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Current events of June 1, 2008 (2008-06-01) (Sunday) edit history watch Thirteen people are killed and 14 others injured in a bus crash in Anzoátegui, Venezuela. (Xinhua) At least 8 people are suffocated at the Samuel K. Doe stadium in Monrovia, Liberia in a 2010 World Cup qualification match between Liberia and Gambia. (AP via CNNSI) The Rajasthan Royals led by Shane Warne win the first Indian Premier League cricket competition defeating the Chennai Super Kings in the final at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. (AAP via Fox Sports) United States presidential election, 2008: New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the Puerto Rico Democratic primary, 2008. (The Guardian) The Australian Army ends its combat role in Iraq, as about 500 troops withdraw from Nasiriyah. (Reuters) Macedonian voters go to the polls for the Macedonian parliamentary election, 2008 with reports of violence in ethnic Albanian areas. The Prime Minister of Macedonia Nikola Gruevski claims victory for his centre-right party. (Reuters) (BBC News) Voters in the Bolivian departments of Beni and Pando go to the polls for autonomy referendums. (AP via CNN) A large fire breaks out at Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles. There was at least one explosion. (Sky News)
Current events of June 2, 2008 (2008-06-02) (Monday) edit history watch A SNCF train runs into a school bus at a level crossing at Mesinges, near the town of Allinges in the mountainous Haute Savoie area of France with at least six people killed. (Reuters) Astronomers using the Mount John University Observatory discover MOA-2007-BLG-192-L b, the smallest known extrasolar planet which does not orbit a pulsar (PhysOrg.com) A suicide bomber strikes outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad with at least eight people dead. (CNN) Subprime mortgage crisis Wachovia, the fourth largest bank in the United States, fires its Chief Executive Officer, G. Kennedy Thompson, due to losses incurred in the subprime mortgage crisis. (Bloomberg) The Bank of England says that new mortgage approvals in the United Kingdom in April were at record lows. (The Guardian) Supreme Court of the United States: In United States v. Santos, by a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court takes a narrow interpretation of federal laws regarding money laundering, and uses the decision in Cuellar v. United States to unanimously overturn the money laundering conviction of Humberto Cuellar. (Fox News) The Supreme Court refuses to hear Major League Baseball Advanced Media v. C.B.C. Major League Baseball had sought to overturn a judgement against them in state court in Missouri that permitted C.B.C. to run fantasy baseball leagues using real player names without a license from MLB. (Sports Illustrated) The International Atomic Energy Agency will send an inspection team to Syria to investigate claims by the United States that it was secretly building a nuclear reactor. (Reuters) The United Nations Security Council goes on a mission to Africa with the first leg of the mission to Djibouti to discuss the Somali Civil War. (BBC News) The United Nations Security Council unanimously passes a declaration allowing foreign naval vessels to enter Somali territorial waters to deal with pirates. (BBC News)
Current events of June 3, 2008 (2008-06-03) (Tuesday) edit history watch 400 metre relay team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney following an admission that he used EPO and human growth hormone between 1997 and 2003. Michael Johnson, another member of the team, returns his gold medal on the grounds that it was "tainted". (AP via Forbes) (AP via CNN) Antonio Pettigrew hands back the gold medal he won as part of the United States 4 China National Petroleum Corporation signs an agreement to produce oil in Niger. (BBC News) General Motors announces it will close 4 pickup truck and sports utility vehicle factories in Janesville, Wisconsin, Oshawa, Ontario, Moraine, Ohio, and Toluca, State of Mexico, eliminating 10,000 jobs; it also announces plans for a small car that will achieve 45 miles per gallon in response to rising fuel prices. (AP via Google News) NASA reveals that Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center sustained unusual amounts of damage during the launch of STS-124. They are unsure what caused the damage, but are certain it will not cause any delay for the next launch, STS-125, in October. (CBS News via Spaceflight Now) United States Democratic Party primaries, 2008: Illinois Senator Barack Obama wins the Democratic Party presumptive nomination, becoming the first African American to be nominated by a major party. (AP via Time), (BBC) Senator Obama wins the Montana Democratic primary, 2008. New York Senator Hillary Clinton wins the South Dakota Democratic primary, 2008. (BBC) The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization opens the High-Level Conference on World Food Security in Rome, focusing on the world food price crisis, climate change and agriculture and food vs fuel issues. Three people are dead and many more injured as a result of flooding in the Zollernalbkreis region in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. (CNN)
Current events of June 4, 2008 (2008-06-04) (Wednesday) edit history watch The Detroit Red Wings defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 in the sixth game to win the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals 4-2. (AP via Google News) (CBC) Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for the 2008 Danish embassy bombing stating it was revenge for the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. (Bloomberg) Tony Rezko, a Chicago property developer and former fundraiser for Barack Obama, is convicted on 16 charges of corruption. (Chicago Tribune via Los Angeles Times) A coolant leak at Krško Nuclear Power Plant in Slovenia triggers the European Union's ECURIE nuclear emergency alert system. Slovenian authorities state the situation is under control, with no radiation leak into the environment. (BBC News) Reassembly of the Obelisk of Axum begins in Axum, after the monument was returned to Ethiopia from Italy in 2005. (BBC News) The International Olympic Committee releases a shortlist of 2016 Summer Olympics bids consisting of Chicago, United States; Tokyo, Japan; Madrid, Spain; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Sports Network) Zimbabwean police detain Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai while campaigning in the second round of the Zimbabwe presidential election. He is later released after eight hours in detention. (The Times) (BBC News) Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas announces plans to avoid recession as growth of the Lithuanian economy slows. (Bloomberg) The Malaysian government announces a 40% increase in fuel prices, with gasoline rising from 1.92 ringgit (US$0.61) per litre to 2.70 ringgit by midnight. (BBC News) (International Herald Tirbune)
Current events of June 5, 2008 (2008-06-05) (Thursday) edit history watch An Irish opinion poll shows the EU Treaty of Lisbon heading for defeat. (The Irish Times) American and British diplomats are detained in Zimbabwe. (France24) The United States Secretary of Defence Robert Gates announces the resignation of United States Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne and his Chief of Staff General T. Michael Moseley over the 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident. (Washington Post) The USS Essex, USS Juneau, USS Harpers Ferry and USS Mustin depart the coast of Burma as the State Peace and Development Council maintains its refusal of the ships' aid in Cyclone Nargis relief. (AP via Google News) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others are arraigned at Guantanamo Bay detention camp under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and charged with crimes related to the September 11, 2001 attacks. (AP via Google News) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo of the International Criminal Court reports that crimes in the War in Darfur "required the sustained mobilization of the entire State apparatus" of Sudan. (allAfrica.com) (BBC News) A fire destroys major parts of the Rådhuset court house in Stockholm, the architectural landmark designed by Carl Westman. (The Local) (Svenska Dagbladet) Turkey's Constitutional Court reinstates a ban on the hijab in universities, citing the constitution's secular principles. (BBC News) Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert says that "the end of Iran's nuclear program is near". (Haaretz) Burma detains activist and comedian Zarganar who has been involved in private relief efforts for the victims of Cyclone Nargis and seize his computer and banned films including Rambo IV. (Reuters)
Current events of June 6, 2008 (2008-06-06) (Friday) edit history watch After five years of searching, the Caribbean Monk Seal is declared officially extinct (MSNBC) Japan and North Korea resume bilateral talks, last held in September 2007. (BBC News) Colombia and Ecuador restore relations following the Andean diplomatic crisis in March. (BBC News) (Reuters) A Venezuelan National Guard sergeant and 3 more people are captured in the Colombian Department of Vichada with 40,000 AK-47 rounds for the rebel group FARC. (El Tiempo) (Noticias24) The Diet of Japan recognizes the Ainu as an indigenous people for the first time. (BBC News) (Yomiuri Shimbun) The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc-Our Ukraine Bloc coalition loses its majority in Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada after two deputies quit. (BBC News) The America's Climate Security Act of 2007, a greenhouse gas emissions reduction bill, stalls in the U.S. Senate after a 48-36 vote fails to invoke cloture on a Republican filibuster. Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama were among six senators absent from the vote who expressed support for the bill. (AP via San Jose Mercury News) (BBC News) A rush-hour explosion targeting a bus in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills at least 21 people and injures 80. (BBC News) The price of a barrel of crude oil rises a single-day record of nearly US$11, settling at a new record of US$138.54. (CNN) Joseph Muscat becomes the leader of the Malta Labour Party, to become the opposition leader of Malta, to take the place of Charles Mangion, after the resignation of Alfred Sant. (Times of Malta)
Current events of June 7, 2008 (2008-06-07) (Saturday) edit history watch Big Brown becomes the first Triple Crown favorite to place last in the 2008 Belmont Stakes in New York. The undefeated colt previously won the 2008 Kentucky Derby and the 2008 Preakness Stakes. The 38/1 longshot Da'Tara wins in a wire-to-wire finish. The last Triple Crown winner was Affirmed in 1978. (The Ledger) The Lord's Resistance Army, reportedly drafting recruits and acquiring new weapons, kills at least 23 people in attacks against south Sudanese troops. (Reuters) (BBC News) Hillary Clinton suspends her presidential campaign and endorses Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the 2008 election. (CNN) UEFA Euro 2008 begins in Austria and Switzerland. (Swissinfo) Attackers exchange gunfire with guards at Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi's home. (BBC News) Cuba offers free sex reassignment surgery. (Reuters) In tennis, Ana Ivanovic defeats Dinara Safina to win the French Open. (ESPN) Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper, Luke McCormick is held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. (Sky News)
Current events of June 8, 2008 (2008-06-08) (Sunday) edit history watch Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 12 people. (BBC News) A fire sweeps through the historic Texas Governor's Mansion, leaving much of the 152-year-old building charred and severely damaged. (AP via Google News) A dispute between Southern Sudan and the central Sudanese government over Abyei will go to international arbitration. (BBC) Robert Kubica of the BMW Sauber team wins the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix, becoming the first Pole to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix auto race, and giving BMW its first win as a constructor. (F1-live) (Formula1) (Wikinews) At least two people have been killed as an earthquake rocked southern Greece, collapsing buildings and causing panic. (CNN) The government of Southern Sudan withdraws its mediation efforts at the Juba talks between Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army. (The Uganda Monitor) At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in an Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse. (RTÉ) (BBC News) At least 7 people are killed and 10 injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan, coinciding on the 7th anniversary of the Osaka school massacre. (RTÉ) (BBC News) In tennis, Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles title at the 2008 French Open for the fourth year in a row, equalling Bjorn Borg's record. (BBC News) A day of mourning is declared in Russia's Kaliningrad Region as the death toll from Thursday's explosion and fire on the MV Yenisei reaches eight, with two missing. (Xinhua) (Wikinews)
Science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology may have useful connections.
Personal studies including human body, psychology, and biography will also be connected.
Anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups can be connected.
9 June 2008 Apple, Inc. introduced a new iPhone with 3G capabilities, a GPS, and new features. The device is called iPhone 3G. (Business Week)
9 June 2008 IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory broke processing speed barrier with the world's first petaflop computer, Roadrunner. (Network World)
12 Jun 2008 Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles sets a world record of 12.87 seconds for the 110 metre hurdles at a Golden Spike meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic. (Associated Press)
12 Jun 2008 Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin wins the Hart Memorial Trophy as most valuable player for the National Hockey League 2007-2008 season as well as the Art Ross Trophy for most points and the Rocket Richard Trophy for top goal scorer. (TSN)
15 June 2008 August: Osage County wins the 62nd Tony Award for best play while In the Heights wins best musical. (Townhall.com), (AP via Google)
15 June 2008 Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate will play in an 18-hole playoff to determine the winner of the 2008 U.S. Open Golf Championship. (Washington Times)
16 June 2008 Tiger Woods defeats Rocco Mediate in a playoff to win the 2008 U.S. Open Golf Championship. (AP via New York Times)
Events related to material culture and conceptual culture can be connected. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be considered.
11 Jun 2008 InBev, the world's largest brewing company made an unsolicited $46 billion takeover bid for United States brewing company Anheuser-Busch. (AFP via Google News)
12 Jun 2008 More than 80 countries and international aid organisations met in Paris to develop a strategy for delivering billions of dollars in aid to Afghanistan. (AFP via The Australian)
13 June 2008 Finance ministers from the Group of Eight met in Osaka, Japan with rising food and oil prices high on the Agenda. (AFP)
13 June 2008 The Station nightclub fire: Sealed Air paid a US$25 million settlement for manufacturing foam used in the club. 100 people died in the disaster. (AP) (Wikinews)
15 June 2008 The American International Group (AIG), the world's largest insurance company, removes Martin J. Sullivan as its CEO due to losses caused by the subprime mortgage financial crisis. (Reuters)
16 June 2008 International Criminal Court judges severely criticize prosecutors in the case against Thomas Lubanga. (BBC News)
16 June 2008 An official of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that effect food crisis on Somalia is creating a worse humanitarian situation than the War in Darfur. (BBC News)
Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families may be useful.
Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and particular schools may be useful.
Economics including activities, industries, and economic systems will be significant.
Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law may be useful. Government activity such as administration, succession, and interstate relations will be vital. Government structure including political parties, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, and forms of government will be useful. Particular governments including local governments will be of great interest. National governments will probably have the greatest amount of attention.
International governments is also useful. Traditional empires and colonial empires are not considered, but modern compacts are important.
Religion including religious belief, practice, and organization will be useful even if not highly visible. Particular religions including pagan religion, Asiatic religion, Abrahamic religion, and secularism will be useful.
Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure can be connected. Social types including hunting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, agrarian societies, and industrial societies can be considered. Social changes including social change factors and processes are also useful. Particular changes are mostly those continuing from the Industrial revolution.
Communities such as Cairo, Calcutta are being distributed to the particular peoples involved.
Peoples of the world are important. These are being examined using nations [such as Yemen, Australia]
10 June 2008 Two Kenyan ministers – Roads Minister Kipkalya Kones and Assistant Home Affairs Minister Lorna Laboso – die in a plane crash near Narok in western Kenya while traveling to campaign in by-elections. (BBC)
10 June 2008 A plane crashes on landing at Khartoum International Airport in Khartoum, Sudan, with around 200 on board. The death toll is 28 with 66 people unaccounted for.(CNN) (BBC), (AFP/Reuters via ABC News)
12 Jun 2008 Tendai Biti, the Secretary of the Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe, was arrested in Harare. (AFP and ABC News Australia)
13 June 2008 A Zimbabwe judge ordered the police to bring Tendai Biti, the arrested Secretary-General of the Movement for Democratic Change to court on Saturday. (Zimbabwe Guardian via All Africa)
15 June 2008 Anjouan, an island part of the Union of the Comoros, hold its first presidential election since the 2008 invasion of Anjouan which ousted Mohamed Bacar. (AFP)
16 June 2008 Chadian rebels take the town Biltine as they move toward the capital N'Djamena. (BBC News)
Western civilization including Venezuela, is important. Cities include Los Angeles.
9 June 2008 French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner warned Ireland, saying the Irish would be the "first victim" if they reject the EU Treaty of Lisbon. (RTL France)
9 June 2008 24 miners were rescued from the Ukrainian coal mine collapse with 12 still missing and one reported fatality. (Reuters)
9 June 2008 A further three British Conservative MEPs (Robert Atkins, Sajjad Karim, and John Purvis) were facing allegations of financial abuse, following the resignation of two fellow members from European Parliament positions last week. (The Independent) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Times) (The Courier)
9 June 2008 Tens of thousands of Spanish truck drivers started an indefinite strike over the increases in the price of diesel. (BBC)
10 June 2008 President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez revokes an intelligence law that opposition groups and the Roman Catholic church claim would have forced citizens to become government informants and asks the National Assembly to develop new legislation. (Bloomberg)
10 June 2008 A series of strong thunderstorms track through Southern Quebec, causing heavy damage south of Montreal and leaving over 250,000 people out of electricity. Champlain Bridge is closed for several hours after a wind gust causes over a half-dozen semi-trailer to tip on their side.(CBC), (SRC).
11 Jun 2008 Cuba introduced a wages system where workers are paid according to productivity rather than all workers in the same job receiving the same income. (Miami Herald)
11 Jun 2008 The Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper apologised to tens of thousands of the aboriginal peoples of Canada for more than a century of abuses of First Nations, Inuit and Métis at residential schools set up to assimilate them into Canadian society. (SBS) (AP via Yahoo! News)
11 Jun 2008 Estonia, Greece and Finland ratified the Treaty of Lisbon. (Xinhua) (The International Herald Tribune)
11 Jun 2008 Norway legalised same-sex marriage. (Pink News)
11 Jun 2008 The Metropolitan Police launched an inquiry after top secret British government intelligence on al-Qaeda is found on a train going from Waterloo Station to Surrey. (BBC News)
11 Jun 2008 Stojan Župljanin, a wartime Bosnian Serb police commander was arrested near Belgrade and was to be sent to the Hague where he will face trial for alleged war crimes. (Reuters via TVNZ)
11 Jun 2008 The British House of Commons considered anti-terrorism legislation extending the period of preventive detention to 42 days with a close vote expected due to a backbench revolt in the Labour Party. The House eventually passes the bill by 315 votes to 306. (Press Assocation via Google News) (Press Association via The Guardian)
12 Jun 2008 Ecuadorean police arrest four men including three Colombians on suspicion of plotting an assassination of the President of Ecuador Rafael Correa. (AP via IHT)
12 Jun 2008 David Davis, the Conservative Shadow Home Secretary resigns as the Member of Parliament for Haltemprice and Howden in order to contest the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008 on civil liberties issues. (The Times)
12 Jun 2008 Irish voters go to the polls for the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland to enable ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon of the European Union. (RTÉ)
13 June 2008 The Chamber of Deputies of Haiti rejected Robert Manuel, who was the second nominee for the post of prime minister after the incumbent resigned in April 2008. (AP via Google News)
13 June 2008 Irish voters rejected the Treaty of Lisbon in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform programme of the European Union. (RTÉ)
14 June 2008 Argentine police arrest farm leader Alfredo de Angeli and 14 other farmers in an order to end the farmers strike. (Bloomberg)
14 June 2008 Condoleezza Rice, the United States Secretary of State, criticises a planned expansion of Israeli housing in East Jerusalem as "not helpful" to the Middle East peace process. (AP via Google)
14 June 2008 The Space Shuttle Discovery lands having successfully completed mission STS-124. (Reuters via Regina Leader Post), (NASA)
14 June 2008 The President of the United States George W. Bush and the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy warn Syria to break with Iran and state that they will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. (AFP via Google News)
14 June 2008 A fire breaks out at Campsfield House, a privately run Immigration detention Centre near Oxford in the United Kingdom. (BBC)
14 June 2008 The French Defense Ministry announces France is increasing its military presence in Djibouti following border clashes with Eritrea. France has a mutual defense agreement with Djibouti. (Xinhua)
15 June 2008 The constitution of Kosovo comes into effect. (BBC News)
16 June 2008 Same-sex marriage in California comes into effect following a court ruling on May 15, 2008. (Reuters)
16 June 2008 The European Union agrees to tougher sanctions against Iran for its alleged nuclear weapons program with the United Kingdom freezing assets of Iran's largest bank Bank Melli. (AP via Google)
16 June 2008 France announces plans to cut 54,000 defense jobs and push for a stronger European Security and Defence Policy as part of a new defense strategy. (AP via CNN)
This is connected to Anglic peoples including the Canada. Cities include New York City.
9 June 2008 June 2008 Midwest Flood: A stalled storm system in the midwest of the United States caused further heavy flooding in Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin with storms on the weekend causing 10 deaths in four states.
9 June 2008 McDonalds stopped serving sliced tomatoes in its hamburgers in the United States following a Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak linked to raw tomatoes.
9 June 2008 The President of the United States George W. Bush commenced the last visit to Europe of his presidency.
9 June 2008 The United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates nominated Norton Schwartz to be the next Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force with Michael B. Donley nominated as the next United States Secretary of the Air Force.
10 June 2008 President George W. Bush attended the final United States-European Union summit of his Presidency with agreements to tighten sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program.
10 June 2008 United States Republican senators blocked moves to levy a windfall profits tax on oil companies.
11 Jun 2008 The United States Food and Drug Administration had received 167 reported incidents of Salmonellosis from eating tainted tomatoes in 17 states with New Mexico and Texas the worst affected areas.
11 Jun 2008 NASA launched the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) from Cape Canaveral, Florida. (AP via Google News)
11 Jun 2008 June 2008 tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch near Little Sioux, Iowa killed four Boy Scouts and injures several others.
11 Jun 2008 The United States House of Representatives voted on whether to refer Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush introduced Monday evening by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to a committee.
11 Jun 2008 Former basketball referee Tim Donaghy accused other referees in the National Basketball Association of rigging games, including Game 6 in the 2002 Western Conference Finals, allowing the Los Angeles Lakers to win that game, the series, and ultimately the 2002 NBA Finals.
11 Jun 2008 President George W. Bush said that he wants to solve the Iran issue peacefully but "all options are on the table" in a joint media conference with the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel.
12 Jun 2008 Four thousand homes in Cedar Rapids, Iowa are evacuated as the Cedar River floods due to heavy rain in recent days.
12 Jun 2008 The Salmonella outbreak in the United States caused by tainted tomatoes continues to worsen with 228 victims in 23 states.
12 Jun 2008 The United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates invites Pakistan and Afghanistan to participate in an investigation of the Gora Prai airstrike.
12 Jun 2008 In Boumediene v. Bush, the U.S. Supreme Court holds that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantánamo Bay have constitutional rights to challenge their detention there in US courts.
13 June 2008 Midwest floods: The Governor of Iowa Chet Culver declared that 83 of the 99 counties in Iowa were disaster areas as flooding leads to evacuations in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines. (AP via Forbes) 13 June 2008 The upper Mississippi River was closed to shipping as three people died in Indiana and three in Iowa.
Latin peoples including those of Peru have important events associated with them. Cities include Sao Paulo.
Mexico City has no events for this month.
Northeast european peoples including those of Poland are important.
Germanic peoples including those of Germany are important.
Asiatic peoples such as, for instance, those of Romania and cities such as Osaka can be considered.
9 June 2008 Ali Al-Naimi, the Saudi Arabian oil minister called for a meeting of oil producing and consuming nations to discuss record oil prices. (AP via ABC News)
10 June 2008 A Moroccan court sentences 29 people to prison sentences for recruiting people to fight for militants in Iraq. (Reuters)
10 June 2008 South Korea's cabinet, led by Prime Minister Han Seung-soo, offers to resign following widespread protests at decisions to resume US beef imports in South Korea. (BBC News) (CNN)
11 Jun 2008 The last King of Nepal Gyanendra of Nepal departed from Narayanhiti Palace for the last time after Nepal is declared to be a republic. (CBC)
11 Jun 2008 Japan's House of Councillors passed a censure motion against the Prime Minister of Japan Yasuo Fukuda, the first such motion to be passed since World War II. (BBC News)
11 Jun 2008 Afghanistan: Airstrikes targeting militants had killed at least 31 people including some civilians. (AP via Google News) Reports claimed that at least 10 Pakistan Army soldiers had died in an apparent United States-led air strike near the border with Afghanistan with eight Taliban militants also killed. Pakistan condemned the airstrike as "unprovoked and cowardly". The U.S. had released video of the strike showing the militants fighting in order to justify the attacks. (BBC News) (Reuters)
11 Jun 2008 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels overran the Irukkulampiddi Sri Lankan Navy outpost killing at least 10 sailors. (AFP via Google News)
13 June 2008 The Taliban attacked a prison in Kandahar resulting in almost all of the 1150 prisoners escaping. (Reuters)
13 June 2008 Kim Jong-hoon, the South Korean Minister for Trade, headed to the United States to push for additional safeguards against mad cow disease in talks with Susan Schwab, the United States Trade Representative as protests continued in South Korea over the decision to resume importing beef from the United States. (Voice of America) 13 June 2008
13 June 2008 Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq, stated talks with the United States on a long-term security agreement have reached "a dead end". (AP via IHT)
14 June 2008 A roadside bomb in the Farah Province of Afghanistan kills 4 United States troops. (AP via Google News)(Associated Press)
14 June 2008 The magnitude 6.8 Mw 2008 Iwate Earthquake shakes Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures on Japan's main island of Honshu, killing at least 6 people and injuring at least 8 others.(BBC), (AFP via News Limited), (AP via Forbes)
15 June 2008 Six members of the Kuratong baleleng Philippines crime gang, as well as a police officer are killed in a shootout with police officers in Manila. (AFP via Google News)
15 June 2008 Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr claims that he is developing a new force to fight United States forces in Iraq. (CNN)
15 June 2008 Afghanistan The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai warns the Taliban that he will send forces into Pakistan in hot pursuit of militants. (AP via Google) More than 15 Taliban insurgents are killed as NATO and Afghan forces attempt to recapture the hundreds of prisoners who escaped following the Kandahar prison raid. (Reuters)
15 June 2008 Japanese rescue squads resume the search for missing people after the 2008 Iwate earthquake including seven people feared buried by a mudslide at a hot springs hotel in mountains outside the town of Kurihara, Miyagi. (BBC)
16 June 2008 Hundreds of Taliban militants swarm in the Arghandab District of Kandahar Province with the Afghan government sending reinforcements to the nearby city of Kandahar. (New York Times)
16 June 2008 Israel and Syria conclude talks on the Golan Heights issue held in Turkey. (BBC News)
16 June 2008 South Korean construction workers join truck drivers in going on strike seeking higher pay and lower fuel costs. (Reuters)
16 June 2008 Japan turns away a Taiwan activist boat near the disputed Senkaku Islands in a protest against a ship collision last week. (Reuters)
16 June 2008 At least 12 police officers are killed and many more people wounded by a suicide bombing outside a police station in the town of Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka. (BBC), (AFP via Yahoo News)
Peoples of the Middle East such as those of Iraq are highly important in world affairs.
South Asian peoples Nepal, can be considered. Cities such as Delhi can be examined.
9 June 2008 India's prime minister Manmohan Singh called for global nuclear disarmament asking world countries to create 'timebound framework' to rid the world of atomic weapons.
9 June 2008 The government of the Indian state of Rajasthan met with leaders of the Gujjar community after two weeks of protests over the reservation system.
13 June 2008 At least 40 people were injured on Sagar Island in the Ganges delta in clashes between supporters of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and local Muslim villagers.
Bombay has no events associated with it.
9 June 2008 Pakistan lawyers began a "Long March" of protests against the Government of the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf calling for the reinstatement of judges dismissed last year including the former Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. (The Guardian)
13 June 2008 Pakistani lawyers held a protest rally in Islamabad to demand the reinstatement of judges sacked by the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf. (BBC)
15 June 2008 The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yusuf Raza Gillani warns that Pakistan will not tolerate incursions over its borders. (BBC)
11 Jun 2008 Sheikh Hasina, a former Prime Minister of Bangladesh detained on corruption charges, was released to seek treatment in the United States. (Bloomberg)
Central Asian peoples include some peoples found in China, Russia, Uzbekistan.
Oriental peoples include some peoples of Taiwan. Cities such as Shanghai
10 June 2008 Water from the Tangjiashan Lake, created in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, flooded the abandoned town of Beichuan.
11 Jun 2008 Taiwanese negotiators led by Chiang Pin-kung, Chairman of the Strait Exchange Foundation, travelled to the People's Republic of China to conduct talks on improving Cross-Strait relations.
12 Jun 2008 The People's Republic of China and Taiwan began their first formal talks in a decade on improving cross-strait relations.
13 June 2008 A hydrogen sulfide leak at a fertiliser plant in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province in China, killed six people and injured 28.
13 June 2008 The People's Republic of China and Taiwan agreed to regular civil aviation flights across the Taiwan Strait for the first time since 1949 with flights limited to weekend charters.
15 June 2008 Heavy rain in southern China causes flooding with at least six people dead, four missing and 150,000 people evacuated from Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. (AP via Google News)
16 June 2008 Heavy rainstorm and major flooding continues in the South China region. Millions of people are affected in Anhui, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong. Tens of thousands of victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake are evacuated due to heavy rains as 65 people are dead or missing with flood warnings on the Yangtze River and Pearl River amongst other rivers. (AFP)
South Korea, city of Seoul
Southeast Asian peoples such as those of Malaysia can also be examined. Cities include Jakarta
9 June 2008 Indonesia made the practice of the Ahmadiyya form of Islam in Indonesia a crime punishable by five years in prison. (BBC News)
African peoples such as those of Ghana have various events associated with them.
Ethiopia No events are yet recorded.
American Indian peoples such as are found in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Canada, Peru, and Venezuela can be considered.
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This is only weakly connected to other periods of history through classical and medieval times. It is also weakly connected to modern history through the 19th century. This is also connected weakly to the 20th century through the late 20th century. In the early 21st century, the early 2000s affect this somewhat. Within the late 2000s, this is weakly connected to 2007. It is prceded by the first quarter. It is part of the second quarter 2008, and is connected to the previous month of May. It is followed by the third quarter 2008 including the month of July. It is closely connected to the future, especially the near future including next month (Remainder of December and January 2008), next quarter, and next year, and to the middle future, and far future. |
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