June 2003
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[edit] June 1, 2003
- The Group of Eight summit opens in Evian, France, to tight security and tens of thousands of protestors.
- The sluice-gates on the Three Gorges Dam in China are closed, starting the filling of the reservoir of the world's largest hydroelectric project.
- The Railroad Museum of the Niagara Frontier opens.
[edit] June 2, 2003
- President George W. Bush starts his Middle East trip today, beginning with Egypt. He is in talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. He promises to work for the goal of Israel and a Palestinian state being able to live side by side without any bloodshed.
- Thousands of Iraqi soldiers threaten to begin suicide attacks against U.S. troops as leaders of Iraq's tribes tell the Americans that they could face war if they don't leave.
- Israel says it will dismantle only some of the more than 100 West Bank settlement outposts since violence began in that area 32 months ago.
- In Zimbabwe, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is first arrested, then released. This coincides with the start of a week of protests against the government, who have put Tsvangirai on trial for treason. He is due to appear in court later today.
- Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. [1]
- The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announces sweeping changes to the concentration of media ownership protections in the U.S, allowing a single owner to own up to 45% of media in a given city.
- A US Department of Justice internal audit is released which asserts that the government systematically abused the civil rights of individuals detained after the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, engaging in "a pattern of physical and verbal abuse". [2]
- Stephenie Meyer dreams what would later be the 13th chapter of her first book, Twilight. This dream is what prompts Stephenie to write the book, which is New York Times Editor's Choice on 26 February 2006, first on Amazon.com's "Best of the Decade...So Far" list, nominated to the ALA Best Books for Young Adults, and has been translated into 20 different languages.
[edit] June 3, 2003
- A British Parliamentary committee announces it will hold an inquiry into the government's decision to go to war with Iraq.
- Israel frees about 100 Palestinian prisoners before the Mideast peace summit with President George W. Bush in a sign of goodwill.
- President George W. Bush meets with Arab leaders, and says that their summit is making progress on the US-backed "road-map" to Israeli-Palestinian peace. The Arab leaders announce their support for the "road map" and promise to work on cutting off funding to "terrorist groups".
- Mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre is awarded the first Abel Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
- Amelia Vega of the Dominican Republic wins the Miss Universe contest in Panama City, Panama. She is the first Miss Universe from the Dominican Republic.
- Sammy Sosa of baseball's Chicago Cubs is ejected from a game after he is found to have used a corked bat. The Cubs went on to beat the Devil Rays, 3 to 2. Major League Baseball Officials confiscated 76 of Sosa's spare bats after his ejection, and all were found to be clean, with no cork.
[edit] June 4, 2003
- "Road map" for peace: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promises to dismantle illegal settlements in the West Bank, while new Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas renounces all terrorism against Israel.
- Martha Stewart is indicted by a federal grand jury on nine criminal counts including securities fraud, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy in the U.S. government's investigation of her possible insider trading of ImClone Systems stock in December 2001. Just hours after this, she announces that she will quit as chairman and CEO of her company.
- Scientists have used genetic engineering techniques to make chickens grow teeth. [3]
- The United States House of Representatives votes 282 to 139 to ban Intact dilation and extraction, a process commonly referred to as partial-birth abortion.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 9,000 for the first time since August 22, 2002.
[edit] June 5, 2003
- German politician Jürgen Möllemann dies while parachuting.
- Computer virus Bugbear.b spreads worldwide on computer systems running Microsoft Windows by infecting email attachments. [4]
- The United States agrees to dismantle its bases and withdraw American forces from positions they have occupied near the DMZ, which separates North and South Korea, for decades.
- Pope John Paul II marks his 100th foreign voyage in a trip to Croatia, where the pontiff is expected to meet with Serbian Orthodox Christians as a sign of goodwill between the centuries-long feuding sister churches. [5]
- For the first time in more than two months, no new deaths were reported yesterday from SARS, the latest indication that the epidemic is subsiding, the World Health Organization said. [6]
- A United Nations war crimes tribunal charges President Charles Taylor of Liberia with war crimes for masterminding atrocities in the Sierra Leone civil war.
[edit] June 6, 2003
- NASA investigators cracked a reinforced carbon fiber wing by shooting it with a piece of insulation, providing more evidence that falling insulation may have caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. [7]
[edit] June 7, 2003
- Foreign affairs minister of Finland, Erkki Tuomioja, says that NATO could be a good option for the Scandinavian country. Finland has been previously very conservative about military alliances and known for its neutrality. (In Finnish) A more balanced view is given in an interview in Helsingin Sanomat's English edition of June 10th.
- Empire Maker wins the Belmont Stakes horse race, stopping the bid of Funny Cide to win the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. Funny Cide is third, behind Ten Most Wanted.
[edit] June 8, 2003
- After several days of violence and confusion in Mauritania, Pro-Israeli President Maaouiya Ould Taya appears to have defeated the uprising against him. [8]
- The Polish referendum on EU enlargement entrance finishes today; 78% of the voters voted to join the EU, with approximately 59% turnout.[9]
- The presence of the monkeypox virus in the United States is confirmed with 4 cases in Wisconsin, sparking the first discovery of the virus in the Western Hemisphere. Dozens of suspected cases have appeared across three Midwest states, where pet enthusiasts came into contact with infected domestic prairie dogs, which caught the disease from the Gambian giant rat.
[edit] June 9, 2003
- Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition is routed in the Italian local elections.
- Archaeologists announce that the mummy of Queen Nefertiti may have been found in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. [10]
- The FBI begins to drain a Frederick, Maryland pond hoping to uncover more evidence in the 2001 anthrax attacks.[11]
- Boxing: George Foreman heads a list of 15 boxers, trainers, writers and promoters to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
- North American Ice hockey: The New Jersey Devils win the Stanley Cup, beating the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, 3-0, in Game Seven of their championship series.
- In New Brunswick, Canada, Bernard Lord's Progressive Conservatives edge out Shawn Graham's Liberals in the general election. Lord's party takes 28 seats, Graham's 26 and the New Democratic Party takes 1.
[edit] June 10, 2003
- Donald Regan, Secretary of the Treasury under U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1985 and White House Chief of Staff from 1985 to 1987, dies at 84 of cancer.
- Same-sex marriage in Canada: The Ontario Appeals Court rules that the law restricting marriage to heterosexual couples contravenes the equality provisions in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The court does not permit the province any grace time to bring its law in conformity with the ruling. This appears to mean that Ontario has become the first jurisdiction in North America to recognize same-sex marriages. Toronto announces that its city clerk will begin to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples, and two same-sex couples who filed suit have their marriages retroactively recognized. [12]
[edit] June 11, 2003
- Three 160,000 year old human skulls unearthed in Ethiopia bridge an important gap in the human fossil record and lend support to the "out of Africa" single origin theory of human evolution. [13]
- Masquerading as an Orthodox Jew, a suicide bomber blows up a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, killing at least sixteen people. An Israeli helicopter attack in the Gaza Strip kills at least seven. [14]
- Same-sex marriage in Canada: The attorney general of Ontario announces that his government will conform to yesterday's court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in that province.
- US Baseball: Six Houston Astros pitchers combine to pitch a no-hitter against the New York Yankees. The game sets several records, including the most pitchers to combine for a no-hitter in Major League Baseball history, and a record for the Yankees for the most sequential games without being no-hit. [15]
[edit] June 12, 2003
- Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly formally accuses college student Luke Thompson of creating a fake airline, Mainline Airways, and selling bogus tickets. [16]
- Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities, dismisses claim that archaeologists discovered Nefertiti's mummy.[17]
- The CDC says 54 people in the US may be infected with monkeypox.
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair reshuffles his Cabinet: the Lord Chancellor is to be replaced by a new Department for Constitutional Affairs, and Peter Hain and John Reid have new jobs, while Alan Milburn unexpectedly resigns. The government also plans to replace the House of Lords' judicial functions with a new Supreme Court. [18] [19]
- A mass grave in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, dating back to the Stalinist purges in the 1930s, is discovered containing at least 575 victims. 90 percent of the dead were found with the remains of yellow and red garments and religious items usually worn by Buddhist monks. The number could top 1,000, investigators said.
[edit] June 13, 2003
- The wooden ship of the Irish reality show Cabin Fever (TV Show), packed with 10 contestants plus crew, founders off the Irish coast, with no injuries.
- The Iraqi oil pipeline near Baiji catches fire, following two explosions
- The US occupation forces north of Baghdad kill 27 Iraqis in a pitched battle.
- Israel announces intention to kill high-ranking Hamas members, including Sheikh Ahmed Yassin despite an opinion poll showing that more than two-thirds of Israelis want the campaign of assassinations to stop. [20]
- Abud Sarhan, a shepherd, sues US Army General Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld following the deaths of 17 family members during the invasion of Iraq
- Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly formally accuses college student Luke Thompson of creating a fake airline, Mainline Airways, and selling bogus tickets. [21]
- US Baseball: Pitching against the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankee Roger Clemens notches his 4,000th strikeout and his 300th win.
[edit] June 14, 2003
- Czech citizens vote "yes" to joining the European Union by 77% with 55% turnout.
[edit] June 15, 2003
- The German Green Party backs Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Agenda 2010 with more than 90% of all votes at an extraordinary party convention.
- The San Antonio Spurs become NBA basketball champions by defeating the New Jersey Nets in game six of the 2003 NBA Finals, 88-77. It's the Spurs second franchise title.
- American and Canadian researchers publish a paper that uses gene linkage techniques to identify a mutation in the GRK3 gene as a possible cause of up to 10% of cases of bipolar disorder, one of the major mental illnesses.
[edit] June 16, 2003
- The Church of All Saints, Yekaterinburg is consecrated to commemorate the spot where the Ipatiev House used to stand.
[edit] June 17, 2003
- United States troops shoot dead two former Iraqi soldiers who were protesting that they had not been paid since their country was occupied.
- Following an international outrcy, the Romanian government retracts an official statement that no holocaust occurred on its territory during the Second World War.
- Linus Torvalds announces that he will take a leave of absence from his job at Transmeta to work full-time at OSDL on the Linux kernel.
- Same-sex marriage in Canada: The Canadian government announces that it will not appeal the Ontario appeals court ruling that permitted same-sex marriage. Instead, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien indicates that his government will introduce legislation to change the definition of marriage but protect the rights of churches to decide which marriages they will solemnize.
- The New York Times reports about allegations of severe child abuse within the Tranquility Bay correctional facility for unruly children, run by the Utah-based World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools.
- Kyodo reports that United States Armed Forces arrest the Japanese journalist Rei Shiba and two Iraqi guides on around June 8 in Ar Ramadi, 100 km west of Baghdad, while covering a university. The American forces reportedly put a bag on their heads during the arrest and gagged them in custody. [22]
[edit] June 18, 2003
- Two months after becoming Finland's first female prime minister, Anneli Jäätteenmäki resigns amid accusations she lied about the leak of sensitive political information about Iraq discussions with George W. Bush during the election campaign. [23]
- Bounty hunters (including, reportedly, Duane "Dog" Chapman) aid in the capture of Andrew Luster, the fugitive Max Factor heir and a convicted rapist, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
- The Angolan government announces a Boeing 727 has been stolen from Luanda's International Airport. The FAA asks all control towers in the United States to watch for any unscheduled aircraft as a consequence.
[edit] June 19, 2003
[edit] June 20, 2003
- The Christian Science Monitor apologises to George Galloway for falsely alleging that he received ten million dollars from Saddam Hussein. Galloway refuses to accept the apology.
- The Houston Chronicle reports that Bill Sikora, who advised NASA in 1989 on how to evade Freedom of Information Act requests, is now working as legal counsel on the agency's Space Shuttle Columbia disaster investigation board. [24]
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June 2003 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of the year.
In common years it is always in ISO week 25.
This day marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, and thus is the day of the year with the longest hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere and the shortest in the southern hemisphere.
[edit] Events
- 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
- 1582 - Incident at Honnō-ji in Kyoto, Japan.
- 1621 - Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
- 1665 - First soldiers of Le Régiment de Carignan-Salières arrive at Quebec to invade Iroquois territories.
- 1734 - In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, was tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
- 1749 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, founded.
- 1788 - New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
- 1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at Battle of Vinegar Hill
- 1813 - Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria
- 1813 - Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of an impending U.S. attack on Queenston, Ontario during the War of 1812.
- 1824 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
- 1826 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas
- 1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
- 1864 - New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
- 1877 - The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania Prisons.
- 1898 - Guam becomes a U.S. territory.
- 1915 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
- 1919 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
- 1919 - Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War.
- 1940 - World War II: France surrenders to Germany.
- 1940 - First successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1942 - World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
- 1942 - World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the U.S. mainland.
- 1945 - World War II: Battle of Okinawa ends.
- 1948 - The "Manchester Baby" (SSEM) runs the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory.
- 1952 - Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, was converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
- 1957 - Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister
- 1964 - Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
- 1973 - In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law.
- 1982 - John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 2000 - Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
- 2001 - A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
- 2002 - The World Health Organization declares Europe polio free.
- 2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
- 2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially christened Nix & Hydra.
[edit] Births
- 1002 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
- 1226 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
- 1528 - Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603)
- 1535 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)
- 1639 (O.S.) - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)
- 1646 (O.S.) - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher and scientist (d. 1716)
- 1646 - Maria Francisca of Nemours, queen of Portugal (d. 1683)
- 1676 (O.S.) - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
- 1712 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
- 1730 - Motoori Norinaga, Japanese scholar (d. 1801)
- 1732 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791)
- 1736 (O.S.) - Enoch Poor, American general in the Continental Army (d. 1780)
- 1759 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
- 1763 - Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher (d. 1845)
- 1764 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840)
- 1774 - Daniel D. Tompkins, Congressman, Governor of New York, and sixth Vice President of the United States (d. 1825)
- 1781 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
- 1782 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (d. 1852)
- 1788 - Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)
- 1791 - Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
- 1798 - Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)
- 1805 - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (d. 1880)
- 1811 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
- 1812 - Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (d. 1875)
- 1823 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
- 1825 - William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford (d. 1901)
- 1828 - Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (d. 1904)
- 1839 - Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (d. 1908)
- 1850 - Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941)
- 1858 - Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (d. 1928)
- 1859 - Henry Ossawa Tanner, American painter (d. 1937)
- 1862 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943)
- 1863 - Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
- 1864 - Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian (d. 1945)
- 1868 - Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
- 1870 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)
- 1876 - Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist (d. 1956)
- 1880 - Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)
- 1880 - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (d. 1941)
- 1882 - Rockwell Kent, American artist (d. 1971)
- 1882 - Lluís Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (d. 1940)
- 1883 - Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer (d. 1958)
- 1884 - Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (d. 1981)
- 1887 - Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
- 1889 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
- 1891 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (d. 1979)
- 1891 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
- 1892 - Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian (d. 1971)
- 1893 - Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
- 1896 - Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
- 1898 - Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
- 1902 - Howie Morenz, professional ice hockey player (d. 1937)
- 1903 - Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
- 1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1980)
- 1906 - Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
- 1908 - William Frankena, American philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1910 - Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
- 1912 - Mary McCarthy, American writer (d. 1989)
- 1912 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot and officer of the Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence (d. 2000)
- 1914 - William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
- 1916 - Joseph Cyril Bamford, English inventor and industrialist
- 1916 - Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977)
- 1918 - James Clyde Mitchell, English sociologist and anthropologist
- 1919 - Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
- 1919 - Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess master and teacher
- 1919 - Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect
- 1921 - Judy Holliday, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1921 - Jane Russell, American actress
- 1921 - Jean de Broglie, French politician
- 1923 - Jacques Hébert, French Canadian author, journalist and politician
- 1924 - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director (d. 2006)
- 1924 - Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalytic thinker
- 1924 - Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)
- 1925 - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994)
- 1925 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1926 - Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Carl Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1996)
- 1929 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
- 1929 - Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Sir Gerald Kaufman, British politician
- 1930 - Mike McCormack, American professional football player
- 1931 - Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
- 1932 - O.C. Smith, American singer (d. 2001)
- 1932 - Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist and composer
- 1935 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)
- 1938 - Ron Ely, American actor
- 1939 - Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician
- 1940 - Mariette Hartley, American actress
- 1940 - Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher
- 1941 - Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor
- 1941 - John O'Kea, Welsh rally driver
- 1942 - Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney and public official
- 1942 - Dan Henning, American football player
- 1942 - Henry S. Taylor, American writer
- 1943 - Salomé, Spanish singer
- 1944 - Ray Davies, English musician (The Kinks)
- 1944 - Corinna Tsopei, Greek beauty pageant winner, the first Greek Miss Universe
- 1945 - Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher, poet
- 1946 - Brenda Holloway, American musician
- 1946- Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author
- 1947 - Meredith Baxter, American actress
- 1947 - Michael Gross, American actor
- 1947 - Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1947 - Joey Molland, English musician (Badfinger)
- 1948 - Ian McEwan, English writer
- 1948 - Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
- 1948 - Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
- 1950 - Anne Carson, Canadian poet
- 1950 - Joey Kramer, American drummer and percussionist (Aerosmith)
- 1950 - Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and musician
- 1950 - Gérard Lanvin, French actor
- 1951 - Nils Lofgren, American musician
- 1952 - Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director
- 1953 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)
- 1953 - Michael Bowen, American actor
- 1954 - Müjde Ar, Turkish actress
- 1954 - Mark Kimmitt, US Army general
- 1954 - Anne Kirkbride, English actress
- 1954 - Robert Menasse, Austrian writer
- 1954 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
- 1954 - Robert Pastorelli, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1955 - Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer
- 1955 - Leigh McCloskey, American actor
- 1955 - Michel Platini, French footballer
- 1957 - Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist and author
- 1957 - Lucien DeBlois, professional ice hockey player
- 1958 - Gennady Padalka, cosmonaut
- 1959 - Tom Chambers, American basketball player
- 1959 - Marcella Detroit, singer and songwriter (Shakespear's Sister)
- 1959 - Kathy Mattea, American country singer
- 1961 - Kip Winger, American musician
- 1962 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician
- 1962 - Takeshi Asami, Japanese racing driver
- 1964 - Doug Savant, American actor
- 1964 - Sammi Davis, British actor
- 1965 - Larry Wachowski, film director
- 1965 - Yang Liwei, Chinese astronaut
- 1966 - Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
- 1966 - Mancow Muller, American radio personality
- 1966 - Nan Woods, American actress
- 1966 - Alisyn Camerota, American journalist
- 1966 - Gretchen Carlson, American journalist
- 1967 - Jim Breuer, American comedian
- 1967 - Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American billionaire
- 1967 - Derrick Coleman, American basketball player
- 1968 - Sonique, British DJ
- 1969 - Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier
- 1970 - Sindee Coxx, American pornographic actress
- 1970 - Pete Rock, American rapper/producer
- 1971 - Marianne Lie Berg, Norwegian philosopher
- 1971 - Anette Olzon, Swedish singer
- 1972 - Alon Hilu, Israeli writer
- 1972 - Neil Doak, former Irish cricketer
- 1973 - Juliette Lewis, American actress
- 1974 - Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
- 1974 - Craig Lowndes, Australian racing driver
- 1976 - Mike Einziger, American musician (Incubus)
- 1976 - Nigel Lappin, Australian footballer
- 1977 - Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player
- 1978 - Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer
- 1978 - Jack Guzman, American actor
- 1978 - Erica Durance, Canadian actress
- 1979 - Chris Pratt, American actor
- 1980 - Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player
- 1980 - Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
- 1981 - Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)
- 1981 - Yann Danis, French Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 - Prince William of Wales, British prince
- 1984 - Alicia Alighatti, American pornographic actress
- 1984 - Franck Perera, French racing driver
- 1985 - Anthony Morelli, American football player
- 1985 - Byron Schammer, AFL footballer
- 1987 - Dale Thomas, AFL footballer
[edit] Deaths
- 1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
- 1377 - King Edward III of England (b. 1312)
- 1527 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
- 1529 - John Skelton, English poet
- 1547 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
- 1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
- 1591 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)
- 1621 - Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
- 1652 - Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
- 1738 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
- 1796 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
- 1824 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
- 1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
- 1874 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
- 1893 - Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University
- 1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
- 1914 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
- 1934 - Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
- 1940 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881)
- 1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
- 1952 - Wilfrid 'Wop' May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
- 1957 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
- 1964 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
- 1964 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
- 1964 - Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)
- 1969 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
- 1970 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
- 1976 - Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
- 1979 - Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)
- 1980 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
- 1985 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
- 1986 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author (b. 1923)
- 1993 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
- 1997 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
- 1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
- 1998 - Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
- 1999 - Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
- 2000 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
- 2001 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
- 2001 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2003 - Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
- 2003 - Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
- 2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
- 2005 - Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
- 2007 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
[edit] Holidays and observances
- Summer solstice (Northern Hemisphere) and winter solstice (Southern Hemisphere) celebrations
- National Aboriginal Day in Canada (starting in 1996)
- Midsummer – Neopagan festival – Litha
- National Day of Greenland
- Fête de la Musique World Music Day, since 1982.
- National Go Skateboarding Day
[edit] Liturgical feasts
- Saint Alban
- Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (died 1591, patron saint of youth)
- Saint Engelmond
- Saint Martin of Tongeren (died 350)
[edit] External links
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[edit] June 22, 2003
- Real Madrid clinches the Primera división, the top football league in Spain, beating Real Sociedad by two points. The very next day, Real fires its manager, Vicente Del Bosque
- Hundreds of US troops raid Iraqi homes in the town of Ramadi, fired up by the Ride of the Valkyries coming through loudspeakers, in a scene which Reuters reporter Alistair Lyon describes as "a bizarre musical reprise from Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now." Meanwhile a group identifying itself as the Iraqi National Front of Fedayeen announces to increase attacks on US troops if they refuse to leave the occupied country. [25]
[edit] June 23, 2003
- The U.S. Supreme Court issues opinions in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz and Hamacher v. Bollinger, challenges to the affirmative action admissions policies at the University of Michigan. In Grutter, the Court held that the University of Michigan Law School's admissions policy, which considered race as one of a number of "soft" admissions factors on a case-by-case basis, was constitutional. In Gratz, the Court held that the undergraduate affirmative action admissions policy, which was based on a point system and was more rigid than the Law School's, was unconstitutional. [26]
- In Peekskill, New York, a 10 month old baby girl survives a seven story fall. Her father, Willie Williams, takes her to the hospital, where she was treated for bruises and cuts, but Mr. Williams is later arrested on charges of attempted murder. [27]
- Human Rights Watch calls for a criminal investigation into Israeli Prime MinisterAriel Sharon's alleged role in the massacre of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla.
[edit] June 24, 2003
- Six members of the British Royal Military Police are killed, in an attack in Majar al-Kabir, a village near the town of Amara in Iraq. Eight others are wounded in two separate ambushes. [28]
[edit] June 25, 2003
[edit] June 26, 2003
- Cameroonian soccer player Marc-Vivien Foé collapsed during a Confederations Cup semi-final between Cameroon and Colombia in Lyon, France. He subsequently died after doctors failed to resuscitate him. He played for Olympique Lyonnais and was loaned to Manchester City F.C. in the 2002/03 season. [29]
- The U.S. Supreme Court issues opinions in Lawrence v. Texas, ruling 6-3 that a ban on gay sex is an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision reverses the court's ruling 17 years ago which upheld the anti-sodomy laws. [30]
- Under pressure from members of Congress and human rights activists, officials in the administration of United States President George W. Bush publicly pledge for the first time that the United States will not torture terrorism suspects. [31]
[edit] June 27, 2003
- The United States Federal Trade Commission opens the National Do Not Call Registry. This registry gives consumers an opportunity to limit the telemarketing calls they receive. On October 1, 2003, when the National Do Not Call Registry became enforced, most telemarketers were required to remove the numbers on the registry from their call lists. See http://donotcall.gov/ or call 1-888 382-1222 for registration. [32], [33]
- The Boston Red Sox establish a new Major League Baseball record by scoring 10 runs before recording their first out of the game against the Florida Marlins in Boston. Marlins pitcher Kevin Olsen was injured by a line-drive hit and taken to a local hospital, where he was admitted in good condition. The Red Sox beat the Marlins, 25-8.
- Hannah Marie Harrison was born in Melton Mowbray at 11:53 weighing 8.3 pounds.
[edit] June 28, 2003
- The FBI finishes its investigation of a pond in Frederick, Maryland for clues in the 2001 anthrax attacks. Items found in the pond include a bicycle, some logs, a street sign, coins, fishing lures, and a handgun. The FBI took soil samples from the bottom of the pond for testing
- The world premier for Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl was held at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
[edit] June 29, 2003
- Actress Katharine Hepburn dies of natural causes at the age of 96 at her family home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
[edit] June 30, 2003
- Occurred on a Monday.
- In Irvine, California, a 30 year old man identified as Joseph Hunter Parker kills two supermarket employees with a sword, before being shot to death himself by the police. His victims are identified as John G. Nutting, 60, and Judith Fleming, 55. The event occurred at an Albertsons supermarket.
- Comedian and actor Buddy Hackett dies at his home in Malibu at the age of 78.
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