June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with a length of 30 days. The month is named after the Roman goddess Juno(Moon), wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera.
June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. The month of June—in the Northern Hemisphere—is in Spring until the 21st, when the first day of summer begins. The traditional June birthstone is the pearl. The June birth flower is the rose, or the honeysuckle, as roses and honeysuckles bloom throughout June. June is also sometimes called the "Rose month."
June is known for the large number of marriages that occur over the course of the month. Juno was also the goddess of marriage and a married couple's household, so some consider it good luck to be married in this month.(Wiki)
June 1, 2009, Dow Jones & Company will replace Citigroup and General Motors with Travelers Companies and Cisco Systems on its Industrial Average on June 8. (CNNMoney.com)
June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 disappears over the Atlantic Ocean, near Brazil. (AFP via News Limited)
June 1, 2009, The United States Congressional Research Service reports that China is aiding the development of Pakistan's program of nuclear weaponry. (The Times of India)
June 1, 2009, General Motors files for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. (Detroit Free Press)
June 1, 2009, A Muslim kills one soldier and injures another at a military recruitment center in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. (MSNBC)
June 2, 2009, Release of Dave Matthews Band Album Big Whiskey(Rx) and the GrooGrux King.
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In an April 2009 interview with MTV, Dave Matthews and Carter Beauford described the origins of the two-pronged name of the album. Beauford described the word "GrooGrux" as not only a nickname for LeRoi Moore, but also a nickname for himself, Tim Reynolds, and former collaborator Tim Wicks. Beauford said the made-up word was used to describe the "vibe" and "energy" of their "wild-sounding rhythms" they made when they started playing music together. Beauford also mentioned that Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard and violinist Boyd Tinsley were now graduates of "The GrooGrux Academy."
Matthews said the origins of "Big Whiskey" came from a chance encounter with a local New Orleans drunk during a photo shoot for the new album. When the band was shooting promotional photos outside of Preservation Hall in the French Quarter of New Orleans, they encountered a local man playing harmonica who was asking tourists for money so he could buy "a big whiskey." Lessard gave Matthews a $20 bill to hand the man, who walked off in celebration. Trumpet player Rashawn Ross then suggested the phrase for the title of the album, which Matthews liked because people wouldn't have to call the album by the more difficult to say "GrooGrux".
June 2, 2009, Release of K11 Album Voices from Thelema.
June 2, 2009, Bruno and Eminem(Relapse/Rx) announce Fallen Angel skit at MTV Movie Awards was staged.
June 2, 2009, Chimp-made toolkit most complex ever found(ABC)
June 2, 2009, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim confirms that debris discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, near Fernando de Noronha, is the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. (CNN)
June 2, 2009, General Motors sells its Hummer brand to the Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company. (New York Times)
June 2, 2009, Dutch research verifies space headache as a real medical condition. (BBC)
June 2, 2009, Oxfam International describes the humanitarian crisis in Somalia as "very dire". (BBC)
June 2, 2009, China blocks access to such websites as Twitter, Flickr, and Hotmail, ahead of the anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. (CBC)
June 3, 2009, Release of the Unmistaken Child.
June 3, 2009, The Organization of American States revokes its suspension of Cuba in 1962. (Reuters)
June 3, 2009, Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden criticizes United States President Barak Obama via audio cassette. (BBC)
June 3, 2009,The U.S. state of New Hampshire legalizes same-sex marriage. (Boston Globe)American author
June 3, 2009,Marilynne Robinson wins the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel, Home. (BBC)
June 3, 2009, Release of Search Engine Bing By Microsoft.
Bing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision" engine ), Microsoft's current incarnation of its search technology. Unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, Bing is a replacement for Live Search. It went fully online on June 3, 2009.
June 4, 2009, U.S. President Barak Obama gives a speech in Cairo addressing the Islamic world. (BBC)
At one point during the tour, Obama is reported to have spotted a hieroglyphic of a large-eared man, spurring the remark, ""That looks like me!" Look at those ears!" ABC News reports.
According to MSNBC, the character in the hieroglyphic represents esteemed qualities:
Dr. Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of the supreme council of antiquities -- who played tour guide to Obama and his entourage -- went on to explain to the president, his Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and others the history of the tomb of Kar(Qar)-(Ba"RAK"), who was a priest, a scholar and a judge.
June 4, 2009, Series Premeire of Royal Pains(Rx).
After Brooklyn emergency medicine doctor Hank Lawson makes a principled decision in the emergency room in which he saves the life of a teenager at the cost of the life of an elderly billionaire hospital trustee, he loses his career and his fiancee. His younger brother Evan, a CPA, convinces him to go partying in the Hamptons, a ritzy community on Long Island, for a weekend. When they crash a party and Hank saves an ailing woman's life, he haphazardly becomes a concierge doctor for the rich and famous in the Hamptons. Physician assistant Divya insists on becoming Hank's employee, even though he has no intention of becoming a concierge doctor. Though most of Hank's income is generated by servicing the ills of rich clients, including a senator's son and the heir to the blender fortune, Hank also gives free concierge-style doctoring to patients who have no chance of repaying him.
June 4, 2009, 150,000 gather in Hong Kong to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massacre around Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. (BBC)
June 4, 2009, A hotel maid in Bangkok found actor David Carradine’s body hanging in his room’s closet. He was in Thailand acting for his new movie. He was 72.(Fox News)
June 4, 2009, Ex-Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo Charged With Fraud(MSNBC)
June 4 ,2009, Marijuana advocate Marc Emery aka "The Prince" of Pot(Rx) strikes plea bargain with U.S. over pot seed sales.(680)
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Vancouver marijuana advocate Mark Emery says he's accepted a plea bargain with U.S. authorities on charges of selling marijuana seeds to American customers through the mail.
Emery says he's abandoning his fight against extradition to the U.S. and will plead guilty to a single count of drug distribution in a Seattle courtroom next month.
He says if he didn't accept the deal he'd be facing extradition on three charges and potentially a long sentence in a U.S. prison that would prevent him from being transferred back to Canada.
Emery says he expects American prosecutors to seek a five-to eight-year prison term but he will press for a shorter sentence and hopes to serve some of the time in a Canadian prison.
He says he'll spend his time behind bars writing a book and learning French and Spanish.
Emery says he'll be sentenced in the fall.
June 5, 2009, Release of Land of the Lost.
Three years after being kicked out of the science department for his theory of time warps, and his attempt on Matt Lauer's life, Rick Marshall is reduced to working as a teacher at the George C. Page Museum until he meets Holly Cantrell whose finding urges him to create a Tachyon amplifier to enable time warp travel.
They go to the Devils Cave attraction where the finding was found, hiring its tour guide Will Stanton. But once they've activated the Tachyon amplifier, losing it in the process, the three end up in a parallel universe where all timelines converge. They soon meet some ape men, two of whom were going to kill the younger one, when Stanton unintentionally gives the other two the secret of fire as they run off. The gang then proceed to help the other one, named Cha-Ka, until he runs off with them in pursuit. Once catching up to Cha-Ka, they are trapped by a tree which turns out to be a dinosaur feeding site, being attacked by a Tyrannosaurus. The T-Rex chases them until they come to a small land bridge. Marshall is convinced they are safe as he explains how a T-Rex has walnut-sized brain, provoking the agitated dinosaur to jump across. Chasing them until they reach a crevice in a cave, though still wanting to eat Marshall, it gives up. Holly thinks Grumpy is a good name for the Tyrannosaur, and gives him that name.
The next day, Cha-Ka brings fruit full of Spiders which contains a psychedelic chemical(Rx). Rick then has visions about a strange creature begging for his help, running out into the Lost City.
The others follow as Cha-Ka gets agitated and attempts to tell them they should leave as they are attacked by the slow yet deadly Sleestaks. But when the Pylon opens, Marshall and company enter, meeting the creature who contacted them, Enik. Enik tells them that the evil Zarn is out to control the universe and needs the Tachyon amplifier
In spite of Will's feelings, Marshall offers his aid as Cha-Ka takes the group through the jungle and onto a salt flat landscape that is a feeding site for Compsognathus Velociraptors, who proceed to tear an ice cream man to pieces until Grumpy comes and scares them off. However, a female Allosaurus arrives as well. The two giant predators show love until they smell Marshall and chase after him. Though managing to outsmart Grumpy, Marshall runs from Big Alice until he reaches Holly and Will, using the tank of liquid nitrogen to freeze the allosaur before she explodes with the Tachyon amplifier among her remains. After that, a Pteranodon steals their time machine.
Though down in the dumps, Marshall regains his confidence as he attempts to apologize to his friends in song while unknowingly attacked by a giant mosquito. After managing to get the Tachyon amplifier back from a nest of pterosaurs, they return to a motel back in the salt flat. While Marshall, Will and Cha-Ka laze in the pool, Holly goes, finding a Pylon. Inside, she finds dinosaur eggs lodged in dinosaur poo, taking one out before she find a holographic message from the Zarn, learning that Enik is the real villain and being taken by a Sleestak to stand trial for aiding him. Meanwhile, after eating a Giant Crab, which killed itself by stepping on a geyser while advancing on them, the three realize Holly's missing and go find her. They meet two mating Sleestaks, that shed their skin, which Marshall and Will use to disguise themselves while Cha-Ka goes to get Enik. Arriving to Holly's aid as she is condemned to death by the Library of Skulls, Marshall and Will learn that Enik was the one who wiped out the Altrusians while confirming Will's feelings about the villian's tunic. After saving Holly, the gang confront Enik and his Sleestak slaves, taking the Tachyon amplifier while revealing his plans on using the Sleestaks to overpopulate the worlds. He then leaves Marshall and company to their fate as Grumpy arrives to get his revenge.
Seeing no other way, Marshall takes on Grumpy one-on-one, ending with Marshall vaulting into the dinosaur's mouth. Though Holly chides him for it, Grumpy shrugs her off and leaves as she and Will attempt to fight off the numberous Sleestaks. However, after being excreted out while taking out some intestinal trouble, Marshall and a less grumpy Grumpy make their peace as they arrive to kill most of the Sleestaks. Entering the Pylon, Marshall and company manage to destroy the crystal shard that powers it, with Will choosing to stay with Cha-Ka in the Land of the Lost while holding Enik off so Marshall and Holly can return home. As Will takes advantage of his new life by meeting Cha-Ka's harem, Matt Lauer relucantly gives a second interview with Marshall this time proven right.
But after being forced to show off the title of Marshall's new book, Matt Lauer Can Suck It, history repeats itself with Matt trying to kill Marshall. Soon after the show ended, unaware of what Marshall and she left behind on the set, the dinosaur egg Holly found hatches into a baby Sleestak.
June 5, 2009, Release of Hangover.
A hangover (pronounced /hæng'ɒvɛr/) (veisalgia) describes the sum of unpleasant physiological effects following heavy consumption of a drug(Rx). The most commonly reported characteristics of a hangover include headache, nausea, sensitivity to light and noise, lethargy, dysphoria, diarrhea and thirst.
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June 5, 2009, Release of Away We Go.
The journey of an expectant couple as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.
June 5, 2009, Vatican visits Cern(MSNBC).
June 5, 2009, Dozens of previously unpublished personal photos of Adolf Hitler are released to the general public. (The Daily Telegraph)
June 5, 2009, Ireland's rate of unemployment reaches 11.8%. (RTÉ)
June 5, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI is briefed on Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse's public report. (RTÉ)
June 5, 2009, Brazil's Air Force confirms that no debris has been recovered from Air France Flight 447. (Sky News)
June 5, 2009, United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown shuffles the Cabinet.(RTÉ)
June 5, 2009, Former United States State Department employee Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, are arrested and charged with spying for Cuba's government. (CNN)
June 6, 2009, Summer Bird wins Belmont Stakes.(Reuters)
June 6, 2009, The American Cemetary and Memorial honors World War II veterans who landed at Normandy, France, in 1944. (CNN)
June 6, 2009, Seventy-six people die at Harmony Gold's mine in Free State, South Africa. (BBC)
June 6, 2009, Fifty-two people die during combat between Peru's Army and indigenous peoples in the Amazon Rainforest. (Reuters)
June 6, 2009, At least 36 people die during combat between the Transitional Federal Government and Islamist militants in Webho, Somalia. (BBC)
June 6, 2009, Two male bodies and several luggage items are recovered from Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean. (BBC)
June 6, 2009, Harvard University discovers a molecular mechanism that regulates coagulation. (BBC)
June 6, 2009, Palm, Inc. launches its new Palm Pre smartphone. (Reuters)
The Palm Pre (styled palm prē, pronounced as the English prefix pre, /priː/, known internally as the Castle) is a multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Palm, Inc. with a multi-touch screen and a sliding keyboard. The phone was launched on June 6, 2009, and is the first to use Palm's new Linux-based operating system, webOS. The Pre functions as a camera phone, a portable media player, a GPS navigator, and an Internet client (with text messaging, email, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity).
Palm, Inc. is a personal digital assistant and smartphone manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
June 7, 2009, The European Union's parliamentary election concludes in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. (BBC)
June 7, 2009, A seven-day gay pride festival is held for the first time in Shanghai, China. (BBC)
June 7, 2009, The United States Supreme Court is requested to block Italian automaker Fiat's purchase of Chrysler. (BBC)
June 7, 2009, Former Cuban President Fidel Castro dismisses allegations that ex-U.S. State Department employee Kendall Myers spied for his country. (ABC)
June 7, 2009, Former United Kingdom Cabinet Ministers Hazel Blears, James Purnell, John Hutton, and Caroline Flint coordinated their resignations to compel Prime Minister Gordon Brown to also resign. (Independent)
June 7, 2009, Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso is granted honorary citizenship in Paris, France. (AFP)
June 8, 2009, Release of Placebo Album Battle for the Sun.
June 8, 2009, Release of Little Boots Album Illuminations.
June 8, 2009, Return of Series Weeds(Rx).
June 8, 2009, Lloyds Banking Group repay £2.56 billion to the United Kingdom's government to compensate for partial nationalization in January 2009. (Times)
June 8, 2009, The United States Supreme Court stays the sale of Chrysler to Fiat. (Bloomberg) (Bloomberg)
June 8, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI is reportedly "visibly upset" after hearing the findings of Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. (RTÉ)
June 8, 2009, American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour. (Sky News)
June 8, 2009, North Korea restricts access to the Sea of Japan, near Wonsan, from June 10-30, possibly indicating future missile testing. (AFP via News Limited)
June 8, 2009, Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans, Louisiana, is quarantined in Shanghai, China, after a passenger on his flight from the United States was diagnosed with A(H1N1) influenza. (BBC)
June 8, 2009, In a referendum held alongside European Parliament elections, voters in Denmark agreed to change their Acts of Succession to eliminate male preference in their line of succession. (AAP via TV New Zealand)
June 8, 2009, The third "acid" attack since December 2008 occurs in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. (The Standard)
June 9, 2009, Release of Black Eyed Peas Album E.N.D
June 9, 2009, Release of Low Anthem Album Oh My God Charlie Darwin.
June 9, 2009, Release of Mos Def Album The Estatic.
June 9, 2009, Release of Sonic Youth Album Eternal.
June 9, 2009, Adam Lambert: 'I'm Gay,' Plus His 'Psychedelic(Rx) Experience' At Burning Man.
NEW YORK — "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert has landed the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, where he talks about sex, drugs and his "Idol" experiences.
The 27-year-old singer from San Diego acknowledges in an interview that he's gay, and says it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. "I'm proud of my sexuality," he says. "I embrace it. It's just another part of me." Lambert says he was inspired to audition for the Fox network singing competition after having a "psychedelic experience" at the Burning Man festival in Nevada.
There, he says, he experimented with "certain funguses." "I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad," he says of "Idol."
June 9, 2009, Three workers are missing after an explosion at a ConAgra Foods plant in Garner, North Carolina, United States. (CNN)
June 9, 2009, World Health Organisation Director-General Margaret Chan believes "on the surface of it" that a pandemic has been reached. She also said that "once I get indisputable evidence, I will make the announcement," and will meet with governments on Wednesday regarding reports about the outbreak. (Associated Press via Breitbart.com)
June 9, 2009, Two Democrats cross party lines and join Republicans to swing control of the Senate of the U.S. state of New York to the Republican Party. (WCBS New York)
June 9, 2009, Royal Dutch Shell is to pay out $15.5m (£9.7m) in a legal settlement over its alleged complicity in the 1995 execution of several Nigerian environmental activists, including author Ken Saro-Wiwa, in Nigeria in 1995. (RTÉ)
June 9, 2009, Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, is pelted with eggs by protestors and forced to abandon a press conference. (BBC)
June 9, 2009, The chairman of Anglo Irish Bank discloses to the Oireachtas Committee on Finance and Public Service that some senior staff at the bank have impaired loans to the bank. (RTÉ)
June 9, 2009, A study suggests that the HIV prevalence rate in South Africa has leveled off at 10.9% and it could be falling in the under-19 age group. (BBC)
June 10, 2009, At least two people are shot at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C with an elderly white supremacist James von Brunn as the main suspect. (CNN)
June 10, 2009, The United Nations Security Council, along with Japan and South Korea, agrees a draft resolution following North Korea's recent nuclear and missile tests. (BBC)
June 10, 2009, Nine miners die and four are still missing after an accident at a coal mine in Donetsk, Ukraine. (BBC)
June 10, 2009, Google Inc. announced that it has received notice from the United States Department of Justice that antitrust investigators are studying its settlement with publishers designed to put millions of books online consistent with the property rights of authors.
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June 11, 2009, Swedish sports car maker Koenigsegg is to buy Saab Automobile from General Motors with support from Norwegian investors.(Forbes)
June 11, 2009, The World Health Organization declares the current outbreak of H1N1 to be a “pandemic”, the first since the 1968 Hong Kong flu. (BBC)
June 11, 2009, The President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, says he will travel to Ireland to assist the passing of the forthcoming Treaty of Lisbon referendum at a joint news conference with the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, in Paris. (RTÉ)
June 11, 2009, The Egyptian culture ministry agrees to publish Arabic translations of two novels by Israeli writers. (BBC)
June 11, 2009, For the first time ever, Brazil offers $10 billion in financing to the International Monetary Fund to help improve the availability of credit in developing countries. (BBC)
June 12, 2009, Release of Food Inc.
June 12, 2009, Release of Imagine That.
June 12, 2009, Release of Moon.
Moon is a 2009 science fiction/thriller film about a solitary lunar employee who finds that he may not be able to go home to Earth so easily. The film is the feature film debut of commercial director Duncan Jones, and actor Sam Rockwell stars as the lunar employee. Kevin Spacey voices his robot companion. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in January 2009, and was released in selected theatres in New York and Los Angeles on 12 June 2009.
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is an employee contracted by the company Lunar to mine helium-3, which could reverse Earth's energy crisis. Sam is stationed at the lunar base Sarang with only a robot named Gerty (voiced by Kevin Spacey), but two weeks before completing his three-year assignment, he begins feeling out of place. An extraction goes wrong, and Sam suspects Lunar of trying to replace him as he realises someone else is on the Moon.
Moon was screened at NASA's Space Center Houston at the request of a professor there. The screening was part of a lecture series. "He'd been reading online that we'd done this film about Helium-3 mining and that's something that people at NASA are working on," says Jones. "We did a Q&A afterward. They asked me why the base looked so sturdy, like a bunker, and not like the kind of stuff they are designing that they are going to transport with them. I said 'Well, in the future I assume you won't want to continue carrying everything with you, you'll want to use the resources on the moon to build things' and a woman in the audience raised her hand and said, 'I'm actually working on something called Mooncrete, which is concrete that mixes lunar regolith and ice water from the moon's polar caps.'"
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June 12, 2009, Release of The Taking of Pelham 123.
June 12, 2009, U.S. television stations complete their switch from analog to digital television. (The Washington Times)
June 12, 2009, The United Nations Security Council unanimously votes to impose further sanctions on North Korea, following recent nuclear and missile tests. (UN)
June 12, 2009, The world's first City of Film is announced by UNESCO, with Bradford beating competition from Los Angeles, Cannes and Venice. (The Guardian)
June 12, 2009, Two Japanese citizens were detained in Italy after allegedly attempting to take $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds over the border into Switzerland. (Bloomberg)
June 12, 2009, Nude Mona Lise found?
The newly revealed painting, hidden for almost a century within the wood wall of a private library, shows a portrait of a half-naked woman with clear links to the famous (and clothed) Mona Lisa.
The lady in the portrait does not exactly resemble the original Mona Lisa, but there is little doubt it has parallels with the painting hanging at the Louvre museum in Paris.
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June 12, 2009, The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Detroit Redwings in game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals.
June 13, 2008, Return of Series Kings.
June 13, 2009, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom celebrates her 83rd birthday at Trooping the Colour. (Fox News)
Trooping the Colour is a military ceremony performed by regiments of the Commonwealth and the British Army. It has been a tradition of British infantry regiments for centuries and it was first performed during the reign of Charles II. Since 1805 the ceremony has been carried out on the British Sovereign's birthday, which, since King George VI, has been regularly held on a Saturday in June.
June 13, 2009, North Korea announces it will "weaponise all plutonium" and begin uranium enrichment following United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874 against the country. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
June 13, 2009, South Korea sends troops to the North Korean border as tensions escalate. (Telstra Bigpond News)
June 13, 2009, China begins the third large-scale excavation of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in 24 years. (Xinhua)
June 13, 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reelected as the President of Iran, although opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi demands a recount. (BBC News)
June 13, 2009, The planned launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour is scrubbed because of a gaseous hydrogen leak. (NASA)
June 14, 2009, Los Angeles Lakers win 15th NBA Championship defeating the Orlando magic. Kobe Bryant #24 (All Day/Sun) is named MVP.
June 14, 2009, Europe's first death from H1N1 is reported in Paisley, Scotland. (Reuters)
June 14, 2009, Around 170 people are arrested in Iran in connection with the post-election protests and street riots in Tehran. (RTÉ)
June 15, 2009, Phoenix crop circle may predict end of the world(Telegraph)
June 15, 2009, Megan fox wears Snake/8 shaped dress to Berlin Premiere of Transformers.
June 15, 2009, Lee Myung-bak, South Korea's president, meets U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington to talk about North Korea. (The Washington Times)
June 15, 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces that an independent inquiry into the country's role in the Iraq War will be held in private. (BBC)
June 15, 2009, The European Union announces it will help resettle detainees released from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. (Reuters)
June 16, 2009, Premiere of TV Series HawthoRNe.
As a single mother and the Chief Nursing Officer at Richmond Trinity Hospital in North Carolina, Christina Hawthorne makes caretaking her life's work.
June 16, 2009, Iran Election:
-The Guardian Council is to hold a recount of disputed votes from the country's presidential election. (BBC)
-At least seven people have been killed near a rally in Tehran. (Reuters) (Xinhua)
-Foreign media are banned from covering the protests following the deaths of seven people. (RTÉ)
-Two Reformist politicians are arrested. (Press TV)
-Large demonstrations in support of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mir-Hossein Mousavi take place in the capital. (Press TV)
June 16, 2009, Playwright Brian Friel is honoured with the Ulysses Medal on Bloomsday at University College Dublin. (The Irish Times)
June 16, 2009, A coal mine collapses in Indonesia, killing at least six people. (Xinhua)
June 16, 2009, Documents released to the American Civil Liberties Union state Khalid Sheik Mohammed testified that he made up information after allegedly tortured by the CIA. (UPI)
June 16, 2009, China announces plan to provide a US$ 10 billion credit loan to member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. (Xinhua)
June 16, 2009,General Motors agrees Saab sale to Koenigsegg(BBC)
June 16, 2009, Sammy Sosa, one of six Major League Baseball players to have hit 600 home runs in his career, reportedly tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs(Rx) during the 2003 season. (The New York Times)
June 17, 2009,Barak orders “Financial Regulatory Reform Plan” a single bank regulator known as the Federal Reserve.(Wallstreet)
June 17, 2009, United States President Barack Obama extends benefits to the same-sex partners of federal government workers. (BBC)
June 17, 2009, Lakers Victory Parade; Kobe Bryant appears on Conan OBrien show with Golden Pharaoh Statue(Elluminati).
June 17, 2009, Over 100 Gypses flee their homes in Belfast, Northern Ireland after being attacked. (BBC)
June 17, 2009, Seventeen people, including the head of Mogadishu's police force, are killed in fighting between the Transitional Federal Government and al-Shabaab. (Xinhua)
June 17, 2009, Maoists kill 3, members of the ruling Communist Party in West Bengal, threaten steel plant construction . (Reuters)
June 17, 2009, A laptop containing unencrypted bank account details of 75,000 Bord Gáis customers is stolen in Dublin. (RTÉ)
June 18, 2009, EU sets basis for finance reform(BBC)
June 18, 2009, North Korea considers launching a missile towards Hawaii. (BBC)
June 18, 2009, Chancellor Alistair Darling states there is "growing evidence" that government measures have stabilised the British banking system and economy. (Sky News)
June 18, 2009, The expense claims of British Members of Parliament are published online. (The Times)
June 18, 2009, The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a $106 billion spending bill that includes about $80 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, sending the bill to the White House for President Obama's signature.(CNN)
June 18, 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was working from home Thursday after fracturing her right elbow during a fall the day before, State Department officials said.(CNN)
June 18, 2009, An Atlas V rocket launches the LRO and LCROSS spacecraft to explore the Moon.(BBC)
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a robotic spacecraft which the United States plans to place in orbit around the Moon. The launch date, originally planned for October 2008, was to launch Wednesday June 17, however the date was bumped to allow the Space shuttle Endeavour a chance to lift off following its hydrogen fuel leak on Saturday. The unmanned launch occured flawlessly on June 18, 2009, the first mission to the moon in over ten years.
LRO will be the first mission with a primary objective to implement the United States Vision for Space Exploration. To successfully attain the goals of "The Vision", including human exploration of the Moon, LRO will survey lunar resources and identify possible landing sites. The orbiting probe will be able to provide a 3-D map of the moon's surface.
The LRO Atlas V launch vehicle will also carry the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), which is designed to detect water liberated as the launch vehicle's spent upper stage strikes a lunar crater. Together, LCROSS and LRO form the vanguard of the NASA Lunar Precursor Robotic Program’s return to the Moon.
June 18, 2009, Release of IPhone 3GS.
June 18, 2009, Continental Flight 61, a Boeing 777 containing 247 passengers flying from Brussels, Belgium to Newark, New Jersey, lands safely at Newark Liberty International Airport, after the 61-year-old pilot died mid-flight. A first officer piloted the plane until it landed. (WCBS)
June 18, 2009, Sacha Baron Cohen, dressed as a bull, poses with matadors outside Madrid's Las Ventas bullring during the Spanish premiere of his film "Bruno"(Telegraph)
June 18, 2009, Return of Series Hotel Babylon.
June 19, 2009, Release of The Proposal.
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June 19, 2009, Release of Year One: Evolution "Continues".
Zed and Oh are two tribesman. Zed is a hunter and Oh is a gatherer. After being informed Zed ate from Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, he is banished from the tribe. Oh decides to go with Zed on his journey to find the end of the Earth. Along the way, they encounter Cain and Abel, and Abraham. After, Zed and Oh notice the girls they wanted to "lay with" from their former tribe have been enslaved, they head off on a journey to save them.
June 19, 2009, The U.S. begins deploying missile interceptors and radar to defend Hawaii from a North Korean long-range rocket. (The New York Times)
June 19, 2009,Allen Stanford, the chairman of Stanford Financial Group, is arrested after allegations of fraud. (BBC)
June 19,2009, The head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Schapiro, said in an interview that it should not be necessary for the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to align all their rules and regulation, although she does expect some harmonization. (Reuters)
June 19,2009, U.S. District Court Judge Samuel B. Kent is impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on charges of obstruction of justice. (CNN)
June 19, 2009,Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls for 'peace and tranquility' in a speech before a large crowd Friday at Tehran University. (CNN)
June 19, 2009, Sotomayor quits women's club after GOP criticism.
June 19, 2009, New York 'carbon counter' sign shows greenhouse gases in real time(Guardian)
June 19, 2009,Greece's Acropolis Museum in Athens is unveiled. (BBC)
June 19, 2009, JibJab "He's Barak Obama"
June 20, 2009, Premiere of Joe Rogan Special: Talking Monkeys in Space.
June 20, 2009, A sunken ship believed to carry over $15 million in gold is located in the Magellan Straits off the coast of Argentina. (BBC)
June 20, 2009, The United States admits its forces are failing to follow their own rules in Afghan airstrikes and acknowledges its part in 140 civilian deaths. (BBC)
June 20, 2009, Operation BlackJack(Telegraph)
A solstice is an astronomical event that happens twice each year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is most inclined toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun's apparent position in the sky to reach its northernmost or southernmost extreme. The name is derived from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), because at the solstices, the Sun stands still in declination; that is, the apparent movement of the Sun's path north or south comes to a stop before reversing direction. The term solstice can also be used in a wider sense, as the date (day) when this occurs. The solstices, together with the equinoxes, are connected with the seasons. In some cultures they are considered to start or separate the seasons while in others they fall in the middle. The English expressions "midwinter" (winter solstice) and "midsummer" (summer solstice) may derive from a tradition according to which there were only two seasons: winter and summer.
After the Summer Solstice the Sun begins its DESENT/DEATH until the Winter Solstice.
June 21, 2009, Premiere of Impact a 2009 ABC mini-series about a meteor shower which eventually sends the moon on a collision course with Earth. The two-part mini-series premiered in the US on June 21 and 28.
June 21, 2009, The Somali government declares a state of emergency. (Reuters)
June 21, 2009, United States President Barack Obama tells a television news crew his country is "fully prepared" for a possible missile test by North Korea over the Pacific Ocean. (BBC)
June 22, 2009, A subway train derailment and collision on the Red Line of the Washington Metro kills at least six and injures at least 70. (NBC Washington)
June 22, 2009, A major international conference in Sydney looks at how to expand Internet domain names. (ABC)
June 22, 2009, For the first time in 136 years, the Congress of France convenes in the Palace of Versailles to listen to an address by the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. (Associated Press)
June 23, 2009, Ed McMahon dies at age of 86 at the Ronald Regan/UCLA Medical Center(CNN).
June 23, 2009, Stephen Colbert announces himself Governor of South Carolina in place of missing Governor Mark Stanford.
June 23, 2009, Release of Royal City.
June 23, 2009, Release of White Magic Album New Egypt.
June 24, 2009, Release of Transformers The: Fallen Angel.
June 24, 2009, Release of Moby Album Wait for Me.
June 24, 2009, Premiere of TV Series The Philanthropist.
The title character, Teddy Rist, is a billionaire haunted by the death of his only child. His life changes when he rescues a boy during a hurricane in Nigeria; Rist begins using his fortune hands-on to change the lives of others.The tagline of advertisements say that The Philanthropist is based on a real-life billionaire. This refers to Bobby Sager.
June 24, 2009, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declares the recent election result will stand. (BBC)
June 24, 2009, A flute carved over 35,000 years ago, and thought to be the oldest musical instrument, is unearthed in Germany.
June 24, 2009, Shaquille O'Neil(Superman) is traded from the Phoenix Suns to Cleveland Cavs to team up with "The King" Lebron James.
June 25, 2009, Fallen Angel: American actress Farrah Fawcett dies of anal cancer at the age of 62 in the intensive care unit of Saint John's Health Center, in Santa Monica, California.
June 25, 2009, "King" of "Pop" Michael Jackson aka The Moonwalker dies from cardiac arrest at the age of 50 after arrival at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. (The Los Angeles Times).
Rumor Mill: Drug(Rx) complications Lead to Jackson's Death(HuffPost).
"August 29" 1959 - June 25 2009 (June mirrored is December 25)
June 27, 2009, Brazil announces it has ended the search for bodies from Air France Flight 447. (Associated Press)
June 27, 2009, NATO and Russia agree to restore military ties after a 10 month period following the 2008 war in Georgia. (Al Jazeera)
June 28, 2009, Series Premiere of Hung.
Hung is a comedy show from HBO, created by Dmitry Lipkin & Colette Burson. It stars Thomas Jane as Ray Drecker, a well-endowed struggling high school basketball coach who uses his large penis to his advantage, resorting to prostitution.
June 28, 2009, 'Infomercial King' Billy Mays Found Dead in Home at age 50(Fox)
Update:
August 7, 2009, Cocaine(Rx) Tied To TV Pitchman's Death(ABC)
An autopsy shows that cocaine use contributed to the heart disease that suddenly killed boisterous TV pitchman Billy Mays in June, officials announced Friday.
The 50-year-old bearded TV personality died of a heart attack in his sleep after going to bed at his Tampa condo the night of June 27. His wife found him unresponsive the next morning.
The Hillsborough County medical examiner's office Friday said Mays had last used cocaine days before his death. The report said that although Mays died from heart disease, cocaine use was a contributing cause of death.
Mays was a pop-culture fixture with his energetic commercials pitching gadgets and cleaning products like Orange Glo and OxiClean.
June 28, 2009, Russia will shutdown every legal casino in the state by Wednesday. (The New York Times)
June 29, 2009, Scientific tests prove bones housed in the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome are those of the apostle Saint Paul himself, according to the pope. (CNN)
June 29, 2009, Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison for investment fraud. (The New York Times)
June 29, 2009, The United States Air Force test fires an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from the coast of California to a point in the Pacific Ocean about 4,200 miles (6,750 km) away. (AP via KFMB)
June 29, 2009, Two passenger trains collide in Hunan in central China, leaving at least three people dead and 60 injured. (Xinhua)
June 29, 2009, The United Nations leader will travel to Burma on Friday to press the country on democratic reform. (BBC)
June 29, 2009, The Preparatory Commission for the International Renewable Energy Agency designates the headquarters of the organization to Masdar City, Abu Dhabi. (Deutsche Welle)
June 29, 2009, The U.S. resumes secret surveillance flights to aid Pakistani commanders. (The New York Times)
June 30, 2009, Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310, crashes en route to Moroni, Comoros, from Sana'a, Yemen. (CNN)
June 30, 2009, At least 15 people are killed and 40 are injured by the derailment of an Italian freight train and subsequent explosion of two wagons carrying liquified petroleum gas in Viareggio. (BBC)
June 30, 2009, U.S. forces pull out of Baghdad and leave major cities across Iraq. (The New York Times)
June 30, 2009, The Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest BitTorrent trackers, confirms today that it would be acquired by Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) for 7.8 million USD. (The Pirate Bay blog)
June 30, 2009, The Minnesota Supreme Court orders that Al Franken be certified winner of the state's Senate election. (Reuters)
June 30, 2009, Strange Clouds Turn NYC Sky Orange Over The Weekend.(Huffpost)
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