June 1, 2007 (2007-06-01 ) (Friday)
June 2, 2007 (2007-06-02 ) (Saturday)
June 3, 2007 (2007-06-03 ) (Sunday)
June 4, 2007 (2007-06-04 ) (Monday)
June 5, 2007 (2007-06-05 ) (Tuesday)
TheBritish Antarctic Survey announces that the flow rate of 300 previously unmeasuredglaciers increased by 12% between 1993 and 2003, adding to concerns overglacier retreat and therise in sea levels caused byglobal warming .(British Antarctic Survey) AGuyanese suspect whoallegedly planned an attack onNew York City 'sJFK Airport surrenders inPort of Spain ,Trinidad and Tobago .(Sky) United States v. Libby :I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr. , formerchief of staff toVice President Dick Cheney , is sentenced to 30 months inprison after being convicted ofperjury andobstruction of justice in theCIA leak grand jury investigation .(CNN) U.S. President George W. Bush begins his tour ofEurope inPrague before theG8 summit inGermany . During his visit, he intends to address the deployment ofinterceptor rockets , the establishment of radar bases inPoland and theCzech Republic , and the related tension that has arisen between theUnited States andRussia .(BBC) Spanish Basque separatist groupETA announces it will end its 15-month cease-fire tonight at midnight (CEST ).(RTÉ) Thailand 's interim government removes aban onpolitical party activities.(BBC) Eleven people are killed and around 30 injured in atrain crash 10 kilometres north ofKerang, Victoria ,Australia .(BBC) (RTÉ)
June 6, 2007 (2007-06-06 ) (Wednesday)
June 7, 2007 (2007-06-07 ) (Thursday)
June 8, 2007 (2007-06-08 ) (Friday)
June 9, 2007 (2007-06-09 ) (Saturday)
June 10, 2007 (2007-06-10 ) (Sunday)
June 11, 2007 (2007-06-11 ) (Monday)
A three-judge panel of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit inRichmond, Virginia rules that theUnited States government cannot indefinitely detainU.S. residents as "enemy combatants ."(AP via CNN) At least 78 die inmonsoons inBangladesh .(AP via CNN) Two-thirds of theIraqi Council of Representatives removesSpeaker of the Council of Representatives Mahmoud al-Mashhadani due to repeated acts of violence to other members by him or his staff.(New York Times) Flooding in the southern Chinese provinces ofGuangdong ,Guangxi ,Guizhou ,Hunan ,Fujian , andJiangxi damage agricultural land and crops, kill 66 people, and force 600,000 people from their homes.(BBC) Majeedah Bolkiah —daughter ofHassanal Bolkiah ,Sultan ofBrunei —marriesKhairul Khalil , an official in the office of thePrime Minister in a lavishIslamic wedding ceremony.(AP via Yahoo! News) Newcastle, New South Wales remains on alert for risingfloodwaters from theHunter River as people evacuated fromMaitland, New South Wales return to their home.(AAP via the West Australian) June 12, 2007 (2007-06-12 ) (Tuesday)
June 13, 2007 (2007-06-13 ) (Wednesday)
Zimbabwean Minister of LandsDidymus Mutasa says the government will remove all remainingwhite farmers from their farms anddivide their land among landlessblack citizens.(ReliefWeb) Ireland 'sGreen Party (Comhaontas Glas) agrees to go into government withFianna Fáil as part ofIreland 's30th Dáil when it opens on14 June .(RTÉ) A6.8 magnitude earthquake hits south ofPuerto Quetzal , onGuatemala 's Pacific Coast.(USA Today) Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom awards SirTim Berners-Lee theOrder of Merit for his pioneering work on theWorld Wide Web .(BBC) Gigantoraptor erlianensis birdlike dinosaur , is discovered inInner Mongolia by paleontologistXu Xing .(AFP via Discovery Channel) Shimon Peres is elected as thePresident of Israel after opponents bow out in the first round of theIsraeli presidential elections .(Haaretz) (Los Angeles Times) An explosion inBeirut kills at least 10 people, includingMP Walid Eido .(MSNBC) Hamas militants kill at least 16Palestinians , including 2UNRWA workers and 13Fatah members, asclashes intensify in theGaza Strip .(Haaretz) Hamas and Fatah officials claim that they have agreed on acease-fire , but fighting continues.(BBC) ASouth African public sectorstrike closes down most of the schools and hospitals in that country.(BBC) EADS Astrium unveils itsspace tourism project, one week ahead of theParis Air Show .(BBC) A landmark ruling by the UK's highest appeal court, theLaw Lords , allows the family of anIraqi who died in UK military custody to sue theBritish Government and demand apublic inquiry into the circumstances of his death.(The Times) (Scotsman) Astrike byIndian Airlines ground staff disrupts air traffic throughoutIndia .(CNN-IBN) An explosion at theAl-Askari Mosque inSamarra ,Iraq is reported to have destroyed two of itsminarets .(Reuters Alertnet) (BBC) (Reuters) Indonesian police claim to have arrestedAbu Dujana , the military leader of theJemaah Islamiyah responsible for the2002 Bali bombings .(BBC) June 14, 2007 (2007-06-14 ) (Thursday)
A U.S. federal jury convicts formerKlansman James Ford Seale ofkidnapping andconspiracy in connection with the1964 deaths of twoAfrican-American teenagers inMississippi .(AP via USA Today) Fatah–Hamas conflict :Golf 'sU.S. Open begins atOakmont Country Club inOakmont, Pennsylvania .(ESPN) Music producer and allegedcon artist Lou Pearlman is arrested inNusa Dua ,Bali ,Indonesia anddeported to the United States territory ofGuam . He is accused of defrauding over 1,800 individual investors out of a total of$ 317-million. He will eventually be returned toFlorida to face criminal charges and a growing list of civil litigation.(Orlando Sentinel) Bertie Ahern ofFianna Fáil is elected as Ireland'sTaoiseach for a record third term upon the opening of the30th Dáil ; the Taoiseach then announces his newcabinet withministries .(RTÉ) EntertainerMichael Barrymore is arrested in the UK along with two others over the murder ofStuart Lubbock , who was found dead in Barrymore'sswimming pool in 2001.(Sky) Lebanon prepares to buryanti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido and nine others killed in yesterday'sbombing , with anational day of mourning declared.(CNN) Iraq War : ThreeSunni mosques nearBaghdad are burned in apparent retaliation for thelatest Al-Askari Mosque bombing .(Reuters via ABC News Australia) TheIndian Airlines strike continues for a second day, causing continuing disruption to Indian aviation.(BBC) New Zealand condemns the expulsion of itsHigh Commissioner toFiji , Mike Green, byFrank Bainimarama 'smilitary government , which gave no reason for the expulsion.(BBC) Cuba introduces aUnited Nations resolution onPuerto Rico calling on the United States to expedite Puerto Rico's self-determination process; the text also requests theGeneral Assembly to consider the question and urges cleanup ofVieques island and release of Puerto Rican political prisoners.(UN) TheSan Antonio Spurs defeat theCleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of the2007 NBA Finals to win the 2007National Basketball Association Championship.(SI) Sidney Crosby of thePittsburgh Penguins wins theHart Memorial Trophy as theNational Hockey League 's most valuable player during the 2006–07 season in the annual NHL awards.(TSN) June 15, 2007 (2007-06-15 ) (Friday)
June 16, 2007 (2007-06-16 ) (Saturday)
June 17, 2007 (2007-06-17 ) (Sunday)
June 18, 2007 (2007-06-18 ) (Monday)
TheComcast Center officially becomes the tallest building inPhiladelphia ,Pennsylvania after atopping out ceremony. Ninefirefighters arekilled in a collapse at a furniturewarehouse blaze inCharleston ,South Carolina , the largest loss of firefighters in theUnited States in one incident since thecollapse of the World Trade Center in2001 . ThePresident of Turkey ,Ahmet Necdet Sezer ,vetoes a bill bringing forward areferendum of thedirect election of the president.(BBC) Floods kill four people in northTexas .(Reuters) (AP viaThe New York Times ) TheEuropean Union andUnited States restoreforeign aid to thePalestinian Authority .(AP via Time) Hamas leaderMahmoud al-Zahar issues an ultimatum to thePalestinian Army of Islam to free kidnappedBBC journalistAlan Johnston or face military action.(BBC) A global internetpedophilia ring with over 700 suspects worldwide is smashed byUK police; 31 children are rescued.(Sky) Two formerCroatian generals,Mirko Norac andRahim Ademi , go on trial inZagreb , charged for alleged atrocities againstSerb civilians in 1993.(AP via IHT) Rwanda andBurundi join theEast African Community in a meeting inKampala ,Uganda .(BBC) Mongolian authorities confirm a helicopter crash that claimed 14 lives last Wednesday.(BBC) As many as 36 people are killed south ofBaghdad in fighting betweenShiite militiamen and British forces doing door-to-door searches.(AP via San Jose Mercury News) [permanent dead link Parts ofMelbourne ,Australia are in lockdown after a gunman shoots three people in theCBD , sparking a massive manhunt throughout the city.(The Age) (ABC) New negotiations begin betweenMorocco and thePolisario .(Reuters) ,(Herald Sun via Reuters) June 19, 2007 (2007-06-19 ) (Tuesday)
June 20, 2007 (2007-06-20 ) (Wednesday)
June 21, 2007 (2007-06-21 ) (Thursday)
Lebanon declares victory overFatah al-Islam , anAl Qaeda -linked group, after amonth-long battle at a Palestinianrefugee camp.(Reuters via Daily Times) Inflation inZimbabwe reaches 9,000%, the highest in the world.(CNN) NASA postpones the landing ofAtlantis Kennedy Space Center due to inclement weather, prolongingSTS-117 for another day. NASA states that it can extend the mission untilJune 24 if necessary.(CNN) Apolar blast moving north over theSouth Island ofNew Zealand causes major disruptions and claims at least one life.(One) TheUnited Nations -backedSpecial Court for Sierra Leone finds three leaders of theArmed Forces Revolutionary Council —Alex Tamba Brima ,Brima Bazzy Kamara , andSantigie Borbor Kanu —guilty ofwar crimes .(AP via CNN) ThePresident of Egypt ,Hosni Mubarak , invites the leaders of thePalestinian Authority ,Israel , andJordan to a summit on Sunday to discuss the Palestinian crisis.(FOX) TheKuwaiti government condemns the besieging of its embassy inIran and the beating of a diplomat, regarding it as an "attack on Kuwait." The Iranian Foreign Ministry says it regrets that the incident occurred.(Gulf News) DeposedPrime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra is ordered to return toThailand to face charges in an asset-concealment case.(UPI) Japan changes the name ofIwo Jima to its original name,Iwo To , to reflect the wishes of its original inhabitants.(BBC) June 22, 2007 (2007-06-22 ) (Friday)
Inflation inZimbabwe rises to 11,000%; U.S. ambassadorChristopher Dell predicts it will reach 1.5 million percent by December.(BBC News) 2007 Israel-Gaza conflict :IDF soldiers nearHebron shoot an unarmedPalestinian , who later died. The IDF states that the man was trying to run through thegate ; the soldiers yelled for him to halt, which he did not; they then shot the man.(Ynetnews) Director Michael Hayden of theUnited States Central Intelligence Agency announces plans to declassifydocuments detailing illegal activities performed by the agency between1950 and1980 , includingassassination plots,domestic spying andwiretapping , kidnapping, andhuman experiments .(BBC) Space ShuttleAtlantis lands safely atEdwards Air Force Base inCalifornia after inclement weather had prevented its programmed landing at theKennedy Space Center inFlorida , endingSTS-117 .(ABC News Australia) An F5 tornado , the strongest recorded inCanada , hits the small community ofElie, Manitoba .June 23, 2007 (2007-06-23 ) (Saturday)
Disasters and accidents
International relations
The 27 members of theEU agree on guidelines for a new treaty after negotiations to replace EU's current constitution.(CNN) June 24, 2007 (2007-06-24 ) (Sunday)
June 25, 2007 (2007-06-25 ) (Monday)
June 26, 2007 (2007-06-26 ) (Tuesday)
June 27, 2007 (2007-06-27 ) (Wednesday)
At least 18 people die in fights between police andgangsters in aRio de Janeiro favela (BBC) Protesters take to the streets inIran as the government introducespetrol rationing and raises prices.(CNN) Dr.Ashraf Marwan , who had been accused of being a seniorMossad agent operating inEgypt prior to theYom Kippur War , is found dead below the balcony of his home inLondon ;Scotland Yard investigates the "unexplained" death.(Haaretz) ,(Guardian) At least ten people drown and thousands move to higher ground as acyclone hitsBalochistan ,Pakistan .(CNN) Prime Minister Gordon Brown ,United Kingdom :Longstanding tradition is abandoned in theHouse of Commons as every servingMember of Parliament , and others, clap and give astanding ovation toTony Blair after he finishes his lastPrime Minister's Questions . Queen Elizabeth II accepts the resignation ofTony Blair asPrime Minister .Gordon Brown , MP forKirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and formerChancellor of the Exchequer , acceptsQueen Elizabeth II 's invitation to form a new government, becoming the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.Tony Blair takes theChiltern Hundreds tostand down as MP forSedgefield and accepts a role as the main Middle East envoy for theQuartet on the Middle East . His appointment is announced at theUnited Nations headquarters .Zalmay Khalilzad ,United States Ambassador to the United Nations , welcomes the appointment of Blair as envoy. Journalists learn thatPatricia Hewitt andMargaret Beckett will not be reappointedHealth Secretary andForeign Secretary , respectively, when Brown assembles his government. Brown begins contact bytelephone withU.S. President George W. Bush ,French President Nicolas Sarkozy ,Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel ,Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi , andIrish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern , discussing working closely together.(All of the above, BBC News) (10 Downing Street) The wreckage ofPMTair Flight U4 241 is discovered inKampot Province ,Cambodia ; all 22 people on board are killed in the crash.(BBC) The Government of Kyrgyzstan abolishescapital punishment .(Nasdaq) Jamaican -bornFloridian Barrington Irving becomes the youngest person—and the firstblack person —to fly soloaround the world .(Miami Herald) [permanent dead link June 28, 2007 (2007-06-28 ) (Thursday)
It is announced that people will be asked to commit to a 7-point pledge onglobal warming during the July 7Live Earth concerts.(Live Earth) TheJune 2007 Texas floods cause evacuations in some areas.(MSNBC) The death toll of theJune 2007 United Kingdom floods rises to six, withNorthern England and theEnglish Midlands hardest hit.(The Telegraph) [permanent dead link ElevenColombian lawmakers hostages out of twelve are killed by theleftist guerilla groupFARC . Abducted in 2002, the FARC alleges that the hostages died in acrossfire when an unidentified military group attacked. The FARC blames theColombian government , but the government says they knew nothing of the location or of any attempt of rescue.(CNN) Russia successfully test fires a sea-basedballistic missile , theBulava .(BBC) ATAAG-Angola Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in northernAngola , resulting in the death of at least five passengers on the same day theEuropean Union bans theairline fromEuropean airspace .(Reuters via News Limited) Scientists take a first step towards makingsynthetic life by transferringgenetic material from one species ofbacteria to another, making it a copy of the first.(Reuters via News Limited) Record high temperatures inGreece lead to nine deaths throughheat stroke ; outbreaks ofwildfires , killing two people; and extensive power cuts.(AP via the Washington Post) A bill to legalize millions ofillegal immigrants living in theUnited States is defeated in theUnited States Senate .(AP via the Houston Chronicle) FormerLibyan intelligence agentAbdelbaset al-Megrahi , convicted of the bombing ofPan Am Flight 103 , wins a case for anappeal in theScottish Criminal Cases Review Commission .(The Guardian) AnItalian man is arrested inSpain on suspicion ofbribery in connection with the kidnapping ofMadeleine McCann .(Sky) Premiership of Gordon Brown ,United Kingdom :In a majorCabinet reshuffle , every person's post is changed, bar one. Alistair Darling becomesChancellor of the Exchequer ,David Miliband becomesSecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs , andJacqui Smith becomes the first femaleSecretary of State for the Home Department .Alan Johnson takesHealth ,Jack Straw takesJustice andFirst Secretary of State ,Hilary Benn takesEnvironment ,Des Browne remains asDefence Secretary but also becomesSecretary of State for Scotland , andRuth Kelly takesTransport .Douglas Alexander takesSecretary of State for International Development ;Peter Hain remainsSecretary of State for Wales but also becomesWork and Pensions Secretary ;Shaun Woodward becomesNorthern Ireland Secretary ;John Hutton takesBusiness, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Secretary ;Hazel Blears takesCommunities Secretary andMinister for Equality ;James Purnell takesSecretary of State for Children, Schools and Families ; andTessa Jowell becomesMinister for the Olympics and will only attendCabinet when required.Baroness Ashton becomesLeader of the House of Lords ;Harriet Harman —Labour 's deputy leader—becomesLeader of the House of Commons andMinister for Women ; whilstEd Balls becomesChildren, Schools and Families Secretary .John Denham becomesInnovation, University and Skills Secretary ; andBaroness Scotland becomes the newAttorney General of England and Wales . The Cabinet is set to change.(Office of the Prime Minister) Rivers inGippsland ,Victoria, Australia flood , leading to evacuations inBairnsdale andSale as a result of days of heavy rain.(ABC) (ABC) Acar bomb in theBayaa district ofBaghdad kills at least 20 people and injures another 35.(Reuters Alertnet) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors arrive at theYongbyon reactor inNorth Korea to discuss plans to shut it down. It follows North Korea test firing of short-rangemissiles yesterday.(AP via CNN) TheUnited States Supreme Court hands down a divided decision against two school districts inSeattle, Washington andLouisville, Kentucky , saying the districts' plans to admit students to schools based partially on theirrace violates constitutional guarantees ofequal protection .(CNN) The commercial space station prototypeGenesis II Bigelow Aerospace is launched at 15:02 UTC from Russia by aDnepr .(NASASpaceflight.com) UNESCO designates 22 newWorld Heritage Sites , including theSydney Opera House ;Canada 'sRideau Canal ;Japan 'sIwami Ginzan Silver Mine ;Turkmenistan 'sParthian Fortresses ofNisa ;India 'sRed Fort complexes; theLope-Okanda Landscape ofGabon ; theRichtersveld desert ofSouth Africa ; the rock carvings ofTwyfelfontein inNamibia ; the fortified tower houses ofGuangdong Province in thePeople's Republic of China ;Teide National Park in theCanary Islands ,Spain ; the ancientbeech forests of Central Europe;Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge inBosnia and Herzegovina ;Bordeaux and thePort de la Lune inFrance ; the Old Town ofCorfu inGreece ; and the Palace of Galerius inGamzigrad-Romuliana inSerbia .(The Globe and Mail) (UNESCO press-release) Thebald eagle is removed from theendangered species list.(National Geographic) June 29, 2007 (2007-06-29 ) (Friday)
TheEPR nuclear power plant , under construction inFinland and 18 months behind schedule, is reported as having a number of safety-related design and manufacturing "deficiencies."(New Scientist) Spanish scientists findfossil evidence of humans living inEurope over a million years ago inBurgos ,Spain .(Xinhua via the Hindu) Rebels unsuccessfully try to assassinateGuillaume Soro ,Prime Minister of Ivory Coast , but kill three others in a rocket attack.(Bloomberg) British policedefuse a bomb inCentral London ; a second bomb is found hours later.(CNN) (The Globe and Mail) At least 13 people die in clashes between militants andIndian security forces inJammu and Kashmir .(BBC) TheEuropean Union revises its list of designated terrorist organizations, removingAnti-Imperialist Territorial Units ,Unit for Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative , andUnits for Proletarian Initiative while addingRevolutionary Struggle .(Payvand) After 16 years of existence, the (U.S.)National Football League announces that it will shut down its European operation known asNFL Europa , with immediate effect.(NFL.com) Apple Inc. releases theiPhone to great fanfare.TheFree Software Foundation releases version 3 of theGNU General Public License [1] June 30, 2007 (2007-06-30 ) (Saturday)
Holidays
4 :Queen's Official Birthday (New Zealand )5 :Constitution Day (Denmark) 5 :World Environment Day (United Nations General Assembly )5 :Father's Day :Denmark 6 :D-Day 6 :Flag Day ,National day of Sweden 7 :Flag Day :Peru 11 :Kamehameha Day ,Hawaiian state holiday.United States 11 :Queen's Official Birthday (Australia )12 :Independence Day (Philippines) 14 :Flag Day :United States 15 :Flag Day :Denmark 17 : (3rd Sunday) –Father's Day :Argentina ,Bulgaria ,Canada ,Chile ,China ,Colombia ,El Salvador ,Costa Rica ,Cuba ,Ecuador ,France ,Greece ,Hong Kong ,India ,Ireland ,Japan ,Macau ,Malaysia ,Malta ,Mexico , theNetherlands ,Pakistan ,Panama ,Peru , thePhilippines ,Singapore ,Slovakia ,South Africa ,Switzerland ,Turkey , theUnited Kingdom , theUnited States ,Venezuela , andZimbabwe .19 :Juneteenth (United States )20 :Flag Day :Argentina 21 :Summer Solstice (longest day of the year)23 :Father's Day :Poland andNicaragua 26 :Flag Day :Romania edit sidebar
