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Jun 10, Alexander died in Persia at Babylon at the age of 32. His
general, Ptolemy, took possession of Egypt. Apelles was a painter in
Alexander's court. He had been commissioned by Alexander to paint a
portrait of Campaspe, Alexander's concubine. Apelles fell in love
with Campaspe and Alexander granted her to him in marriage. In 1984
Curtius Quintas Rufus authored "the History of Alexander." In 1991
Peter Green authored "Alexander of Macedon, A Historical Biography."
“Alexander the Great" by Norman F. Cantor (d.2004) was published in
2005.
(BS, 5/3/98, p.12E)(WSJ, 2/11/00, p.W6) (ON,
1/01, p.11)(SSFC, 12/25/05, p.M3)
1190 Jun 10, Frederick I van
Hohenstaufen, Barbarossa (1123-1190), king of Germany and Italy and
the Holy Roman Empire, drowned crossing the Saleph River while
leading an army of the Third Crusade. Frederick struggled to extend
German influence throughout Europe, maneuvering both politically and
militarily. He clashed with the pope, the powerful Lombards and
fellow Germans among others throughout the years. He joined the
Third Crusade in the Spring of 1189 in their efforts to free
Jerusalem from Saladin's army
(WUD, 1994, p.565)(HN, 6/10/98)(HNQ, 2/3/01)
1358 Jun 10, French Boer leader
Guillaume Cale was captured.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1540 Jun 10, Thomas Cromwell
was arrested in Westminster.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1549 Jun 10, English villagers
protested the new liturgy adopted by the Church of England.
Uprisings that followed in Norfolk, Oxfordshire and the south-west
led to perhaps 10,000 deaths as King Edward’s regime suppressed
dissent.
(Econ, 4/29/17, p.67)
1580 Jun 10, Luis Camoes
(b.1524), Portuguese poet, died. He fought in colonial battles in
Morocco and India and lost one eye. He was arrested in a street
brawl in Lisbon and left for India. He traveled to Macao and
Mozambique after which he published "Os Lusiadas" (The Lusiads,
1572), a poem that glorified Vasco da Gama and the history of
Portugal.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_de_Cam%C3%B5es)(SFC, 6/4/99,
p.D6)(SSFC, 3/10/02, p.M3)
1605 Jun 10, False Dimitri was
crowned Russian tsar for 1st time.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1610 Jun 10, The 1st Dutch
settlers arrived from NJ to colonize Manhattan Island.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1610 Jun 10, English Lord De La
Ware and his supply ships arrived at Jamestown allowing the colony
to recover and survive.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_West,_3rd_Baron_De_La_Warr)
1639 Jun 10, The 1st American
log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington, Delaware).
(MC, 6/10/02)
1688 Jun 10, Mary of Modena,
the wife of Britain’s King James II, gave birth to a male heir. This
placed England, much to the dismay of Parliament, in line for a
succession of Catholic monarchs.
(Econ, 2/4/06, p.77)(ON, 7/06, p.10)
1692 Jun 10, Bridget Bishop was
hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft. This was the first official
execution of the Salem witch trials.
(HN, 6/10/01)(WSJ, 1/18/08, p.W10)
1718 Jun 10, Blackbeard's ship,
the Queen Anne's Revenge, ran aground about this time and soon sank
off the coast of Beaufort, NC. In 1997 underwater archeologist
raised a canon believed to be from this ship.
(SFC, 3/4/96, p.A4)(SFC,10/24/97,
p.A3)(www.qaronline.org/history/search.htm)
1720 Jun 10, Mrs. Clements of
England marketed the 1st paste-style mustard.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1720 Jun 10, The French state
bank reopened after a 10 day closure and some people were crushed to
death in the rush to get in.
(WSJ, 7/19/00, p.B4)
1735 Jun 10, John Morgan,
physician-in-chief of Continental Army, was born.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1751 Jun 10, The British
Currency Act restricted New England colonies from creating paper
money The colonies had issued paper fiat money known as “bills of
credit" to help pay for the French and Indian Wars. The Act limited
future issuance of bills of credit to certain circumstances (i.e. to
pay public debts, such as taxes, but not private debts, such as to
merchants).
(http://tinyurl.com/pdokes2)
1752 Jun 10, Benjamin
Franklin's kite was struck by lightning as he flew it during a
thunderstorm.
(http://science1.factoidz.com/franklins-lightning-experiment-june-10-1752/)
1761 Jun 10, Puritan version of
"Othello" opened in Newport, Rhode Island.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1776 Jun 10, The Continental
Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of
Independence.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1801 Jun 10, The North African
state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over
safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean. Tripoli
declared war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute.
(AP, 6/10/97)(HN, 6/10/98)
1806 Jun 10, James Fox, British
foreign minister, introduced a bill to ban British ships from
transporting slaves to foreign countries. Parliament passed the
bill.
(ON, 4/05, p.3)
1818 Jun 10, Pesaro opera
theater opened with Rossini's "La Gaza Ladra."
(MC, 6/10/02)
1819 Jun 10, J.D. Gustave
Courbet (d.1877), French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine),
was born. His realistic landscapes were marked by bold shadows and
compositions fragmented by the play of natural light. This technique
was pursued more fully by the impressionists. His work included
"Rock at HautePierre."
(DPCP, 1984)(WSJ, 3/10/00, p.W16)(MC, 6/10/02)
1824 Jun 10, Caesar
Augustus Rodney (v.1772), US Attorney General (1807-1811) and nephew
of US Judge Caesar Rodney (1728-1784), died in Buenos Aires. He
served as a US Senator from Delaware (1822-1823).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_A._Rodney)
1836 Jun 10, Yamaoka Tesshu,
Japanese swordsman, was born.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1836 Jun 10, Andre M. Ampere,
French mathematician, physicist (Amp), died.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1838 Jun 10, In Australia white
settlers led the Myall Creek massacre near Gwydir River, New South
Wales. Up to 30 unarmed indigenous Australians were killed by ten
Europeans and one African.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myall_Creek_massacre)(Econ, 6/25/16,
p.76)
1847 Jun 10, Chicago Tribune
began publishing.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1848 Jun 10, The 1st telegraph
link between NYC & Chicago was established.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1854 Jun 10, The U.S. Naval
Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, held its first graduation.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1861 Jun 10, Thaddeus Lowe
demonstrated his balloon, the Enterprise, along with its telegraphy
capabilities for Pres. Lincoln at the White House lawn.
(ON, 2/05, p.8)
1861 Jun 10, The Virginia
village of Big Bethel became the site of the 1st major land battle
of the Civil War. Private Henry L. Wyatt was the 1st Confederate
soldier killed in a Civil War battle. 18 Union soldiers were killed.
(AH, 10/01, p.50)
1861 Jun 10, Dorthea Dix, known
for her work with the mentally ill, was appointed superintendent of
women nurses for the Union Army.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1863 Jun 10, At the Battle of
Brice's Crossroads in Mississippi, Confederate General Nathan
Bedford Forrest with 3,500 troops defeated the Union troops of
8,000.
(HN, 6/10/98)(MC, 6/10/02)
1865 Jun 10, The opera "Tristan
und Isolde" by Richard Wagner premiered in Munich, Germany.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1688 Jun 10, Mary of Modena,
the wife of Britain’s King James II, gave birth to a male heir,
James Francis Edward Stuart (d.1766). This placed England, much to
the dismay of Parliament, in line for a succession of Catholic
monarchs. On 10 December, within six months of his birth, Mary of
Modena took baby James to France, worried about his safety, while
his father, James II, continued to fight (unsuccessfully) to retain
his crown.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Francis_Edward_Stuart)(Econ,
2/4/06, p.77)(ON, 7/06, p.10)
1871 Jun 10, A landing force of
110 U.S. Marines came ashore on Korea's Kangwha Island, a fortress
island guarding the approaches to Seoul. The Korean Punitive
Expedition was launched from an American fleet, which anchored in
the Han River after the isolationist Korean government rejected U.S.
diplomatic demands for an explanation of the fate of an American
ship and her crew believed killed by the Koreans. In two days of
fighting, the Marines and sailors captured the defensive forts on
the Island, leaving 243 Koreans dead. Nevertheless, the expedition
failed to open Korea to foreign trade.
(HNQ, 6/10/98)
1884 Jun 10, William E. Eldred
of Brooklyn, NY, was granted a US patent for a new way to open and
close the legs of a folding table.
(SFC, 1/30/08, p.G4)
1884 Jun 10, Johann Gustav
Droysen (b.1808), German historian, died in Berlin. His books
included “Geschichte Alexanders des Grossen" (1833), a study of
Alexander the Great.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gustav_Droysen)
1886 Jun 10, Mount Tarawera
erupted at Rotorua on the North Island. 155 people were killed and
several Maori and European settlements, including Te Wairoa, were
destroyed.
(SFEC, 1/9/00, p.T5)(SSFC, 10/28/12, p.M6)
1890 Jun 10, Sessue Hayakawa,
Japanese actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity), was born.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1892 Jun 10, The Republican
National Convention in Minneapolis nominated President Harrison for
re-election and Whitelaw Reid for vice president. (Harrison,
however, lost the election to former President Cleveland.)
(AP, 6/10/97)
1895 Jun 10, Hattie McDaniel
was born in Wichita, Kansas. She was the first African-American
actress to win an Oscar which she won for her role as a maid in Gone
With the Wind.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0567408/)
1898 Jun 10, During the
Spanish-American War, U.S. Marines landed in Cuba and camped at
Guantanamo Bay where 2 Marines became the 1st war casualties.
(HN, 6/10/98)(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A7)
1901 Jun 10, Frederick Loewe,
songwriter, was born.
(HN, 6/10/01)
1905 Jun 10, 1st forest fire
lookout tower placed in operation was at Greenville, Me.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1905 Jun 10, Japan and Russia
agreed to peace talks brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1907 Jun 10, In China 11 men in
five cars set out from the French embassy in Beijing on a race to
Paris. Prince Scipione Borghese of Italy was the first to arrive in
the French capital two months later. The 62-day race was won by an
Italian built Itala.
(AP, 6/10/07)(AH, 6/03, p.21)
1908 Jun 10, Ernst B. Chain,
German chemist, bacteriologist (penicillin, Nobel 1945), was born.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1909 Jun 10, An SOS signal was
transmitted for the first time in an emergency as the Cunard liner
SS Slavonia was wrecked off the Azores.
(HN, 6/10/99)
1911 Jun 10, Queen Wilhelmina
opened the Rembrandt house in Amsterdam.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1915 Jun 10, Girl Scouts were
founded. [see Mar 12, 1912]
(MC, 6/10/02)
1916 Jun 10, Mecca, under
control of the Turks, fell to the Arabs during the Great Arab
Revolt. Sharif Hussein, Arab Emir of Mecca, led the revolt.
(HN, 6/10/98)(ON, 10/05, p.7)
1917 Jun 10, 60,000 people of
Petrograd welcomed Prince Kropotkin, who was banned 41 years
earlier.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1920 Jun 10, The Republican
convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1921 Jun 10, The US Budget and
Accounting Act of 1921 required the President to submit the budget
to Congress for each fiscal year which is the 12-month period
beginning on October 1 and ending on September 30 of the next
calendar year. The act was approved by President Warren G. Harding
to provide a national budget system and an independent audit of
government accounts.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_process)(Econ,
2/7/15, p.31)
1921 Jun 10, Philip
Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince, Consort of Elizabeth II, was
born in Greece.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1922 Jun 10, Judy Garland,
singer-actress was born as Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn.
She starred in The Wizard of Oz and Easter Parade.
(AP, 6/10/97)(HN, 6/10/99)
1924 Jun 10, The Italian
socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and assassinated by
Fascists in Rome.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1925 Jun 10, Nat Hentoff,
journalist, was born.
(HN, 6/10/01)
1925 Jun 10, Tennessee adopted
a new biology text book denying the theory of evolution.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1926 Jun 10, Antoni Gaudi
(b.1852), Spanish eccentric architect, died. His work on the Sagrada
Familia church with its Torre del Nacimento (Tower of Birth) in
Barcelona began in 1883 and continued to his final days.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD)(WSJ, 7/21/00,
p.W12)(SSFC, 10/9/16, p.F7)
1928 Jun 10, Maurice Sendak,
children's author and illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are), was
born.
(HN, 6/10/01)
1933 Jun 10, F. Lee Bailey,
American defense attorney, was born. He later defended the Boston
Strangler, Patty Hearst and O.J. Simpson
(HN, 6/10/99)
1933 Jun 10, Robert Porterfield
and 22 other hungry actors opened the doors of the Barter Theater in
Abingdon, Virginia. Admission was 40 cents per head or the
equivalent in produce.
(HT, 3/97, p.14)
1933 Jun 10, Col. Eugene
Northington (53) of the US Army Medical Corps died in SF from X-ray
cancers. He had dedicated his life to pioneering work studying
X-rays.
(SSFC, 6/8/08, DB p.58)
1935 Jun 10, Alcoholics
Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by William G. Wilson (Bill
Wilson), a stockbroker, and Dr. Robert Smith (Bob Smith), a heart
surgeon.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1937 Jun 10, San Francisco
police began the destruction of some 400 slot machines seized in the
past years. They planned to dump the destroyed machines in the SF
Bay.
(SSFC, 6/10/12, DB p.42)
1937 Jun 10, Luciana Paluzzi
(Fiona Volpe), actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball), was born in
Rome, Italy.
(www.jamesbondmm.co.uk/bond-villains/luciana)
1940 Jun 10, Marcus Garvey
(b.1887), US black leader (Back to Africa Movement), died. In 2008
Colin Grant authored “Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus
Garvey."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey)(SSFC, 5/11/08, Books
p.5)
1940 Jun 10, Italy declared war
on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1942 Jun 10, German
Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in
retaliation for the killing of SS Gen Reinhard Heydrich. All
together, 340 people died in the Nazi reprisal (192 men, 60 women
and 88 children). The death toll resulting from the effort to avenge
the death of Heydrich is estimated at 1,300. This count includes
relatives of the partisans, their supporters, Czech elites suspected
of disloyalty and random victims like those from Lidice.
(AP, 6/10/97)(HN,
6/10/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice)
1943 Jun 10, FDR signed a
withholding tax bill into law.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1943 Jun 10, The Allies began
bombing Germany around the clock.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1944 Jun 10, The U.S. VII and V
corps, advancing from Normandy’s Utah and Omaha beaches,
respectively, linked-up and began moving inland.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1944 Jun 10, German troops of
the armored SS Division "Das Reich", as they headed toward Normandy
to combat D-Day invasion forces, slaughtered 642 men, women and
children in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France. In 1983 a
court in East Berlin convicted Heinz Barth (1921-2007), a former SS
officer, and sentenced him to life in prison. In addition to
involvement in the massacre, East German judges also found that
Barth volunteered to participate in an execution of 92 Czech
civilians in 1942. In 1997 his sentence was commuted to probation.
(AP, 8/14/07)
1944 Jun 10, In Greece
Waffen-SS troops of the 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division
under the command of SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Lautenbach went door
to door and massacred Greek civilians as part of a 'retaliation
measure' for a partisan attack upon the unit. A total of 214 men,
women and children were killed in Distomo, a small village near
Delphi.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distomo_massacre)
1946 Jun 10, Jack Johnson
(b.1878), 1st black heavyweight champion (1908-1915), died in car
accident. In 2004 Geoffrey C. Ward authored “Unforgivable Blackness:
The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson." In 2005 Ken Burns premiered the
PBS documentary: “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack
Johnson."
(SSFC, 11/7/04, p.M1)(SFC, 1/17/05, p.D6)
1946 Jun 10, Italy replaced its
abolished monarchy with a republic.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1947 Jun 10, California Gov.
Earl Warren signed a measure that gave each county the authority to
regulate its own air pollution. This was America’s first statewide
air protection law.
(SFEC,11/10/97, p.A10)(Econ, 3/16/13, p.29)
1948 Jun 10, The news that the
sound barrier has been broken is finally released to the public by
the U.S. Air Force. Chuck Yeager, piloting the rocket airplane X-1,
exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.
(HN, 6/10/01)
1952 Jun 10, Pres. Truman tried
to nationalize the steel industry. [see Apr 8]
(MC, 6/10/02)
1953 Jun 10, John R. Edwards,
US Senator, was born Seneca, South Carolina. In 2004 he ran as a
Democrat presidential candidate and then agreed to run for the
vice-presidency under Sen. John Kerry.
(SSFC, 2/29/04, p.D2)(SFC, 7/7/04, p.A9)
1957 Jun 10, John Diefenbaker,
Progressive Conservative Party, was elected PM of Canada. He served
until 1963.
(CFA, '96, p.81)(HN, 9/18/98)(MC, 6/10/02)
1957 Jun 10, Harold MacMillan
became British PM.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1959 Jun 10, Eliot Spitzer,
later NY state governor (2007), was born in the Bronx. In 2008 he
faced the end of his political career amidst a sex scandal.
(WSJ, 3/11/08, p.A18)
1963 Jun 10, JFK signed an
equal pay for equal work law for men & women.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1964 Jun 10, The U.S. Senate
voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill,
shutting off a filibuster by Southern states.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1966 Jun 10, Mamas & Papas
won a gold record for "Monday, Monday."
(MC, 6/10/02)
1967 Jun 10, In Marin County,
Ca., the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival drew some
36,000 Bay Area fans to the Sidney B. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre
on Mount Tamalpais.
(SFC, 6/8/17, p.A1)
1967 Jun 10, Spencer Tracy
(b.1900), American film star, died. His work included 75 feature
films and two Oscars. In 2011 James Curtis authored “Spencer Tracy:
A Biography."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Tracy)(SSFC, 10/30/11, p.F6)
1967 Jun 10, Israel and Syria
agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. Israel took
Gaza and the Sinai from Egypt, Old Jerusalem and the West Bank from
Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. In 2002 Michael B. Oren
authored "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the making of the Modern
Middle East." Israeli military historian Arieh Yitzhaki later said
that his research showed Israeli troops killed 300 Egyptian
prisoners of war. Israel said soldiers on both sides committed
atrocities. In 2007 Tom Segev authored “1967: Israel, the War and
the Year that Transformed the Middle East."
{Israel, Palestine, Syria, Egypt}
(AP, 6/10/97)(WSJ, 6/5/02, p.D7)(AP,
3/6/07)(Econ, 5/26/07, p.97)
1970 Jun 10, A fifteen-man
group of special forces troops began training for Operation Kingpin,
a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam. The daring rescue raid at the
Son Tay prison camp deep within North Vietnam lacked only one
essential ingredient--POWs.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1971 Jun 10, Federal marshals,
FBI agents and special forces swarmed Alcatraz Island and removed
the Native American occupiers: 5 women, 4 children and 6 unarmed
men.
(www.nps.gov/alca/historyculture/we-hold-the-rock.htm)
1971 Jun 10, In Mexico City a
paramilitary group descended on student demonstrators and at least
11 people were killed. In 2002 criminal complaints were filed
against 14 former federal and Mexico City officials for their
involvement in the massacre. Mayor Alfonso Martinez (d.2002 at 81)
denied any involvement in the massacre that left over 30 protestors
dead. In 2004 charges were filed against former Pres. Echeverria,
but a judge blocked his arrest.
(SFC, 6/13/02, p.A14)(SFC, 11/9/02, p.A19)(SFC,
7/24/04, p.A3)(WSJ, 7/26/04, p.A1)
1975 Jun 10, The Rockefeller
panel reported on illegal CIA files on Americans.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975)
1977 Jun 10, James Earl Ray,
the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King
Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six
others; he was recaptured June 13.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1978 Jun 10, Affirmed
(1975-2001) , ridden by Steve Cauthen, became a Triple Crown winner
after winning the NY Belmont Stakes by a nose over Alyadar.
(AP, 6/10/98)(WSJ, 6/7/99, p.A20)(NW, 12/31/01,
p.109)
1980 Jun 10, A package bomb
injured United Airlines Pres. Percy Wood at his home in Lake Forest,
Ill. It was later attributed to the Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski.
(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1
p.4)(www.courttv.com/trials/unabomber/bombings.html)
1981 Jun 10, In Frascati,
Italy, 6-year-old Alfredo Rampi fell down an artesian well; the
story ended tragically as efforts to rescue him proved futile.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1982 Jun 10, The play "Torch
Song Trilogy," by Harvey Fierstein, opened on Broadway.
(AP, 6/10/08)
1982 Jun 10, The Jos. Schlitz
Brewing Company and the Old Milwaukee brand was acquired by Stroh
Brewing Company of Detroit. The Old Milwaukee brand was first
brewered by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company.
(http://tinyurl.com/rvxp4)
1982 Jun 10, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder (b.1945), German film director, died.
(WSJ, 1/14/97,
p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder)
1982 Jun 10, In Lebanon
some 20 Israeli soldiers were killed at the Battle of Sultan Yacoub
near the Syrian border. Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel (b.1960) was
listed as missing along with two other Israeli soldiers after the
deadly battle with Syrian forces. In 2019 Russian and Syrian forces
found his remains and returned them to Israel.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sultan_Yacoub)(AFP, 4/4/19)
1985 Jun 10, Socialite Claus
von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, Rhode Island, at
his retrial on charges he’d tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha
“Sunny" von Bulow.
(AP, 6/10/00)
1985 Jun 10, The Israeli army
pulled out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation
(HN, 6/10/98)
1987 Jun 10, The leaders of
seven major industrial nations ended a three-day summit in Venice,
proposing no new major economic initiatives, but calling for closer
coordination of their economies and a stabilizing of foreign
currency rates.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1988 Jun 10, The US House
ethics committee announced it had voted unanimously to conduct a
preliminary inquiry into allegations concerning the conduct of
Speaker Jim Wright.
(AP, 6/10/98)
1988 Jun 10, Author Louis
L'Amour died in Los Angeles at age 80. He wrote 116 western novels.
L’Amour trained troops in survival and later fought in the European
theater in tank destroyers. His early life was filled with the same
type of adventures that he wrote about. Due to economic problems and
an adventuresome spirit, L’Amour left his Jamestown, N.D., home when
he was 15 and spent the next several decades tramping the West and
sailing the world. He worked at just about everything that would
keep him alive. His writings was just beginning to be published when
the war started.
(AP, 6/10/98)(USAT, 6/10/98, p.1D)(HNQ, 7/15/01)
1989 Jun 10, Easy Goer won the
Belmont Stakes in New York, denying the Triple Crown to Kentucky
Derby and Preakness winner Sunday Silence.
(AP, 6/10/99)
1990 Jun 10, Alberto Fujimori
was elected president of Peru by a narrow margin over novelist Mario
Vargos Llosa.
(AP, 6/10/00)
1990 Jun 10, Two members of the
rap group 2 Live Crew were arrested in Hollywood, Florida. They and
a third band member were acquitted of obscenity charges October
20th.
(AP, 6/10/00)
1991 Jun 10, "Twin Peaks" ended
its run on ABC-TV.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks)
1991 Jun 10, New York City
staged a massive celebration for US veterans of the Persian Gulf
War, code-named Desert Storm.
(AP, 6/10/01)
1991 Jun 10, In South Lake
Tahoe, Ca., Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy, snatched Jaycee Lee
Dugard (11) from a bus stop outside her home. In 2009 police freed
Dugard and arrested the Garrido’s. During the interim Phillip
Garrido fathered 2 children with Dugard keeping them in tents in a
fenced backyard compound in Antioch, Ca. In 2010 California
lawmakers approved a $20 million payment to Dugard and 2 her
children, ages 12 and 15. On June 2, 2011, Phillip Garrido (59) was
sentenced to 431 years to life in prison. Nancy (55) was sentenced
36 years to life. In 2011 Dugard authored “A Stolen Life: A Memoir."
On Sep 22, 2011, Dugard sued the federal government for the lax
supervision of her abductor.
(AP, 8/28/09)(SFC, 7/2/10, p.C3)(SFC, 6/3/11,
p.A1)(SSFC, 7/31/11, p.F1)(SFC, 9/23/11, p.C3)
1991 Jun 10, Vercors (b.1902)
[Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), died.
(http://440.com/twtd/archives/feb26.html)
1992 Jun 10, President Bush
dropped Secretary of State James A. Baker III from his trip to the
Earth Summit in Brazil, instructing him to step up negotiations for
a new agreement with Russia to reduce long-range nuclear missile
stockpiles.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1993 Jun 10, Scientists
announced they had extracted genetic material from the preserved
remains of an insect that had lived when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
(AP, 6/10/98)
1993 Jun 10, Richard Webb (77),
actor (Captain Midnight), shot himself.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0916253/)
1994 Jun 10, President Clinton
intensified sanctions against Haiti's military leaders, suspending
U.S. commercial air travel and most financial transactions between
the two countries.
(AP, 6/10/99)
1994 Jun 10, Dhirendra
Brahmachari (70), a spiritual leader and yoga instructor who became
a confidant of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, died today in a plane
crash. Brahmachari, aka known as the flying swami, was swept into
obscurity amid scandals over a personal arms factory and crooked
aircraft deals.
(http://tinyurl.com/3metw8l)(Econ, 6/11/11, p.44)
1995 Jun 10, US Air Force
Captain Scott O’Grady, rescued after being shot down over Bosnia,
described his six-day ordeal at a news conference at Aviano Air Base
in Italy, saying he was no Rambo and no hero.
(AP, 6/10/00)
1995 Jun 10, “Thunder Gulch"
won the Belmont Stakes.
(AP, 6/10/00)
1996 Jun 10, The film “The
Rock," starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, opened and took in
$25.1 million nationally.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.E1)
1996 Jun 10, The Colorado
Avalanche defeated the Florida Panthers 1-0 in triple overtime to
win the Stanley Cup in a four-game sweep.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1996 Jun 10, Rupinol,
(Rohypnol), also known as Rufi, is a drug that causes amnesia when
mixed with alcohol and was gaining popularity among young people. It
was sold over the counter in Mexico and other countries outside the
US.
(SFC, 6/10/96, C4)(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 10, US scientists led
by David M. Mehringer reported that evidence of ascetic acid
(vinegar) had been found in a cloud of gas named Sagittarius B2
North, some 25,000 light years from Earth.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A4)
1996 Jun 10, Intel released its
200 Mhz Pentium chip.
(www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/quickreffam.htm)
1996 Jun 10, Iran offered to
mediate between Bahrain and its Shiite opposition and denied any
involvement in the recent plot to topple the government of Bahrain.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun 10, In Italy the
center-left government announced a new privatization calendar that
included the sale of stakes in insurance, banking, and oil
companies.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A9B)
1996 Jun 10, In Malaysia Irene
Fernandez, head of the human rights group Tenaganita, went on trial
for her 1995 published report on prison conditions of immigrant
inmates. 71 deaths have been caused by alleged abuse. She was
charged under a 1986 law that banned the publication of "malicious
allegations" against the government. Seven years later, she was
sentenced to one year in prison but appealed. In 2008 she was
acquitted.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A15)(SFC, 5/29/96, p.A8)(AP,
11/24/08)
1996 Jun 10, A report on Mexico
estimated that 800,000 children under 14 worked in different sectors
of the economy. The Mexican constitution and federal labor law
prohibits the employment of children under 14. Based on a 1990
census, the Sec. of Public Education estimated that 2.5 million
children between 6 & 14 do not attend school.
(SFC, 6/10/96, C3)
1996 Jun 10, Hezbollah
guerrillas killed 5 Israeli soldiers and wounded 6 in a dawn ambush
in south Lebanon.
(SFC, 6/10/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 10, Arafat’s
government detained Eyad Sarraj, head of the Independent Commission
for Citizen’s Rights. Sarraj says the Palestinian Authority is
corrupt.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun10, In Pakistan three
bombings killed 6 and injured 48 in Punjab Province.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 10, Yemeni troops put
down antigovernment protests in Mukalla, also the site of a 1994
civil war. Court charges that police raped a group of women appeared
to trigger the protests.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 10, In Spain the new
center-right government introduced sweeping economic measures. Taxes
were eased on small and mid-size companies, savings and job creation
were encouraged, the powerful professional guilds were weakened and
various markets liberalized, and double taxation for large foreign
companies was eliminated.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A9A)
1997 Jun 10, In California
former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt was released on bail after 27
years behind bars on what he says were trumped-up murder charges.
Authorities decided against retrying him.
(AP,
6/10/02)(www.cnn.com/US/9706/10/pratt.release/)
1997 Jun 10, Pope John Paul II
bade farewell to his native Poland as he ended an 11-day pilgrimage.
(AP, 6/10/98)
1998 Jun 10, A jury in
Jacksonville, Fla. ordered Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. to pay
nearly $1 million to the family of Roland Maddox, who had died after
smoking Lucky Strikes for almost 50 years. A Florida appeals court
later overturned the verdict.
(AP, 6/10/99)(AP, 6/10/08)
1998 Jun 10, The Wisconsin
Supreme court ruled that taxpayer could be used to send poor
children to private religious schools.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 10, It was reported
that scientists had decoded the DNA sequence for Mycobacterium
tuberculosis.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.A2)
1998 Jun 10, Belarus delayed a
deadline for foreign diplomats to leave their residences to permit
repairs following protests by diplomats.
(WSJ, 6/10/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 10, In France pilots
agreed to end their 10-day strike after accepting shares in Air
France in exchange for salary cuts.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 10, In Mexico 9 people
were killed in Chiapas when the army tried to retake control of El
Bosque. 52 people were arrested.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 10, The Russian market
fell for a 5th straight day and the government failed to sell enough
treasury bills to cover its short-term debt.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.C2)
1998 Jun 10, In Sudan three aid
workers were killed when gunmen opened fire on a UN relief convoy.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.C2)
1999 Jun 10, The US Supreme
Court struck down (6-3) a Chicago anti-loitering ordnance aimed
against street gangs.
(SFC, 6/11/99, p.A3)(AP, 6/10/00)
1999 Jun 10, The Christian
Coalition, founded and led by Pat Robertson, was denied tax-exempt
status because of its political activity.
(SFC, 6/11/99, p.A3)
1999 Jun 10, Scientists
reported a wintertime cloud of air pollution the size of the US over
the Indian Ocean. The soot and sulfur cloud covered an area of 3.8
million sq. miles.
(SFC, 6/10/99, p.A7)
1999 Jun 10, Brazil’s Pres.
Cardoso sanctioned a new law creating the first civilian-run defense
ministry.
(SFC, 6/12/99, p.C1)
1999 Jun 10, The UN Security
Council authorized deployment of 50,000 NATO-led peacekeepers for
Kosovo.
(WSJ, 6/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 10, NATO suspended its
bombing of Kosovo after Yugoslav troops began withdrawing following
a 78-day air war. Serb forces begin their withdrawal from Kosovo
after signing an agreement with the NATO powers. Rebuilding Kosovo
was estimated at $5 billion. Rebuilding all of Yugoslavia was
estimated at $20-100 billion.
(SFC, 6/11/99, p.A1)(AP, 6/10/00)(HN, 6/10/01)
1999 Jun 10, Some 1,860
prisoners were brought to Serbia from Kosovo.
(SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A20)
1999 Jun 10, Pres. Milosevic
appeared on Serbian TV and said that 462 soldiers and 114 police
officers had been killed in the NATO bombing.
(SFC, 6/11/99, p.A12)
1999 Jun 10, In Iraq a truck
bomb killed 6 members of an Iraq-based Iranian opposition group, the
Mujahadeen-e Khalq (MEK), which recently claimed to have killed a
top general in Tehran.
(WSJ, 6/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 10, In Nigeria Pres.
Obasanjo forced 122 top officers from the military over the last 2
days and seized hundreds of millions of dollars from associates of
the late dictator Gen'l. Sani Abacha.
(SFC, 6/11/99, p.D2)
1999 Jun 10, In Russia a subway
ceiling collapsed and killed at least 5 people at St. Petersburg's
Sennaya Square stop.
(WSJ, 6/11/99, p.A1)
2000 Jun 10, In Dallas the New
Jersey Devils won their second Stanley Cup in six seasons with a
2-to-1 victory in double overtime over the Dallas Stars in Game Six
of the finals.
(WSJ, 6/12/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/10/01)
2000 Jun 10, “Commendable" won
the Belmont Stakes.
(AP, 6/10/01)
2000 Jun 10, Frenchwoman Mary
Pierce beat Conchita Martinez 6-2, 7-5 to win the French Open
women’s singles title.
(AP, 6/10/01)
2000 Jun 10, A UN Women’s
Conference in NYC approved a new plan to advance the 1995 Beijing
Agenda.
(SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A27)
2000 Jun 10, In London the new
$25 million Millennium Bridge, a 1,090 foot pedestrian suspension
bridge over the Thames, opened. It soon closed due to a problem of
excessive swaying. It was designed by Sir Norman Foster, sculptor
Anthony Caro and the Arup engineering company. It reopened in 2002.
(SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A17)(SFC, 6/13/00, p.A11)(SSFC,
3/29/02, p.C2)
2000 Jun 10, Ethiopian troops
stormed Eritrean positions on all 3 fronts of the disputed border in
a break of the cease-fire. The Ethiopian government accepted
cease-fire terms brokered in Algeria but asked for a “brief delay."
(SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A31)
2000 Jun 10, In Germany the
3-day Rock of the Ring music festival in Neurburg drew some 100,000
people to see 90 bands.
(SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A31)
2000 Jun 10, In Syria Pres.
Hafez Assad (69), the “Lion of Damascus," died. His son Bashar Assad
(34) was expected to be named his successor. Assad had given
Alawites powerful positions in the army and Baath party while the
Sunnis were given a free rein in trade and industry.
(SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/15/00, p.A16)
2001 Jun 10, The Supreme Court,
without comment, turned down a request to allow the videotaping of
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's execution, scheduled for the
following day.
(AP, 6/10/02)
2001 Jun 10, Tropical storm
Allison hung over Texas and Louisiana and killed at least 16 people.
Pres. Bush declared 28 counties disaster areas due to flooding.
(SSFC, 6/10/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 6/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 10, Silvio Berlusconi
(64), known as Il Cavaliere, became premier for a 2nd time and
formed his Cabinet. He promised a 100-day revolution to transform
the economy. All 61 single-member constituencies in Sicily went to
the center-right.
(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A8)(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A15)(Econ,
3/25/06, p.56)
2001 Jun 10, In Macedonia
ethnic Albanian rebel leader Commander Hoxha threatened to take the
insurgency into the cities unless government stopped fighting in the
north.
(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 10, In Spain thousands
marched in Madrid to protest an upcoming visit by Pres. Bush.
(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A10)
2002 Jun 10, US officials
announced the breakup of a terrorist plot to detonate a radioactive
“dirty bomb." Abdullah Al Mujahir, also known as Jose Padilla, was
arrested on May 8 as he flew from Pakistan into Chicago's O'Hare
International Airport. Padilla was said to be a US-born al-Qaeda
associate scouting targets for the bomb. [see May 8]
(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 10, The US Supreme
Court ruled that employers can reject applicants for jobs that would
endanger their health.
(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A4)
2002 Jun 10, A jury found
Genentech liable for at least $300 million to the City of Hope
National Medical Center for violating a 1976 research partnership.
(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 10, The Colorado
wildfire fire that began in Pike National Forest June 8 pushed
toward Denver's southern suburbs.
(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 10, In Missouri Lloyd
Robert Jeffress (71) of Kearney killed 2 monks at the Conception
Abbey, a Benedictine monastery and seminary. Jeffress wounded 2
others and killed himself in the chapel.
(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 6/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 10, John Gotti
(b.1940), former mob boss, died at age 61 of cancer in a prison
hospital in Missouri.
(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A2)
2002 Jun 10, A 15-country
narcotics raid involved 25,000 law enforcement officers in Central
Asia and the Balkans. By Jul 11 some 3,700 pounds of heroin was
seized along with 9 tons of other narcotics.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.A16)
2002 Jun 10, In Brazil police
reported that Tim Lopes (50), an undercover TV journalist reporting
on crime and drugs in Rio de Janeiro's shantytowns, had been
tortured and put to death with a sword by Elias Pereira da Silva, a
drug lord known as Mad Elias, who runs his territory like a medieval
fiefdom.
(AP, 6/10/02)
2002 Jun 10, In Guatemala
economic minister Arturo Montenegro unveiled a sweeping economic
stimulus package Monday designed to double the country's 3 percent
annual growth rate.
(AP, 6/10/02)
2002 Jun 10, India eased
tensions with Pakistan as it lifted a 5-month ban on Pakistani
aircraft flying over it and pulled back a naval flotilla from the
Pakistani coast.
(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A10)
2002 Jun 10, Israeli tanks and
troops charged into Ramallah before sunrise Monday, surrounding the
compound of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and arresting 20
suspected militants in searches throughout the city.
(AP, 6/10/02)(SFC, 6/10/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 10, A bomb exploded
near an armored bus in the West Bank, injuring three teenaged
students from a religious seminary at a nearby Jewish settlement on
their return from picking cherries.
(Reuters, 6/11/02)
2002 Jun 10, President Vicente
Fox signed Mexico's first freedom of information law on Monday,
exposing the government and its records to greater public scrutiny.
(AP, 6/10/02)
2002 Jun 10, Assailants in
Serbia gunned down Gen. Bosko Buha (42), a high-ranking police
officer and former Belgrade police chief.
(AP, 6/10/02)(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A11)
2002 Jun 10, In Zimbabwe the
state radio reported that a bus carrying student teachers back from
a sporting event collided with a heavy truck, killing at least 37
people.
(AP, 6/10/02)(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A11)(WSJ, 6/11/02,
p.A1)
2003 Jun 10, The archdiocese of
Louisville, Ky., settled a sexual abuse case with some 250 alleged
victims for $25.7 million.
(SFC, 6/11/03, p.A3)
2003 Jun 10, Samuel Waksal
(55), founder of ImClone Systems, was sentenced to 7 years in prison
and ordered to pay $4.3 million for insider trading that engulfed
family members and friend Martha Stewart.
(SFC, 6/12/03, p.B1)
2003 Jun 10, In NY state John
Jamelske (68) pleaded guilty to holding 5 women captive as sex
slaves in a bunker at his home in Syracuse.
(SFC, 6/11/03, p.A3)
2003 Jun 10, NASA launched a
Mars Exploration Rover named Spirit, the 1st of 2. Spirit arrived on
Mars in January 2004.
(WSJ, 6/11/03, p.A1)(SFC, 6/12/03, p.A1)(AP,
6/10/08)
2003 Jun 10, Donald Regan (84),
former Treasury secretary and chief of staff to Pres. Reagan who was
ousted in during the Iran-Contra infighting, died in Va.
(WSJ, 6/11/03, p.A1)(SFC, 6/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 10, Bernard Williams
(73), moral philosopher, died in Oxford. His books included:
"Utilitarianism: For and Against" (1973), "Ethics and the Limits of
Philosophy" (1985), "Shame and Necessity" (1993), and "Truth and
Truthfulness" (2002). He coined the term "moral luck."
(SSFC, 6/15/03, p.A27)(Econ, 6/28/03, p.83)
2003 Jun 10, Toronto, Canada,
issued North America's 1st full marriage licenses to same sex
couples after a judge knocked down Canada's legal definition of
marriage, the union of a man and a woman, as a violation of the
country's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
(SFC, 6/11/03, p.A7)
2003 Jun 10, In Iran riot
police and hard-line vigilantes clashed with teenage demonstrators
who denounced supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
(AP, 6/11/03)
2003 Jun 10, In Iraq US forces
launched Operation Peninsula Strike aimed at rounding up Hussein
loyalists around Thuluya, 45 miles north of Baghdad.
(SFC, 6/12/03, p.A7)
2003 Jun 10, An AP tally of
civilian deaths in Iraq totaled at least 3,240, with 1,896 dead in
Baghdad. Allied deaths were 205 from Mar 20-Apr 20.
(WSJ, 6/11/03, p.A1)(SFC, 6/11/03, p.A3)
2003 Jun 10, Israel launched a
rocket attack in Gaza and wounded Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a Hamas
spokesman. Israeli counterfire to Hamas rockets killed 3
Palestinians. Israel succeeded in killing Rantisi in April 2004.
(WSJ, 6/11/03, p.A1)(AP, 6/11/03)
2004 Jun 10, A G-8 summit at
Sea Island Resort near Savannah, Georgia, ended without an agreement
on Iraq. The group agreed to extend through 2006 the Heavily
Indebted Poor Countries Initiative.
(WSJ, 6/11/04, p.A7)
2004 Jun 10, Ray Charles
(b.1930), rhythm ‘n’ blues piano player and singer best known for
"Hit the Road Jack" and "Georgia on My Mind," died in Beverly Hills.
(USAT, 6/11/04, p.1A)
2004 Jun 10, In northern
Afghanistan gunmen stormed a camp of sleeping Chinese road workers
in Kunduz province, killing at least 11.
(AP, 6/10/04)(WSJ, 6/10/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 10, Europeans began
casting ballots across 25 member nations of the expanded European
Union for a new European Parliament.
(Econ, 6/19/04, p.49)
2004 Jun 10, German researchers
reported that a border collie named Rico understands more than 200
words and can learn new ones as quickly as many children.
(AP, 6/10/04)
2004 Jun 10, In Indonesia Mount
Awu on Sangihe Island erupted. Nearly 12,000 people living around
the mountain had been evacuated to a nearby town.
(AP, 6/10/04)
2004 Jun 10, In Iraq Shiite
gunmen seized a police station in Najaf. 4 Iraqis were killed and 13
were injured.
(AP, 6/10/04)
2004 Jun 10, In Pakistan gunmen
opened fire on a motorcade carrying the top military official in
Karachi, killing 11 men including 8 soldiers. The general was
unhurt.
(AP, 6/10/04)(WSJ, 8/19/04, p.A11)
2004 Jun 10, In Thailand hooded
assailants with assault rifles slashed the throat of a night guard
outside a government school in the Muslim south and seized weapons
from other security personnel who were inside.
(AP, 6/11/04)
2005 Jun 10, President Bush and
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun pressed North Korea to rejoin
deadlocked talks on its nuclear weapons program and tried to
minimize their own differences over how hard to push the reclusive
communist regime.
(AP, 6/11/05)
2005 Jun 10, Citigroup Inc.
said it will pay $2 billion to Enron Corp. shareholders who accused
it of helping the energy trader in a massive accounting fraud.
(Reuters, 6/10/05)
2005 Jun 10, Jim Exon (83),
former governor of Nebraska (1971-1979) and US Senator (1979-1996),
died.
(SFC, 6/11/05, p.B4)
2005 Jun 10, In eastern
Afghanistan an American soldier was killed and three US troops were
wounded when insurgents ambushed a patrol.
(AP, 6/11/05)
2005 Jun 10, China resolved a
trade dispute over textiles with the EU.
(WSJ, 6/13/05, p.A3)
2005 Jun 10, In northeast China
a torrent of water rushed down a mountain and hit a primary school
in Heilongjiang province, killing 91 people, most of them students,
and leaving another four people missing.
(AP, 6/12/05)
2005 Jun 10, In southern China
a fire raced through the top three floors of a hotel, killing 31
people and injuring 15 others.
(AP, 6/12/05)
2005 Jun 10, Torrential rains
in northwestern Colombia unleashed mudslides on an impoverished
mountainside neighborhood in Colombia's coffee-growing region,
killing at least 6 people.
(AP, 6/10/05)
2005 Jun 10, In India
opposition leader Lal Krishna Advani agreed to stay on as president
of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, three days after
resigning over his comments on the founder of Pakistan.
(Reuters, 6/10/05)
2005 Jun 10, In Iraq militants
killed five US Marines and authorities found 21 bodies in civilian
clothes scattered near Qaim, a town close to the Syrian border. 11
were shot in the head and another was beheaded.
(AP, 6/10/05)
2005 Jun 10, Two American
scientists and an Austrian conductor won this year's Kyoto Prizes,
the Japanese awards for achievement in the arts and sciences.
(AP, 6/10/05)
2005 Jun 10, In southern Japan
an 18-year-old student tossed a homemade bomb into a high school
classroom, injuring 58 teenagers.
(AP, 6/10/05)
2005 Jun 10, Jyrgalbek
Surabaldiyev, a Kyrgyz lawmaker and owner of Kyrgyzstan's largest
automobile market, was gunned down. He was a close ally of the
country's former leader.
(AP, 6/10/05)
2005 Jun 10, In Mexico lawyers
for the brother of a former Mexican president sought his release on
bail after an appeals court threw out his 27-year murder sentence.
(AP, 6/10/05)
2005 Jun 10, King Harald V of
Norway and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden met in the middle of the
Svinesund bridge and opened the span over a fjord south of Oslo.
(AP, 6/10/05)
2005 Jun 10, A Pakistani court
ordered the release next week of 12 men connected to a notorious
June 22, 2002, gang-rape of Mukhataran Mai, including six convicted
of the crime.
(AP, 6/10/05)
2005 Jun 10, In South Africa
Pius Langa (66), a former shirt factory worker was handed the chief
justice's robes at a ceremony marking the appointment of the first
black South African to head a court system assailed by allegations
of racism.
(AP, 6/10/05)
2005 Jun 10, Zimbabwe police
fought running battles until dawn with supporters of a general
strike called to protest a government campaign against shack
dwellers and street traders. The mass strike failed on its final
day.
(AFP, 6/10/05)
2006 Jun 10, In Minnesota a car
crash left 3 people dead and two seriously injured. In 2015 a
federal judge ordered Toyota to pay nearly $11 million to the
victims after a ruling that design flaw in the 1996 Camry was
partially to blame. Jurors said Camry driver Koua Fong Lee was 40%
responsible.
(www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/287920781.html)(SFC, 2/4/15, p.A8)
2006 Jun 10, In New York Jazil
cruised to victory, holding off Bluegrass Cat in the Belmont Stakes.
(AP, 6/10/07)
2006 Jun 10, In NYC a
firefighter’s monument was unveiled for the 343 who died in the
Sept. 11 attacks.
(SSFC, 6/11/06, p.A2)
2006 Jun 10, Three Guantanamo
Bay detainees, 2 from Saudi Arabia and one from Yemen, hanged
themselves with nooses made of sheets and clothes, bringing further
condemnation of the isolated camp where hundreds of men have been
held for years without charge. Yasser Talal al-Zahrani (21) of Saudi
Arabia, captured in Pakistan in 2002, was one of the 3 Gitmo
detainees who committed suicide.
(AP, 6/11/06)(Econ, 6/17/06, p.92)
2006 Jun 10, In Afghanistan a
roadside bomb hit a convoy carrying the intelligence chief of Kabul,
missing him but killing three others. 2 suspected Taliban rebels
were killed in fighting with Afghan soldiers in Zabul province. In
Kandahar province a roadside bomb hit a convoy carrying a district
police chief and government head, missing them but killing two of
their police guards. Gunmen killed four Afghan laborers working for
an Indian road construction company as they were driving in Kandahar
province. They stole $8,000 before killing them. The US-led
coalition said the worst three weeks of violence since the fall of
the Taliban have left more than 500 people dead.
(AP, 6/10/06)(AP, 6/11/06)
2006 Jun 10, Argentina
reaffirmed its claim of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, known
here as the Malvinas, and said it was ready for talks with Britain
over the issue. Argentina and Britain have disputed the sovereignty
of the remote south Atlantic islands since 1833.
(AFP, 6/11/06)
2006 Jun 10, In Brazzaville,
the Congo Republic, ministers from across Africa approved a draft
democracy charter, laying down guidelines on elections and good
governance in the world's poorest continent.
(Reuters, 6/10/06)
2006 Jun 10, In Costa Rica a
Kansas high school student and teacher disappeared in the in the
waters off Palo Seco beach. The bodies of 2 other students were
recovered.
(AP, 6/12/06)
2006 Jun 10, Justine
Henin-Hardenne won the French Open, beating Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4,
6-4.
(AP, 6/10/07)
2006 Jun 10, In India deaths
from the early monsoon storms reached at least 161 and flooding
pushed the number of displaced up to 30,000.
(SFC, 6/10/06, p.B8)
2006 Jun 10, A roadside bomb
targeting a police patrol exploded in an outdoor market in Baghdad,
killing four people and wounding 27. Insurgents signaled the fight
is still on after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death, posting an Internet
video showing the beheading of three alleged Shiite death squad
members in revenge for killing Sunnis.
(AP, 6/10-11/06)
2006 Jun 10, In Calabria,
Italy, killers shot a farmer who had filed complaints against people
who had put a squeeze on him. Calabria’s ‘ndrangheta, a homebred
Mafia, would often present bullets by post to intended targets.
(Econ, 6/17/06, p.71)
2006 Jun 10, In Kashmir one
person died and eight were injured when Indian troops opened fire on
villagers protesting against the alleged desecration of a mosque by
soldiers.
(AP, 6/10/06)
2006 Jun 10, It was reported
that a recent outbreak of polio in Namibia had killed 7 people and
paralyzed another 33.
(SFC, 6/10/06, p.A6)
2006 Jun 10, Nepal's Parliament
stripped King Gyanendra of his veto power over the legislature, the
latest measure to curtail his authority. Lawmakers also will no
longer need to seek the approval of the king before signing a bill
into law.
(AP, 6/11/06)
2006 Jun 10, Pakistani security
forces destroyed a militant hideout in a pre-dawn strike near the
Afghan border, killing at least 15 suspected militants.
(AP, 6/10/06)
2006 Jun 10, The ruling Hamas
group fired a barrage of homemade rockets at Israel, hours after
calling off a truce with Israel in anger over an artillery attack
that killed seven civilians at a beachside picnic in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 6/10/06)
2006 Jun 10, In Poland several
thousand people staged an international rally in Warsaw in support
of gays, who complained of prejudice, hostility and violence.
(AFP, 6/10/06)
2006 Jun 10, In St. Petersburg,
Russia, finance ministers from the world's most industrialized
nations (G8) said that global growth remains strong, but pointed at
dangers from high energy prices and widening economic imbalances. US
Treasury Secretary John Snow said the US and Russia had made
progress in talks on Moscow's bid to join the World Trade
Organization (WTO), and the two nations could reach a deal before
next month's G-8 summit.
(AP, 6/10/06)
2006 Jun 10, Tens of thousands
of Spaniards marched in Madrid to demand the government not hold
talks with Basque separatists.
(AP, 6/10/06)
2006 Jun 10, At least five
people were shot dead in Sri Lanka's restive northeast port district
of Trincomalee and the main city of Colombo.
(AFP, 6/11/06)
2006 Jun 10, Some 20,000
Taiwanese demonstrated in the capital, demanding the president
resign over allegations some of his relatives engaged in insider
trading.
(AP, 6/10/06)
2007 Jun 10, HBO concluded "The
Sopranos," created by David Chase, with its 86th show since 1999.
(AP, 6/11/07)
2007 Jun 10, "Spring Awakening"
was named best musical at the Tony Awards; "The Coast of Utopia,"
best play.
(AP, 6/10/08)
2007 Jun 10, The crews of
Atlantis and the international space station greeted each other
after the space shuttle arrived at the orbiting outpost.
(AP, 6/10/08)
2007 Jun 10, In central
Afghanistan Taliban militants fired rockets near a school yard where
President Hamid Karzai was meeting with local leaders and residents
in an apparent assassination attempt, but no one was hurt.
(AP, 6/10/07)
2007 Jun 10, President Bush in
Albania, the 1st visit there by an American president, said the UN
should grant independence quickly to the breakaway Serbian province
of Kosovo, and that if Russia continued to block it the West would
act. Albania issued three postage stamps with Bush's picture and the
Statue of Liberty, renamed a street in front of parliament in his
honor, awarded him the highest National Flag medal and Fushe Kruje
town council also declared him an honored citizen.
(Reuters, 6/10/07)(AP, 6/12/07)
2007 Jun 10, Algerian security
forces said they have arrested 13 minors and dismantled a suspected
training camp used by an al-Qaeda linked group east of the capital
Algiers.
(AFP, 6/10/07)
2007 Jun 10, Belgians voted in
legislative elections widely expected to hand defeat to PM Guy
Verhofstadt, dashing his hopes for a third term after eight years in
office.
(AFP, 6/10/07)
2007 Jun 10, In Brazil millions
of people packed the streets of Sao Paulo for what organizers said
was the world's largest gay pride parade, dancing and waving rainbow
flags in a carnival-like atmosphere to condemn homophobia, racism
and sexism.
(AP, 6/10/07)
2007 Jun 10, In Brunei a
two-week lavish wedding celebration for the daughter of Brunei's
sultan, one of the world's richest men, culminated in a ceremony
steeped in the royal tradition.
(AP, 6/10/07)
2007 Jun 10, A human rights
group issued a report saying China is forcing nomadic Tibetan
herders to settle in towns to clear land for development, leaving
many unable to earn a living.
(AP, 6/10/07)
2007 Jun 10, In southern
Colombia 2 drunken soldiers shot and killed six civilians, including
a nine-year old boy, after arguing with guests at a party.
(AP, 6/10/07)
2007 Jun 10, New Episcopal
Bishop Nerva Cot Aguilera, the church's first female bishop in Cuba
and the developing world, was consecrated at the Holy Trinity
Episcopal Cathedral in Havana.
(AP, 6/11/07)
2007 Jun 10, France held
parliamentary elections. President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to revive
France's economy and its identity stood their first test, with
voters widely expected to give allies of their new conservative
leader a mandate for change. In round one of Sarkozy’s UMP party won
39.6 percent of the vote, while the opposition Socialists had 24.7
percent. The results gave the conservatives a strong advantage
heading into the decisive runoff next Sunday.
(AP, 6/10/07)(AP, 6/11/07)
2007 Jun 10, The first
high-speed rail link between France and Germany began scheduled
services, slashing travel times and marking a major step towards a
truly pan-European rapid transit network.
(AP, 6/10/07)
2007 Jun 10, In northern Iraq a
suicide truck bomber struck an Iraqi police agency in Tikrit,
killing at least 10 people. A roadside bomb struck a police patrol
near a gas station in Balad Ruz, killing one policeman and wounding
6 other people. A suicide car bomber smashed into a police patrol
about 12 miles south of the provincial capital of Baqouba, killing
two policemen and wounding 3. A village police chief northeast of
Baqouba was abducted by gunmen who ambushed his car. Gunmen
elsewhere in Diyala province killed two policemen and a civilian in
separate attacks in a Shiite enclave A roadside bomb killed a US
airman and wounded another in southern Iraq. A suicide strike on a
vital bridge outside Baghdad killed 3 American soldiers guarding the
span.
(AP, 6/10/07)(AP, 6/11/07)
2007 Jun 10, Israeli aircraft
fired on militant targets in Gaza City in predawn airstrikes, hours
after Palestinian gunmen breached Israel's heavily fortified Gaza
border and tried to capture an Israeli soldier. Rival Palestinian
forces clashed in Gaza. 2 militants were killed after being thrown
out of high-rise buildings.
(AP, 6/10/07)(SFC, 6/11/07, p.A7)
2007 Jun 10, Former Polish
president and Nobel laureate Lech Walesa said he has published on
the Internet about 500 pages of files kept on him by the
communist-era secret police in order to disprove allegations he
collaborated with them in the 1980s.
(AP, 6/10/07)
2007 Jun 10, Russian President
Vladimir Putin called for creating an alternative to the World Trade
Organization that would favor developing economies and suggested
giving a greater role to regional currencies.
(AP, 6/10/07)
2007 Jun 10, A small bomb
exploded outside a clothing shop in Istanbul, injuring 14 people and
shattering nearby windows.
(AP, 6/10/07)
2007 Jun 10, Sweden’s telecoms
network firm Ericsson signed a framework agreement to provide $1
billion worth of networking equipment to China Mobile Communications
Corp.
(AP, 6/10/07)
2008 Jun 10, President Bush,
speaking in Slovenia at his final EU-US summit, said the United
States and Europe must rally to keep Iran from developing a nuclear
weapon, calling the threat an incredible danger to world peace.
(AP, 6/10/08)
2008 Jun 10, Levonda J. Selph,
a retired Army lieutenant colonel, pleaded guilty to steering a
Pentagon contract for warehouses in Iraq to a contractor in return
for $4,000 cash and a $5,000 trip to Thailand. She agreed to
cooperate in the investigation and to pay the government $9,000 in
restitution and serve a prison term.
(AP, 6/10/08)
2008 Jun 10, In NYC a million
pieces of stainless steel toy parts assembled into a nearly
seven-story model skyscraper glimmered under the hot sun. It was
created by American artist Chris Burden (b.1946). The 16,000-pound
(7,250-kg) "poetic interpretation" of the 30 Rock Building at
Rockefeller Center was made of replicated Erector set pieces from
the toy created by A.C. Gilbert in 1912.
(Reuters, 6/11/08)
2008 Jun 10, SF supervisors
gave final approval to a program to create a $3 million fund to
provide rebates for residents and businesses that install solar
power systems.
(SFC, 6/11/08, p.B3)
2008 Jun 10, XTO Energy said it
will buy closely held Hunt Petroleum for $4.19 billion.
(WSJ, 6/11/08, p.B1)
2008 Jun 10, The nation's top
AIDS doctor said researchers have been undercounting new cases of
HIV infection in the United States, meaning the rate is probably 25
percent higher at 50,000 people per year.
(Reuters, 6/10/08)
2008 Jun 10, US-led coalition
forces along the volatile Afghan border launched an airstrike that
killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops. Pakistan’s military
condemned it as an act of aggression within its border that "hit at
the very basis of cooperation" in the war on terrorism. The incident
followed a reported clash between Afghan forces and Taliban
militants in the same area. The Taliban said eight of its fighters
died in the skirmish.
(AP, 6/11/08)
2008 Jun 10, In Argentina a new
consumer price index came into effect. Under the new methodology
every time a product’s price rises too sharply, it will be removed
on the ground that consumers will switch to other goods. The
official current inflation was in single digits, as the true figure
soared above 20%.
(Econ, 6/14/08, p.48)
2008 Jun 10, The British
government published its annual poverty figures. They showed a rise
in 2006-07 of 100,000 in the number of children living in poverty to
2.9 million.
(Econ, 6/14/08, p.72)
2008 Jun 10, Chinese
authorities detained Huang Qi for posting articles on his Web site
criticizing the government's response to the massive earthquake that
struck Sichuan province the month before. In 2009 he was sentenced
to 3 years in prison.
(AP, 11/23/09)(AP, 11/23/09)
2008 Jun 10, A new WWF report
said China is now consuming more than twice as much as what its
ecosystems can supply sustainably, having doubled its needs since
the 1960s.
(AFP, 6/10/08)
2008 Jun 10, Fighting between
Djibouti and Eritrea killed nine Djiboutians and wounded 60 others.
The UN Security Council joined the US on June 12 in condemning the
Eritrean military action.
(AP, 6/12/08)
2008 Jun 10, In eastern India
tens of thousands of tourists were stranded in the Darjeeling
tea-growing region of West Bengal state after a Gurkha separatist
group called a strike to press its demand for an independent state,
shutting down hotels, shops and roads.
(AP, 6/10/08)
2008 Jun 10, Sheik Ali al-Nida,
the head of Saddam's tribal clan, and one of his guards died in an
explosion that Iraqi police blamed on a bomb that had been glued to
the undercarriage of their car in Ouja.
(AP, 6/11/08)
2008 Jun 10, Gaza militants
bombarded southern Israel with 20 mortar rounds in the space of an
hour midday, provoking Israeli ground strikes that killed 3
militants from the territory's ruling Hamas group.
(AP, 6/10/08)
2008 Jun 10, Japan’s Toyota
said it will start making the Camry hybrid in Australia and Thailand
as part of its efforts to step up production of "green" cars around
the world.
(AP, 6/10/08)
2008 Jun 10, A Japanese patrol
boat unintentionally sank a recreational fishing boat from Taiwan
near the Senkaku islands, controlled by Japan, but also claimed by
Taiwan and China. The vessel picked up all 16 passengers and crew.
(Econ, 6/21/08, p.55)
2008 Jun 10, A Moroccan court
convicted 29 people of planning terrorism attacks and supporting
combatants in Iraq.
(AP, 6/12/08)
2008 Jun 10, Nigeria’s Foreign
Minister Ojo Maduekwe said official records show that 23,584
Nigerians are in prisons abroad for immigration offences. 9 Nigerian
navy members were killed and four civilians injured in a second
attack in as many days on a security vessel in the volatile oil-rich
south.
(AFP, 6/10/08)
2008 Jun 10, In Pakistan a US
airstrike killed 11 Pakistani troops and frayed ties between the two
nations. Pakistan said the soldiers died when US aircraft bombed
their border post in the Mohmand tribal region.
(www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/06/afghan_troops_clash.php)
2008 Jun 10, In South Korea
some 700,000 protesters gathered for a candlelit demonstration
against the government’s decision to resume beef imports from the
US.
(http://tinyurl.com/64zxhv)(Econ, 6/14/08, p.60)
2008 Jun 10, Spanish officials
announced the arrest of 8 suspected members of an Islamic extremist
cell. The Europa Press news agency said the detainees were suspected
of raising money for terrorist activities.
(AP, 6/10/08)
2008 Jun 10, A Sudan Airways
plane carrying 214 people veered off a runway and burst into flames
after landing at Khartoum International Airport, killing at least 30
people.
(SFC, 6/11/08, p.A2)(AP, 6/12/08)
2008 Jun 10, In Venezuela the
new intelligence system, dubbed the “Gestapo law," was repealed less
than a fortnight after its introduction.
(Econ, 6/14/08, p.47)
2008 Jun 10, Vietnam devalued
its currency by almost 2% to bring the official exchange rate closer
to black market rates. The main interest rate was increased to 14%
from 12% in an effort to tamp inflationary pressure. A week earlier
PM Nguyen Tan Dung had said there was no reason to decrease the
value of the dong.
(WSJ, 6/11/08, p.A15)
2008 Jun 10, Zambia’s state
media said Zambia has granted political asylum to a dozen Zimbabwe
opposition supporters who have fled mounting political violence
ahead of a run-off presidential election this month.
(AP, 6/10/08)
2008 Jun 10, Zimbabwe's
opposition leader said the country was now effectively being run by
a military junta as he vowed that he would not accept a victory for
President Robert Mugabe at this month's poll.
(AFP, 6/10/08)
2009 Jun 10, James von Brunn
(88), identified as a white supremacist, shot and killed Guard
Stephen T. Johns (39), who prevented his entrance into the US
Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Washington, DC. Security engaged
the gunman as soon as he stepped inside the crowded museum and began
shooting. Brunn was shot in the face by other guards and was later
charged with first-degree murder. He died on Jan 6, 2010, while
awaiting trial in North Carolina.
(AP, 6/11/09)(SFC, 7/30/09, p.A5)(SFC, 1/6/10,
p.A4)
2009 Jun 10, California's state
controller said the government risks a financial "meltdown" within
50 days in light of its weakening May revenues unless Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers quickly plug a $24.3 billion
budget gap.
(Reuters, 6/11/09)
2009 Jun 10, In Pennsylvania a
car fleeing a robbery scene jumped a curb in Philadelphia, smashed
into a crowd and killed three young children. One robber had fled on
the motorcycle and the other in a car. Both were arrested. Latoya
Smith (22), the mother and aunt of two of the children, died the
next days from her injuries.
(AP, 6/11/09)(AP, 6/12/09)
2009 Jun 10, Italy's Fiat
became the new owner of the bulk of Chrysler's assets, closing a
deal that saves the troubled US automaker from liquidation and
places a new company in the hands of Fiat's CEO.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, In Afghanistan
clashes in the north killed 12 insurgents and one Afghan soldier.
The fighting spanned three villages in Baghlan province. Afghan and
NATO forces in western Baghdis "killed and wounded a significant
number of insurgents." No figures were given.
(AP, 6/11/09)
2009 Jun 10, In Argentina
Father Julio Grassi (52), a Roman Catholic priest who won fame
running an Argentine foundation for poor youths (1993), was
convicted of sexually molesting a boy who participated in the
program. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Grassi continued to
proclaim his innocence, saying he was "the victim of an injustice."
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, Authorities in
Bangladesh decided to withdraw all 12 corruption-related cases that
had been brought against PM Sheikh Hasina. Minister of state Kamrul
Islam said the charges were politically motivated. He also
recommended withdrawing 50 other cases against political leaders.
(www.voanews.com/bangla/2009-06-10-voa11.cfm)
2009 Jun 10, Millions of
Londoners faced a grim commute, taking boats, buses and bicycles or
walking in the rain as a strike by subway workers crippled the
city's subway system.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, a Chinese
submarine collided with an underwater sonar apparatus towed by a US
destroyer near Subic Bay, off the coast of the Philippines.
Officials later said the collision with the sonar array connected to
the USS John S. McCain probably occurred due to a misjudgment of
distance.
(AP, 6/15/09)
2009 Jun 10, In southern
Dagestan a group of 10 gunmen attacked a police post with automatic
weapons and mortars, battling police troops for more than an hour.
The gunmen later escaped into the forested mountains.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, The French nuclear
submarine Emeraude reached the crash zone of Air France Flight 447
where 41 of 228 bodies have been recovered.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, In Gabon Senate
chief Rose Francine Rogombe was sworn in as the country's interim
president, the first time in more than four decades that anyone
except the late leader Omar Bongo has held power.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, Kuupik Kleist
(b.1958) assumed office as prime minister of Greenland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuupik_Kleist)
2009 Jun 10, In Ingushetia
gunmen shot and killed Aza Gazgireeva, a top judge, as she dropped
her children off at school in Russia's North Caucasus. Five other
people were reported wounded, including a small child. Investigators
said Gazgireeva likely was killed for her role in investigating a
Chechen militants' attack on Ingush police forces in 2004.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, In Iraq a rare car
bomb ripped through a market in the town of Bathaa, in the southern
Shiite heartland, as shoppers were buying meat and vegetables,
killing at least 29 people and wounding dozens.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, The US Navy handed
over 17 suspected Somali pirates to Kenya, taking the total number
held in the east African nation to 101.
(AFP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, Libyan leader
Moammar Gadhafi began his first visit to Italy with a warm embrace
from Premier Silvio Berlusconi, evidence of better ties between the
energy-rich desert nation and its former colonial ruler.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, Mexican soldiers
captured Jose Filiberto Parra Ramos, a suspected cartel member
accused of killing two federal agents and leading bloody battles for
smuggling routes in the northern city of Tijuana.
(AP, 6/12/09)
2009 Jun 10, Pakistan launched
a new operation against Taliban fighters in the northwest.
(Reuters, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, Palau agreed to
accept 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at
Guantanamo Bay. President Johnson Toribiong said the decision of
Palau, one of a handful of countries that does not recognize China
and maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan, was "a humanitarian
gesture" intended to help the detainees restart their lives.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, Peru's Congress
indefinitely suspended two key legislative decrees that spurred the
Amazon Indian protests that erupted in bloodshed during a government
crackdown last week. Indigenous groups said the decrees make it
easier for foreign companies to exploit their lands for oil, gas and
logging.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, Sudan’s President
Omar al-Beshir inaugurated a new plant that he said will begin
producing ethanol from sugar cane with a target of 200 million
liters in two years. Former rebels who fought a devastating 22-year
civil war in south Sudan began laying down their arms as the UN’s
biggest demobilization program stepped up a gear.
(AFP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, Western powers
reached agreement with North Korea's key allies on a UN draft
proposal that would impose tough new sanctions on the communist
nation's weapons exports and financial dealings, and allow
inspections of suspect cargo in ports and on the high seas.
(AP, 6/10/09)(SFC, 6/11/09, p.A3)
2010 Jun 10, A judge in the US
District Court for the District of Utah granted Novell's request for
declaratory judgment and ruled against SCO's claims of slander and
breach of implied covenant of good faith. He also said that SCO is
obligated to recognize Novell's waiver of SCO's claims against IBM
and other companies that use Linux. He ordered the case closed.
(PCWorld, 6/11/10)
2010 Jun 10, In San Francisco
the office tower at 333 Market St. was sold to a group of South
Korean investors including the Korean Teacher’s Credit Union and
Korean Federation of community Credit Cooperatives for $333 million.
Wells Fargo occupied 100% of the rentable space with a lease that
runs to 2026. Wells Fargo also provided a $200 million loan at 4.5%
to the buyers.
(SFC, 6/12/10, p.D1)
2010 Jun 10, Two Bosnian Serbs,
Vujadin Popovic and Ljubisa Beara, were convicted of genocide and
sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1995 massacre of some 8,000
Muslims in Srebrenica, the harshest judgment ever delivered by the
UN war crimes tribunal on the Balkan wars. It was a dramatic
conclusion to the largest trial conducted by the tribunal.
(AP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, Britain’s PM David
Cameron made his first official visit to Afghanistan, ruling out the
prospect of sending extra forces and calling for quicker progress to
bring troops home.
(AFP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, BP shares fell in
London as US politicians pressed the British oil company to halt its
dividend payments and fork out greater compensation for American
workers and companies devastated by the massive Gulf of Mexico oil
spill.
(AP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, A Congo military
court sentenced to death a British-Norwegian national and a
Norwegian convicted of espionage and murder. Joshua French, the dual
national, and Tjostolv Moland, both former Norwegian soldiers, were
convicted last year of murdering their driver and attempting to
murder a witness. The alleged motive is unknown. A lawyer said the
two witnesses who testified against them were awarded large sums of
money in compensation and have changed their stories countless
times.
(AP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, Egypt launched a
campaign to enforce a smoking ban in the scenic seaside city of
Alexandria, no small feat in a nation where four out of 10 men use
tobacco.
(AP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, Guatemala's
Constitutional Court removed the new attorney general amid
allegations of corruption. Conrado Reyes denied the allegations, but
promised to comply with the court's ruling and cede office.
(AP, 6/11/10)
2010 Jun 10, India’s government
took steps to make divorce easier as nuptial breakdown becomes more
common. The proposed amendment, which was passed by a cabinet
meeting chaired by PM Manmohan Singh, will include "irretrievable
breakdown of marriage" as a legal justification for divorce for the
first time.
(AFP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, Iran said it will
review relations with the UN nuclear watchdog a day after the UN
Security Council approved a fourth round of sanctions against Tehran
over its disputed nuclear program. Russia looked set to freeze the
sale to Tehran of S300 air defense missiles in response to new UN
sanctions on Iran.
(AP, 6/10/10)(AFP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, An Iranian
state-owned newspaper said three policemen in western Iran have been
killed by a roadside bomb detonated by Kurdish rebels. Members of
the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PEJAK) were blamed.
(AP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, In Kyrgyzstan five
simultaneous attacks by masked men carrying guns took place in Osh.
The perpetrators were said to be Bakiyev-financed criminal gangs and
ethnic Uzbek groups financed by someone else.
(Econ, 6/19/10, p.27)
2010 Jun 10, In Vilnius,
Lithuania, representatives of the local Jewish community, the
diplomatic corps and others met to participate in the first display
of books compiled by American Wyman Brent (47). Brent spearheaded
the formation of the Litvak Studies Institute, an interdisciplinary
academic and arts centre devoted to the language, literature,
history, culture and future of Lithuanian Jewry.
(www.litvakstudiesinstitute.org/)
2010 Jun 10, A Malaysian
businessmen, Badrul Zaman P.S. Mohamed (58), who was held without
trial for three years (1991-1994) under the harsh Internal Security
Act won 3.3 million ringgit ($1 million) in damages from the
government in a landmark court verdict.
(AP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, In Mexico a gang
of gunmen in Chihuahua city raided a drug rehabilitation center late
at night in the border state capital and killed 19 people. In Madero
a gang of gunmen killed at least 20 people in a series of armed
confrontations and shootings in at least five different locations in
the city in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.
(AP, 6/11/10)(AFP, 6/11/10)
2010 Jun 10, In Pakistan a
roadside bomb killed one person and wounded three in the southern
port city of Karachi. It exploded in a parking area near a
neighborhood where many naval officers reside.
(AP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, Peru began
exporting gas from its Camisea field under a contract with Spain’s
Respol.
(Econ, 6/5/10, p.44)
2010 Jun 10, In Puerto Rico
Jose Claudio Montes, also known as "Chiki Bazooka," was captured by
the FBI inside a housing project where he allegedly controlled the
trade of heroin, cocaine and marijuana. 532 pounds (241kg) of
cocaine was seized hidden on a pleasure craft named "La Burla" —
Spanish for "Mockery." It was intercepted off Puerto Rico's west
coast. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the two
Puerto Rican men and one Dominican man aboard.
(AP, 6/11/10)
2010 Jun 10, In Saudi Arabia a
government-owned daily reported that a Saudi court has convicted a
man and sentenced him to four months in prison and 90 lashes for
kissing a woman in a mall.
(AP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, Serbia's police
caught Milos Simovic (31), a fugitive convicted of taking part in
the assassination of Serbia's PM Zoran Djindjic seven years ago.
(AP, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, In South Africa a
third British national was confirmed dead after an overland truck
carrying British students crashed.
(AFP, 6/11/10)
2010 Jun 10, A South Korean
2-stage Naro rocket carrying a climate observation satellite
apparently exploded 137 seconds into its flight, the country's
second major space setback in less than a year.
(AP, 6/10/10)(SFC, 6/11/10, p.A4)
2010 Jun 10, In Sudan 4
Islamists sentenced to hang for the 2008 New Year's murder of US
diplomat John Granville and his driver in Khartoum escaped the Kober
prison in Khartoum.
(AFP, 6/11/10)
2010 Jun 10, Turkey called the
imposition of UN sanctions on Iran a "mistake" and said that it and
Brazil would continue to seek a diplomatic solution to remove
concerns over Iran's nuclear program.
(Reuters, 6/10/10)
2010 Jun 10, Venezuela’s Pres.
Hugo Chavez said he wants Venezuelans to stop drinking so much
alcohol and ordered the military to crack down on businesses selling
beer on the streets or after legal hours.
(AP, 6/11/10)
2010 Jun 10, The Zimbabwe state
wildlife authority said poachers last week killed 10 elephants in a
single attack in southeastern Gonarezhou national park. All the
tusks were removed, leaving the carcasses on a river bank.
(AP, 6/10/10)
2011 Jun 10, US Border Patrol
agents near the Rio Grande River engaged in a shoot-out with
suspected drug smugglers. Unconfirmed reports said that three
suspects were either wounded or killed. US agents have been trying
to prevent rafts which contained drugs from getting to the American
side of the border.
(AP,
6/10/11)
2011 Jun 10, The state of
Alaska has released more than 24,000 pages of printed e-mails from
former governor Sarah Palin. The e-mails include some from her
government account and some from two personal accounts, and are said
to shed light on how she did business while she was in office.
Individuals who want to read them will have to pay a $725 charge for
copying and several hundred dollars more to have them delivered.
Interest in Palin remains high amidst rumors that she plans to run
for president, and several newspapers were already making plans to
scan and publish the e-mails.
(Reuters, 6/10/11)
2011 Jun 10, Arizona
firefighters said they were making progress in containing a raging
wildfire, but the fire still seemed on the verge of reaching New
Mexico. Concern remained that it might damage power lines. The fire
has now affected 639 square miles of forest and forced nearly 10,000
people to evacuate their homes.
(AP, 6/10/11)(Reuters, 6/10/11)
2011 Jun 10, The death toll
from the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, has risen to 151. A number of
survivors were now returning to the hospital suffering from severe
fungal infections, called zygomycosis, in their wounds.
(AP, 6/10/11)
2011 Jun 10, In Kinston, North
Carolina, Deputy Warren Lewis was shot and killed while serving a
murder warrant on suspects. 5 suspects were taken into custody.
(SFC, 6/11/11, p.A5)
2011 Jun 10, In a surgical
procedure that took more than twenty hours, Charla Nash (57), a
Connecticut woman disfigured in a Feb 16, 2009, attack by her
friend’s chimpanzee Travis, received a face transplant at Brigham
& Women’s Hospital in Boston. She is only the third person in
the United States to receive a full face transplant. At the same
time, surgeons also attempted to give Nash a hand transplant, but
this procedure was not successful.
(Boston Globe, 6/10/11)(AP, 6/10/11)
2011 Jun 10, Officials from
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) were trying
to find the person who has been shooting and killing gray seals. In
the past month, five adult seals, all with gunshot wounds to the
head, have been found dead on Cape Cod (MA)
beaches.
(Boston Globe, 6/10/11)(New Bedford MA Standard-Times, 6/10/11)
2011 Jun 10, Sir Patrick Leigh
Fermor (b.1915), English traveler and writer, died. His books
included “A Time of Gifts" (1977) and “Between the Woods and Water"
(1986). In 2012 Artemis Cooper authored “Patrick Leigh Fermor: An
Adventure." In 2013 Fermor’s book “The Broken Road: From the Iron
Gates to Mount Athos" was published posthumously.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Leigh_Fermor)(Econ, 6/18/11,
p.93) (Econ, 10/20/12, p.77)(Econ, 9/14/13, p.90)
2011 Jun 10, Flooding in
central China was reported to have killed 41 people.
(SFC, 6/11/11, p.A2)
2011 Jun 10-2011 Jun 12, In
Congo’s South Kivu province at least 121 rapes occurred during this
period in the village of Nyakiele. Medicins Sans Frontieres worked
with Congolese health officials and the UN to get more information.
55 women said they were raped in the night of June 10 to 11, while
another said 72 women in the village of Kanguli reported having been
violated that same night.
(AP, 6/23/11)(Reuters, 6/24/11)(AP, 7/1/11)(AFP,
7/4/11)
2011 Jun 10, Laboratory tests
have determined that the E. coli epidemic in Germany and parts of
Europe was in fact caused by contaminated bean sprouts from an
organic farm. German authorities had been forced to retract their
assertion that the sprouts were to blame, but now, high-tech
laboratory testing proved that the sprouts were the culprit in the
outbreak that has killed 31 people and sickened nearly 3,000
Germans.
(AP, 6/10/11)(SFC, 6/11/11, p.A3)
2011 Jun 10, Libyan rebels
staged an uprising in the western city of Zlitan. 22 fighters were
reported killed. Turkey’s PM Erdogan said his country has offered to
help Khadafy leave.
(SFC, 6/11/11, p.A4)
2011 Jun 10, Mexican suspect
Dhither Camarillo Palafox, alias "Taurus," was arrested in the
Caribbean coast resort of Cancun. He was a leader of the so-called
"Zodiac" kidnapping gang. Alleged associates nicknamed "Sagittarius"
and "Aquarius" were arrested in 2009. The group's other leader,
nicknamed "Cancer," was detained in 2005.
(AP, 6/16/11)
2011 Jun 10, In Russia
disgraced army Col. Yuri Budanov was gunned down in central Moscow.
He had been convicted to 10 years in prison for kidnapping and
strangling Heda Kungayeva (18), a Chechen girl, in 2000, but was
released on parole in 2009.
(SFC, 6/11/11, p.A2)
2011 Jun 10, In Somalia
Interior Minister Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan and a suicide bomber,
said to be his niece, were killed in an explosion in his home.
(SFC, 6/11/11, p.A3)
2011 Jun 10, The Spanish
government announced it had arrested three men who were suspected of
being part of the hacker group known as Anonymous; the men, called
“hacktivists," were charged with organizing and carrying out the
hacking of the websites of Sony Corporation, as well as several
banks.
(Reuters, 6/10/11)
2011 Jun 10, Syrian government
forces killed at least 32 protesters. The military fired live
ammunition at a group of demonstrators in the Hauran Plain region.
Government troops fanned out to quell similar protests in a number
of other regions as demonstrators rose up in no fewer than 138
places calling for the overthrow of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
(Reuters, 6/10/11)(SFC, 6/11/11, p.A4)(Econ, 6/18/11, p.16)
2011 Jun 10, A UN AIDS summit
adopted a ground-breaking declaration that committed to providing
life-saving medications to 15 million AIDS sufferers in the poorest
countries by 2015.
(AFP, 6/10/11)
2011 Jun 10, Venezuelan
president Hugo Chavez had surgery in Cuba for an abscess in his
pelvis. A government spokesperson said the operation was successful
and he would remain in Cuba for several more days, while he
recuperated.
(Reuters, 6/10/11)
2011 Jun 10, In Yemen, more
than 100,000 protesters took to the streets in the main square of
Sanaa, as demonstrators continued to call for the resignation of
President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The president, who is still in a
hospital in Saudi Arabia, has stated he has no plans of stepping
down.
(AP, 6/10/11)
2012 Jun 10, In Germany Col.
James Johnson III, former commander of the U.S. Army's 173rd
Airborne Brigade, began to face court martial proceedings in
Kaiserslautern. He was suspected of fraud, bigamy, conduct
unbefitting an officer and other charges related to an alleged
long-term extra-marital affair he had with a woman he met in Iraq.
(AP, 6/10/12)
2012 Jun 10, Iran's media
reported that the nation’s cyber police are poised to launch a new
crackdown on software that lets many Iranians circumvent the
regime's Internet censorship.
(AFP, 6/10/12)
2012 Jun 10, Iraqi premier Nuri
al-Maliki called for a national dialogue after President Jalal
Talabani said his rivals lacked the 163 parliamentary votes required
to oust the PM, but a protracted political row looked set to drag
on. Two mortar shells hit a procession in Kazimiyah late today,
killing seven and wounding 38. Pilgrims have already started to
arrive in Baghdad for the commemorations marking the eighth century
death of Imam Moussa ibn Jaafar al-Kadhim.
(AFP, 6/10/12)(AP, 6/11/12)
2012 Jun 10, Israeli police
rounded up some 25 immigrants, around a third of them from South
Sudan.
(AFP, 6/12/12)
2012 Jun 10, Hundreds of
Kashmiris staged an emotional demonstration on the banks of a
fast-flowing river to urge India and Pakistan to withdraw troops
from the disputed Himalayan region.
(AFP, 6/10/12)
2012 Jun 10, Kenya's Internal
Security Minister George Saitoti (66) was killed with five other
people in a helicopter crash near Nairobi.
(AP, 6/10/12)
2012 Jun 10, Members of Libya's
Toubou minority and government forces fought for a 2nd consecutive
day, leaving at least 23 people dead since the clashes erupted. A
new ICC team arrived in Libya to negotiate with the authorities over
4 detained staffers.
(AFP, 6/10/12)(AFP, 6/11/12)
2012 Jun 10, Myanmar's Pres.
Thein Sein declared a state of emergency in a western state where
sectarian tensions between Buddhists and Muslims have unleashed
deadly violence.
(AP, 6/10/12)
2012 Jun 10, In central Nigeria
a suicide bomber drove his car at a church in Jos, killing at least
3 people. Gunmen opened fire on another church in the northeast
killing at least one person and wounding dozens in Biu.
(AFP, 6/10/12)
2012 Jun 10, Sudanese rebels
said they have repulsed an attack by government forces in troubled
Blue Nile state, but the army dismissed the claims.
(AFP, 6/10/12)
2012 Jun 10, In Syria clashes
and shelling by midday killed at least 12 people. Kurdish activist
Abdel Basset Sayda (Abdulbaset Sieda), the opposition's new leader,
said that President Bashar al-Assad's regime was on its "last legs."
(AFP, 6/10/12)(AP, 6/10/12)
2012 Jun 10, In Tunisia
hundreds of extremists destroyed artworks at an exhibit in the Tunis
suburb of La Marsa that included paintings that caricatured Mecca,
portrayed a nude woman, and showed the word "Allah" spelled with
strings of ants. On July 4 a Tunisian court sentenced court official
Mohamed Ali Bouaziz to two months in jail on charges of inciting the
riots.
(AP, 6/12/12)(AFP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jun 10, In Ukraine a small
plane carrying skydivers crash-landed in bad weather near Kiev,
killing five and injuring 15 people.
(AP, 6/10/12)
2013 Jun 10, A rare copy of the
comic book featuring Superman's first 1938 appearance sold for
$175,000. It went undiscovered for over 70 years in the insulation
of a Minnesota house.
(AP, 6/12/13)
2013 Jun 10, BP PLC said the
Coast Guard has concluded cleanup operations in Mississippi, Alabama
and Florida from the April 2010 oil well blowout. Work continued
along 84 miles of Louisiana’s shoreline.
(SFC, 6/11/13, p.A4)
2013 Jun 10, Apple Corp. said
it will equip its new iPhones with a “kill switch" that will render
the devices useless if stolen.
(SFC, 6/11/13, p.A1)
2013 Jun 10, In Afghanistan 7
heavily armed Taliban fighters launched a pre-dawn attack near the
main airport in Kabul, apparently targeting NATO's airport
headquarters with rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns and
at least one large bomb. Two Afghan civilians were wounded. All the
attackers were killed after an hours-long battle. 6 militants
wearing suicide bomb vests tried to storm the provincial council
building in the capital of southern Zabul province. 3 militants
attempted to attack a district police headquarters near Kabul. A
roadside bomb killed a NATO soldier from Poland in Ghazni.
(AP, 6/10/13)
2013 Jun 10, Brazil’s
government said it plans to build its first auto crash test facility
in an effort to improve the poor safety record of vehicles built and
sold in the world's fourth-largest automobile market.
(AP, 6/10/13)
2013 Jun 10, In London 6 men,
who plotted to attack a rally by the anti-Islamist English Defence
League (EDL) using guns, knives and a homemade nail bomb in June
2012, were given lengthy jail terms of almost 20 years each.
(AP, 6/10/13)
2013 Jun 10, British drugmaker
AstraZeneca PLC said it is to acquire Pearl Therapeutics Inc., a
Redwood-City, California-based company involved in therapies for
asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for at least $560
million.
(AP, 6/10/13)
2013 Jun 10, Canada’s Natural
Resources Minister Joe Oliver said operators of nuclear power plants
will be made liable for the first C$1 billion ($980 million) of
damages in the event of an accident, up from C$75 million under
existing rules. The government also intends to increase the period
during which compensation claims can be made after a disaster to 30
years from 10 years.
(Reuters, 6/10/13)
2013 Jun 10, In Canada new
regulations took effect on home grown marijuana. Old rules will run
concurrently until March 31, 2014, to allow time for Ottawa to
license new growers. Legal production will be taken out of private
homes next year as Canada seeks to address more than a decade of
neighborhood spats and criminal activity.
(Reuters, 6/10/13)
2013 Jun 10, Operation
Lionfish, which targeted the maritime trafficking of drugs and
illicit firearms by organized crime groups across Central America
and the Caribbean, ended. It began on May 27 and yielded the arrest
of 142 people and seizure of 15 vessels as well as guns, cash, and
eight metric tons of chemical precursors. More than 30 countries and
territories were involved in the operation, led by Interpol and
supported by Europol.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)
2013 Jun 10, Egyptian Prime
Minister Hesham Kandil said the country will work diplomatically,
legally and technically to negotiate with Ethiopia over the
so-called Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
(AP, 6/10/13)
2013 Jun 10, The Int’l. Energy
Agency in Paris said the world’s energy-related carbon dioxide
emissions rose 1.4% in 2012 to a record high of 31.6 billion tons.
(SFC, 6/11/13, p.A2)
2013 Jun 10, In Germany the
swollen Elbe River breached another levee, forcing authorities to
evacuate 10 villages and shut down one of the country's main railway
routes. At least 22 flood-related deaths have been reported in
central Europe.
(AP, 6/10/13)
2013 Jun 10, In Iraq a string
of deadly attacks in several Iraqi cities killed at least 63 people.
(AP, 6/11/13)
2013 Jun 10, Kuwait sentenced
Huda al-Ajmi to 11 years in prison after convictions that include
her insulting the nation's ruler and encouraging his overthrow.
(AP, 6/10/13)
2013 Jun 10, In Pakistan
militants dressed as policemen attacked a NATO convoy carrying
supplies for the US-led coalition in Afghanistan, killing 4 people.
(AP, 6/10/13)
2013 Jun 10, Thai police said
they found 14 albino lions imported from Africa and hundreds of
other protected animals in a warehouse near Bangkok. Pet shop owner
Montri Boonprom-on (41) was arrested and faced up to four years in
jail and a fine of 40,000 baht ($1,300).
(AP, 6/10/13)
2014 Jun 10, The Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) said it has granted the first
permission for commercial drone flights over US land. The BP energy
corporation and drone maker AeroVironment of California have been
given permission to use a Puma drone to survey pipelines, roads and
equipment at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. The first flight took place on
June 8.
(AP, 6/10/14)
2014 Jun 10, A Los Angeles
Superior Court threw out California’s teacher tenure laws calling
them unconstitutional.
(SFC, 6/11/14, p.A1)
2014 Jun 10, In Oregon Jared
Michael Padgett (15), armed with an assault rifle, a handgun and
several magazines of ammunition, shot and killed a student at
Reynolds High School in Troutdale. He carried the weapons hidden in
a guitar case and also injured a teacher before killing himself in a
restroom following an exchange of gunfire with officers.
(SFC, 6/11/14, p.A6)(SFC, 6/12/14, p.A14)
2014 Jun 10, In Central African
Republic two days of fighting between mainly Muslim ex-rebels and
the largely Christian "anti-balaka" militia left at least 22 people.
(AFP, 6/12/14)
2014 Jun 10, China’s government
issued a “white paper" asserting that autonomy granted to Hong Kong
in 1997 was entirely dependent on China’s leaders.
(Econ, 7/5/14, p.37)
2014 Jun 10, In China convicted
criminal Zhang Zeqing, was shot and killed by police in Qianjiang,
Hubei province. He had taken 50 elementary school students and a
teacher hostage and had agreed to exchange them for the deputy mayor
of the surrounding town of Haokou, but was shot after he poured
gasoline over the official.
(AP, 6/10/14)
2014 Jun 10, The European
Commission delivered a formal warning to the Philippines and Papua
New Guinea over illegal fishing, a step that could lead to a ban on
exporting to the EU.
(Reuters, 6/10/14)
2014 Jun 10, Iraq's PM Nuri
al-Maliki has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after
Sunni Islamist insurgents seized control of most of Mosul, the
country's second largest city. Militants from the Islamic State in
Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and their allies overran a military base
and freed hundreds of prisoners. The rampage by the militants sent
an estimated 500,000 people fleeing from the city. In Baquba two
bombs exploded near a funeral procession, killing 20 people. Human
Rights Watch later reported that some 600 male Shiite inmates from
Badoosh prison outside Mosul were forced to kneel along the edge of
a nearby ravine and shot with automatic weapons.
(Reuters, 6/10/14)(AFP, 6/10/14)(AP, 6/11/14)(AP,
10/30/14)
2014 Jun 10, In Iraq ISIL
militants seized 48 Turks from the Turkish consulate in Mosul,
including the consul-general, three children and several members of
Turkey's special forces. ISIL, numbering some 7-10 thousand
fighters, was led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
(Reuters, 6/11/14)(SFC, 6/12/14, p.A8)(Econ,
8/2/14, p.41)
2014 Jun 10, Ireland's
government said it is launching an investigation into mistreatment
and burial of babies who died between 1925-1962 in nun-operated
homes for unmarried mothers.
(AP, 6/10/14)
2014 Jun 10, Israel's
parliament chose Reuven Rivlin (74), a veteran Likud politician and
supporter of the Jewish settlement movement, as the country's next
president, putting a man opposed to the creation of a Palestinian
state into the ceremonial but largely influential post.
(AP, 6/10/14)
2014 Jun 10, In Kenya gunmen
shot and killed moderate Muslim leader Sheik Mohamed Idris, the
chairman of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK). He
was the fourth prominent Muslim to be shot dead in Mombasa in two
years. On April 15, 2016, Sudi Mohamed Sudi (44) was sentenced to
death for killing Idris, who had campaigned against radical
interpretations of Islam.
(AP, 6/10/14)(AP, 4/15/16)
2014 Jun 10, In Kuwait
opposition leader Musallam al-Barrack revealed documents of alleged
corruption to more than 6,000 protesters late today. His opposition
group had called for the anti-corruption rally, the first protest by
the opposition since April 2013.
(AP, 6/11/14)
2014 Jun 10, In Pakistan at
least three gunmen attacked a training facility for airport police
near the Karachi airport, forcing a temporary suspension of flights
and triggering a brief shootout with security forces. Pakistani
military airstrikes targeted the Tirah Valley in the country's
northwest. The military said it killed 25 suspected militants in
strikes on nine hideouts.
(AP, 6/10/14)
2014 Jun 10, Russia’s PM Dmitry
Medvedev gave the government's blessing to Aeroflot’s new low-cost
airline serving newly-annexed Crimea, as he inspected a Dobrolyot
(Good Flight) Boeing-737 ahead of its maiden flight from Moscow's
Sheremetyevo Airport.
(Reuters, 6/10/14)
2014 Jun 10, In South Africa
Andrew Chimboza stabbed Mbuyiselo Manona (62) to death at the home
of Manona's lover in Cape Town's Gugulethu township. He then ate his
victim's heart with a knife and fork. On April 29, 2015, Chimboza
was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
(http://tinyurl.com/kf72mby)(AFP, 4/29/15)
2014 Jun 10, Ukraine Pres.
Petro Poroshenko ordered security officials to create a corridor for
safe passage for civilians in eastern regions to escape fighting. In
the east pro-Russian separatists attacked military checkpoints and
other strategic points overnight but they were beaten off with only
minor casualties on the Ukrainian side. 40 mercenaries were reported
killed near the airport of Kramatorsk.
(Reuters, 6/10/14)(SFC, 6/11/14, p.A4)
2014 Jun 10, Ukraine Deputy Tax
Minister Ihor Bilous, the country's new tax boss, said his
predecessor, Oleksandr Klymenko, was in on a massive fraud, helping
to organize a wide network of phantom firms in return for a cut of
the cash. The criminals, he said, operated with impunity. Klymenko,
who has fled the country, denied the charges.
(AP, 6/10/14)
2014 Jun 10, In Yemen tribesmen
attacked power lines in the eastern province of Marib, leading to
the blackouts in Sanaa and other areas.
(Reuters, 6/11/14)
2015 Jun 10, US President
Barack Obama approved the deployment of 450 more troops to Iraq, in
what would nudge the ranks of Washington's "train, advise and
assist" mission above 3,500.
(AFP, 6/11/15)
2015 Jun 10, Juan Felipe
Herrera, former poet laureate of California (2012-2014, was named
the new poet laureate of the United States. On September 15 he will
replace Charles Wright.
(SFC, 6/11/15, p.D1)
2015 Jun 10, African leaders
meeting at Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, signed a 26-nation free trade
pact to create a common market that would span half the continent
from Cairo to Cape Town. The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) deal
must still be fine-tuned and ratified. The deal will integrate three
existing trade blocs -- the East African Community, the Southern
African Development Community and the Common Market for Eastern and
Southern Africa (COMESA).
(AFP, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, Amnesty Int’l.
said Azerbaijan has blocked a visit at which it planned to highlight
human rights abuses in the south Caucasian republic. Azerbaijan
prepared to open the inaugural European Games on June 12. The OSCE
said Azerbaijan has ordered it to close its Baku office ahead of the
European Games.
(Reuters, 6/10/15)(AFP, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, George Osborne,
Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, announced a new fiscal rule
where under normal conditions the government would be banned from
running a budget deficit.
(Econ, 6/13/15, p.55)
2015 Jun 10, British NGO Global
Witness said British oil company Soco International paid off an army
officer accused of silencing critics of exploration in Democratic
Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park. Global Witness published
scans of four checks totaling $15,600 (14,000 euros) allegedly
issued by Soco's Congolese subsidiary to the major posted to the
park. Two receipts for the checks signed by the officer were dated
May 15, 2014 and April 30, 2014.
(AFP, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, In Central African
Republic 20 foreign UN peacekeepers reportedly used "excessive
force" on four people, killing 2 of them. On July 9 the peacekeepers
were sent home and the UN mission MINUSCA said that the men should
be prosecuted.
(Reuters, 7/9/15)
2015 Jun 10, In southern China
two girls aged 8 and 14 died in Hunan province after drinking a cola
laced with pesticide. A boy (12) was soon identified as the prime
suspect in the poisoning.
(AP, 6/13/15)
2015 Jun 10, Acclaimed Cuban
novelist Leonardo Padura (59) was awarded Spain's Princess of
Asturias award for literature. His 2009 novel, "The Man Who Loved
Dogs," was praised by critics internationally.
(AP, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, The EU urged its
28 nations to swiftly endorse its plan to relocate 40,000 migrants
as 1,000 more migrants arrived in Greece in just one day.
(AP, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, In Egypt a suicide
bomber blew himself up just steps away from the ancient Egyptian
temple of Karnak in Luxor. Security at Karnak thwarted what would
have been a worse attack, by preventing the suicide bomber from
entering the temple complex and battling two gunmen who were with
him, killing one and capturing the other.
(AP, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, On the French
island of Corsica a violent storm lashed one of the world's top
walking trails, leaving four people dead.
(AFP, 6/11/15)
2015 Jun 10, Iraq’s human
rights minister said the remains of 597 people, believed to have
been executed by jihadists in the so-called Speicher massacre near
Tikrit in 2014, have been exhumed.
(AFP, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, In Iraq bomb
attacks killed 8 people in and around Baghdad as US-led coalition
warplanes targeted Islamic State insurgents west of the capital.
(Reuters, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, Kuwait announced
it will send $300 million in humanitarian aid to conflict-hit
neighbors Iraq and Yemen.
(AFP, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, In eastern Libya
at least 20 fighters were killed in clashes in Derna between Islamic
State and another Islamist force that later declared jihad against
its hardline rival. Majlis leader Salem Derbi and around 18 IS
fighters were killed.
(Reuters, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, Mexican police
found the dismembered bodies of a 45-year-old Russian woman and her
12-year-old daughter in a garage in Playas de Tijuana, Baja
California. A family member was the prime suspect. On June 23 Lawyer
Gabriel Gonzalez Celestino said suspect Anastasia Lechtchenko (19)
is innocent and had confessed under duress to the crime. He said
that she was beaten and sexually abused by police.
(AP, 6/12/15)(AP, 6/23/15)
2015 Jun 10, In southern Mali
dozens of Islamic militants on motorcycles attacked the town of
Misseni in the Sikasso region, killing 2 people.
(AP, 6/10/15)(SFC, 6/11/15, p.A2)
2015 Jun 10, In Syria at least
20 Druze residents were reportedly killed by Al-Qaeda affiliate
Al-Nusra Front in Idlib province.
(AFP, 6/11/15)
2015 Jun 10, A Tunisian court
annulled a 2011 decree confiscating the assets of ousted president
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his inner circle after an appeal from
the Ben Ali family, infuriating the government.
(Reuters, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, Tunisia's navy
rescued 356 migrants including a two-month-old baby girl off the
country's southeastern coast near Ben Guerdane.
(AFP, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, In Ukraine 3
civilians were killed in a mortar attack near Gorlivka, which is in
separatist-held territory north of the regional city of Donetsk. 2
government soldiers were killed and 13 others wounded by separatists
using heavy weapons in violation of a ceasefire agreed in February.
(Reuters, 6/11/15)
2015 Jun 10, UNESCO, the UN's
cultural agency, said it has named Inle Lake, with its diverse
plants and animals and floating gardens, as Myanmar's first
biosphere reserve to help safeguard natural ecosystems while
promoting sustainable economic development.
(AP, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, The Vatican said
Pope Francis has approved the creation of an internal Church
tribunal empowered to punish bishops who cover up sex abuse by
priests.
(AFP, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, The Vatican
formally committed to share tax information of US citizens with the
United States.
(SFC, 6/11/15, p.A2)
2015 Jun 10, In Yemen at least
43 people were killed in heavy fighting overnight and today between
supporters of exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the
country's dominant Houthi group.
(Reuters, 6/10/15)
2015 Jun 10, Miss Zimbabwe
pageant organizers officially stripped Emily Kachote (25) of her
title after photographs emerged of the now former beauty queen
posing naked.
(AP, 6/11/15)
2016 Jun 10, The US Dept. of
Transportation gave permission to six airlines to resume scheduled
commercial air service from the US to Cuba for a total of 155
round-trip flights per week.
(SFC, 6/11/16, p.A2)
2016 Jun 10, Alabama House
Speaker Mike Hubbard was convicted by a jury on 12 charges of
violating state ethics law. On July 8 Hubbard was sentenced to four
years in prison and another eight on probation.
(SFC, 6/11/16, p.A5)(SFC, 7/9/16, p.A11)
2016 Jun 10, In the SF Bay Area
the East Bay Express reported that a Richmond woman (18) said she
has had sexual relations with numerous officers from the Oakland,
Richmond, Livermore and Stockton police departments during her stint
as a sex worker. This followed the sudden resignation a day earlier
of Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent. On May 31, 2017, the Oakland
City Council voted 7-1 to approve a $989,000 settlement with former
sex worker Jasmine (19), aka Celeste Guap.
(SFC, 6/14/16, p.A5)(SFC, 6/1/17, p.E1)
2016 Jun 10, In Florida Kevin
James Loibl shot and fatally wounded singer Christina Grimmie (22),
a former contestant on the popular TV show "The Voice," at Orlando’s
Plaza Live Theater late today during a meet and greet with fans.
Loibl (27) shot and killed himself during a struggle with Grimmie’s
brother.
(AFP, 6/11/16)(SSFC, 6/12/16, p.A6)
2016 Jun 10, In eastern
Afghanistan 4 civilians were killed and around 40 wounded by a bomb
blast inside a mosque in Nangarhar province.
(AP, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, In northern
Bangladesh suspected Islamist assailants hacked Hindu holy man Nitya
Ranjan Pandey (60) to death and fled without anyone witnessing the
attack.
(AP, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, In Canada a female
German exchange student (18) and a female Canadian (17) were struck
by a train in the east coast province of Nova Scotia.
(AP, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, Canada's beloved
hockey icon Gordie Howe (b.1928), a fierce competitor who finessed
his way into the record books on the ice but was a gentle giant off
it, died in Ohio at the home of his son Murray. The Hall of Famer
affectionately known as "Mr. Hockey" won four Stanley Cup titles
with the Detroit Red Wings in a professional career that spanned an
astonishing six decades.
(AFP, 6/11/16)
2016 Jun 10, In China animal
rights activists calling for an end to the slaughter and eating of
dogs at a Chinese festival delivered a petition with 11 million
signatures to authorities in Beijing.
(Reuters, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, EU countries
agreed on new measures to tighten gun controls in the wake of the
deadly attacks in Paris last year.
(SFC, 6/11/16, p.A4)
2016 Jun 10, Berlin police
found 80 kg (176 pounds) of heroin worth an estimated 3 million
euros ($3.6 million). Two Lebanese men were arrested on narcotics
charges and a third was being sought.
(AP, 6/15/16)
2016 Jun 10, The Israeli
military said the West Bank will be closed off until the end of the
Jewish holiday of Shavuot on June 12, due to security concerns
following a Palestinian shooting attack this week that killed four
civilians.
(AP, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, In Kazakhstan 5
suspected militants were killed in gunbattles with police in Aktobe
that followed a series of recent armed attacks that have challenged
the stability of the energy-rich ex-Soviet nation.
(AP,
6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, In eastern Libya
at least 7 civilians were killed and eight wounded over the last 24
hours by shelling Benghazi.
(Reuters, 6/11/16)
2016 Jun 10, A Maldives court
convicted the country's former vice president of masterminding a
plot to kill the president by exploding a bomb on his speedboat last
year and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. Ahmed Adeeb must serve
a total of 25 years after the same criminal court sentenced him
earlier this week to 10 years for possessing firearms.
(AP, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, In Mexico two
gunmen marched into a remote mountain village and killed 11 members
of the same family, including two children, apparently over
"personal conflicts" in El Mirador, Puebla state. The prime suspect
in the slaying of 11 family members was an alleged rapist seeking
revenge against a victim whose complaint had him jailed.
(AFP, 6/11/16)(AP, 6/11/16)(SSFC, 6/12/16, p.A4)
2016 Jun 10, In Mexico five
vehicles carrying 34 Central American migrants were apprehended
while traveling together between the northern states of Zacatecas
and Coahuila. Four of the vehicles were linked to the Uber
Technologies platform. The drivers said they weren't the owners of
the cars but worked as Uber chauffeurs.
(Reuters, 6/30/16)
2016 Jun 10, New Zealand PM
John Key ended a two-day visit to Fiji in an attempt to improve
relations following democratic elections in 2014.
(AP, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, Nigeria fired
dozens of senior officers accused of corruption and the theft of
billions of dollars meant to buy arms to fight the Boko Haram
Islamic insurgency.
(AP, 6/11/16)
2016 Jun 10, In Nigeria the
Niger Delta Avengers militant group claimed responsibility for an
attack on a trunk line owned by Agip ENI.
(Reuters, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, Northern Ireland
police commanders in Belfast unveiled a mammoth criminal
investigation into a former Irish Republican Army double agent
codenamed "Stakeknife," who was allegedly permitted by British Army
intelligence officers to interrogate, torture and kill IRA
colleagues to maintain his cover as the outlawed group's internal
security chief. The London-based investigation is expected to last
five years and cost 30 million pounds ($43 million).
(AP, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, In Pakistan 5
worshippers were killed and five injured when a steel shed in the
courtyard of a central Karachi mosque collapsed.
(AP, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, In Somalia Shabaab
jihadists publicly executed six men they accused of spying,
including one they claimed helped kill their supreme leader in a US
drone strike.
(AFP, 6/11/16)
2016 Jun 10, A Swedish court
awarded 30,000 kronor ($3,700) each in damages to 11 Roma plaintiffs
who sued the government for discrimination, saying they were
registered by police due to their ethnicity.
(AP, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, Syria's regime
bombarded Daraya, a rebel-held town outside Damascus, preventing
besieged residents from receiving food aid after its first such
delivery in years. US-backed forces seized control of the last route
into the IS-held city of Manbij, completing their encirclement of
the main target in a major advance against the militants.
(AFP, 6/10/16)(Reuters, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, In Thailand a
passenger van overturned and caught fire on a highway in Chonburi,
killing 11 school teachers inside.
(AP, 6/11/16)
2016 Jun 10, Turkey's Justice
Ministry said it has sent dozens of cases involving 57 lawmakers to
public prosecutors after the president lifted their legal immunity.
Most of the lawmakers at risk of prosecution belong to the
pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party, HDP, or the opposition
Republican People's Party.
(AP, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, In southern Turkey
a truck slammed into a van carrying agricultural laborers, killing
at least 10 people and injuring four others near the town of Eregli,
in Konya province.
(AP, 6/10/16)
2016 Jun 10, Uganda’s army said
at least 30 people with suspected ties to a shadowy rebel outfit
have been arrested over an alleged plot to topple Pres. Yoweri
Museveni.
(AFP, 6/10/16)2017
Jun 10, In Texas South Korean Yekwon Sunwoo (28)
emerged from 30 competitors to claim the $50,000 award and a gold
medal in the 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, held
every four years in Fort Worth.
(AP, 6/11/17)
2017 Jun 10, Boeing said Iran's
Aseman Airlines has finalized an agreement to buy 30 Boeing 737 MAX
jets for $3.0 billion, with an option to buy 30 more.
(AFP, 6/10/17)
2017 Jun 10, American
astronomer Jerry Nelson (73), chief designer of the Keck telescope
in Hawaii, died at his home in Santa Cruz, Ca.
(http://tinyurl.com/y85esgvy)(Econ 7/1/17, p.80)
2017 Jun 10, In eastern
Afghanistan three US soldiers were killed and one left wounded when
an Afghan army solider opened fire on them in Nangarhar province.
The Afghan soldier was also killed.
(AP, 6/10/17)(AP, 6/11/17)
2017 Jun 10, British PM Theresa
May was forced to relinquish her two closest aides on as she
struggled to reassert her authority following a crushing electoral
setback. PM May struck a deal in principle with Northern Ireland’s
Democratic Unionist Party to prop up her Conservative government.
(AFP, 6/10/17)(SSFC, 6/11/17, p.A6)
2017 Jun 10, In Shanghai,
China, hundreds of homeowners protested at a sudden change in
planning regulations that would lower property values. Officials
arrested ringleaders and censors scrubbed mentions of the protest
from the internet.
(Econ 6/17/17, p.16)
2017 Jun 10, In northwestern
Greece a lignite mine began collapsing in the village of Anargyroi
forcing all 182 inhabitants to leave their homes. The mine was shut
down on June 3 for safety reasons. The government had warned six
years earlier that the mine poised a threat.
(SFC, 6/12/17, p.A2)
2017 Jun 10, The Indian army
said it has foiled infiltration bids by suspected militants from the
Pakistani side along a heavily militarized de facto border dividing
Kashmir between the two countries and killed six intruders over the
24 hours.
(AP, 6/10/17)
2017 Jun 10, Iraq's
paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi forces said that they had retaken all
areas west of Mosul from the Islamic State group except the town of
Tal Afar.
(AFP, 6/10/17)
2017 Jun 10, Japanese art
collector Yusaku Maezawa (41) announced his purchase of a $110.5
million Basquiat masterpiece, “Untitled" (1982).
(AFP, 6/10/17)
2017 Jun 10, Kazakhstan’s Expo
17 opened in Astana with the theme “Fujture Energy." The Expo closed
on Sept. 10.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2017)(Econ
7/1/17, p.32)
2017 Jun 10, Libyan officials
said at least ten migrants have died after their Europe-bound boats
sank off Libya's coast and some 100 people were missing.
(AFP, 6/11/17)
2017 Jun 10, In Morocco
protesters clashed with security forces in Al-Hoceima early today,
after more than a week of protests in the northern province.
(AFP, 6/10/17)
2017 Jun 10, In Pakistan
Taimoor Raza (30), minority Shiite Muslim, was sentenced to death
for sharing blasphemous content about Islam on social media.
(AP, 6/10/17)
2017 Jun 10, In Russia Lom-Ali
Gaitukayev, one of five men convicted in 2014 for gunning down of
Kremlin critic Politkovskaya in 2006, died of liver failure while
serving a life term. Gaitukayev was the uncle of Rustam Makhmudov,
who was also handed a life term for shooting Politkovskaya outside
the block of flats where she lived. Former Moscow policeman Sergei
Khadjikurbanov was given a 20-year term for helping to prepare the
killing while two of Makhmudov's brothers were handed shorter terms.
(AFP, 6/13/17)
2017 Jun 10, Syrian
pro-government forces said they now hold more than a fifth of the
country's strategic desert, after reaching the eastern border with
Iraq for the first time since 2015.
(AFP, 6/10/17)
2017 Jun 10, In Syria US-backed
Syrian fighters (SDF) broke into the western part of the Islamic
State group's stronghold Raqa, opening up a second front inside the
city.
(AFP, 6/10/17)
2018 Jun 10, US President
Donald Trump arrived in Singapore for a historic June 12 summit with
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who landed in Singapore earlier
today.
(AP, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, The White House
escalated its trade tirade and leveled more withering and
unprecedented criticism against Canada's prime minister, branding
Justin Trudeau a back-stabber unworthy of President Donald Trump's
time.
(AP, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, In Washington
state a family of five was killed in an explosion at their vacation
property in Brinnon.
(SFC, 6/12/18, p.A6)
2018 Jun 10, Afghan security
forces seized 156 sacks of ammonium nitrate, widely used in making
explosives, from the back of a vegetable truck crossing from
Pakistan.
(Reuters, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, Two Afghan Air
Force A-29s reportedly conducted a strike on a Taliban radio
broadcasting tower. The Afghan Taliban soon denounced "American
occupying forces" for attacking their Voice of Shariah Radio station
in the central province of Ghazni, but the United States denied the
charge and said Afghan air force planes had targeted a broadcasting
tower.
(Reuters, 6/12/18)
2018 Jun 10, In Armenia lawyer
Kyaw Hia Aung of Myanmar received the $1.1-million Aurora Prize for
humanitarianism, which was established on behalf of Armenian
survivors of a mass killing by Ottoman Turks. Aung has worked for
decades for decades to promote the rights of Myanmar's Rohingyas.
(AP, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, Thousands of women
wearing the colors of the Suffragettes marched through British
cities in a living artwork to mark 100 years since British women won
the right to vote.
(AFP, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, Chinese President
Xi Jinping extolled free trade and criticized "selfish,
short-sighted" policies during a closely orchestrated gathering of a
Beijing-led bloc.
(AP, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, Egypt's chief
prosecutor referred 28 people to a criminal court on charges
including forming an illegal group, "The Egyptian Council for
Change," aiming to topple the government.
(AP, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, Egypt's official
statistics agency said the inflation rate has increased to 13.2
percent in May, ahead of a possible new round of price hikes as part
of austerity measures designed to overhaul the country's economy.
(AP, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, Ethiopian PM Abiy
Ahmed announced that Egypt will release 32 Ethiopian prisoners
during his visit as he sought to assure Cairo that a massive
upstream Nile dam would not cut into its share of the river.
(AP, 6/11/18)
2018 Jun 10, Germany and France
sharply criticized US President Donald Trump's decision to abruptly
withdraw his support for a Group of Seven communique, accusing him
of destroying trust and acting inconsistently.
(Reuters, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, Iran’s military
said Revolutionary Guards have killed six militants who had crossed
the border from Iraq and intended to carry out operations inside the
Islamic Republic.
(Reuters, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, A fire
ripped through Iraq's biggest ballot warehouse ahead of a vote
recount prompted by allegations of fraud during legislative
elections that saw a surprise victory for a populist cleric.
Officials said most ballot boxes were preserved.
(AFP, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, A group of
militants sneaked into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir from
the Pakistani side of the disputed territory, sparking a gunbattle
that left at least six suspected rebels dead.
(AP, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, Israel's cabinet
approved a plan to pump 100 million cubic meters of water annually
by 2022 into the shrinking Sea of Galilee, aka Lake Kinneret. Last
year the body of water, hit by years of drought, had reached its
lowest level in a century.
(AFP, 6/11/18)
2018 Jun 10, In the Philippines
at least 15 pro-Islamic State militants were killed when government
troops launched air and ground assaults against a rebel bomb
factory. Air strikes and artillery pounded an area in the Liguasan
marsh in Maguindanao, where the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
(BIFF) group had been making improvised explosive devices.
(Reuters, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, In the northern
Philippines two gunmen killed a Roman Catholic priest as he prepared
to celebrate Mass at the altar of a chapel in Zaragoza town, Nueva
Ecija province. Rev. Richmond Nilo was the third Catholic priest to
be killed in the country in recent months.
(AP, 6/11/18)
2018 Jun 10, A summit, hosted
by Saudi Arabia and attended by Jordan, Kuwait and the United Arab
Emirates, pledged $2.5 billion in aid to help Jordan ease an
economic crisis that has sparked angry protests.
(AFP, 6/11/18)
2018 Jun 10, Tens of thousands
of Spaniards from the northern Basque Country formed a line that
stretched 202 km (125 miles) to demand a ballot on secession for the
wealthy region.
(Reuters, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, Spanish police
said they have arrested 24 people suspected of distributing
pornographic images of children on the internet.
(AP, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, Swiss voters
rejected a referendum that would have made sweeping changes in their
country's monetary and banking system. Voters approved a referendum
on the Gambling Act, which has already been passed by both houses of
parliament. It will allow only casinos and gaming companies
certified in Switzerland to operate in the country, including on the
internet.
(AFP, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, In Switzerland an
Olympic hosting bid was sunk by a public vote against expected high
costs. Voters in the region of Valais refused to pledge financial
support for a 2026 Winter Games hosting bid centered on the town of
Sion.
(AP, 6/10/18)
2018 Jun 10, In northwest Syria
the pro-government Shi'ite Muslim villages of villages of al-Foua
and Kefraya came under fresh attack from rebel forces, which have
besieged them for years, prompting retaliatory air strikes.
Activists and a war monitor said at least 10 people were killed in
airstrikes in Taftanaz, Idlib province, while five others were
killed in the nearby towns of Binnish, Ariha and Ram Hemdan.
(Reuters, 6/10/18)(AP, 6/11/18)
2018 Jun 10, Turkey's military
said it hit more than a dozen Kurdish militant targets in air
strikes in the Qandil mountains of northern Iraq.
(Reuters, 6/11/18)
2018 Jun 10, Police in Vietnam
detained more than a dozen protesters in the capital Hanoi and
halted demonstrations in other cities against plans for new special
economic zones that the protesters fear will be dominated by Chinese
investors. Will Nguyen, an American citizen of Vietnamese descent,
was beaten over the head and dragged into the back of a police truck
after police moved to break up a protest in Ho Chi Minh City.
(Reuters, 6/10/18)(AP, 6/14/18)
2019 Jun 10, The Intercept
website reported that Rashid al-Malik, a United Arab Emirates
businessman linked to a probe of illegal donations to Donald Trump's
political campaign, was paid by his country's intelligence agency in
2017 to spy on the US president's administration.
(AFP, 6/11/19)
2019 Jun 10, The SF Bay Area
experienced record heat has the temperature in San Francisco reached
a record high of 97 and a record 98 degrees in Oakland.
(SFC, 5/14/19, p.C1)
2019 Jun 10, In southern
California Charles Merritt (62) was convicted of killing Joseph
McStay, wife Melinda McStay and their two children in 2010 and
burying their bodies in Victorville.
(SFC, 6/11/19, p.A5)
2019 Jun 10, In NYC a
helicopter crashed on the roof of a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper
killing the pilot.
(SFC, 6/11/19, p.A6)
2019 Jun 10, In Afghanistan 17
civilians and 17 members of the security forces — seven soldiers,
seven policemen and three intelligence agents — were freed during
the operation in northern Baghlan province.
(AP, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Albanian President
Ilir Meta called off local elections set for June 30, but the
government accused him of breaking the law and declared he should be
thrown out of office.
(Reuters, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Britain said it
had concluded a trade deal with South Korea to maintain links after
Brexit.
(AFP, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, China announced
regulations to curb the smuggling of human organs and tighten
oversight on the use of human genetic materials in research months
after a Chinese scientist caused a global outcry by claiming that he
gene-edited babies.
(AFP, 6/12/19)
2019 Jun 10, Health authorities
in the Democratic Republic of Congo declared an epidemic of measles
which may have killed 1,500 people, according to statistical
analysis.
(AFP, 6/11/19)
2019 Jun 10, Twelve orphaned
children of French jihadists were flown home from camps in Syria,
along with two Dutch orphans who were handed over to the
Netherlands.
(AFP, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Gabon named Lee
White, a British former Wildlife Conservation Society officer, as
the country's forests minister. The last one was fired over a
scandal in which hundreds of containers of illegally logged
kevazingo wood went missing.
(Reuters, 6/11/19)
2019 Jun 10, India's top court
ordered the release of journalist Prashant Kanojia (26), arrested
for a social media post about a Hindu nationalist state chief
minister, in a case that highlighted growing concerns over free
speech and media freedom.
(Reuters, 6/11/19)
2019 Jun 10, In India a bomb
killed two people in West Bengal, taking the death toll in
post-election violence to 15.
(Reuters, 6/11/19)
2019 Jun 10, In India Girish
Karnad (81), a top playwright, actor and director and a rights
activist, died in Bangalore after a prolonged illness.
(AP, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Iranian state
television reported that Nizar Zakka, a US permanent resident held
for years in Iran after his conviction on disputed spying charges,
will be released in the coming hours.
(AP, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Iranian activist
Alireza Shirmohammadali (21) was stabbed to death by two other
prisoners. He had been in jail since July and sentenced to eight
years in prison over insulting the country's Islamic identity and
government.
(http://tinyurl.com/yydt5ccy)(AP, 6/17/19)
2019 Jun 10, The prime minister
of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, Nechirvan Barzani, was
sworn in as its president, filling the most powerful regional
office, vacant since 2017 when his uncle quit after a failed
independence bid.
(Reuters, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Israel's Supreme
Court ruled against the Greek Orthodox Church in a long-running
legal battle over the sale of three properties in predominantly
Palestinian parts of Jerusalem's Old City to a Jewish settler group.
(AP, 6/13/19)
2019 Jun 10, In Kashmir a court
sentenced three Hindu men, including a police officer, to life
imprisonment for kidnapping, raping and murdering an 8-year-old
Muslim girl in 2018, in a case that has exacerbated tensions in the
disputed region.
(AP, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Mexico said it
will discuss a "safe third country" agreement with the United States
-- in which migrants entering Mexican territory must apply for
asylum there rather than the US -- if the flow of undocumented
immigrants continues.
(AFP, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Two rival Moldovan
governments held simultaneous cabinet meetings and accused each
other of trying to usurp power, deepening a crisis brought on by an
inconclusive parliamentary election in February.
(Reuters, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, In Nepal Peter
John Dalglish (62), a former high-profile UN humanitarian worker
from Canada, was found guilty by a court of sexually abusing two
boys and is due to be sentenced next month. On July 9 he was
sentenced to nine years in prison.
(AFP, 6/11/19)(SFC, 7/10/19, p.A2)
2019 Jun 10, Nicaragua's
government released 50 prisoners and said it was "preparing for the
release" of others amid a broader move to set free people the
opposition considers political prisoners under an agreement meant to
ease the country's political standoff.
(AP, 6/11/19)
2019 Jun 10, Pakistan's
anti-graft body arrested former President Asif Ali Zardari, widower
of assassinated ex-Premier Benazir Bhutto, in a multi-million dollar
money laundering case that has shaken the country.
(AP, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, The Palestinian
foreign minister said that comments by the US ambassador to Israel
were intended to help Israel annex parts of the occupied West Bank,
underscoring the Palestinians' distrust of the Trump administration.
(Reuters, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Palestinian
paramedic Mohammed al-Judeili (36) succumbed to wounds inflicted by
Israeli fire at a border protest a month before.
(AP, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Russian
authorities faced unprecedented pushback against the arrest last
week of Ivan Golunov, an investigative reporter on drugs charges,
with independent as well as pro-Kremlin figures urging his release.
(AFP, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Russian
authorities said police have uncovered around $3 million worth of
stolen diamonds, and over $2.5 million in cash, at the homes of a
criminal ring operating inside state-controlled diamond producer
Alrosa.
(Reuters, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Rwanda said it
would re-open its busiest border post with Uganda to cargo trucks
for 12 days, more than three months after it was closed amid
tensions between the two neighbors triggered by security and
economic disagreements.
(Reuters, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, Lee Hee-ho
(b.1921), a South Korean feminist activist who fought for democracy
against dictatorships alongside her husband and future President Kim
Dae-jung, died.
(AP, 6/11/19)
2019 Jun 10, In Sudan a
nationwide civil disobedience campaign by protesters entered a
second day. Sudan deported to South Sudan three members of a rebel
movement detained last week in the wake of a deadly raid on a
protest sit-in.
(AFP, 6/10/19)(Reuters, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, The head of the UN
atomic watchdog urged world powers to continue dialogue with Iran to
keep it in the landmark 2015 deal aimed at preventing the country
from building nuclear weapons, and to help defuse mounting tensions
in the region.
(AP, 6/10/19)
2019 Jun 10, The Vatican issued
an official document rejecting the idea that people can choose or
change their genders and insisting on the sexual complementarity of
men and women to make babies.
(SFC, 6/11/19, p.A4)
2019 Jun 10, Vietnam's
government said it is taking more steps to prevent Chinese companies
from using illegal "Made in Vietnam" labels to avoid high tariffs
that have been imposed by the United States on Chinese goods.
(AP, 6/10/19)
