June 1, 2011, 2011 New England tornado outbreak
One tornado hits the US city of Springfield, Massachusetts, with injuries reported and significant property damage. (WWLP)
June 1, 2011,
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June 1, 2011, A United Nations nuclear safety team looking into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster claims that Japan underestimated the potential threat of tsunamis to nuclear power plants. (Reuters)
June 1, 2011, South Korea reissues an invitation to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to a nuclear summit next year. (Yonhap)
June 1, 2011, The U.S. government states that it will boycott a United Nations anti-racism conference because of concerns over anti-Semitism. (AP via Washington Post)
June 1, 2011, The Space Shuttle Endeavour finishes its final mission. (AP via Google News)
June 1, 2011, Veteran US National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal announces his retirement by Twitter. (Shaquille O'Neal)
June 2, 2011,
June 2, 2011,
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June 2, 2011, Julian Assange of Wikileaks wins the 2011 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. (journalism)
June 2, 2011, The finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee are held in the US town of Oxon Hill, Maryland with Sukanya Roy of South Abington, Pennsylvania. (NPR)
June 2, 2011, Following the PlayStation Network outage, the Sony website SonyPictures.com has been hacked, with unencrypted passwords and personal information of Sony customers within the website's database being discovered by the hackers. (BBC)
June 2, 2011, The 2011 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group "C40" summit concludes in São Paulo. (New York Times)
June 3, 2011, Release of X-men First Class
June 3, 2011, Release of Beginners
June 3, 2011, John Edwards, former United States presidential candidate and Senator representing North Carolina, is indicted on charges of conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws in connection to his affair with Rielle Hunter; Edwards denies he broke any laws. (CNN)
June 3, 2011, American right-to-die activist Jack Kevorkian dies in Royal Oak, Michigan of pneumonia and kidney problems. (Toronto Star)
June 3, 2011,
June 3, 2011, 2011 Egyptian revolution: A female journalist is attacked in Cairo's Tahrir Square while covering a demonstration demanding an immediate trial for former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak. (RIA Novosti)
June 3, 2011, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, announces the sale of the US government's stake in Chrysler to Italian automaker Fiat at a visit to a plant at Toledo, Ohio. (Detroit Free Press)
June 3, 2011, 2011 Missouri River floods: Residents in North Dakota and South Dakota evacuate due to flooding of the Missouri River. (Reuters)
June 3, 2011, The United States House of Representatives votes in favour of a non-binding resolution asking the Obama administration to seek Congressional authorization for the intervention in Libya. (ABC News)
June 4, 2011,
June 4, 2011,
June 4, 2011,
June 4, 2011, Arab Spring: NATO begins using attack helicopters for the first time in air operations over Libya. (NATO)
June 5, 2011, Series Premiere Teen Wolf
June 5, 2011,
June 5, 2011,
June 5, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass in the Croatian capital Zagreb. (UPI)
June 6, 2011, Series Premiere Switched at Birth
June 6, 2011, U.S. House Representative Anthony Weiner of New York admits sending a risqué picture of himself to a college student on Twitter. (Associated Press)
June 6, 2011, Apple Inc. launches its new iCloud service at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. (Sydney Morning Herald)
June 6, 2011,
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June 6, 2011, Residents of three Western United States towns - Springerville, Arizona, Eagar, Arizona and Luna, New Mexico - are warned to prepare for evacuation ahead of the Wallow Fire. one of the biggest in Arizona history. (Arizona Daily Star)
June 6, 2011, Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be arraigned on sexual assault charges in the US state of New York. (The Telegraph)
June 7, 2011, Release of video game Red Faction: Armageddon
June 7, 2011, Release of video game Flashpoint: Red River
June 7, 2011, Nintendo unveils its new video game system, Wii U, featuring a touch-screen display designed to be a bridge between console video games and portable and tablet-based games, to be released next year. (USA Today)
June 7, 2011, A massive wildfire burning in the US state of Arizona already covering almost 500 square miles remains completely uncontained and is sending dense smoke billowing across several other states; evacuations have been ordered for several communities. (USA Today)
June 7, 2011, Minor earthquake (4.2) in St. Louis, Missouri area within New Madrid Seismic Zone, one of the few intraplate zones. (Reuters)
June 7, 2011, NATO and Russia conduct first-ever joint military exercises, codenamed 'Vigilant Skies 2011', to improve cooperation to protect passenger flights between NATO member states and Russia and to prevent hijackings such as the September 11 attacks. (AFP)
June 7, 2011, At a news conference with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US President Barack Obama says the United States and its allies may impose additional sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, after Iran says that no offer could halt its enrichment of uranium. (Reuters)
June 7, 2011, The American television network NBC buys the rights for four Olympic Games from 2014 onwards for $4.3 billion. (New York Times)
June 8, 2011, Serbian-American author Téa Obreht becomes the youngest author to win the Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife. (The Telegraph)
June 8, 2011, Hurricane Adrian becomes the first hurricane of the 2011 Pacific hurricane season. (National Hurricane Center)
June 8, 2011, Residents in the US towns of Eagar and Springerville, Arizona are ordered to fully evacuate ahead of the Wallow Fire. (Arizona Republic)
June 8, 2011, 260 miles (420 km) of the Missouri River are closed to boaters as residents of the US states of Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri continue to prepare for heavy flooding, with rain in Montana making the situation worse. (Reuters)
June 8, 2011, The Russian Federal Space Agency successfully launches a Soyuz TMA-02M carrying a Russian, American and Japanese astronaut towards the International Space Station. (Channel 6 News)
June 9, 2011,
June 9, 2011,
June 9, 2011,
June 9, 2011, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: The Government of Japan submits a report to the International Atomic Energy Agency calling for revision of nuclear reactor design standards in the wake of the disaster.(Yomiuri Daichiri)
June 9, 2011, The International Atomic Energy Agency votes to report Syria to the United Nations Security Council over its alleged covert nuclear programme. (BBC)
June 10, 2011,
June 10, 2011, The People's Republic of China's only ratings house that grades sovereign entities, the Dagong Global Credit Rating Company, states that the United States is already defaulting on its debt by allowing the U.S. dollar to devalue against other currencies, diminishing the wealth of China as a U.S. creditor. (AFP via Yahoo!)
June 10, 2011, 2011 Libyan civil war: Fresh NATO airstrikes take place over the capital Tripoli. (Al Jazeera)
-The African Union calls for Muammar Gaddafi to step down and leave Libya. (All Africa)
June 10, 2011, Radioactive cesium above Japanese legal limits is found in tea from the Shizuoka Prefecture, located 300 kilometres from the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. (NHK)
June 11, 2011, Entertainer Bruce Forsyth is knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Others recognised for their contribution to society include actor Colin Firth, and the team which secured England's Ashes victory over Australia. (BBC)
June 11, 2011, 2011 Bahraini protests: More than 10,000 people join an opposition rally for the first time in months calling for reform. (Al Jazeera)
June 11, 2011, At least 4,300 Syrians flee into Turkey amid a government crackdown on protests. (Al Jazeera)
June 11, 2011, South Korea welcomes the return of ancient Korean royal books looted by French troops in 1866, during an invasion of Ganghwa Island in retaliation for Koreans' persecution of French Catholic missionaries. (Yonhap)
June 11, 2011, Over half a million people demonstrate in Rome, Italy, demanding same sex rights. (AGI)
June 12, 2011, The Dallas Mavericks win their first NBA title 4-2 over the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.
June 12, 2011, The International Monetary Fund is hit by a major cyber attack. (The Telegraph)
June 12, 2011, Ash clouds from the erupting Puyehue-Cordon Caulle in Chile disrupt and cancel international flights, leaving thousands stranded. (CNN)
June 13, 2011, Season 4 Premiere of The Secret Life of An American Teenager
June 13, 2011, Tunisian revolution: It is announced that the trial of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, ousted from power during the popular revolution, is to begin on 20 June. (BBC)
June 13, 2011, Eruption of the Nabro Volcano: The long-dormant Nabro Volcano erupts in Eritrea. (Reuters)
-United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flees the volcano, cutting short her visit to the region. (BBC)
June 13, 2011, Tens of thousands of people in Christchurch, New Zealand, are left without power as the city is hit by powerful aftershocks of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. (ABC Online)
June 13, 2011, The US National Weather Service issues a flash flood warning after the Missouri River breaches a levee near Hamburg, Iowa. (AP via The Republic)
June 14, 2011, Release of video game Duke Nukem: Forever
June 14, 2011, Release of video game Alice: Madness Returns
June 14, 2011, Release of video game Child of Eden
June 14, 2011, Series Premiere of 9 Lives of Chloe King
June 14, 2011, Arizona fires: Small communities near the US town of Sierra Vista, Arizona are evacuated due to a wildfire that started in Coronado National Memorial. (Arizona Daily Star)
-The Wallow Fire becomes the largest wildfire in Arizona history. (Incident Information)
June 14, 2011, Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence has arrested Central Intelligence Agency informants who contributed to the raid on Osama bin Laden. (New York Times)
June 14, 2011, An elderly man dies following aftershocks to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, with additional buildings to be demolished. (New Zealand Herald)
June 15, 2011, 2011 Stanley Cup Finals/2011 Vancouver Riot The Boston Bruins defeat the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in Game 7 to win the Stanley Cup Finals in the North American National Hockey League. (National Post)
-Canuck fans riot in Vancouver following the loss. (CTV British Columbia)
-The Vancouver Police Department declares parts of Vancouver as an "illegal assembly" area and use tear gas to get the crowds to disperse as the riot continues. (The Province)
-"Anarchist" rioters smash windows, loot stores and burn vehicles, while some Canucks fans bring garbage bags to clean up the streets following the destruction; at least nine police officers and 150 residents are injured, including stabbing victims. (The Globe and Mail)
June 15, 2011, The first lunar eclipse of the year occurs with it being the first central lunar eclipse since 1990. (The Australian)
June 15, 2011, 2011 Greek uprising: Greek unions initiate a general strike, with protesters vowing to surround the Hellenic Parliament as it prepares to discuss its plans for financial cuts. (Reuters via France 24)
- Greek and Spanish flags fill parliament square alongside banners reading "Resist" and ¡no pasarán! (they shall not pass), dating from the Spanish Civil War. (DAWN)
-The protesters call themselves the "indignants" in solidarity with their Spanish counterparts who camped against cuts in Madrid and Barcelona until the Spanish police forced them out. (Sofia Echo)
June 15, 2011, 2011 Spanish protests: Protesters blockade parliament buildings in Barcelona, in a protest simultaneous with events in Greece, to express their annoyance with government cuts after camping outside overnight. The Presidents of Catalan Government and Parliament avoid the protesters by flying in on helicopters. (BBC)
June 15, 2011, 2011 Libyan civil war:Rebels make fresh gains against forces of Muammar Gaddafi in the east and west of the country. (Al Jazeera)
June 15, 2011, Colum McCann wins the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world's richest literary award, for his novel Let the Great World Spin. (The Irish Times)
June 15, 2011, British public-owned bank Northern Rock is to be privatised by the coalition government. (BBC)
June 16, 2011, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli is hit by a NATO bombing raid. (Al Jazeera)
June 16, 2011, Australian airlines QANTAS and Virgin Australia cancel flights to New Zealand and postpone flights to Argentina due to the continued presence of volcanic ash from the 2011 Puyehue eruption. (Marketwatch)
June 16, 2011, Traces of dioxin are found in stream waters near the United States Army base Camp Carroll in South Korea where drums of Agent Orange were allegedly dumped three decades ago. (Yonhap)
June 16, 2011, U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner of New York resigns his office amidst pressure from Democratic leadership and President Barack Obama after admitting to sending lewd photos via Twitter. (NPR)
June 17, 2011,
June 17, 2011, The Yonhap news agency reports that South Korea has deployed precision-guided missiles capable of hitting the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. (Yonhap News)
June 17, 2011, The U.N. Human Rights Council issues its first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people. (AP via Forbes)
June 17, 2011, An internal Chinese government report, mistakenly made public, shows that more than ten thousand corrupt officials transferred US$123 billion worth of embezzled funds out of the country over 15 years. (The Times via The Australian)
June 17, 2011, Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury of the United Kingdom, announces that the retirement age for British civil servants will be increased to 66, with the exception of the police, armed forces and fire service. (Sky News)
June 18, 2011, American musician Clarence Clemons, best known for his work with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, dies from complications of a stroke. (Bruce Springsteen)
June 18, 2011, NOAA states that 2011 is already one of the most extreme weather years on record. (Scientific American)
June 19, 2011, Series Premiere of Falling Skies
June 19, 2011, 2011 Spanish protests: More than 100,000 people, the "indignant", march on Madrid and other Spanish cities to protest government cuts, unemployment and the policies of the European Commission. (The Age)
June 19, 2011, Alyssa Campanella, Miss California, is crowned as Miss USA. (NPR)
June 20, 2011, Arab Spring: Tunisian revolution: Ousted former President of Tunisia Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife are sentenced to 35 years in prison for misappropriating public funds, with the trial held in absentia. (Al Jazeera)
June 20, 2011, 2011 Egyptian revolution: Ousted former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak has been diagnosed with stomach cancer, says his lawyer, though the head of his medical team says this is not true. (BBC)
June 20, 2011, 2011 Syrian uprising: President of Syria Bashar al-Assad is due to make a speech about "current circumstances" in Syria. (Los Angeles Times)
-Bashar al-Assad's speech fails to please the people as nationwide protests against his regime continue. (Al Jazeera)
June 20, 2011, General Walter L. Sharp, the Commander of United States Forces Korea, warns that North Korea is likely to launch more attacks but states that US and South Korean forces are prepared. (AFP via Inquirer)
June 20, 2011, Nepal experiences its first lesbian wedding ceremony as a lawyer and a college professor tie the knot. (BBC)
June 20, 2011, The Anglican Church in the United Kingdom considers guidelines allowing openly homosexual clergy to become bishops. (AFP via Google News)
June 20, 2011, American Jackass star Ryan Dunn dies in a high-speed accident on U.S. Route 322 in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania. (NBC Philadelphia)
June 20, 2011, Financial group and banking firm PNC Financial Services is to acquire RBC Bank from the Royal Bank of Canada for US$3.45 billion. (Forbes)
June 20, 2011, The Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in Darwin warns that Australian travellers face more disruption from ash from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption in Chile. (WA Today)
June 20, 2011, Hurricane Beatriz becomes the second hurricane of the 2011 Pacific hurricane season. (National Hurricane Centre)
June 20, 2011, U.S. magazine Foreign Policy releases its index of "failed states", with the editor labeling Somalia as an "unequivocably failed state". (Al Jazeera)
June 20, 2011, The United States Supreme Court overturned 8-0 a U.S. appeals court ruling against five big power utility companies, brought by U.S. states, New York City, and Land trusts, attempting to force cuts in United States greenhouse gas emissions regarding global warming. The decision gives deference to reasonable interpretations of the United States Clean Air Act by the Environmental Protection Agency. (Scientific American)
June 21, 2011, Release of video game FEAR 3
June 21, 2011, Release of video game Shadows of the Damned
June 21, 2011,
June 21, 2011, European sovereign debt crisis: Greece: The Greek parliament holds a vote of confidence in government cuts associated with a new €12 billion loan from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. (BBC)
-The International Monetary Fund calls on eurozone countries to provide more money for Greece and to stop what the IMF regards as "unproductive" arguments about burning bondholders. (Irish Independent)
-Civilians peacefully protest en masse outside parliament against government cuts in Greece, though riot police armed with tear gas circulate nearby. (Al Jazeera)
Spain: The IMF issues an annual report calling on the Spanish government to continue to reduce public spending and increase liberalisation of its jobs market. (BBC)
June 21, 2011, Flights in Australia are again disrupted due to volcanic ash from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption in Chile. (WA Today)
June 21, 2011, At the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon wins a second five-year term by acclamation through applause without a vote after the United Nations Security Council fails to put forward another candidate. (Al Jazeera)
June 21, 2011, An Emperor Penguin is sighted on a New Zealand beach, the first time this has happened in 44 years. (BBC)
June 22, 2011,
June 22, 2011, War in Afghanistan (2001–present): The President of the United States Barack Obama announces that 33,000 US troops will be withdrawn from the War in Afghanistan by the northern summer of 2012. (Sydney Morning Herald)
June 22, 2011, Flights resume in southeast Australia as the volcanic ash cloud from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption clears although flights to Tasmania and New Zealand are still affected. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 22, 2011, Fugitive alleged Boston crime boss James J. Bulger is arrested in the US city of Santa Monica, California. (Los Angeles Times)
June 23, 2011, Series Premiere of Wildfred
June 23, 2011, US actor Peter Falk, best known for his role as Columbo, dies at the age of 83. (USA Today)
June 23, 2011, Dozens of gay and lesbian couples tie knots under the new same-sex union laws in Brazil in a world record attempt for mass gay weddings. (BBC)
June 23, 2011, J. K. Rowling's new project Pottermore is to be officially launched, with details of its identity to be revealed for the first time in an announcement by the writer at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington. (The Guardian)
June 23, 2011, Fuel prices including petroleum (oil) prices drop sharply as 28 industrialized nations (International Energy Agency members), including the United States, agree to release 60 million barrels of crude oil from their strategic oil reserves. (Los Angeles Times)
June 23, 2011, Greek labour unions declare a 48-hour general strike next week to protest new austerity measures set to be voted on by the Greek parliament. (CNN)
June 23, 2011, The U.S. Supreme Court rules on freedom of speech grounds against a state's effort to block pharmaceutical companies from selling information about the prescription records of particular doctors. (AP)
June 23, 2011, An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude occurs off the coast of Japan's Iwate prefecture. (Reuters)
June 23, 2011, 2011 Missouri River floods: U.S. nuclear regulators say two nuclear power plants at the Fort Calhoun plant, about 20 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska, have protected critical equipment from the rising waters of the Missouri River even though flooding has already reached the grounds of one of them. (CNN)
June 23, 2011, A 7.3 magnitude earthquake offshore from the US northern state of Alaska leads to a tsunami warning being issued but it is later cancelled. (NOAA)
June 23, 2011, The United Nations says more cocaine is consumed in Scotland than any other country in the world, not the first time this has happened. The country also consumes more heroin than anywhere else in the United Kingdom. (BBC)
June 23, 2011, Accused fraudster and US TV pitchman Don Lapre is arrested in Tempe, Arizona. (Fox Phoenix)
June 23, 2011, The 2011 NBA Draft is held in Newark, New Jersey, with Duke's Kyrie Irving as the #1 pick. (CBS News)
June 24, 2011, The New York Senate votes to legalise same-sex marriage in New York, assuring passage of the legislation and making New York the largest state to approve such legislation since California reversed its legalization in 2008. (Washington Post)
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June 25, 2011, The death toll from the California Zephyr Amtrak train colliding with a truck in the U.S. state of Nevada rises to six, with two dozen passengers unaccounted for. (RGJ)
June 25, 2011, Computer hacking group LulzSec announces that it is disbanding after a final data dump including information from AOL Inc. and AT&T.. (Business Insider)
June 26, 2011, Season 4 Premiere of True Blood
June 26, 2011, Season 4 Premiere of Leverage
June 26, 2011,
June 26, 2011, More than one million people participate in São Paulo's 15th Gay Pride March following the recent improvement in the legal rights afforded to the country's gay community. (BBC)
June 26, 2011, Eruption of Puyehue-Cordón Caulle in Chile: Ash cloud from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption continues to disrupt flights between Australia and New Zealand. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 27, 2011,
June 27, 2011, Greek economic crisis: The Parliament of Greece begins debate on unpopular austerity measures designed to avert the threat of bankruptcy through a 78-billion-euro rescue package. (Reuters via Yahoo News)
June 27, 2011, The Los Angeles Dodgers file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (ESPN.com)
June 27, 2011, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: Tests conducted last month show radioactive cesium has been found in small quantities in residents in the towns of Iitate and Kawamata, Fukushima, located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (CNN)
-Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) begins the pumping of decontaminated water in an attempt to cool damaged reactors. (BBC)
-Nicolas Sarkozy of France plans to invest €1 billion in nuclear power despite the devastation caused by the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan. (BBC)
June 27, 2011, Philip Morris International, the world's largest tobacco corporation, threatens to sue the Australian government in relation to its introduction of plain, brandless cigarette packing. (BBC)
June 27, 2011, Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association: In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States strikes down a 2005 California law prohibiting minors' access to violent or offensive video games, citing them as protected speech under the First Amendment. (AP via Chicago Sun-Times)
June 27, 2011, A jury convicts former Governor of the US state of Illinois Rod Blagojevich on seventeen charges of corruption. (Chicago Tribune)
June 27, 2011, Justin Cannon, a former Blackwater Worldwide (now called Xe Services LLC) employee, is sentenced to thirty months in jail for involuntary manslaughter of an Afghan civilian in a shooting in 2009. (Virginian Pilot)
June 27, 2011, Near-Earth Asteroid 2011 MD passed within 12,000 kilometres (7,500 miles) of the Earth's surface at about 13:00 EDT flying over the South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Antarctica. (ABC Australia)
June 28, 2011, Release of Limp Bizkit album Gold Cobra
June 28, 2011, Release of Jill Scott Album Light of the Sun
June 28, 2011, Los Alamos National Laboratory, a major U.S. nuclear weapons research facility, is shut down and is to remain closed as fire fighters battle a raging wildfire nearby. (BBC)
June 28, 2011, 2010–2011 Greek protests: Greek trade unions go on a general strike with transport links including airline flights being cancelled. (AFP via France 24)
-Police fire tear gas and stun grenades on the anti-austerity protest in Athens, causing injuries and breathing difficulties. (BBC)
-The protesters include doctors, ambulance drivers, journalists and actors plying their trade at a state-funded theatre. (Al Jazeera)
June 28, 2011, Attack on Kabul InterContinental Hotel: Afghan militants attack the Kabul InterContinental Hotel resulting in the deaths of nine Taliban members and five or six hotel workers or guests. (CNN)
-NATO helicopters fire on the hotel roof. (BBC)
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June 28, 2011, 2011 Egyptian revolution: A Cairo court rules in favour of calls by anti-regime protesters and rules Egypt's local councils elected under the ousted regime of Hosni Mubarak are to be dissolved. (Al Jazeera)
-Egyptian protesters clash with police in Cairo's Tahrir Square. (Al-Jazeera)
June 28, 2011, Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister since 2007, is named the new head the International Monetary Fund (IMF) following the resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (BBC)
June 28, 2011, The crew of the International Space Station rush to a rescue shuttle amid concern of the need for a possible emergency evacuation back to Earth as a piece of space debris hurtles dangerously close. (BBC)
June 28, 2011, The United Nations reports the worst drought in six decades is affecting more than 10 million people and forced people in Somalia to flee to Kenya and Ethiopia as they starve to death. (BBC)
June 28, 2011, In baseball, a judge in the U.S. state of Delaware authorizes the Los Angeles Dodgers to enter into a $150 million bankruptcy financing deal after the club addresses concerns of Major League Baseball. (AP via News 3)
June 29, 2011, Season 3 Premiere of Royal Pains
June 29, 2011, A wildfire worsens near major U.S. nuclear weapons research lab Los Alamos National Laboratory in the U.S. state of New Mexico; residents express concern about contamination. (BBC)
June 1, 2011,
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June 1, 2011, A United Nations nuclear safety team looking into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster claims that Japan underestimated the potential threat of tsunamis to nuclear power plants. (Reuters)
June 1, 2011, South Korea reissues an invitation to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to a nuclear summit next year. (Yonhap)
June 1, 2011, The U.S. government states that it will boycott a United Nations anti-racism conference because of concerns over anti-Semitism. (AP via Washington Post)
June 1, 2011, The Space Shuttle Endeavour finishes its final mission. (AP via Google News)
June 1, 2011, Veteran US National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal announces his retirement by Twitter. (Shaquille O'Neal)
June 2, 2011,
June 2, 2011,
June 2, 2011,
June 2, 2011, Julian Assange of Wikileaks wins the 2011 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. (journalism)
June 2, 2011, The finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee are held in the US town of Oxon Hill, Maryland with Sukanya Roy of South Abington, Pennsylvania. (NPR)
June 2, 2011, Following the PlayStation Network outage, the Sony website SonyPictures.com has been hacked, with unencrypted passwords and personal information of Sony customers within the website's database being discovered by the hackers. (BBC)
June 2, 2011, The 2011 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group "C40" summit concludes in São Paulo. (New York Times)
June 3, 2011, Release of X-men First Class
June 3, 2011, Release of Beginners
June 3, 2011, John Edwards, former United States presidential candidate and Senator representing North Carolina, is indicted on charges of conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws in connection to his affair with Rielle Hunter; Edwards denies he broke any laws. (CNN)
June 3, 2011, American right-to-die activist Jack Kevorkian dies in Royal Oak, Michigan of pneumonia and kidney problems. (Toronto Star)
June 3, 2011,
June 3, 2011, 2011 Egyptian revolution: A female journalist is attacked in Cairo's Tahrir Square while covering a demonstration demanding an immediate trial for former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak. (RIA Novosti)
June 3, 2011, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, announces the sale of the US government's stake in Chrysler to Italian automaker Fiat at a visit to a plant at Toledo, Ohio. (Detroit Free Press)
June 3, 2011, 2011 Missouri River floods: Residents in North Dakota and South Dakota evacuate due to flooding of the Missouri River. (Reuters)
June 3, 2011, The United States House of Representatives votes in favour of a non-binding resolution asking the Obama administration to seek Congressional authorization for the intervention in Libya. (ABC News)
June 4, 2011,
June 4, 2011,
June 4, 2011,
June 4, 2011, Arab Spring: NATO begins using attack helicopters for the first time in air operations over Libya. (NATO)
June 5, 2011, Series Premiere Teen Wolf
June 5, 2011,
June 5, 2011,
June 5, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass in the Croatian capital Zagreb. (UPI)
June 6, 2011, Series Premiere Switched at Birth
June 6, 2011, U.S. House Representative Anthony Weiner of New York admits sending a risqué picture of himself to a college student on Twitter. (Associated Press)
June 6, 2011, Apple Inc. launches its new iCloud service at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. (Sydney Morning Herald)
June 6, 2011,
June 6, 2011,
June 6, 2011,
June 6, 2011,
June 6, 2011, Residents of three Western United States towns - Springerville, Arizona, Eagar, Arizona and Luna, New Mexico - are warned to prepare for evacuation ahead of the Wallow Fire. one of the biggest in Arizona history. (Arizona Daily Star)
June 6, 2011, Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be arraigned on sexual assault charges in the US state of New York. (The Telegraph)
June 7, 2011, Release of video game Red Faction: Armageddon
June 7, 2011, Release of video game Flashpoint: Red River
June 7, 2011, Nintendo unveils its new video game system, Wii U, featuring a touch-screen display designed to be a bridge between console video games and portable and tablet-based games, to be released next year. (USA Today)
June 7, 2011, A massive wildfire burning in the US state of Arizona already covering almost 500 square miles remains completely uncontained and is sending dense smoke billowing across several other states; evacuations have been ordered for several communities. (USA Today)
June 7, 2011, Minor earthquake (4.2) in St. Louis, Missouri area within New Madrid Seismic Zone, one of the few intraplate zones. (Reuters)
June 7, 2011, NATO and Russia conduct first-ever joint military exercises, codenamed 'Vigilant Skies 2011', to improve cooperation to protect passenger flights between NATO member states and Russia and to prevent hijackings such as the September 11 attacks. (AFP)
June 7, 2011, At a news conference with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US President Barack Obama says the United States and its allies may impose additional sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, after Iran says that no offer could halt its enrichment of uranium. (Reuters)
June 7, 2011, The American television network NBC buys the rights for four Olympic Games from 2014 onwards for $4.3 billion. (New York Times)
June 8, 2011, Serbian-American author Téa Obreht becomes the youngest author to win the Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife. (The Telegraph)
June 8, 2011, Hurricane Adrian becomes the first hurricane of the 2011 Pacific hurricane season. (National Hurricane Center)
June 8, 2011, Residents in the US towns of Eagar and Springerville, Arizona are ordered to fully evacuate ahead of the Wallow Fire. (Arizona Republic)
June 8, 2011, 260 miles (420 km) of the Missouri River are closed to boaters as residents of the US states of Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri continue to prepare for heavy flooding, with rain in Montana making the situation worse. (Reuters)
June 8, 2011, The Russian Federal Space Agency successfully launches a Soyuz TMA-02M carrying a Russian, American and Japanese astronaut towards the International Space Station. (Channel 6 News)
June 9, 2011,
June 9, 2011,
June 9, 2011,
June 9, 2011, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: The Government of Japan submits a report to the International Atomic Energy Agency calling for revision of nuclear reactor design standards in the wake of the disaster.(Yomiuri Daichiri)
June 9, 2011, The International Atomic Energy Agency votes to report Syria to the United Nations Security Council over its alleged covert nuclear programme. (BBC)
June 10, 2011,
June 10, 2011, The People's Republic of China's only ratings house that grades sovereign entities, the Dagong Global Credit Rating Company, states that the United States is already defaulting on its debt by allowing the U.S. dollar to devalue against other currencies, diminishing the wealth of China as a U.S. creditor. (AFP via Yahoo!)
June 10, 2011, 2011 Libyan civil war: Fresh NATO airstrikes take place over the capital Tripoli. (Al Jazeera)
-The African Union calls for Muammar Gaddafi to step down and leave Libya. (All Africa)
June 10, 2011, Radioactive cesium above Japanese legal limits is found in tea from the Shizuoka Prefecture, located 300 kilometres from the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. (NHK)
June 11, 2011, Entertainer Bruce Forsyth is knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Others recognised for their contribution to society include actor Colin Firth, and the team which secured England's Ashes victory over Australia. (BBC)
June 11, 2011, 2011 Bahraini protests: More than 10,000 people join an opposition rally for the first time in months calling for reform. (Al Jazeera)
June 11, 2011, At least 4,300 Syrians flee into Turkey amid a government crackdown on protests. (Al Jazeera)
June 11, 2011, South Korea welcomes the return of ancient Korean royal books looted by French troops in 1866, during an invasion of Ganghwa Island in retaliation for Koreans' persecution of French Catholic missionaries. (Yonhap)
June 11, 2011, Over half a million people demonstrate in Rome, Italy, demanding same sex rights. (AGI)
June 12, 2011, The Dallas Mavericks win their first NBA title 4-2 over the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.
June 12, 2011, The International Monetary Fund is hit by a major cyber attack. (The Telegraph)
June 12, 2011, Ash clouds from the erupting Puyehue-Cordon Caulle in Chile disrupt and cancel international flights, leaving thousands stranded. (CNN)
June 13, 2011, Season 4 Premiere of The Secret Life of An American Teenager
June 13, 2011, Eruption of the Nabro Volcano: The long-dormant Nabro Volcano erupts in Eritrea. (Reuters)
-United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flees the volcano, cutting short her visit to the region. (BBC)
June 13, 2011, Tens of thousands of people in Christchurch, New Zealand, are left without power as the city is hit by powerful aftershocks of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. (ABC Online)
June 13, 2011, The US National Weather Service issues a flash flood warning after the Missouri River breaches a levee near Hamburg, Iowa. (AP via The Republic)
June 14, 2011, Release of video game Duke Nukem: Forever
June 14, 2011, Release of video game Alice: Madness Returns
June 14, 2011, Release of video game Child of Eden
June 14, 2011, Series Premiere of 9 Lives of Chloe King
June 14, 2011, Arizona fires: Small communities near the US town of Sierra Vista, Arizona are evacuated due to a wildfire that started in Coronado National Memorial. (Arizona Daily Star)
-The Wallow Fire becomes the largest wildfire in Arizona history. (Incident Information)
June 14, 2011, Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence has arrested Central Intelligence Agency informants who contributed to the raid on Osama bin Laden. (New York Times)
June 14, 2011, An elderly man dies following aftershocks to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, with additional buildings to be demolished. (New Zealand Herald)
June 15, 2011, 2011 Stanley Cup Finals/2011 Vancouver Riot The Boston Bruins defeat the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in Game 7 to win the Stanley Cup Finals in the North American National Hockey League. (National Post)
-Canuck fans riot in Vancouver following the loss. (CTV British Columbia)
-The Vancouver Police Department declares parts of Vancouver as an "illegal assembly" area and use tear gas to get the crowds to disperse as the riot continues. (The Province)
-"Anarchist" rioters smash windows, loot stores and burn vehicles, while some Canucks fans bring garbage bags to clean up the streets following the destruction; at least nine police officers and 150 residents are injured, including stabbing victims. (The Globe and Mail)
June 15, 2011, The first lunar eclipse of the year occurs with it being the first central lunar eclipse since 1990. (The Australian)
June 15, 2011, 2011 Greek uprising: Greek unions initiate a general strike, with protesters vowing to surround the Hellenic Parliament as it prepares to discuss its plans for financial cuts. (Reuters via France 24)
- Greek and Spanish flags fill parliament square alongside banners reading "Resist" and ¡no pasarán! (they shall not pass), dating from the Spanish Civil War. (DAWN)
-The protesters call themselves the "indignants" in solidarity with their Spanish counterparts who camped against cuts in Madrid and Barcelona until the Spanish police forced them out. (Sofia Echo)
June 15, 2011, 2011 Spanish protests: Protesters blockade parliament buildings in Barcelona, in a protest simultaneous with events in Greece, to express their annoyance with government cuts after camping outside overnight. The Presidents of Catalan Government and Parliament avoid the protesters by flying in on helicopters. (BBC)
June 15, 2011, 2011 Libyan civil war:Rebels make fresh gains against forces of Muammar Gaddafi in the east and west of the country. (Al Jazeera)
June 15, 2011, Colum McCann wins the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world's richest literary award, for his novel Let the Great World Spin. (The Irish Times)
June 15, 2011, British public-owned bank Northern Rock is to be privatised by the coalition government. (BBC)
June 16, 2011, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli is hit by a NATO bombing raid. (Al Jazeera)
June 16, 2011, Australian airlines QANTAS and Virgin Australia cancel flights to New Zealand and postpone flights to Argentina due to the continued presence of volcanic ash from the 2011 Puyehue eruption. (Marketwatch)
June 16, 2011, Traces of dioxin are found in stream waters near the United States Army base Camp Carroll in South Korea where drums of Agent Orange were allegedly dumped three decades ago. (Yonhap)
June 16, 2011, U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner of New York resigns his office amidst pressure from Democratic leadership and President Barack Obama after admitting to sending lewd photos via Twitter. (NPR)
June 17, 2011,
June 17, 2011, The Yonhap news agency reports that South Korea has deployed precision-guided missiles capable of hitting the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. (Yonhap News)
June 17, 2011, The U.N. Human Rights Council issues its first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people. (AP via Forbes)
June 17, 2011, An internal Chinese government report, mistakenly made public, shows that more than ten thousand corrupt officials transferred US$123 billion worth of embezzled funds out of the country over 15 years. (The Times via The Australian)
June 17, 2011, Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury of the United Kingdom, announces that the retirement age for British civil servants will be increased to 66, with the exception of the police, armed forces and fire service. (Sky News)
June 18, 2011, American musician Clarence Clemons, best known for his work with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, dies from complications of a stroke. (Bruce Springsteen)
June 18, 2011, NOAA states that 2011 is already one of the most extreme weather years on record. (Scientific American)
June 19, 2011, Series Premiere of Falling Skies
June 19, 2011, 2011 Spanish protests: More than 100,000 people, the "indignant", march on Madrid and other Spanish cities to protest government cuts, unemployment and the policies of the European Commission. (The Age)
June 19, 2011, Alyssa Campanella, Miss California, is crowned as Miss USA. (NPR)
June 20, 2011, Arab Spring: Tunisian revolution: Ousted former President of Tunisia Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife are sentenced to 35 years in prison for misappropriating public funds, with the trial held in absentia. (Al Jazeera)
June 20, 2011, 2011 Egyptian revolution: Ousted former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak has been diagnosed with stomach cancer, says his lawyer, though the head of his medical team says this is not true. (BBC)
June 20, 2011, 2011 Syrian uprising: President of Syria Bashar al-Assad is due to make a speech about "current circumstances" in Syria. (Los Angeles Times)
-Bashar al-Assad's speech fails to please the people as nationwide protests against his regime continue. (Al Jazeera)
June 20, 2011, General Walter L. Sharp, the Commander of United States Forces Korea, warns that North Korea is likely to launch more attacks but states that US and South Korean forces are prepared. (AFP via Inquirer)
June 20, 2011, Nepal experiences its first lesbian wedding ceremony as a lawyer and a college professor tie the knot. (BBC)
June 20, 2011, The Anglican Church in the United Kingdom considers guidelines allowing openly homosexual clergy to become bishops. (AFP via Google News)
June 20, 2011, American Jackass star Ryan Dunn dies in a high-speed accident on U.S. Route 322 in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania. (NBC Philadelphia)
June 20, 2011, Financial group and banking firm PNC Financial Services is to acquire RBC Bank from the Royal Bank of Canada for US$3.45 billion. (Forbes)
June 20, 2011, The Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in Darwin warns that Australian travellers face more disruption from ash from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption in Chile. (WA Today)
June 20, 2011, Hurricane Beatriz becomes the second hurricane of the 2011 Pacific hurricane season. (National Hurricane Centre)
June 20, 2011, U.S. magazine Foreign Policy releases its index of "failed states", with the editor labeling Somalia as an "unequivocably failed state". (Al Jazeera)
June 20, 2011, The United States Supreme Court overturned 8-0 a U.S. appeals court ruling against five big power utility companies, brought by U.S. states, New York City, and Land trusts, attempting to force cuts in United States greenhouse gas emissions regarding global warming. The decision gives deference to reasonable interpretations of the United States Clean Air Act by the Environmental Protection Agency. (Scientific American)
June 21, 2011, Release of video game FEAR 3
June 21, 2011, Release of video game Shadows of the Damned
June 21, 2011,
June 21, 2011, European sovereign debt crisis: Greece: The Greek parliament holds a vote of confidence in government cuts associated with a new €12 billion loan from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. (BBC)
-The International Monetary Fund calls on eurozone countries to provide more money for Greece and to stop what the IMF regards as "unproductive" arguments about burning bondholders. (Irish Independent)
-Civilians peacefully protest en masse outside parliament against government cuts in Greece, though riot police armed with tear gas circulate nearby. (Al Jazeera)
Spain: The IMF issues an annual report calling on the Spanish government to continue to reduce public spending and increase liberalisation of its jobs market. (BBC)
June 21, 2011, Flights in Australia are again disrupted due to volcanic ash from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption in Chile. (WA Today)
June 21, 2011, At the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon wins a second five-year term by acclamation through applause without a vote after the United Nations Security Council fails to put forward another candidate. (Al Jazeera)
June 21, 2011, An Emperor Penguin is sighted on a New Zealand beach, the first time this has happened in 44 years. (BBC)
June 22, 2011,
June 22, 2011, War in Afghanistan (2001–present): The President of the United States Barack Obama announces that 33,000 US troops will be withdrawn from the War in Afghanistan by the northern summer of 2012. (Sydney Morning Herald)
June 22, 2011, Flights resume in southeast Australia as the volcanic ash cloud from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption clears although flights to Tasmania and New Zealand are still affected. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 22, 2011, Fugitive alleged Boston crime boss James J. Bulger is arrested in the US city of Santa Monica, California. (Los Angeles Times)
June 23, 2011, Series Premiere of Wildfred
June 23, 2011, US actor Peter Falk, best known for his role as Columbo, dies at the age of 83. (USA Today)
June 23, 2011, Dozens of gay and lesbian couples tie knots under the new same-sex union laws in Brazil in a world record attempt for mass gay weddings. (BBC)
June 23, 2011, J. K. Rowling's new project Pottermore is to be officially launched, with details of its identity to be revealed for the first time in an announcement by the writer at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington. (The Guardian)
June 23, 2011, Fuel prices including petroleum (oil) prices drop sharply as 28 industrialized nations (International Energy Agency members), including the United States, agree to release 60 million barrels of crude oil from their strategic oil reserves. (Los Angeles Times)
June 23, 2011, Greek labour unions declare a 48-hour general strike next week to protest new austerity measures set to be voted on by the Greek parliament. (CNN)
June 23, 2011, The U.S. Supreme Court rules on freedom of speech grounds against a state's effort to block pharmaceutical companies from selling information about the prescription records of particular doctors. (AP)
June 23, 2011, An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude occurs off the coast of Japan's Iwate prefecture. (Reuters)
June 23, 2011, 2011 Missouri River floods: U.S. nuclear regulators say two nuclear power plants at the Fort Calhoun plant, about 20 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska, have protected critical equipment from the rising waters of the Missouri River even though flooding has already reached the grounds of one of them. (CNN)
June 23, 2011, A 7.3 magnitude earthquake offshore from the US northern state of Alaska leads to a tsunami warning being issued but it is later cancelled. (NOAA)
June 23, 2011, The United Nations says more cocaine is consumed in Scotland than any other country in the world, not the first time this has happened. The country also consumes more heroin than anywhere else in the United Kingdom. (BBC)
June 23, 2011, Accused fraudster and US TV pitchman Don Lapre is arrested in Tempe, Arizona. (Fox Phoenix)
June 23, 2011, The 2011 NBA Draft is held in Newark, New Jersey, with Duke's Kyrie Irving as the #1 pick. (CBS News)
June 24, 2011, The New York Senate votes to legalise same-sex marriage in New York, assuring passage of the legislation and making New York the largest state to approve such legislation since California reversed its legalization in 2008. (Washington Post)
June 24, 2011,
June 25, 2011,
June 25, 2011, The death toll from the California Zephyr Amtrak train colliding with a truck in the U.S. state of Nevada rises to six, with two dozen passengers unaccounted for. (RGJ)
June 25, 2011, Computer hacking group LulzSec announces that it is disbanding after a final data dump including information from AOL Inc. and AT&T.. (Business Insider)
June 26, 2011, Season 4 Premiere of True Blood
June 26, 2011, Season 4 Premiere of Leverage
June 26, 2011,
June 26, 2011, More than one million people participate in São Paulo's 15th Gay Pride March following the recent improvement in the legal rights afforded to the country's gay community. (BBC)
June 26, 2011, Eruption of Puyehue-Cordón Caulle in Chile: Ash cloud from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption continues to disrupt flights between Australia and New Zealand. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 27, 2011,
June 27, 2011, Greek economic crisis: The Parliament of Greece begins debate on unpopular austerity measures designed to avert the threat of bankruptcy through a 78-billion-euro rescue package. (Reuters via Yahoo News)
June 27, 2011, The Los Angeles Dodgers file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (ESPN.com)
June 27, 2011, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: Tests conducted last month show radioactive cesium has been found in small quantities in residents in the towns of Iitate and Kawamata, Fukushima, located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (CNN)
-Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) begins the pumping of decontaminated water in an attempt to cool damaged reactors. (BBC)
-Nicolas Sarkozy of France plans to invest €1 billion in nuclear power despite the devastation caused by the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan. (BBC)
June 27, 2011, Philip Morris International, the world's largest tobacco corporation, threatens to sue the Australian government in relation to its introduction of plain, brandless cigarette packing. (BBC)
June 27, 2011, Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association: In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States strikes down a 2005 California law prohibiting minors' access to violent or offensive video games, citing them as protected speech under the First Amendment. (AP via Chicago Sun-Times)
June 27, 2011, A jury convicts former Governor of the US state of Illinois Rod Blagojevich on seventeen charges of corruption. (Chicago Tribune)
June 27, 2011, Justin Cannon, a former Blackwater Worldwide (now called Xe Services LLC) employee, is sentenced to thirty months in jail for involuntary manslaughter of an Afghan civilian in a shooting in 2009. (Virginian Pilot)
June 27, 2011, Near-Earth Asteroid 2011 MD passed within 12,000 kilometres (7,500 miles) of the Earth's surface at about 13:00 EDT flying over the South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Antarctica. (ABC Australia)
June 28, 2011, Release of Limp Bizkit album Gold Cobra
June 28, 2011, Release of Jill Scott Album Light of the Sun
June 28, 2011, Los Alamos National Laboratory, a major U.S. nuclear weapons research facility, is shut down and is to remain closed as fire fighters battle a raging wildfire nearby. (BBC)
June 28, 2011, 2010–2011 Greek protests: Greek trade unions go on a general strike with transport links including airline flights being cancelled. (AFP via France 24)
-Police fire tear gas and stun grenades on the anti-austerity protest in Athens, causing injuries and breathing difficulties. (BBC)
-The protesters include doctors, ambulance drivers, journalists and actors plying their trade at a state-funded theatre. (Al Jazeera)
June 28, 2011, Attack on Kabul InterContinental Hotel: Afghan militants attack the Kabul InterContinental Hotel resulting in the deaths of nine Taliban members and five or six hotel workers or guests. (CNN)
-NATO helicopters fire on the hotel roof. (BBC)
June 28, 2011,
June 28, 2011,
June 28, 2011, 2011 Egyptian revolution: A Cairo court rules in favour of calls by anti-regime protesters and rules Egypt's local councils elected under the ousted regime of Hosni Mubarak are to be dissolved. (Al Jazeera)
-Egyptian protesters clash with police in Cairo's Tahrir Square. (Al-Jazeera)
June 28, 2011, Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister since 2007, is named the new head the International Monetary Fund (IMF) following the resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (BBC)
June 28, 2011, The crew of the International Space Station rush to a rescue shuttle amid concern of the need for a possible emergency evacuation back to Earth as a piece of space debris hurtles dangerously close. (BBC)
June 28, 2011, The United Nations reports the worst drought in six decades is affecting more than 10 million people and forced people in Somalia to flee to Kenya and Ethiopia as they starve to death. (BBC)
June 28, 2011, In baseball, a judge in the U.S. state of Delaware authorizes the Los Angeles Dodgers to enter into a $150 million bankruptcy financing deal after the club addresses concerns of Major League Baseball. (AP via News 3)
June 29, 2011, Season 3 Premiere of Royal Pains
June 29, 2011, A wildfire worsens near major U.S. nuclear weapons research lab Los Alamos National Laboratory in the U.S. state of New Mexico; residents express concern about contamination. (BBC)
June 29, 2011, 2011 Egyptian revolution:
At least 66 people are injured in violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Cairo's Tahrir Square. (Al Jazeera)
-Protesters demand the resignation of the head of the military council General Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and interior minister Mansour Essawi over the violence blamed on police, the worst the country has seen in weeks since the toppling of the Hosni Mubarak-led regime. (BBC)
June 29, 2011, Freedom Flotilla II: The international flotilla sets sail one year after the deadly raid on a previous flotilla by Israeli commandos in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea. (Asia Times Online)
June 29, 2011, Greek protests against government cuts: Barriers, batons and tear gas are in use as hundreds of riot police engage with demonstrators around the Greek parliament building over the government cuts. (The Guardian)
-Greek MPs call this "chemical warfare" against civilians
"outrageous" and state that it has "assumed lethal dimensions", with a
chorus of complaints rising against the police for overreacting
violently and hitting protesters. (The Guardian)
-BBC correspondent in Athens calls riot police response brutal and of
the kind that would not be tolerated in other European nations, as
police threw stones and pieces of marble at the protesters and even
threw tear gas inside a metro station. (BBC)
-The Greek parliament votes in favor of austerity measures to deal with the country's economic crisis; global markets rise as a result. (The Guardian)
June 29, 2011, Research by Brown University finds the U.S. wars on Iraq and Afghanistan are expected to cost at least $3.2 trillion, and maybe as much as $4.4 trillion, higher than previously expected. (Al Jazeera)
June 29, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI launches a new Vatican website, news.va, and performs the first tweet by a pope. (AFP via Herald-Sun)
June 29, 2011, The Alderney Gambling Control Commission suspends Full Tilt Poker's gaming license prior to a hearing over an indictment by the United States Department of Justice. (Las Vegas Review Journal)
June 29, 2011, Media conglomerate News Corporation sells MySpace to Specific Media. (BBC)
June 29, 2011, North Korea accuses South Korea of slander and threatens "a retaliatory sacred war". (AFP via Channel News Asia)
June 29, 2011, The Rhode Island General Assembly passes legislation allowing same-sex couples in the US state to enter civil unions. (ABC 6)
June 30, 2011, Glenn Beck hosts his final program on the US Fox News Channel. (New York times)
June 30, 2011, Samsung Electronics lodges a claim with the US International Trade Commission to stop Apple Inc. importing six products including the iPhone, iPod and iPads for alleged patent infringements. (Yonhap)
June 30, 2011, According to a study by a team of epidemiologists and physicians, evidence "strongly suggests" that United Nations peacekeepers brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people. (AP via Google News)
June 30, 2011, Tropical Storm Arlene, the first tropical storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, makes landfall near Cabo Rojo bringing heavy rain to Mexico and southern Texas. (Houston Chronicle)
June 30, 2011, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge start a nine-day 2011 royal tour of Canada. (Canadian Press via Winnipeg Free Press)
June 30, 2011, Protests against austerity in Greece: The Greek parliament in Athens holds a second vote on cuts, this one to put in place pay cuts, tax increases, privatisations and redundancies. (BBC)
-Protests continue outside parliament as MPs consider this the second part of their austerity package. (Al Jazeera)
-Greece's rulers pass the second austerity bill asked for by the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by a margin of 155 in favour of it, 136 against it and 5 abstaining. (Al Jazeera)
June 30, 2011, Protests against austerity in the UK:
Hundreds of thousands of people go on strike across the United Kingdom
in relation to worsening pension conditions being discussed by the
government and opposition, while MPs from both the government and
opposition condemn them for going on strike. (BBC)
June 30, 2011, 2011 Spanish protests:
Riot police in full gear surround scores of "indignados" protesting
against austerity, political corruption and rising unemployment and
evict them from their six-week encampment in Barcelona's Plaza de Catalunya. (AFP via Google News)
June 30, 2011, Owners in the North American National Basketball Association are expected to start a lockout after failing to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. (Washington Post)
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