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[edit] June 1
[edit] June 1, 2005
- Mount Diablo buckwheat rediscovered in California
- Samsung's 4 Gigabit flash memory begins mass production
- 61.6% of the Dutch people say 'no' to EU constitution
- U.S. Supreme Court overturns Arthur Andersen conviction
- $1,000 reward offered for answer from US President
- Dutch vote today on EU constitution
- Brazilian Minister of Culture says that he smoked marijuana until the age of 50
[edit] June 2
[edit] June 2, 2005
- John Kerry criticizes news media, joins call for inquiry on Downing Street Memo
- Department of Defense denies federal funding to schools that ban military recruiting
- British Liberal Democrat Patsy Calton, 56, dies of cancer
- Greek Soccer 3rd Division, North Group, Pavlos Melas relegated
- Iran, North Korea, USA blamed in failure of month-long Non-Proliferation Treaty conference
- Six thousand gather to celebrate birthday of Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito
- Elan shares plunge as another patient dies
[edit] June 3
[edit] June 3, 2005
- Ryanair passenger numbers up 34%
- Second Darwin's sandwich shop opens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- New top level domain approved
[edit] June 4
[edit] June 4, 2005
- Bush Administration changes official position on legitimacy of Koran desecration allegations
- Online poker firm set for multibillion pound flotation
- U.S. military confirms Qur'ans were kicked, stepped on and splashed with urine at Guantanamo
- First winter snowfall in New Zealand
- Continuing civil unrest in Iran fueled by election tensions, soccer victory
[edit] June 5
[edit] June 5, 2005
- US obstructs Amnesty International investigation into Guantanamo prisoner abuse
- Coldplay's new album hits stores worldwide this week
- U.S. wants to impose its "no-fly" list on most Canadian domestic flights
- The Swiss vote yes to same-sex relationships and "Schengen/Dublin"
- AP Probe suggests Bolton manipulated Iraq inspections to favor War
- Blog alliance forms over leaked Downing Street memo
- Computer Associates warns of massive botnet attack
- Switzerland is voting on same-sex partnerships and Schengen/Dublin
- Fire in Alpine road tunnel between Italy and France
- Government of Zimbabwe forces thousands out of their homes
[edit] June 6
[edit] June 6, 2005
- Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs gives opening keynote to WWDC 2005
- Son of Pelé arrested accused of drug traffic
- New denunciations of political corruption create severe political crisis in Brazil
- Mars rover Opportunity successfully escapes sand trap
- Two women first ever to serve on municipal council in Kuwait
- Sweden celebrates its first national day as a public holiday
- England off to electric start in Women's Euro 2005 football championship
[edit] June 7
[edit] June 7, 2005
- United Kingdom, Czech Republic suspend referendums on EU constitution
- Ireland will hold EU referendum
- Report finds over $1 trillion per year is spent on arms worldwide
- John Kerry's Military records and Yale transcript released
- Rossi won't continue with legal appeals over failed bid for Washington State Governorship
[edit] June 8
- Pittsburgh Pirates win three-game series over Baltimore Orioles
- Canadian provinces brace for more flooding
- Stowaway killed by aircraft landing gear; leg lands in homeowner's backyard
- Michael Jackson fate in hands of jurors
- Republic of Ireland beat Faroe Islands to top Group 4 for Football World Cup 2006
- California IT company to create 100 new jobs in Dublin
- 30 travelers from Rwanda die in Ugandan bus crash
- Google now worth over $80 billion
- Danish Integration Minister's car burned
- Britain's deadly bug possibly imported from U.S. or Canada
- Pelé cries as his son admits to marijuana addiction
- President Lula opens U.N. forum to combat corruption
[edit] June 9
- First tropical storm of 2005 season forms in the Atlantic
- Canadian top court strikes down private medicare ban in Quebec
- Sources close to both sides say NHL, NHLPA agree on Salary Cap structure
- Atari Melbourne Project revealed
- International Criminal Court to investigate crimes against humanity in Darfur
- Rwandan genocide investigations to be completed by end of July
- Half of Ugandan Presidential convoy blocked at Uganda-Rwanda border
[edit] June 10
- Bombs kill US Marines, civillians in Iraq
- Storing IP-addresses of Swedish copyright infringers deemed illegal
- Interpol on the hunt for 'Dr.Death'
- 600,000 new dollar millionaires created in 2004
- British man involved in deal to drill for oil in Darfur
- U.N. condemns lack of due process in American-run Iraq prisons
- The Finnish Social Democrats elect a new leader
- Thousands of Rwandan refugees living in overcrowded Burundi transit centre
[edit] June 11
- US millitary says it killed approximately 40 'insurgents' in Iraq
- BSkyB faces challenge in securing British Premiership football rights
- Irish inflation creeps upwards to 2.4% — Original Reporting
- US teen missing in Aruba feared dead
- G8 finance ministers agree on deal to relieve debts of 18 poorest nations
- Report finds FBI missed multiple chances to stop 9/11
- Firing of Michael Jackson spokeswoman disputed
- Fake Jackson suicide email hides virus
- US Congress House panel OKs big cut in public broadcasting funds
[edit] June 12
- Iraqi police discover 20 bodies
- Pink Floyd will reunite to play London's Live 8
- Fossett set to recreate first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight
- Mike Tyson set to retire after loss
- Crown Prince of Kuwait admitted to hospital
- Lula's future in the hands of Brazilian Parliament
- Bomb blasts kill several in Iran — Updated Report
- China school flood claims 91 lives
- Chechnya train derailed by blast, 12 injured
- French journalist held hostage in Iraq freed
- Twenty-five children injured in bus-truck collision in Florida
- More political, soccer-related unrest in Iran follows Bahrain victory — Original Reporting
[edit] June 13
- Michael Jackson found 'not guilty' on all counts
- Serial child imposter held by French police
- Airbus wins Qatar Airways order worth $15bn
- Wisconsin Democratic Party calls for Impeachment of Bush, Cheney, & Rumsfeld
[edit] June 14
- Bombings reported in southeastern Iran
- UN reports Rwandan refugees repatriated by force — Original Reporting
- South African president dismisses deputy on implications of corruption
- Chinese bloggers on Microsoft's MSN now face regulation of censors
- New rocky planet discovered in orbit around nearby star
- Aid group 'denied access' to Rwandan refugee camp in Burundi
- UNHCR criticises Rwanda's and Burundi's decision to re-label refugees as illegal immigrants
[edit] June 15
- House votes to limit Patriot Act
- Canadian PM survives confidence vote
- Autopsy reveals that Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state
- Aid payments to be withdrawn by UK following violence in Ethiopia
- Red and processed meats linked to bowel cancer
- Bombing in Iraq kills US Marines and civilians
- President Bush says U.S. will defend Taiwan if attacked by China
- EBay UK bans sale of Live 8 tickets
- Boy dies on Space Mission ride at Disneyworld
- Earthquake hits Chile
- Tsunami bulletin issued from Pacific coast of California-Mexico border to Vancouver, Canada
[edit] June 16
- Satellite radio approved in Canada
- Brazil Political crisis: Minister Jose Dirceu leaves the government
- American "Chicken for sex" meat salesman is charged with assault
- Canadian boy killed in Cambodian seige; Police storm school
- World Bank president addresses global youth forum on genocide — Original Reporting
- Global youth conference on genocide begins in Kigali — Original Reporting
- Bomb blast in Iran injures three civilians
- Downing Street Memo forum to be held June 16th in response to petition of 500,000
[edit] June 17
- Goodyear blimp crashes in Florida
- Bush administration drastically cuts penalties sought for in tobacco trial from $130 billion to $10 billion
- Five beheaded during violent prison riot in Brazil
- British motorists showered with cash on motorway
- US trade deficit increases to record high in first quarter 2005
- Dell would be 'happy' to sell PCs running Mac OS X
[edit] June 18
- Youth forum to submit suggestions to UN — Original Reporting
- Sudanese government signs major deal with opposition group
- Six killed in Burundi church massacre
- Tyco executives found guilty
- Associated Press published today 6 new "Downing Street Memos" labeled "secret" or "confidential".
- Mothers, teachers air more concerns about leukemia cases at California elementary school — Original Reporting
- Third major earthquake rocks California — Original Reporting
- 40 million credit cards compromised
- Wiltshire constabulary issues European arrest warrant for Hayley Richards murder
[edit] June 19
- Michelin's tyre mistake sends US Formula One Grand Prix into farce — Original Reporting
[edit] June 20
- Google planning PayPal rival
- Iran election going to run-off, challenger alleges fraud
- Filmcrew working for Channel 4 arrested for soaking Tom Cruise in London
- Scores killed and wounded in Iraq as violence escalates
[edit] June 21
- Killen convicted of manslaughter for 1964 civil rights workers murders
- Lebanese politician George Hawi assassinated as historic elections end
- Priest charged in exorcism death
- Iraq's Justice Minister accuses U.S. of having "lots of secrets they want to hide"
- International Whaling Commission adjourns for private talks
[edit] June 22
- Myron Cope, Pittsburgh Steelers color commentator, retires after a 35 year career
- Tennessee Governor signs budget bill
[edit] June 23
- Court legalizes same-sex marriage in New Brunswick
- Killen gets 60 years for civil rights killings
- Canadian military accused of Agent Orange cover up
- Canadian PM vows to push ahead with same-sex marriage bill
- Zimbabwe bans crop growing in urban areas
- No resolution in North Korean nuclear stalemate
- Australian Deputy Prime Minister resigns
- Solar sail craft may have made orbit
- US flag burning amendment approved by House
[edit] June 24
- Citizen reporters meet at OhmyNews forum in Seoul, Korea
- Yahoo closes user-created chat rooms over sexual conduct
- Most of Greek workforce participating in a general strike, say unions
- Seventy arrested after fight in Moscow
- Iranians vote in runoff election
- US city police officer disciplined for drawing gun -- Original Reporting
- African Union rejects calls for action on Zimbabwe
- President Mugabe bulldozes homes of 200,000 across Zimbabwe
- England and Wales see 60% increase in public injured by police vehicles
- Dublin gets ready to be rocked once again by U2
- Senator Biden intends to run for United States Presidency
- Mlambo-Ngcuka sworn in as South African deputy president
- Basketball: Djordjevic's farewell game to be played July 3
[edit] June 25
- Guidant announces more defibrillator problems
- Tom Cruise debates psychiatry on NBC's Today show
- Elections held in Bulgaria
- Nigeria's past rulers stole $400 billion in public money
- Second case of BSE confirmed in U.S.
- Arrest warrants issued in Italy for 13 alleged CIA people on kidnapping charges
- Dresdener Elbe Valley becomes UNESCO World Heritage site
- Hardliner wins Iran presidential runoff
- Serbian Parliament members accuse NGOs of anti-Serbian campaign
[edit] June 26
- Three New Jersey boys found dead
- British television presenter Richard Whiteley dies
- San Francisco mother of 12-year-old boy who was mauled to death charged with child endangerment
- MTV and VH1 to broadcast Live 8
[edit] June 27
- Actor John Fiedler, voice of Piglet and "Bob Newhart" regular, dead at 80
- News briefs:June 27, 2005
- Russia voids border treaty with Estonia
- Lula tries to save the government with alliance with opposition party
- Russia probing Jewish law as "incitement"
- Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court rules against file swapping companies
- Israeli soldier convicted of killing British activist in Gaza Strip
- U.S. Supreme Court rules on government display of Ten Commandments
- U.S. Marines accused of assaulting Australian freed by U.S. military court
- Paul Winchell, voice of Tigger, Gargamel, dead at 82
[edit] June 28
- News briefs:June 28, 2005
- Canadian House of Commons approves same-sex marriage
- Civilians testify to Halliburton fraud, coercion
- France secures site for 10 billion euro nuclear fusion research project
- Lukashenko accuses foreign donators of ideological expansion
- Norway and Denmark conducting observation flights over Belarus and Russia
- Scenario for impeachment of Lula raised in Brazil
- Wal-Mart heir John Walton killed in plane crash
- Workers' Movement and other social movements support Lula, Senators warn of 'Chavenization'
[edit] June 29
- News briefs:June 29, 2005
- Fathers mourn slain children in Arizona
- US helicopter with 17 on board believed to have been shot down in Afghanistan
- Fiji girls missing; feared dead
- Maciej Zurawski accepts Celtic's offer
- Shelby Foote, 88, noted historian and author, dies
- United States President George W. Bush makes speech to rally support for war in Iraq
- AMD files antitrust lawsuit against Intel in US federal district court
- Many still believe myths associated with cancer, reports American Cancer Society study
- Witnesses expose big corruption scheme of the Brazilian ruling party
[edit] June 30
- Undercover investigation into protests planned for July's G8 summit
- Football: Kežman goes to Madrid
- News briefs:June 30, 2005
- Ferry crashes into smaller boats in West Vancouver after losing power
- Fiji's War of the Ribbons
- Sharapova knocked out of Wimbledon 2005 in semi-final
- Brazil wins Confederations Cup
- OhmyNews forum discusses experiences in citizen journalism
- Bodies found at crash site of US helicopter in Afghanistan
- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announces cooperation between KDE Group and Wikimedia
- Rwandan businessmen sentenced for War Crimes
- Flash floods hit Australia's eastern coast
