun 2, Sally Kellerman,
actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School), was born in Long Beach, Cal.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1936 Jun 2, Gen'l. Anastasio
Somoza took over as dictator of Nicaragua.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1940 Jun 2, Constantine II, the
deposed king of Greece (-1967), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1941 Jun 2, William Guest, singer
(Gladys Knight Show), was born in Atlanta, Ga.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1941 Jun 2, Stacy Keach, actor
(Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer), was born in Savannah, Ga.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1941 Jun 2, Charlie Watts, drummer
(Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1941 Jun 2, Baseball’s "Iron
Horse," Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a degenerative disease,
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 37. The best book on Gehrig is "Iron
Horse" by Ray Robinson. In 2005 Jonathan Eig authored “Luckiest Man:
The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig.”
(AP, 6/2/97)(Econ, 5/7/05, p.79)
1942 Jun 2, The American aircraft
carriers Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown moved into their battle
positions for the Battle of Midway.
(HN, 6/2/99)
1943 Jun 2, Charles Haid, actor
(Hill St Blues, Altered States), was born in SF, Ca.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1943 Jun 2, 99th Pursuit Squadron
flew its 1st combat mission over Italy.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1944 Jun 2, Marvin Hamlisch, US
composer, pianist (The Sting, Chorus Line), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1944 Jun 2, Allied "shuttle
bombing" of Germany began, with bombers departing from Italy and
landing in the Soviet Union.
(HN, 6/2/98)
1946 Jun 2, The Italian monarchy
was abolished by referendum in favor of a republic.
(AP, 6/2/97)(HN, 6/2/98)
1948 Jun 2, Albert Innaurato,
playwright, director (Age in Soho), was born in Phila.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1948 Jun 2, Jerry Mathers, actor
(Beaver-Leave It To Beaver), was born in Sioux City, Iowa.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1948 Jun 2, Jamaican-born track
star Herb McKenley set a new world record for the 400 yard dash.
(HN, 6/2/00)
1949 Jun 2, Transjordan was
renamed the Hashemite Kingdom Jordan.
(TOH, 1982, p.1949)(SC, 6/2/02)
1950 Jun 2, Joanna Gleason,
actress (Morgan-Hello Larry), was born in Toronto, Canada.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1952 Jun 2, The US Supreme Court
ruled in favor of steelworkers, who then began a 53-day walkout
demanding wage and benefit increases.
(SFC, 4/9/09, p.B2)
1952 Jun 2, Philosopher John Dewey
died at age 92.
(MT, Fall. ‘97, p.19)
1953 Jun 2, Queen Elizabeth II of
Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of
her father, King George VI.
(TMC, 1994, p.1953)(WUD, 1994, p.1684)(AP, 6/2/97)
1954 Jun 2, Senator Joseph
McCarthy charged that there are communists working in the CIA and
atomic weapons plants.
(HN, 6/2/98)
1955 Jun 2, Dana Carvey, comedian
(Sat Night Live-Church Lady, George Bush), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1955 Jun 2, Garry Grimes, actor
(Summer of '42, Class of '44), was born in SF.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1959 Jun 2, Allen Ginsberg wrote
his poem "Lysergic Acid," in SF.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1961 Jun 2, George S. Kaufman
(72), playwright, director, Pulitzer prize winner, died.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1962 Jun 2, Vita Sackville-West
(b.1892), English poet, novelist and gardener, died. She helped create
her own gardens in Sissinghurst, Kent. She was famous for her exuberant
aristocratic life, her strong marriage, and her passionate affairs with
women like novelist Virginia Woolf. Her son Nigel gave her estate to
the National Trust, a conservation charity. In 2008 Adam Nicolson
authored “Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History.”
(Econ, 10/04/08,
p.91)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West)
1964 Jun 2, Rolling Stones made
their 1st US concert tour debut in Lynn, Mass.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1965 Jun 2, The 2nd of 2 cyclones
in less than a month killed 35,000 along the Ganges River in India.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1966 Jun 2, The U.S. space probe
Surveyor 1 landed on the moon in Oceanus Procellarum and began
transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
(AP, 6/2/97)(SC, 6/2/02)
1967 Jun 2, Race riots took place
in the Roxbury section of Boston.
(http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/hotc/DisplayPlace.asp?id=11607)
1967 Jun 2, Zamah Cunningham
(b.1892), actress, died. Her films included “Here Come the Girls”
(1953).
(http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0192476/)
1967 Jun 2, In Germany Benno
Ohnesorg, a newly wed student of literature, was shot in the back of
the head during a protest in West Berlin against the visiting shah of
Iran. Police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras, who claimed he was threatened
by knife-wielding protesters, was acquitted of manslaughter charges on
Nov 23. The led to the formation of the Red Army Faction, also known as
the Baader-Meinhof gang. In 2009 Kurras was found to have been a
long-time agent of East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi.
(Econ, 5/30/09,
p.52)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudrun_Ensslin)
1969 Jun 2, Australian aircraft
carrier Melbourne sliced the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half
during NATO maneuvers off the shore of South Vietnam. 74 US sailors
were killed.
(HN, 6/2/98)(SFC, 6/19/08, p.B5)
1970 Jun 2, Har Gobind Khorana
(1922-1993), Indian-American chemist at the Univ. of Wisconsin,
announced the synthesis of the 1st artificial gene.
(www.super70s.com/Super70s/Timeline/1970/)(www.answers.com/topic/har-gobind-khorana)
1972 Jun 2, Dion & the
Belmonts held a reunion concert at Madison Square Garden.
(www.softshoe-slim.com/lists/d/dion.html)
1972 Jun 2, Pres. Nixon in
discussion with aide Charles Colson said: We want to decimate the
god-damned place… North Vietnam is going to get reordered… it’s about
time. It’s what should have been done years ago.”
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A3)
1974 Jun 2, Jigme Druk Gyalpo
Jigme Singye Wangchuck (18) was crowned king of Bhutan.
(www.worldwhoswho.com)
1975 Jun 2, Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller said his commission had found no widespread pattern of
illegal activities at the Central Intelligence Agency.
(AP, 6/2/97)
1976 Jun 2, Gen’l. Juan Jose
Torres (b.1920), ousted as president of Bolivia in 1971, was kidnapped
by a death squad in Argentina and killed. He was a victim of the Condor
Plan, a South American military pact between Argentina, Brazil,
Bolivia, Chile and Paraguay to exchange intelligence information and
help each other hunt down suspected leftists.
(SFC, 11/23/99,
p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Jos%C3%A9_Torres)
1976 Jun 2, Great-Britain &
Iceland terminated their codfish war. It was agreed that only 24
British vessels would be allowed in the 200 mile zone and four
conservation areas would be completely closed to the British.
(www.kwintessential.co.uk/articles/article/Iceland/Cod-War-in-Iceland/527)
1976 Jun 2, Alan Dewitt (b.1921),
film and TV actor, died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0223195/)
1977 Jun 2, New Jersey Gov.
Brendan T. Byrne signed a law allowing casino gambling in Atlantic City.
(http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3864697)
1977 Jun 2, Forrest Lewis
(b.1899), American TV and film actor, died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0507189/)
1979 Jun 2, Pope John Paul II,
formerly Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Warsaw, arrived in his native Poland
on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.C1)(SFEC, 6/1/97, p.D1)(AP, 6/2/97)
1979 Jun 2, Jim Hutton (b.1934),
TV and screen actor, died. In the early 1970s Hutton began working
almost exclusively in television and played the title role of Ellery
Queen in the 1975 made-for-television movie that led to the 1975-76
television series Ellery Queen.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hutton)
1983 Jun 2, A toilet caught fire
on Air Canada's DC-9 and 23 died at Cincinnati.
(www.ntsb.gov/Speeches/former/hall/jh980602.htm)
1984 Jun 2, B.A. Skiff discovered
asteroid #3617.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._A._Skiff)
1986 Jun 2, For the first time,
the public could watch the proceedings of the U.S. Senate on television
as a six-week experiment of televised sessions began.
(AP, 6/2/02)
1986 Jun 2, NYC transit system
issued a new brass with steel bull’s-eye token.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1987 Jun 2, President Reagan
announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul
Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
(AP, 6/2/97)
1987 Jun 2, Georges Doriot
(b.1899), a French-born Harvard professor, died in Boston. In 1946 he
took public his American Research & Development (ARD) company. In
2008 Spencer E. Ante authored “Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the
Birth of Venture Capital.”
(WSJ, 5/21/08,
p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Doriot)
1987 Jun 2, Sammy Kaye (b.1910),
orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), died of cancer in New Jersey.
(www.parabrisas.com/d_kayes.php)
1988 Jun 2, The publishers of
Consumer Reports magazine called for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai, a
popular sport utility vehicle that the magazine said tended to roll
over in sudden turns; American Suzuki Motor Corporation defended the
vehicle as safe.
(AP, 6/2/98)
1988 Jun 2, Horace A. Hildreth
(b.1901), former governor of Maine (1945-49), died.
(http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/higginson-hilger.html)
1989 Jun 2, President Bush
returned from a European trip, calling it "a triumph of hope" for a
world moving beyond the Cold War.
(AP, 6/2/99)
1989 Jun 2, 10,000 Chinese
soldiers were blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students
demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
(HN, 6/2/99)
1989 Jun 2, Prime Minister Benazir
Bhutto of Pakistan told a joint session of the US Congress that
Pakistan does not have nuclear weapons.
(SFC, 11/6/96, p.A21)
1990 Jun 2, On the third day of
their Washington summit, President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev held informal talks at the Camp David presidential retreat in
Maryland.
(AP, 6/2/00)
1990 Jun 2, Jack Gilford (b.1908),
comedic actor (Cocoon II), died of stomach cancer.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0318527/)
1990 Jun 2, Sir Rex Harrison
(82), actor (My Fair Lady), died in New York.
(AP, 6/2/00)
1990 Jun 2, Frederick Mellinger
(76), founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, died.
(www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/mnames-nf/Mellinger+Frederick)
1991 Jun 2, “The Will Rogers
Follies” won best musical at Broadway’s Tony Awards; “Lost in Yonkers”
was named best play.
(AP, 6/2/01)
1991 Jun 2, Pope John Paul the
Second, on a pilgrimage to his native Poland, visited the town of
Przemysl, less than ten miles from the Soviet border; an estimated
10,000 Ukrainians crossed into Poland to see the pontiff.
(AP, 6/2/01)
1992 Jun 2, Bill Clinton
officially clinched the Democratic presidential nomination as he won
the six final primaries of the campaign.
(AP, 6/2/97)
1992 Jun 2, In California,
Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were nominated to twin
U.S. Senate seats. California became the first state to have 2 women in
the US Senate.
(AP, 6/2/97)(SFC, 12/24/99, p.A19)
1992 Jun 2, Danish voters rejected
the Maastricht union treaty.
(AP, 6/2/97)
1993 Jun 2, South Africa's Supreme
Court upheld Winnie Mandela's conviction for kidnapping four young
blacks, but said she would not have to serve her five-year prison term.
(AP, 6/2/98)
1994 Jun 2, The International
Atomic Energy Agency, the UN atomic watchdog, reported it could no
longer verify the status of North Korea's nuclear program, prompting
the United States to seek economic sanctions.
(AP, 6/2/99)
1994 Jun 2, President Clinton met
at the Vatican with Pope John Paul II.
(AP, 6/2/99)
1995 Jun 2, A US Air Force F-16C
was shot down by a Bosnian Serb surface-to-air missile while on a NATO
air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Captain Scott F. O’Grady, was
rescued six days later.
(AP, 6/2/00)
1996 Jun 2, "Rent," "Bring in 'da
Noise, Bring in 'da Funk" and "The King and I" dominated the 1996 Tony
Awards, each winning four prizes.
(AP, 6/2/97)
1996 Jun 2, Fire-fighters began
battling a blaze in Alaska that spread to 64 sq. mls after five days 50
miles from Anchorage.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A3)
1996 Jun 2, In the Czech Republic
the center-right coalition of premier Vaclav Klaus lost its majority in
parliamentary elections.
(SFC, 6/3/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 2, Sergio Palacios Cruz
and another contra rebel were killed near the village of Zapote Dudu by
the Nicaraguan army.
(SFC, 6/5/96, p.C16)
1996 Jun 2, Separatists in
northern Italy celebrated their growing campaign to split off from the
south on the 50th anniversary of the Italian republic. Umberto Bossi is
the head of the Northern League and founder of the self-declared
Republic of Padania. At a rally in Pontida, near Milan, ministers in
Bossi’s “government” swore allegiance to Padania, a name derived from
the valley of the Po. Their proposed republic includes everything from
Florence to the Alps.
(SFC, 6/3/96, p.A12)(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun 2, In Thailand Bangkok
voters elected Pichit Rattakul, an independent environmentalist, as
mayor. The city is one of the most polluted in the world.
(SFC, 6/3/96, p.A11)
1996 Jun 2, A list of the
countries that are considered the most corrupt by international
business people had the following top ten: Nigeria, Pakistan, Kenya,
Bangladesh, China, Cameroon, Venezuela, Russia, India and Indonesia.
The top ten least corrupt were New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Finland,
Canada, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Australia.
The US was judged 15th least corrupt, worse than Israel but better than
Austria.
(SFC, 6/3/96, p.A11)
1997 Jun 2, Timothy McVeigh was
convicted on 11 counts in the Apr 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P.
Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. McVeigh was executed in June
2001.
(SFC, 6/3/97, p.A1)(SFC,12/24/97, p.A4)(AP, 6/2/07)
1997 Jun 2, The NASDAQ Stock
Exchange began trading in 1/16th-point increments.
(WSJ, 5/30/97, p.C1)
1997 Jun 2, A federal election on
this date was called by Prime Minister Jean Chretien. He called for a
mandate to decide Canada’s priorities now that the federal deficit was
tamed. Voters returned Chretien and his centrist Liberal Party to power
with a slight parliamentary majority.
(SFC, 4/28/97, p.10)(SFC, 6/3/97, p.A8)
1997 Jun 2, Conservative President
Jacques Chirac of France, forced to share power with Socialists who had
routed his party in national elections, handed the premiership to
former opposition leader Lionel Jospin.
(SFC, 6/3/97, p.A12)(AP, 6/2/98)
1997 Jun 2, Nigerian naval vessels
opened fire on Sierra Leone. Ships, planes and troops went action
against the rebels in Freetown.
(SFC, 6/2/97, p.A8)(SFC, 6/3/97, p.A8)
1998 Jun 2, California Prop. 227
was a state ballot measure that would ban bilingual education. Prop.
226 made it more difficult for unions to use member dues for political
purposes. Prop. 227 won with 61% support and effectively abolished the
state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all
children be taught in English. Prop. 226 lost by a 53% margin. Gray
Davis won the Democratic nomination for governor. He was to face Dan
Lungren in the fall. Jerry Brown (60) won the election for Mayor of
Oakland.
(SFC, 4/27/98, p.A1)(SFC, 5/9/98, p.A22)(SFC,
6/3/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/4/98, p.A1)
(AP, 6/2/99)
1998 Jun 2, Monica Lewinsky hired
a new defense team, Jacob Stein and Plato Cacheris, replacing William
H. Ginsburg as her lead attorney.
(AP, 6/2/99)
1998 Jun 2, In Florida Bishop J.
Keith Symons (65) announced his resignation as head of the Palm Beach
diocese after admitting that he molested 5 boys early in his career.
Bishop Robert N. Lynch was named as temp. administrator over the
200,000 Catholics in the 5-county diocese.
(SFC, 6/3/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 2, Space Shuttle
Discovery was launched and it planned to pick up astronaut Andrew
Thomas from the Mir space station.
(WSJ, 6/3/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 2, Royal Caribbean
Cruises admitted to routinely dumping oily waste into the Caribbean and
agreed to pay a fine of $9 million. It was estimated that 80% of the
oil pollution in the world’s seas was caused by routing dumping by
ships of all sorts.
(SFC, 6/3/98, p.A6)
1998 Jun 2, In Burma 26 farmers
were gunned down near Murng-Kerng.
(SFC, 8/8/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 2, In Mexico the military
leader of an anti-narcotics investigation was kidnapped and beaten by
henchmen of Ramon Alcides Magana, aka El Metro. At the same time his
office was robbed of evidence linking Yucatan Gov. Mario Villanueva
Madrid to El Metro.
(SFC, 12/14/98, p.C2)
1998 Jun 2, In Russia Yeltsin held
a meeting with the country’s most powerful business leaders and urged
them to help keep investors from fleeing. Russian stocks rose 12%.
(SFC, 6/3/98, p.A12)
1999 Jun 2, President Clinton met
at the Vatican with Pope John Paul II.
(AP, 6/2/04)
1999 Jun 2, The International
Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. atomic watchdog, reported it could no
longer verify the status of North Korea's nuclear program, prompting
the United States to seek economic sanctions.
(AP, 6/2/04)
1999 Jun 2, American Indians filed
a class action law suit against the major tobacco companies charging
that they were excluded from the $206 billion settlement reached with
46 states last November.
(SFC, 6/4/99, p.A18)
1999 Jun 2, The EU ordered that a
vast array of Belgian products be withdrawn from sale and destroyed due
to a fear of dioxin-poisoning in chickens and eggs.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.A13)
1999 Jun 2, In France a conductor,
Eric Douet (39), died one day after being beaten in a confrontation
with 2 peddlers illegally selling goods at a Metro station in Paris.
His death caused transport workers to go on strike.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.C4)
1999 Jun 2, In Japan the
government agreed to make the birth control pill available by
prescription.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.A13)
1999 Jun 2, In Kashmir Islamic
guerrillas rejected India's offer of safe passage out of the battle
zone.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.C4)
1999 Jun 2, In Nigeria troops were
deployed to the Niger Delta where the death toll from tribal clashes
had reached 200 after 4 days.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.C4)
1999 Jun 2, Palestinian leaders
said they would not resume peace talks unless settlement expansion in
the West Bank and Gaza is frozen.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.A13)
1999 Jun 2, In South Africa Pres.
Mandela set this date for elections. Thabo Mbeki, the deputy of Pres.
Mandela, was expected to win. The ANC headed for victory with 62.2%
support after half the votes were counted. The final count showed a
65.7% win. The Congress Party trailed a rival black party in
KwaZulu-Natal province. The ANC won 266 seats, one shy of a two-third
majority. Retiring president Nelson Mandela was succeeded by Thabo
Mbeki.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.C3)(SFC, 6/3/99, p.A12)(SFC, 6/4/99,
p.D2)(SFC, 6/7/99, p.A11)(SFC, 6/8/99, p.A12)(AP, 6/2/00)
1999 Jun 2, The World Court
rejected Yugoslavia's contention that NATO bombing was unlawful and
that the Western alliance was committing genocide. The court also
refused to call for a cessation of hostilities.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.A12)
2000 Jun 2, President Clinton,
visiting Germany, was honored with the prestigious International
Charlemagne Prize at Aachen Cathedral.
(AP, 6/2/01)
2000 Jun 2, In Olathe, Kansas,
John Edward Robinson was arrested on sexual assault charges. 2 female
bodies were found on his property in La Cygne, Kansas, the next day and
3 more 2 days later in 55-gallon drums in a storage locker in Missouri.
3 of the women were identified as Beverly Bonner (49), who disappeared
in 1994, Suzette Marie Trouten (28), and Izabela Lewicka (22). Another
6 missing women were linked to Robinson. In July Robinson was charged
in connection with the death of Lisa Stasi, who disappeared in 1985. In
2003 Robinson pleaded guilty to another 5 murders in Missouri.
(SFC, 6/7/00, p.A10)(SFC, 6/16/00, p.A9)(SFC,
7/29/00, p.A7)(ST, 10/17/03, p.A7)
2000 Jun 2, In Kashmir an
explosive device killed at least 11 people in Gundqasim during Shiite
Muslim religious services.
(SFC, 6/3/00, p.A12)
2000 Jun 2, In Kosovo 2 Serb
villagers were killed when their vehicle drove over a land mine near
Pristina. A mother and her 2 children were injured.
(SFC, 6/3/00, p.A12)
2000 Jun 2, In Peru a truck
leaving the Yanacocha gold mine leaked 330 pounds of liquid mercury.
Local residents soon suffered mercury poisoning. A legal suit against
Denver-based Newmont Mining moved forward in 2005.
(SFC, 3/14/05, p.A1)
2000 Jun 2, In the Philippines
over 30 Moro rebels were killed along with one government soldier in
North Cotabato province.
(SFC, 6/3/00, p.A12)
2000 Jun 2, In Turkey
delegates in Istanbul from over 150 nations concluded the latest World
Radio-communication Conference. They agreed to reserve 3 blocks of
airwaves for advanced services such as wireless Internet access.
(SFC, 6/3/00, p.B1)
2001 Jun 2, Imogene Coca (b.1908),
co-star with Sid Caesar of the 1950s "Your Show of Shows" TV program,
died at age 92 in Westport, Conn.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A29)(NW, 12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Jun 2, In the West Bank
Yasser Arafat announced that he would make every effort to bring about
an unconditional cease-fire.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 2, In Colombia the
government and FARC guerrillas agreed to swap sick prisoners followed
later by a swap of healthy prisoners.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A16)
2001 Jun 2, Nepal's Crown Prince
Dipendra, on life support after killing at least eight members of the
royal family, including his parents, before turning the gun on himself,
was named king by Nepal's State Council.
(AP, 6/2/02)
2001 Jun 2, In the Philippines
government forces engaged Muslim separatists at Lamitan on Basilan
Island. At least 12 soldiers were killed in 2 days of fighting. New
hostages were reported taken. It was later reported that army officers
accepted bribes to allow Abu Sayyaf rebels to escape.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A8)(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A16)(SFC,
8/25/01, p.A9)
2002 Jun 2, "Thoroughly Modern
Millie" won six Tony Awards, including best musical.
(AP, 6/2/03)
2002 Jun 2, HBO’s first season of
'The Wire' began with a pilot episode titled “The Target.” The series
concentrated on the often-futile efforts of police to infiltrate a West
Baltimore drug ring headed by Avon Barksdale and his lieutenant,
Stringer Bell.
(www.hbo.com/thewire/about/)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Target_(The_Wire_episode))
2002 Jun 2, American journalist
and columnist Flora Lewis died in Paris at age 79.
(AP, 6/2/03)
2002 Jun 2, A fire broke out at
Buckingham Palace, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people and
marring the four-day celebration of Queen Elizabeth's 50 years on the
throne.
(AP, 6/2/03)
2002 Jun 2, Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat offered Cabinet posts to Hamas and other militant groups
as part of his government reshuffle.
(SFC, 6/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 2, About 72% of Swiss
voters approved a measure permitting abortions in the 1st 12 weeks of
pregnancy.
(SFC, 6/3/02, p.A6)
2002 Jun 2, It was reported that
atrazine, a commonly used herbicide made by Sygenta AG of Switzerland,
had been linked to cancer in humans and deformities in frogs. US
farmers sprayed over 60 million pounds of it each year.
(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.A3)(NH, 10/02, p.56)
2003 Jun 2, President Bush,
visiting the Middle East, pledged to work unstintingly for the goal of
Israel and a Palestinian state living side by side without bloodshed.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2003 Jun 2, The FCC eased media
ownership rules and allowed companies to own both a newspaper and a
broadcast station in the same market.
(SFC, 6/3/03, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/3/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 2, PeopleSoft announced
an agreement to buy J.D. Edwards for $1.7 billion.
(SFC, 12/14/04, p.D1)
2003 Jun 2, PipeVine Inc., a firm
that handled over $100 million in donations, shut down and said it did
not have enough money to pay owed funds to nonprofit organizations. The
SF later acknowledged that is had spent some of the money on its own
salaries and other operating expenses. Accounting problems dated back 2
years.
(SFC, 6/4/03, p.A1)(SFC, 6/5/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 2, Felix de Weldon
(b.1907), Austria-born American sculptor, died in Virginia. His most
famous piece is the Marine Corps War Memorial at Arlington cemetery of
five U.S. Marines and one sailor raising the flag of the United States
on Iwo Jima during World War Two.
(http://tinyurl.com/yc7o9bd)
2003 Jun 2, In Denmark Thorkild
Grosboel, a Lutheran minister, was suspended for saying that God
doesn't exist and there is no eternal life. Lutheran pastors in Denmark
are employed by the state and bishops cannot fire them.
(AP, 6/3/03)(Econ, 6/28/03, p.55)
2003 Jun 2, Europe's space agency
launched a mars probe from Kazakhstan.
(WSJ, 6/3/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 2, Thousands of sacked
Iraqi soldiers marched on the U.S.-led administration and threatened to
launch suicide attacks on American troops in Baghdad unless they were
paid wages and compensation.
(AP, 6/2/03)
2003 Jun 2, In Evian, France,
world leaders projected confidence that they will turn around their
weak economies and pledged joint cooperation on a host of global issues
from terrorism to the need for a coordinated effort to rebuild Iraq.
(AP, 6/2/03)
2003 Jun 2, North Korea said it
has nuclear arms.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R10)
2004 Jun 2, South Dakotans elected
Democrat Stephanie Herseth to Rep. Janklow’s seat.
(WSJ, 6/3/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 2, U.S. and Afghan troops
backed by American warplanes fought Taliban militants in the mountains
of southern Afghanistan, killing 17 insurgents and arresting eight. In
northwestern Afghanistan 3 foreign medical workers associated with
Doctors Without Borders and 2 Afghans were killed when their car was
ambushed.
(AP, 6/3/04)(SFC, 6/3/04, A10)(SFC, 6/5/04, A8)
2004 Jun 2, In eastern Algeria
insurgents ambushed an Algerian military convoy night, killing at least
10 soldiers and wounding 45 others.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 2, The Azerbaijani Fuel
and Energy Minister said that $3.4 billion would be invested by 2006 in
the first phase of development of the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 2, In Congo DRC forces
loyal to renegade Congolese Tutsi commander Brig- Gen. Laurent Nkunda,
captured Bukavo, a key eastern border city from government troops.
(AP, 6/2/04)(Econ, 6/5/04, p.46)
2004 Jun 2, Militants loyal to
Muqtada al-Sadr clashed with U.S. forces near a mosque in Kufa and in
Baghdad. Officials said 6 Iraqis were killed and 40 others wounded.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 2, In Nepal King
Gyanendra named Sher Bahadur Deuba, a former prime minister fired two
years ago for alleged incompetence, as prime minister again amid
political turmoil.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 2, Romania’s Pres. Ion
Iliescu unveiled the new Logan sedan, a joint venture between Renault
and Romania’s Dacia. Starting prices were around $6,100. In 2007 nearly
80,000 Logans were sold in western Europe.
(SFC, 6/3/04, C5)(Econ, 5/31/08, SR p.7)
2004 Jun 2, Saudi security forces
killed two suspected militants linked to a weekend shooting and
hostage-taking.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 2, In southeast Turkey
Kurdish guerrillas fired on troops a day after announcing an end to a
5-year cease fire.
(WSJ, 6/3/04, p.A1)
2005 Jun 2, Pres. Bush tapped
California Rep. Chris Cox (52) to chair the SEC following the
resignation of William Donaldson.
(SFC, 6/3/05, p.C1)
2005 Jun 2, Georgia "runaway
bride" Jennifer Wilbanks pleaded no contest to faking her own
abduction; she was sentenced to probation, community service and a fine.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2005 Jun 2, Thirteen-year-old
Anurag Kashyap won the national spelling bee championship by correctly
spelling "appoggiatura," which refers to an embellishing musical note.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2005 Jun 2, Network computer maker
Sun Microsystems Inc. said it agreed to buy Storage Technology Corp.
for $4.1 billion in cash, bolstering its presence in the fast-growing
market for data storage.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 2, Researchers reported
that human trust in others was related to the hormone oxytocin.
(Econ, 6/4/05, p.76)
2005 Jun 2, Australia led 15
countries including Britain, France and Germany in a protest on against
Japan's plans to expand its annual whale hunt.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 2, On Australia's
southwest coast up to 160 whales became stranded on 2 beaches after 2
pods beached themselves.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 2, Federal police
targeted Brazil's environmental protection agency in a crackdown on
illegal logging, arresting 48 officials and several independent
businessmen.
(AP, 6/3/05)
2005 Jun 2, In northeastern Brazil
a government bus carrying Indians from a health clinic went out of
control on a wet road and careened into a creek, killing at least 19
people.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 2, Melita Norwood (93),
former Soviet Union spy in Britain (1937-1972), died.
(Econ, 7/2/05, p.52)(http://tinyurl.com/8f3yy)
2005 Jun 2, Chinese, Indian and
Russian foreign ministers, meeting in Vladivostok, agreed to intensify
joint work against terrorism and underscored their common approach to
international affairs.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 2, In northern Iraq 3
suicide car bombings struck within an hour. In Kirkuk a car bomb
targeting a restaurant where bodyguards of Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime
minister were eating killed nine people and wounded 25. A car bomb
attack killed the deputy head of Diyala provincial council and three of
his bodyguards. 2 parked motorcycles exploded in Mosul killing 5
Iraqis. Gunmen in speeding cars opened fire on a crowded market in
Baghdad. The series of attacks killed at least 34 people.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 2, A suicide car bomber
targeted a home where a group of people had gathered, killing at least
10 Iraqis and wounding 10 more in Saud, a remote village north of
Baghdad.
(AP, 6/3/05)
2005 Jun 2, Israel released 398
Palestinian prisoners, completing a pledge made under a cease-fire
agreement, hours after Israel and the Palestinians announced their
leaders would soon meet for the first time since February.
(AP, 6/2/05)(WSJ, 6/3/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 2, The US and France
reached a tentative deal to boost the size of the UN peacekeeping
mission in Ivory Coast by nearly 2,000 troops and police to help
enforce a shaky peace deal. Meanwhile thousands fled a region where a
village was burned and 55 people killed by unidentified gunmen.
(AP, 6/3/05)(WSJ, 6/3/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 2, Latvian lawmakers
voted to ratify the European Union constitution and challenged other
European nations not to give up hope that the charter can be
implemented.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 2, In Lebanon Samir
Kassir, a prominent journalist known for his anti-Syrian writings, was
killed after a bomb placed in his car exploded in Beirut.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 2, The Maldives ushered
in a new political era when parliament voted to allow parties to form
for the first time in the remote Indian Ocean archipelago, a move that
ended centuries of autocratic rule. The law passed in July.
(Reuters, 6/2/05)(Econ, 12/23/06, p.55)
2005 Jun 2, It was reported that
Russia's state-controlled gas giant was negotiating to buy a
controlling share of the influential Izvestia daily from a private
conglomerate, a move that could bring one of the country's largest
private newspapers under firm Kremlin control.
(AP, 6/4/05)
2005 Jun 2, Serbian police
reported the arrest of at least 8 men they say are shown in a 1995
video killing a group of Bosnian Muslim prisoners from Srebrenica.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 2, Schabir Shaik, the
financier of the African National Congress during its struggle to end
apartheid, was convicted of corruption by a South African court. He was
found to have given Jacob Zuma over $100,000 in bribes from a French
arms company. Shaik served 2 years and 4 months of his 15 year sentence
before he was freed in 2009, supposedly on medical grounds.
(AP, 6/2/05)(Econ, 3/14/09, p.51)
2005 Jun 2, In Sudan 5 people were
killed and 16 others injured when a passenger plane crashed shortly
after take-off from Khartoum and caught fire.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 2, In southern Ukraine a
freight train crashed into a passenger bus at a railroad crossing,
killing 14 people. In a separate accident, a train crashed into a car
at another crossing point, killing three people.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2006 Jun 2, The US government and
5 news organizations agreed to pay $1.65 million to Wen Ho Lee, a
former nuclear scientist, who claimed his privacy was violated by leaks
that portrayed him as a spy.
(SFC, 6/3/06, p.A1)
2006 Jun 2, The board of Goldman
Sachs appointed Lloyd C. Blankfein (51) to replace Henry Paulson Jr.,
recently selected to head the US Treasury, as CEO.
(WSJ, 6/3/06, p.B1)
2006 Jun 2, Vince Welnick (55),
Grateful Dead pianist, died in California of apparent suicide. He had
taken over as the Grateful Dead's keyboard player in 1990 after a
succession of predecessors met untimely deaths.
(Reuters, 6/4/06)(SSFC, 6/4/06, p.B6)
2006 Jun 2, Four governments
(Brazil, Chile, France, and Norway), the UN and the world's soccer
federation launched a plan to use the proceeds of a new airline ticket
tax to treat people in the developing world suffering from AIDS,
malaria or tuberculosis. Countries that have either approved or say
they expect to approve a new airline ticket tax include Britain,
Cyprus, Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Luxembourg, Madagascar,
Mauritius and Nicaragua.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, In Afghanistan dozens
of troops were dropped from coalition aircraft into a remote,
mountainous district of Uruzgan province and recaptured the area which
had been overrun by Taliban nearly three days earlier. Nearly 35
Taliban rebels were killed in the latest strikes as Afghan and
coalition troops took back a district that had been in rebel hands for
days.
(AFP, 6/3/06)
2006 Jun 2, British police raided
a house in east London house and arrested two men, shooting and
wounding one of them. Police said the raid was a response to a specific
threat of attack, refused to comment on news reports that the men were
plotting to use a chemical weapon. Mohammed Abdul Kahar (23), who was
injured in the dawn swoop, and Abul Koyair (20) were freed June 9 after
being held for questioning for a week.
(AP, 6/3/06)(AFP, 6/10/06)
2006 Jun 2, In Toronto, Canada, 17
people were arrested on "terrorism-related" charges including plotting
attacks with fertilizer bombs on Canadian targets. The adult suspects
from Toronto were Chand, alias Abdul Shakur, 25; Fahim Ahmad, 21;
Jahmaal James, 23; and Asin Mohamed Durrani, 19. Those from Mississauga
are Ghany; Shareef Abdelhaleen; Zakaria Amara, 20; Asad Ansari, 21;
Saad Khalid, 19; and Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43. Mohammed Dirie, 22, and
Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, were from Kingston. 14 men and 4 youths, dubbed
the “Toronto 18,” were originally charged. In 2009 Saad Khalid pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. On Jan 18, 2010, Saad
Gaya (22), one of the "Toronto 18" group, was sentenced to 12 years in
prison. Zakaria Amara, the acknowledged ringleader, was sentenced to
life in prison. In 2010 a Canadian jury convicted Asad Ansari and
Steven Chand, the final two members of the "Toronto 18" extremist
group, for their role in the bomb plot to blow up Toronto landmarks. On
March 4, 2011, Abdelhaleen was sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 6/4/06)(SSFC, 6/4/06, p.A1)(Reuters,
5/7/09)(Reuters, 9/3/09)(Reuters, 1/18/10)(SFC, 1/19/10, p.A2)(Reuters,
6/23/10)(SFC, 3/5/11, p.A2)
2006 Jun 2, Teck Cominco Ltd., a
Canadian mining company, agreed to pay millions to assess whether
pollution it dumped into the Columbia River damaged wildlife and public
health in Washington state.
(SFC, 6/3/06, p.A3)
2006 Jun 2, Czechs cast ballots in
a tight parliamentary race that revealed deep divisions over whether
the nation needs bold reforms or the status quo. A forecast predicted
the right wing Civic Democratic party of Mirek Topolanek would win
legislative elections with 38% of the vote.
(AP, 6/2-3/06)
2006 Jun 2, Two Egyptian security
officers were killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli troops after
crossing the border into Israel.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, The leader of al-Qaida
in Iraq urged Sunnis to confront Shiites and ignore calls for
reconciliation in a new audiotape posted on the Web, saying Shiite
militias are killing and raping the Sunni Arab minority. 2 bombs struck
in quick succession at a pet market in central Baghdad, killing at
least five people and wounding 57. Some 10 minutes later, an explosion
near a Shiite mosque in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Jadida
killed two civilians and injured five.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, Ireland passed an
emergency bill on under-age sex, and the Supreme Court ordered a man at
the center of the controversy to be reimprisoned for having sex with a
12-year-old girl.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, Israel has begun
laying the foundations for Maskiot, a new Jewish settlement deep in the
West Bank, breaking a promise to Washington while strengthening its
hold on a stretch of desert it wants to keep as it draws its final
borders.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, The UN Security
Council added 1,500 peacekeepers to its mission in Ivory Coast in
renewed efforts to restore order in the troubled West African country.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, A Japanese court
convicted a US sailor of killing a Japanese woman during a Jan 3
robbery near Tokyo and sentenced him to life in prison.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, The 12th edition of
the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music opened in Fez, Morocco. It
brought together spiritual and religious music from Syria, Iran, India,
Mali, Latin America, Japan, Tibet, Azerbaijan and the Mediterranean
under the theme of "harmonies."
(AFP, 6/4/06)
2006 Jun 2, In Nepal tens of
thousands of Maoist rebels and supporters thronged the heart of
Kathmandu for their first mass meeting here to be addressed by senior
leaders.
(AFP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, Norwegian rig owner
Fred. Olsen Energy ASA said 8 foreign workers on an oil rig operating
off Nigeria were kidnapped overnight. The workers, six British, one
American and one Canadian, were aboard the drilling rig Bulford Dolphin
when it was attacked during the night.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, In northwestern
Pakistan 2 suicide attackers detonated an explosives-laden car amid a
military convoy on a strategic road, killing four soldiers and wounding
seven.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, Russian President
Vladimir Putin removed his hawkish chief prosecutor in what analysts
said was a tactical victory for moderates over hardliners in a Kremlin
power struggle.
(Reuters, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, Clashes between Syrian
security forces and Islamic militants in an area of Damascus filled
with government buildings left five dead and four wounded.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, In Timor-Leste
lawlessness raged in parts Dili as mobs looted government warehouses,
stealing computers, office chairs and file cabinets. Foreign troops
deployed to restore order were nowhere to be seen.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 2, The United Nations
General Assembly concluded a conference on AIDS by promising to set
"ambitious national targets," but falling short of setting exact
financial goals for the fight against the disease.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, Four Muslim men were
arrested and in connection to a plan to set off explosives in a jet
fuel line that feeds John F. Kennedy International Airport and runs
through residential neighborhoods. Two men allegedly involved in a plot
to attack New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport were in
custody in Trinidad and Tobago and the police commissioner said
authorities were scouring the Caribbean country for a third suspect
still at large. In 2011 Kareem Ibrahim (65) of Trinidad was found
guilty of convincing plotters to seek aid from Iran.
(AP, 6/2/07)(AP, 6/3/07)(AP, 6/2/08)(SFC, 5/27/11,
p.A6)
2007 Jun 2, Thomas M. Siebel (54),
the founder and former chairman of Siebel Systems Inc., announced he
will make a $100 million donation to the University of Illinois, his
alma mater. This was the largest gift in the university's history.
Siebel pledged to give the gift to the Urbana-Champaign campus upon his
death.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, Kelsey Smith (18) went
missing when she went to a Target store in the Overland Park suburb of
Kansas City to buy a gift for her boyfriend. On June 6 police found her
body in a wooded area near Grandview, Mo., about 20 miles east of the
Target store. Edwin R. Hall (26) was arrested shortly after her body
was found. In 2008 Hall pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in
prison.
(AP, 6/7/07)(AP, 7/23/08)
2007 Jun 2, In San Francisco, Ca.,
Hugues de la Plaza (36), a French national, was found dead in his
Linden Street apartment in Hayes Valley. Police labeled his stabbing
death as a possible homicide or suicide. In 2009 a French probe called
his death a homicide. The French probe concluded that de la Plaza was
stabbed in a surprise attack outside his apartment. In 2009 an
independent review ruled out suicide.
(SFC, 1/27/09, p.B1)(SFC, 2/27/09, p.B1)(SFC,
11/13/09, p.C1)
2007 Jun 2, A boat crossing the
Helmand River in Helmand province sank, and at least 60 Taliban
militants were killed. Suspected Taliban militants attacked a local
police commander's home, killing five of his family members and
sparking a gunbattle with police that left 10 insurgents dead. In
eastern Afghanistan suspected militants ambushed a NATO convoy, killing
two members of the alliance and wounding 7 troops. 15 suspected
militants were killed by police. In eastern Khost province, militants
attacked a police checkpoint in Yaqubi district and the ensuing clash
left 12 militants dead. Police clashed with Taliban militants in
neighboring Paktika province's Shakin district, leaving three suspected
insurgents dead.
(AP, 6/2/07)(AFP, 6/3/07)(AP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 2, In England Authorized
won the Epsom Derby giving riding legend Frankie Dettori his first win
in the race on his 15th ride.
(AFP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, Bulgarian PM Sergey
Stanishev said he had accepted the resignation of two ministers,
following a corruption scandal that has shaken his centre-left
government.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, The Comoros and Guinea
joined the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) at a summit of
the nine-year-old African grouping in Libya, raising its membership to
25 countries.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, In Rostock, Germany,
masked demonstrators protesting the upcoming G-8 summit meeting hurled
stones and flagpoles at police.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, India and the United
States failed to resolve differences over an American offer to share
nuclear know-how and fuel, ending three days of negotiations that were
intended to seal a deal seen as the cornerstone of an emerging
partnership.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, Iran detained 3 Finns
for allegedly straying into its territorial waters during a fishing
trip in the Persian Gulf. In June 6 Iran agreed to release them.
(AP, 6/6/07)
2007 Jun 2, A series of mortar
barrages killed 8 civilians and wounded 25 others in a Sunni enclave
surrounded by Shiite areas in central Baghdad. A key bridge was damaged
by a bomb in northern Iraq. Prominent Sunni sheik, Ali Khudir al-Zind,
was killed in a drive-by shooting as he walked near his home in western
Baghdad. Gunmen opened fire in two separate locations in western
Baghdad, killing three people. Police found two bullet-riddled bodies
of people who had been bound and blindfolded and showed signs of
torture. Four men were killed and one vehicle and 10 rockets destroyed
by Apache fire at rocket firing positions aimed at the Green Zone. 6
suspects were captured by ground forces. Gunmen at a fake checkpoint in
Baqouba killed two passengers and wounded eight others when they opened
fire on three minibuses that sought to flee from the highway trap.
Police found 8 unidentified bodies in an industrial area of the western
city of Fallujah. In all at least 57 people were killed of found dead
including 26 bullet riddled bodies, bearing signs of torture, found on
the streets of Baghdad. US-led forces killed one suspected insurgent
and detained eight in a series of raids outside the capital. 7 US
soldiers were killed in a series of attacks across Iraq.
(AP, 6/2/07)(AP, 6/3/07)(SSFC, 6/3/07, p.A23)(AP,
6/4/07)
2007 Jun 2, Virgin Atlantic
chairman Sir Richard Branson announced a program aimed at saving
elephants in Kenya, as he boarded his airline's first flight to the
east African nation.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, The Lebanese air force
joined tanks and artillery in pounding Islamic militant hideouts on the
second day of an intensifying offensive to uproot al-Qaida-inspired
gunmen barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, Southern Nigeria's
most prominent armed group released six foreign oil workers held
captive for four weeks and announced a month-long moratorium in attacks
on petroleum facilities.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, Four people believed
to have fled North Korea arrived at a port in northern Japan in a small
boat and told police they want to go to South Korea.
(Reuters, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, In Pakistan tens of
thousands of demonstrators joined the biggest rally yet against the
president's suspension of the chief justice, giving the jurist a joyous
reception ahead of a speech in an opposition stronghold. Officials said
a nursing school was shut down and its Christian principal and four
Christian students suspended after Muslim pupils accused unknown people
of desecrating verses from the Quran.
(AP, 6/2/07)(AP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 2, In the Philippines a
man armed with a 21-inch-long knife killed nine people, including six
children, and wounded 17 others in a rampage in central Samar province.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, In Russia former PM
Mikhail Kasayanov was nominated by his opposition movement to run in
next year's presidential election and promised to stop the Kremlin
orchestrating the vote in its favor.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, In Mogadishu, Somalia,
unknown gunmen killed a government official, Hassan Ali Sa'id, as he
was about to enter his house.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 2, Two Sri Lankan Red
Cross workers, ethnic Tamil men abducted from Colombo two days ago,
were found shot to death. The Tigers launched a night attack near
Omanthai and claimed to have killed 30 soldiers. The army said it
killed 52 Tigers.
(AP, 6/3/07)(Econ, 6/9/07, p.24)
2007 Jun 2, The UN Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) decided to permit a
one-off sale of 60 tons of ivory from Botswana, Namibia and South
Africa to Japan, saying it would monitor closely the impact on poaching
and population levels.
(Reuters, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 2, In Zambia at least 12
soccer fans were crushed to death as a crowd rushed from the Lusaka
stadium after Zambia's victory over Congo Brazzaville in an African Cup
qualifier.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2008 Jun 2, The US gave 31 used
trucks to Cambodia in its first direct supply of military hardware in
more than a decade, saying ties between the two countries were
improving.
(AFP, 6/2/08)
2008 Jun 2, The United States lost
an appeal in its long-running dispute with Brazil over U.S. subsidies
for cotton farmers at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
(Reuters, 6/2/08)
2008 Jun 2, SF mayor Gavin Newsom
unveiled a record $6.5 billion budget.
(SFC, 6/3/08, p.A1)
2008 Jun 2, Melvin Weiss (72),
co-founder of the NYC law firm Milberg Weiss, was sentenced to 30
months in prison for his roll in a kickback scheme targeting US
corporations. He was also ordered to pay $9.7 million in forfeitures
and $250,000 in fines.
(SFC, 6/3/08, p.D4)
2008 Jun 2, Scott Coles (48),
Arizona financier, was found dead of apparent suicide. His firm
Mortgages Ltd., a company founded by his father in 1963, entered
bankruptcy on June 24.
(WSJ, 7/16/08, p.A1)
2008 Jun 2, Bo Didley (b.1928),
rhythm and blues pioneer, died in Florida. He had been born as Ellas
Bates in McComb, Mississippi. His 1955 debut recording of “Bo Didley”
landed him a spot on the Ed Sullivan Show.
(SFC, 6/3/08, p.B5)
2008 Jun 2, Mel Ferrer (b.1917),
American actor, director and producer, died in Santa Barbara, Ca. His
films included “Lili” (1953) and “The Brave Bulls” (1951).
(SFC, 6/4/08, p.B11)
2008 Jun 2, In Afghanistan Taliban
attacked a district in Helmand province, killing a policeman. In the
battle that followed, eight Taliban were killed.
(AP, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 2, In Australia Mark
Standen, an assistant director of the New South Wales state Crime
Commission, was arrested for conspiracy to import controlled substances
and supply prohibited drugs, and with perverting the course of justice.
He is alleged to have assisted a drug-trafficking syndicate in a plan
to bring to Australia 1,300 pounds of the chemical pseudoephedrine that
could be used to make $114 million worth of the methamphetamine known
as "ice." The masterminds of the syndicate were in the Netherlands,
where 12 people were arrested last week.
(AP, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 2, In Bolivia Pres.
Morales ordered the nationalization of a natural gas pipeline operator
half-owned by Royal Dutch Shell PLC and a US investment fund.
(WSJ, 6/3/08, p.A15)
2008 Jun 2, Carlos Minc, Brazil’s
new environment minister, said the government will impound cattle
caught grazing on illegally cleared pastures with an operation, dubbed
"Rogue Bull," to attack deforestation in the rain forest. Government
researchers said that preliminary data indicate the Amazon lost at
least 2,258 square miles (5,850 square kilometers) of forest cover from
August to April 2008.
(AP, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 2, China began paying
sums of about $144 to each parent whose sole offspring was killed in
the May 12 earthquake.
(WSJ, 6/3/08, p.A1)
2008 Jun 2, In eastern France 7
school children were killed when a train crashed into a bus carrying
schoolchildren near Allinges.
(AP, 6/2/08)(SFC, 6/3/08, p.A3)
2008 Jun 2, In Germany Some 2,000
delegates from 162 countries and dozens of specialist agencies opened a
two-week conference to start tackling the details of a new global
warming agreement slated to take effect after 2012.
(AP, 6/2/08)
2008 Jun 2, In Iraq US troops
killed two suspects in Tikrit. The military said it had captured 31
others and destroyed bomb-making materials over the past two days in
raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq in central and northern swaths of the
country. In Mosul a suicide car bomber killed 9 people including 5
police officers.
(AP, 6/2/08)(SFC, 6/3/08, p.A6)
2008 Jun 2, Nigeria's President
Umaru Yar'Adua arrived in South Africa for a four-day state visit to
forge closer ties between Africa's most populous country and its
biggest economy.
(AFP, 6/2/08)
2008 Jun 2, In Pakistan a huge car
bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, killed 8 people
and wounded dozens more. Danish security said that al-Qaida or an
al-Qaida-related group likely was behind the attack. Evidence indicated
that a suicide bomber drove the car.
(AP, 6/2/08)(SFC, 6/4/08, p.A6)
2008 Jun 2, Somalia's opposition
alliance ruled out direct peace talks with the country's transitional
government unless it sets a timetable for the withdrawal of Ethiopian
troops.
(AP, 6/2/08)
2008 Jun 2, Foreign ships gained
UN authorization to enter Somali waters when fighting piracy and armed
robbery. The unanimous UN Security Council resolution made it legal for
foreign navies to chase pirates into Somali waters and if need be sink
them.
(AP,
6/2/08)(www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-07-20-pirates_N.htm)
2008 Jun 2, The South Korean
government said it was delaying the planned resumption of US beef
imports, after a request from the ruling party and large weekend street
protests.
(AP, 6/2/08)
2008 Jun 2, The chief of the
International Atomic Energy Agency says Syria has agreed to let
inspectors into the country this month to probe allegations of illegal
nuclear activity.
(AP, 6/2/08)
2008 Jun 2, In Venezuela the vice
president of a Venezuelan newspaper was shot and killed by a gunman who
police said could have confused the victim for his brother, the
president of Reporte Diario de la Economia, a daily that has closely
covered corruption cases.
(AP, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 2, In central Vietnam a
collision between a speeding bus and a truck killed 14 people and
injured 18 others. Traffic accidents killed more than 13,000 people
last year in Vietnam.
(AP, 6/2/08)
2009 Jun 2, Pres. Obama appeared
in a BBC interview and said Iran may have some right to nuclear energy,
provided it takes steps to prove its aspirations are peaceful. Obama
also restated his plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran.
(SFC, 6/3/09, p.A2)
2009 Jun 2, In Alameda County,
Ca., a jury convicted Wonda Kidd (58), a former escrow officer, of two
counts of felony grand theft in an equity stripping fraud case that
took place from April 2005 to August 2006. Straw buyers were used to
buy property at inflated prices after which a default took place
forcing lenders to foreclose. In 2008 Karim Akil (42) pleaded
guilty to grand theft and was sentenced to 3 years. His assistant
was sentenced to one year in prison.
(SFC, 6/4/09, p.C1)
2009 Jun 2, GM struck a tentative
deal to sell its Hummer brand to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy
Industrial Machinery Co.
(SFC, 6/3/09, p.C2)
2009 Jun 2, Six Afghan family
members, including two children, were killed in an explosion close to
the US Bagram military base outside Kabul. The Ministry of Interior
said that suspected insurgents carried out a suicide bombing against
the family while they were traveling in a car. Afghan and coalition
forces attacked a residential compound in Wardak province, killing six
militants. The men were said to be connected to a militant commander
blamed for multiple attacks. In eastern Afghanistan insurgents killed a
soldier serving with NATO. A convoy in Paktia province was hit by a
blast that killed one security guard. A second improvised explosive
device then ripped through the convoy and killed nine guards in another
vehicle. An American soldier and an Afghan interpreter were killed by a
roadside bomb also in Paktia province. 11 Taliban militants were killed
in a joint operation in Zabul province. 2 policemen were killed and
five others were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in southern Kandahar
province.
(AP, 6/2/09)(AP, 6/3/09)(SFC, 6/4/09, p.A3)
2009 Jun 2, In Algeria an
estimated 30 Al-Qaida-linked militants killed two teachers and eight
police escorts as they brought copies of tests back from an examination
center in the town of Timezrit, 49 miles east of Algiers.
(AP, 6/3/09)
2009 Jun 2, In Belgium a new
museum, designed by architect Christian de Portzamparc, opened in
Louvain-la-Neuve dedicated to Georges Remi (1907-1983), creator of the
comic book hero Tintin (1929).
(Econ, 5/30/09, p.87)
2009 Jun 2, British media reported
that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is quitting her post following the
scandal over lawmakers' expenses.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 2, An airplane seat, a
life jacket, metallic debris and signs of fuel were found in the middle
of the Atlantic Ocean by Brazilian military pilots searching for a
missing Air France airliner Flight 447.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 2, In Greenland the Inuit
Ataqatigiit party, or IA, won 44% of votes to take 14 of the 31 seats
in Greenland's Parliament, the Landsting. The left-wing opposition
party defeated the long-governing Social Democrats. Siumut got 26% of
the votes and lost the majority it held with its smaller coalition
partner Atasut. Premier Hans Enoksen called the snap election after
Greenlanders decided in a November referendum to loosen ties with
Denmark.
(AP, 6/3/09)
2009 Jun 2, The Iraqi and US
militaries tentatively agreed to keep a joint base on the edge of
Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City, maintaining an American presence in
a strategic area even after the June 30 deadline for US combat troops
to pull out of the capital. An American soldier died of wounds from a
roadside bombing in Baghdad.
(AP, 6/2/09)(AP, 6/3/09)
2009 Jun 2, In Israel detained a
Jewish man for shooting to death a Palestinian in Jerusalem and
wounding another Jewish man.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 2, Mexico moved forward
in its campaign to root out corruption, rounding up 21 more police
officers in several northern cities for questioning on suspicions they
had ties to drug trafficking. A total of 58 officers have been detained
since the operation began a day earlier.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 2, Mexican truckers filed
a lawsuit against the United States seeking $6 billion in compensation
for losses they claim to have suffered since Washington banned them
from crossing the border in violation of a trade pact. Mexico's
National Cargo Transportation Association, or Canacar, filed the
lawsuit representing 4,500 trucking companies. Canacar had filed an
arbitration notice with the US State Department under the NAFTA in
April.
(AP, 6/3/09)
2009 Jun 2, A Pakistani court
ordered the release of Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the founder of banned
Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, because there was
insufficient evidence to link him to last year's deadly Mumbai attacks.
India immediately condemned the ruling. Pakistan's military said that
troops were fighting inside the Taliban stronghold of Charbagh, 20km
from the Swat valley's main town Mingora. The military said it had
killed 21 militants in the past 24 hours of its offensive, while three
soldiers died. Gunmen in Peshawar stormed a factory owned by a senior
minister of North West Frontier Province, kidnapping eight workers and
killing a guard who resisted.
(AP, 6/2/09)(AFP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 2, In South Africa 61
prospectors died from a fire in an abandoned gold mine belonging to
Harmony Gold mining company, which had ceased working its Eland shaft.
Illegal miners, often called "gold pirates," are hired through
organized crime rackets that produce about $250 million in gold a year.
(AP, 6/2/09)(AP, 6/4/09)(AP, 7/21/09)
2009 Jun 2, Two major South Korean
newspapers said that North Korea's military, party and government
officials were informed that Kim Jong Un (26), the youngest of three,
is in line to take the world's first communist dynasty into a third
generation.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2010 Jun 2, President Barack Obama
expanded benefits for same-sex partners of federal employees, a move
likely to be welcomed by gay rights activists who have questioned his
commitment to their causes.
(Reuters, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 2, Georgia’s Gov. Sonny
Perdue signed a comprehensive transport bill. It divided the state into
12 regions and gave each one the power to decide on its own transport
projects.
(Econ, 6/19/10, p.33)
2010 Jun 2, In San Francisco a
driver sent 4 bicyclists to hospital following a 6-minute rampage over
3 neighborhoods in the Mission and Potrero Hill districts. The car was
found but the driver had escaped. On June 5 police identified the
suspect as David Mark Clark (39) of Albany, Ca. Clark was charged on
June 7 with trying to run down and kill bicyclists.
(SFC, 6/4/10, p.A1)(SSFC, 6/6/10, p.A14)(SFC,
6/8/10, p.C2)
2010 Jun 2, Taliban militants
launched a suicide attack on Afghanistan's national peace conference as
President Hamid Karzai interrupted his opening remarks to reassure
nervous delegates hearing the thump of rockets and rattle of gunfire
outside. At least two attackers were killed in fighting with Afghan
security forces near the giant tent erected for the 3-day gathering.
Five militants were killed and eight others in addition to
district-level Taliban commander, Mullah Habibullah, were arrested in
the operation in Sayed Abad district of Wardak province. In Zabul
province an operation by NATO and Afghan forces killed five Taliban
insurgents. A clash between Afghan forces and Taliban militants left
four civilians dead in Helmand province. A roadside bombing in the same
province killed four other civilians.
(AP, 6/2/10)(AP, 6/3/10)
2010 Jun 2, In Bangladesh a
four-story apartment building constructed on a former canal collapsed
in Dhaka, burying nearby shanties and killing at least 20 people.
(AP, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 2, BP Plc forged ahead
with its latest effort to curb the flow of oil spewing into the Gulf of
Mexico as the British energy giant's shares fell anew as the US
government launched criminal and civil probes into the disaster.
(Reuters, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 2, In northwestern
England Derrick Bird (52), a taxi driver described as quiet but
friendly, went on a shooting spree across a picturesque rural area,
killing 12 people, including his twin brother, and wounding 11 before
apparently turning the gun on himself.
(AP, 6/2/10)(AP, 6/3/10)(AP, 6/5/10)
2010 Jun 2, Foxconn, a subsidiary
of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, announced a 30% pay
increase for its workers in China.
(Econ, 6/5/10, p.48)
2010 Jun 2, In CongoDRC the body
of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire of Voix des Sans Voix, or Voice of the
Voiceless, was found in his car in a suburb of Kinshasa. The next day
Navi Pillay, the top UN human rights official said the victim had
suffered a pattern of intimidation because of his work. For the past
two decades, Voix des Sans Voix had worked to document human rights
abuses across Congo, focusing on corruption in the military and foreign
support for militias. On June 4 several police officers were arrested
as part of a preliminary investigation into the death of Bahizire.
(AP, 6/3/10)(AP, 6/5/10)
2010 Jun 2, A century-old
Ethiopian prayer book stolen decades ago was returned to the African
nation after American collector Gerald Weiner, who held it, agreed to
the restitution.
(AFP, 6/3/10)
2010 Jun 2, France's former top
anti-terrorism judge said the Turkish Islamic charity behind the
flotilla of aid ships that was raided by Israeli forces on its way to
Gaza had ties to terrorism networks, including a 1999 al-Qaida plot to
bomb Los Angeles International Airport.
(AP, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 2, It was reported that
Iran has barred private schools from teaching music, saying it clashes
with the establishment’s Islamic values. Iran's Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pardoned 81 jailed opposition supporters who had
been found guilty of having a role in the unrest triggered by last
June's disputed presidential election.
(SFC, 6/2/10, p.A2)(AP, 6/3/10)
2010 Jun 2, In Iraq a US soldier
died in Baghdad in a noncombat related accident.
(AP, 6/3/10)
2010 Jun 2, Israel was deported
the last of the nearly 700 foreign activists detained in a deadly raid
on an aid flotilla bound for Palestinians in the blockaded, Hamas-ruled
Gaza Strip. Israel came under renewed pressure at an urgent session of
the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, as countries lined up to condemn
its interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla and urge an impartial probe.
(AP, 6/2/10)(AFP, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 2, Japanese PM Yukio
Hatoyama resigned to improve his party's chances in an election next
month, after his popularity plunged over his broken campaign promise to
move a US Marine base.
(AP, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 2, Two Mexican federal
police officers were killed in a clash with gunmen in northern Nuevo
Leon state.
(AP, 6/3/10)
2010 Jun 2, The US Embassy said
that Polish police arrested Alexsander Efrosman, a businessman from
Staten Island, New York, in Krakow last weekend. The US Commodity
Futures Trading Commission said in a complaint filed in 2005 that
Efrosman, who also goes by Alex Besser, stole about $5 million from
customers of two fraudulent hedge funds that he claimed to manage,
Century Maxim Fund, Inc. and AJR Capital Inc.
(AP, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 2, The crew of a
Libyan-owned cargo ship pounced on their sleeping Somali captors,
disarmed the pirates and killed five of them, regaining control of
their vessel, the MV Rim, that had been hijacked on Feb 2.
(AP, 6/2/10)(SFC, 6/19/10, p.A3)
2010 Jun 2, Pakistan and Spain
expressed their joint commitment to fight terrorism as they signed a
broad bilateral agreement aimed at enhancing cooperation on security,
trade and other issues.
(AFP, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 2, Somali pirates
hijacked a cargo ship, the QSM Dubai in the Gulf of Aden. The ship
flying a Panamanian flag, sailed from Brazil and included a crew of 24.
The next day an official in the semiautonomous Somali region of
Puntland said security forces in his northern region stormed the QSM
Dubai and freed it after pirates refused pleas to surrender and instead
killed the Pakistani captain of the ship.
(AP, 6/2/10)(AP, 6/3/10)
2010 Jun 2, Sudanese security
forces beat up and arrested several leaders of a doctors' syndicate
which had called for strike action.
(AFP, 6/3/10)
2010 Jun 2, South Sudan army
forces clashed with insurgents in Unity state leaving 9 people dead
including one soldier and eight men loyal to renegade commander Galwak
Gai.
(AFP, 6/3/10)
2010 Jun 2, South Korea’s Yonhap
news agency said 14,579 people committed suicide last year, with people
over 61 accounting for about one-third of the deaths. Yonhap said the
National Police Agency provided the figures.
(AP, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 2, The Stockholm Int’l.
Peace Research Institute said that world military spending grew 5.9%
from 2008-2009 and that the US accounted for some 54% of the increase.
(SFC, 6/2/10, p.A2)
2010 Jun 2, Thailand's prime
minister survived a no-confidence vote that was called after
anti-government protests crippled the capital and 89 people were killed
in street battles.
(AP, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 2, UN chief Ban Ki-moon
demanded that Israel lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip immediately in
the wake of its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
(AP, 6/3/10)
2010 Jun 2, Yemeni security
officials said authorities have detained several foreigners, including
Americans, Britons and an Australian woman, in connection with an
investigation into al-Qaida's increased activity in the country. Shyloh
Giddins of Australia was among several foreigners taken into custody
during the probe. She was initially placed on house arrest May 14,
along with her two children, and later held in a prison. She was
released with her 2 children on June 11 and deported home.
(AP, 6/2/10)(AP, 6/11/10)
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