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)
The
British Antarctic Survey announces that the flow rate of 300 previously unmeasured
glaciers increased by 12% between 1993 and 2003, adding to concerns over
glacier retreat and the
rise in sea levels caused by
global warming .
(British Antarctic Survey)
A
Guyanese suspect who
allegedly planned an attack on
New York City 's
JFK Airport surrenders in
Port of Spain ,
Trinidad and Tobago .
(Sky)
United States v. Libby :
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr. , former
chief of staff to
Vice President
Dick Cheney , is sentenced to 30 months in
prison after being convicted of
perjury and
obstruction of justice in the
CIA leak grand jury investigation .
(CNN)
U.S. President
George W. Bush begins his tour of
Europe in
Prague before the
G8 summit in
Germany . During his visit, he intends to address the deployment of
interceptor rockets , the establishment of radar bases in
Poland and the
Czech Republic , and the related tension that has arisen between the
United States and
Russia .
(BBC)
Spanish
Basque separatist group
ETA announces it will end its 15-month cease-fire tonight at midnight (
CEST ).
(RTÉ)
Thailand 's interim government removes a
ban on
political party activities.
(BBC)
Eleven people are killed and around 30 injured in a
train crash 10 kilometres north of
Kerang, 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 the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in
Richmond, Virginia rules that the
United States government cannot indefinitely detain
U.S. residents as "
enemy combatants ."
(AP via CNN)
At least 78 die in
monsoons in
Bangladesh .
(AP via CNN)
Two-thirds of the
Iraqi Council of Representatives removes
Speaker 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 of
Guangdong ,
Guangxi ,
Guizhou ,
Hunan ,
Fujian , and
Jiangxi damage agricultural land and crops, kill 66 people, and force 600,000 people from their homes.
(BBC)
Majeedah Bolkiah —daughter of
Hassanal Bolkiah ,
Sultan of
Brunei —marries
Khairul Khalil , an official in the office of the
Prime Minister in a lavish
Islamic
wedding ceremony.
(AP via Yahoo! News)
Newcastle, New South Wales remains on alert for rising
floodwaters from the
Hunter River as people evacuated from
Maitland, 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 Lands
Didymus Mutasa says the government will remove all remaining
white farmers from their farms and
divide their land among landless
black citizens.
(ReliefWeb)
Ireland 's
Green Party (Comhaontas Glas) agrees to go into government with
Fianna Fáil as part of
Ireland 's
30th Dáil when it opens on
14 June .
(RTÉ)
A
6.8 magnitude earthquake hits south of
Puerto Quetzal , on
Guatemala 's Pacific Coast.
(USA Today)
Queen
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom awards Sir
Tim Berners-Lee the
Order of Merit for his pioneering work on the
worldwide web .
(BBC)
Gigantoraptor erlianensis , a gigantic
birdlike
dinosaur , is discovered in
Inner Mongolia by paleontologist
Xu Xing .
(AFP via Discovery Channel)
Shimon Peres is elected as the
President of Israel after opponents bow out in the first round of the
Israeli presidential elections .
(Haaretz)
(Los Angeles Times)
An explosion in
Beirut kills at least 10 people, including
MP
Walid Eido .
(MSNBC)
Hamas militants kill at least 16
Palestinians , including 2
UNRWA workers and 13
Fatah members, as
clashes intensify in the
Gaza Strip .
(Haaretz)
Hamas and Fatah officials claim that they have agreed on a
cease-fire , but fighting continues.
(BBC)
A
South African public sector
strike closes down most of the schools and hospitals in that country.
(BBC)
EADS Astrium unveils its
space tourism project, one week ahead of the
Paris Air Show .
(BBC)
A landmark ruling by the UK's highest appeal court, the
Law Lords , allows the family of an
Iraqi who died in UK military custody to sue the
British Government and demand a
public inquiry into the circumstances of his death.
(The Times)
(Scotsman)
A
strike by
Indian Airlines ground staff disrupts air traffic throughout
India .
(CNN-IBN)
An explosion at the
Al-Askari Mosque in
Samarra ,
Iraq is reported to have destroyed two of its
minarets .
(Reuters Alertnet)
(BBC)
(Reuters)
Indonesian police claim to have arrested
Abu Dujana , the military leader of the
Jemaah Islamiyah responsible for the
2002 Bali bombings .
(BBC)
June 14, 2007 (2007-06-14 ) (Thursday)
A U.S. federal jury convicts former
Klansman
James Ford Seale of
kidnapping and
conspiracy in connection with the
1964 deaths of two
African-American teenagers in
Mississippi .
(AP via USA Today)
Fatah–Hamas conflict :
Golf 's
U.S. Open begins at
Oakmont Country Club in
Oakmont, Pennsylvania .
(ESPN)
Music producer and alleged
con artist
Lou Pearlman is arrested in
Nusa Dua ,
Bali ,
Indonesia and
deported to the United States territory of
Guam . He is accused of defrauding over 1,800 individual investors out of a total of
$ 317-million. He will eventually be returned to
Florida to face criminal charges and a growing list of civil litigation.
(Orlando Sentinel)
Bertie Ahern of
Fianna Fáil is elected as Ireland's
Taoiseach for a record third term upon the opening of the
30th Dáil ; the Taoiseach then announces his new
cabinet with
ministries .
(RTÉ)
Entertainer
Michael Barrymore is arrested in the UK along with two others over the murder of
Stuart Lubbock , who was found dead in Barrymore's
swimming pool in 2001.
(Sky)
Lebanon prepares to bury
anti-Syrian
parliamentarian
Walid Eido and nine others killed in yesterday's
bombing , with a
national day of mourning declared.
(CNN)
Iraq War : Three
Sunni
mosques near
Baghdad are burned in apparent retaliation for the
latest Al-Askari Mosque bombing .
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
The
Indian Airlines strike continues for a second day, causing continuing disruption to Indian aviation.
(BBC)
New Zealand condemns the expulsion of its
High Commissioner to
Fiji , Mike Green, by
Frank Bainimarama 's
military government , which gave no reason for the expulsion.
(BBC)
Cuba introduces a
United Nations resolution on
Puerto Rico calling on the United States to expedite Puerto Rico's self-determination process; the text also requests the
General Assembly to consider the question and urges cleanup of
Vieques island and release of Puerto Rican political prisoners.
(UN)
The
San Antonio Spurs defeat the
Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of the
2007 NBA Finals to win the 2007
National Basketball Association Championship.
(SI)
Sidney Crosby of the
Pittsburgh Penguins wins the
Hart Memorial Trophy as the
National 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)
The
Comcast Center officially becomes the tallest building in
Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania after a
topping out ceremony.
Nine
firefighters are
killed in a collapse at a furniture
warehouse blaze in
Charleston ,
South Carolina , the largest loss of firefighters in the
United States in one incident since the
collapse of the World Trade Center in
2001 .
The
President of Turkey ,
Ahmet Necdet Sezer ,
vetoes a bill bringing forward a
referendum of the
direct election of the president.
(BBC)
Floods kill four people in north
Texas .
(Reuters)
(AP via The New York Times )
The
European Union and
United States restore
foreign aid to the
Palestinian Authority .
(AP via Time)
Hamas leader
Mahmoud al-Zahar issues an ultimatum to the
Palestinian Army of Islam to free kidnapped
BBC journalist
Alan Johnston or face military action.
(BBC)
A global internet
pedophilia ring with over 700 suspects worldwide is smashed by
UK police; 31 children are rescued.
(Sky)
Two former
Croatian generals,
Mirko Norac and
Rahim Ademi , go on trial in
Zagreb , charged for alleged atrocities against
Serb civilians in 1993.
(AP via IHT)
Rwanda and
Burundi join the
East African Community in a meeting in
Kampala ,
Uganda .
(BBC)
Mongolian authorities confirm a helicopter crash that claimed 14 lives last Wednesday.
(BBC)
As many as 36 people are killed south of
Baghdad in fighting between
Shiite
militiamen and British forces doing door-to-door searches.
(AP via San Jose Mercury News) [
permanent dead link ]
Parts of
Melbourne ,
Australia are in lockdown after a gunman shoots three people in the
CBD , sparking a massive manhunt throughout the city.
(The Age)
(ABC)
New negotiations begin between
Morocco and the
Polisario .
(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 over
Fatah al-Islam , an
Al Qaeda -linked group, after a
month-long battle at a Palestinian
refugee camp.
(Reuters via Daily Times)
Inflation in
Zimbabwe reaches 9,000%, the highest in the world.
(CNN)
NASA postpones the landing of
Atlantis at
Kennedy Space Center due to inclement weather, prolonging
STS-117 for another day. NASA states that it can extend the mission until
June 24 if necessary.
(CNN)
A
polar blast moving north over the
South Island of
New Zealand causes major disruptions and claims at least one life.
(One)
The
United Nations -backed
Special Court for Sierra Leone finds three leaders of the
Armed Forces Revolutionary Council —
Alex Tamba Brima ,
Brima Bazzy Kamara , and
Santigie Borbor Kanu —guilty of
war crimes .
(AP via CNN)
The
President of Egypt ,
Hosni Mubarak , invites the leaders of the
Palestinian Authority ,
Israel , and
Jordan to a summit on Sunday to discuss the Palestinian crisis.
(FOX)
The
Kuwaiti government condemns the besieging of its embassy in
Iran 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)
Deposed
Prime Minister of Thailand
Thaksin Shinawatra is ordered to return to
Thailand to face charges in an asset-concealment case.
(UPI)
Japan changes the name of
Iwo Jima to its original name,
Iwo To , to reflect the wishes of its original inhabitants.
(BBC)
June 22, 2007 (2007-06-22 ) (Friday)
Inflation in
Zimbabwe rises to 11,000%; U.S. ambassador
Christopher Dell predicts it will reach 1.5 million percent by December.
(BBC News)
2007 Israel-Gaza conflict :
IDF soldiers near
Hebron shoot an unarmed
Palestinian , who later died. The IDF states that the man was trying to run through the
gate ; the soldiers yelled for him to halt, which he did not; they then shot the man.
(Ynetnews)
Director
Michael Hayden of the
United States
Central Intelligence Agency announces plans to declassify
documents detailing illegal activities performed by the agency between
1950 and
1980 , including
assassination plots,
domestic spying and
wiretapping , kidnapping, and
human experiments .
(BBC)
Space Shuttle Atlantis lands safely at
Edwards Air Force Base in
California after inclement weather had prevented its programmed landing at the
Kennedy Space Center in
Florida , ending
STS-117 .
(ABC News Australia)
An F5 tornado , the strongest recorded in
Canada , hits the small community of
Elie, Manitoba .
June 23, 2007 (2007-06-23 ) (Saturday)
Disasters and accidents
International relations
The 27 members of the
EU 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 and
gangsters in a
Rio de Janeiro
favela .
(BBC)
Protesters take to the streets in
Iran as the government introduces
petrol
rationing and raises prices.
(CNN)
Dr.
Ashraf Marwan , who had been accused of being a senior
Mossad agent operating in
Egypt prior to the
Yom Kippur War , is found dead below the balcony of his home in
London ;
Scotland Yard investigates the "unexplained" death.
(Haaretz) ,
(Guardian)
At least ten people drown and thousands move to higher ground as a
cyclone hits
Balochistan ,
Pakistan .
(CNN)
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown ,
United Kingdom :
Longstanding tradition is abandoned in the
House of Commons as every serving
Member of Parliament , and others, clap and give a
standing ovation to
Tony Blair after he finishes his last
Prime Minister's Questions .
Queen Elizabeth II accepts the resignation of
Tony Blair as
Prime Minister .
Gordon Brown , MP for
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and former
Chancellor of the Exchequer , accepts
Queen Elizabeth II 's invitation to form a new government, becoming the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Tony Blair takes the
Chiltern Hundreds to
stand down as MP for
Sedgefield and accepts a role as the main Middle East envoy for the
Quartet on the Middle East . His appointment is announced at the
United Nations headquarters .
Zalmay Khalilzad ,
United States Ambassador to the United Nations , welcomes the appointment of Blair as envoy.
Journalists learn that
Patricia Hewitt and
Margaret Beckett will not be reappointed
Health Secretary and
Foreign Secretary , respectively, when Brown assembles his government.
Brown begins contact by
telephone with
U.S.
President
George W. Bush ,
French
President
Nicolas Sarkozy ,
Chancellor of Germany
Angela Merkel ,
Prime Minister of Italy
Romano Prodi , and
Irish
Taoiseach
Bertie Ahern , discussing working closely together.
(All of the above, BBC News)
(10 Downing Street)
The wreckage of
PMTair Flight U4 241 is discovered in
Kampot Province ,
Cambodia ; all 22 people on board are killed in the crash.
(BBC)
The Government of Kyrgyzstan abolishes
capital punishment .
(Nasdaq)
Jamaican -born
Floridian
Barrington Irving becomes the youngest person—and the first
black person —to fly solo
around 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 on
global warming during the July 7
Live Earth concerts.
(Live Earth)
The
June 2007 Texas floods cause evacuations in some areas.
(MSNBC)
The death toll of the
June 2007 United Kingdom floods rises to six, with
Northern England and the
English Midlands hardest hit.
(The Telegraph) [
permanent dead link ]
Eleven
Colombian
lawmakers hostages out of twelve are killed by the
leftist
guerilla group
FARC . Abducted in 2002, the FARC alleges that the hostages died in a
crossfire when an unidentified military group attacked. The FARC blames the
Colombian government , but the government says they knew nothing of the location or of any attempt of rescue.
(CNN)
Russia successfully test fires a sea-based
ballistic missile , the
Bulava .
(BBC)
A
TAAG-Angola Airlines
Boeing 737 crashes in northern
Angola , resulting in the death of at least five passengers on the same day the
European Union bans the
airline from
European
airspace .
(Reuters via News Limited)
Scientists take a first step towards making
synthetic life by transferring
genetic material from one species of
bacteria to another, making it a copy of the first.
(Reuters via News Limited)
Record high temperatures in
Greece lead to nine deaths through
heat stroke ; outbreaks of
wildfires , killing two people; and extensive power cuts.
(AP via the Washington Post)
A bill to legalize millions of
illegal immigrants living in the
United States is defeated in the
United States Senate .
(AP via the Houston Chronicle)
Former
Libyan intelligence agent
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi , convicted of the bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103 , wins a case for an
appeal in the
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission .
(The Guardian)
An
Italian man is arrested in
Spain on suspicion of
bribery in connection with the kidnapping of
Madeleine McCann .
(Sky)
Premiership of Gordon Brown ,
United Kingdom :
In a major
Cabinet reshuffle , every person's post is changed, bar one.
Alistair Darling becomes
Chancellor of the Exchequer ,
David Miliband becomes
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs , and
Jacqui Smith becomes the first female
Secretary of State for the Home Department .
Alan Johnson takes
Health ,
Jack Straw takes
Justice and
First Secretary of State ,
Hilary Benn takes
Environment ,
Des Browne remains as
Defence Secretary but also becomes
Secretary of State for Scotland , and
Ruth Kelly takes
Transport .
Douglas Alexander takes
Secretary of State for International Development ;
Peter Hain remains
Secretary of State for Wales but also becomes
Work and Pensions Secretary ;
Shaun Woodward becomes
Northern Ireland Secretary ;
John Hutton takes
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Secretary ;
Hazel Blears takes
Communities Secretary and
Minister for Equality ;
James Purnell takes
Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families ; and
Tessa Jowell becomes
Minister for the Olympics and will only attend
Cabinet when required.
Baroness Ashton becomes
Leader of the House of Lords ;
Harriet Harman —
Labour 's deputy leader—becomes
Leader of the House of Commons and
Minister for Women ; whilst
Ed Balls becomes
Children, Schools and Families Secretary .
John Denham becomes
Innovation, University and Skills Secretary ; and
Baroness Scotland becomes the new
Attorney General of England and Wales . The Cabinet is set to change.
(Office of the Prime Minister)
Rivers in
Gippsland ,
Victoria, Australia
flood , leading to evacuations in
Bairnsdale and
Sale as a result of days of heavy rain.
(ABC)
(ABC)
A
car bomb in the
Bayaa district of
Baghdad kills at least 20 people and injures another 35.
(Reuters Alertnet)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors arrive at the
Yongbyon reactor in
North Korea to discuss plans to shut it down. It follows North Korea test firing of short-range
missiles yesterday.
(AP via CNN)
The
United States Supreme Court hands down a divided decision against two school districts in
Seattle, Washington and
Louisville, Kentucky , saying the districts' plans to admit students to schools based partially on their
race violates constitutional guarantees of
equal protection .
(CNN)
The commercial space station prototype
Genesis II from
Bigelow Aerospace is launched at 15:02 UTC from Russia by a
Dnepr .
(NASASpaceflight.com)
UNESCO designates 22 new
World Heritage Sites , including the
Sydney Opera House ;
Canada 's
Rideau Canal ;
Japan 's
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine ;
Turkmenistan 's
Parthian Fortresses of
Nisa ;
India 's
Red Fort complexes; the
Lope-Okanda Landscape of
Gabon ; the
Richtersveld desert of
South Africa ; the rock carvings of
Twyfelfontein in
Namibia ; the fortified tower houses of
Guangdong Province in the
People's Republic of China ;
Teide National Park in the
Canary Islands ,
Spain ; the ancient
beech forests of Central Europe;
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in
Bosnia and Herzegovina ;
Bordeaux and the
Port de la Lune in
France ; the Old Town of
Corfu in
Greece ; and the Palace of Galerius in
Gamzigrad-Romuliana in
Serbia .
(The Globe and Mail)
(UNESCO press-release)
The
bald eagle is removed from the
endangered species list.
(National Geographic)
June 29, 2007 (2007-06-29 ) (Friday)
The
EPR nuclear power plant , under construction in
Finland and 18 months behind schedule, is reported as having a number of safety-related design and manufacturing "deficiencies."
(New Scientist)
Spanish scientists find
fossil evidence of humans living in
Europe over a million years ago in
Burgos ,
Spain .
(Xinhua via the Hindu)
Rebels unsuccessfully try to assassinate
Guillaume Soro ,
Prime Minister of Ivory Coast , but kill three others in a rocket attack.
(Bloomberg)
British police
defuse a bomb in
Central London ; a second bomb is found hours later.
(CNN)
(The Globe and Mail)
At least 13 people die in clashes between militants and
Indian security forces in
Jammu and Kashmir .
(BBC)
The
European Union revises its list of designated terrorist organizations, removing
Anti-Imperialist Territorial Units ,
Unit for Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative , and
Units for Proletarian Initiative while adding
Revolutionary Struggle .
(Payvand)
After 16 years of existence, the (U.S.)
National Football League announces that it will shut down its European operation known as
NFL Europa , with immediate effect.
(NFL.com)
Apple Inc. releases the
iPhone to great fanfare.
The
Free Software Foundation releases version 3 of the
GNU General Public License
[1]
June 30, 2007 (2007-06-30 ) (Saturday)
Holidays and observances
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 , the
Netherlands ,
Pakistan ,
Panama ,
Peru , the
Philippines ,
Singapore ,
Slovakia ,
South Africa ,
Switzerland ,
Turkey , the
United Kingdom , the
United States ,
Venezuela , and
Zimbabwe .
19 :
Juneteenth (
United States )
20 :
Flag Day :
Argentina
21 :
Summer Solstice (longest day of the year)
23 :
Father's Day :
Poland and
Nicaragua
26 :
Flag Day :
Romania
July
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