Portal:1990s/Selected anniversaries/June

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June 1

• 1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.

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June 2

• 1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
• 1994 – An RAF Chinook helicopter crashes in Scotland killing all 29 on board. The original cause of the crash is ruled as pilot error, this verdict is overturned in 2011.
• 1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
• 1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was executed four years later.
• 1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.

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June 3

• 1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
• 1992 – Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
• 1998 – Eschede train disaster: an ICE high-speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.

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June 4

• 1996 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
• 1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

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June 5

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June 6

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June 7

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June 8

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June 9

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June 10

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June 11

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June 12

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June 13

• 1994-At 12:10 AM in Los Angeles, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered.

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June 14

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June 16

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June 17

• 1994-NFL star O.J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's Brentwood, Los Angeles, California mansion, where he surrenders.

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June 21

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June 22

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June 23

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June 24

• 1990 births: Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player. Richard Sukuta-Pasu, German footballer
• 1991 birth: Aidan Sezer, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 birth: David Alaba, Austrian footballer
• 1995 Rugby World Cup final: South Africa defeats New Zealand, Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb-Ellis trophy in an iconic post-apartheid moment.

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June 25

• 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence by referendum from Yugoslavia.
• 1993 – Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
• 1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
• 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

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June 26

• 1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
• 1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
• 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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June 27

• 1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
• 1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.

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June 28

• 1992 – Death of Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
• 1994 – Birth of Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan
• 1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.

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June 29

• 1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
• 1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.

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June 30

• 1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
• 1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to China.

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