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, 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 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 and the GrooGrux King.
June 2, 2009, Release of K11 Album Voices from Thelema.
June 2, 2009, Bruno and Eminem 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, Release of Search Engine Bing By Microsoft.
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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)
June 3, 2009, Marilynne Robinson wins the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel, Home. (BBC)
June 4, 2009, Series Premiere of Royal Pains
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, 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" strikes plea bargain with U.S. over pot seed sales.(680)
June 5, 2009, Release of Land of the Lost
June 5, 2009, Release of Hangover
June 5, 2009, Release of Away We Go
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, Palm, Inc. launches its new Palm Pre smartphone. (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 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, Series Premiere of Nurse Jackie
June 8, 2009, Season 5 Premiere of Weeds
June 8, 2009, Release of Placebo album Battle for the Sun
June 8, 2009, Release of Little Boots album Illuminations
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, 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
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.(Link)
June 12, 2009, The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Detroit Redwings in game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals
June 13, 2009, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom celebrates her 83rd birthday at Trooping the Colour. (Fox News)
June 13, 2009, North Korea announces it will "weaponize 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, Season 2 Premiere of True Blood
June 14, 2009, Los Angeles Lakers win 15th NBA Championship defeating the Orlando magic, Kobe Bryant 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, 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, Series Premiere of Hawthorne
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)
-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 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 Gypsies 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 stabilized 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)
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, Season 4 Premiere of Hotel Babylon
June 19, 2009, Release of The Proposal
June 19, 2009, Release of Year One
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, 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, JibJab "He's Barak Obama".
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)
June 21, 2009, Summer Solstice
June 21, 2009, Mini - Series Premiere of Impact
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, Season 2 Premiere of The Secret Life of An American Teenager
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, 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 23, 2009, Ed McMahon dies at age of 86.(CNN).
June 24, 2009, Release of Transformers: The Fallen Angel
June 24, 2009, Release of Moby Album Wait for Me
June 24, 2009, Series Premiere of The Philanthropist
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 is traded from the Phoenix Suns to Cleveland Cavaliers.
June 25, 2009, 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)
-Drug complications Lead to Jackson's Death.(HuffPost)
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
June 28, 2009, 'Infomercial King' Billy Mays Found Dead in Home at age 50.(Fox)
[Update: August 7, 2009, Cocaine tied to TV pitchman's death.(ABC) ]
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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