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This article covers breaking news and events in June 2008.
Daily events
Sunday June 1, 2008
- Africa : The agreement for the conservation of the gorillas and their habitats comes into force.
- Milan / Italy : The 91st edition of the wheel - stage race Giro d'Italia wins the Spaniard Alberto Contador . It is the third overall victory of a Spaniard on this tour.
- Skopje / Macedonia : In the early parliamentary elections , the " Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity " wins 63 of the 120 seats.
- Universal City / United States : Several film sets are killed in a major fire in Universal Studios Hollywood .
Monday June 2, 2008
- Germany : In the dispute over higher milk prices , hundreds of farmers are blocking numerous large dairies in order to prevent the delivery of milk and the production of milk products .
- Islamabad / Pakistan : A bomb attack on the Danish embassy leaves several dead and injured.
Tuesday June 3, 2008
- Detroit , United States : Automobile manufacturer General Motors announces that it will close four plants in Canada , Mexico and the United States that manufacture pickups .
- Helena , Pierre / United States : The area code for United States presidential election in 2008 the Democrats in Montana ends with a victory of Barack Obama the so achieves the required majority of the delegates' votes in order for the election to, the United States President to be nominated. His opponent Hillary Clinton , who wins the primary in South Dakota on the same day , does not yet congratulate Obama, although the series of primary elections has ended.
- South Thuringia / Germany : During tunnel construction work, a second stalactite cave is discovered in Bleßberg in the Thuringian Slate Mountains , which is located next to the already known Bleßberg cave .
- Wiesbaden / Germany : SPD , Die Linke and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen are abolishing tuition fees in the state of Hesse .
Wednesday June 4, 2008
- Krško / Slovenia : EU triggers Europe-wide alarm after an incident at the Krško nuclear power plant . According to the EU Commission, cooling water leaked from the main cooling system. There are currently no known effects on the environment.
- United States : After heavy rains in the states of Illinois , Iowa , Indiana , Michigan , Minnesota , Missouri and Wisconsin , flooding occurs in the following days.
Thursday June 5, 2008
- Ankara / Turkey : On Thursday the Turkish Constitutional Court declared the constitutional amendment by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government to lift the headscarf ban at universities to be inadmissible.
Friday June 6, 2008
- Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag adopts a climate package. The share of renewable energies in electricity consumption is to be doubled to 30 percent by 2020.
- Cologne / Germany : Stefan Raab wins the first European auto ball championship
- Oslo / Norway : At the Golden League Meeting 2008, Tirunesh Dibaba set a new world record over 5000 m with a time of 14: 11.15 minutes
- Syria : The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was apparently supposed to be overthrown by his brother-in-law Asseff Schaukat , the head of the secret service, through a military coup . But the coup was thwarted shortly before it was carried out. Several officers have been in custody since then. The takeover was to take place during the meeting of the Arab League in Damascus at the end of March.
Saturday 7th June 2008
- Basel / Switzerland : The 2008 European Football Championship opens.
Sunday June 8, 2008
- Dresden / Germany : In the local elections in Saxony , the CDU can assert itself directly in six out of ten of the new districts . The CDU can directly provide 123 of the 282 mayors. The right-wing extremist NPD can triple its share of the vote.
- Erding / Germany : At their closed meeting , the CDU and CSU cannot agree on a commuter allowance and tax reform .
- Paris / France : Spanish professional tennis player Rafael Nadal won the French Open for the fourth time in a row ; in the women the Serbian Ana Ivanović was successful.
Tuesday June 10, 2008
- Khartoum / Sudan : An Airbus A310 from Sudan Airways from Amman / Jordan with 203 passengers and 14 crew members on board comes off the runway on landing and goes up in flames. At least 28 passengers are killed.
- United States : At least 10 people die in severe flooding after heavy rains in the American Midwest .
Wednesday June 11, 2008
- Amstetten / Austria : The 19-year-old daughter of Josef Fritzl is released to her family after a long treatment in the State Clinic Mostviertel Amstetten.
- Düsseldorf / Germany : The state development company NRW is being sold to the real estate subsidiary Whitehall of the American investment bank Goldman Sachs for 3.5 billion euros .
- Gransee / Germany : Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes the American President George W. Bush to his farewell visit in the guest house of the federal government Schloss Meseberg in Gransee in the Oberhavel district in the north of Brandenburg .
- Oslo / Norway : marriage is opened nationwide for same-sex couples in Norway.
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Paris / France : the number of planets in the solar system is reduced from 9 to 8. The decides the International Astronomical Union , which the Pluto (
) is now available as beyond Neptune nearby dwarf planets defined. At the same time, the new term plutoid is introduced for objects in this category . - Wiesbaden / Germany : A few days after the decision of the Hessian state parliament on June 3, 2008 to abolish tuition fees in Hesse , the state court decides on the tuition fees .
Thursday June 12, 2008
- Chemnitz / Germany : Gotthilf Fischer receives the folk music crown .
- Dublin / Ireland : Ireland will vote on the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum. The Irish reject the reform treaty.
- Washington, DC / United States : The United States Supreme Court has granted terrorist suspects detained in Guantánamo the right to appeal to US civil courts.
Friday June 13, 2008
- Pristina / Serbia : Four months after Kosovo's declaration of independence , the new constitution comes into force. The state has not yet been recognized internationally.
Saturday June 14, 2008
- Honshū / Japan : As a result of a 7.2 earthquake on the island of Honshū, at least eleven people die and more people are injured. A nuclear power plant is damaged.
Sunday June 15, 2008
- Islamabad / Pakistan : The Pakistani government warns of a violation of the borders with Afghanistan .
Monday June 16, 2008
- Guangzhou , Shenzhen / China : Heavy rains lead to major flooding in the provinces of Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
- Mediterranean : Around 150 migrants drown off the Libyan coast trying to immigrate to Europe.
- Vienna / Austria : Federal Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer hands over the SPÖ party chairmanship to Werner Faymann .
Tuesday June 17, 2008
- Baghdad / Iraq : An attack in northern Baghdad killed 51 people and injured others.
- California / United States : The seventh of eight accused members of the US army who allegedly carried out and covered up a massacre in Haditha in Iraq is acquitted by a military court.
- California / United States : In California, after a landmark decision of the California Supreme Court to marriage Opening married same-sex couples.
- Paris / France : French President Nicolas Sarkozy announces that France will rejoin NATO's military command structure .
Wednesday June 18, 2008
- Brussels / Belgium : After New Zealand and Australia that are Commission of the European Union known gradual conventional bulbs from spring 2009 to ban.
- Dresden / Germany : The new cabinet under Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich takes over government affairs in the Free State of Saxony
- Strasbourg / France : The European Union adopts stricter regulations for the deportation procedure for illegal immigrants.
Thursday June 19, 2008
- Berlin / Germany : The German conservative CDU party is undertaking an environmental policy change after preparatory work by an internal party commission. Climate, environmental and consumer protection should be given a bigger role in the party's agenda.
Friday June 20, 2008
- Brussels / Belgium : The European Union is lifting the economic sanctions against Cuba that have existed since 2003 .
- China : The Chinese government is raising gasoline prices by 16 percent and diesel prices nationwide by 18 percent. Petrol and diesel now cost between 6.20 and 7.17 yuan or the equivalent of 58 to 67 euro cents in China, depending on the quality
- California / United States : The Jason-2 weather satellite has started. Jason-2 is supposed to record the extent and movements of the oceans - and thereby provide information on climate changes.
- New York / United States : The New York Times newspaper reported on Friday, citing US government officials, that Israel had rehearsed an air strike against Iranian nuclear facilities as part of a maneuver in the eastern Mediterranean .
Saturday June 21, 2008
- Forvik / United Kingdom : Stuart Hill declares the small Shetland island of Forvik to be independent from Scotland and from the entire Kingdom.
- Manila / Philippines : Typhoon Fengshen claims at least 137 people ashore in the Philippines. During the storm, a ferry with 864 people on board sank, 68 of whom have so far been found alive and 27 bodies.
Sunday June 22, 2008
- Harare / Zimbabwe : Due to the growing violence against his supporters, Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is withdrawing from the runoff election for the presidency.
- Melilla / Spain : African migrants try to invade the Spanish enclave of Melilla.
Monday June 23, 2008
- Brussels / Belgium : The European Union freezes funds of the Iranian bank Melli.
- Harare / Zimbabwe : Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai seeks refuge in the Dutch embassy .
Tuesday June 24, 2008
- Jerusalem / Israel : The Israeli government stops the recently resumed transport of goods to the Gaza Strip and has the border closed after militant Palestinians have fired rockets at the Israeli border area .
- Oslo / Norway : Parliament passes the “Gender Neutral Marriage Act ”. The equality of homosexual and heterosexual couples includes the rights to civil marriage , to the adoption of children and to the artificial induction of pregnancy .
Wednesday June 25, 2008
- Wellington / New Zealand : The New Zealand government is granting the Māori compensation for the expropriation of their lands amounting to the equivalent of 243 million euros .
Friday June 27, 2008
- Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag resolves a new version of the Housing Benefit Act and increases the housing benefit , passes the Risk Limitation Act and reforms the procedure in family matters .
- London / United Kingdom : Stars like Will Smith , Annie Lennox , Simple Minds , Peter Gabriel , Leona Lewis , Amy Winehouse and many others are celebrating Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday under the motto 46664 in Hyde Park .
- North Korea : As agreed, the North Korean government blew up the cooling tower of the Nyŏngbyŏn nuclear facility . The United States announced it would ease its trade sanctions and remove North Korea from its list of so-called rogue states .
Saturday June 28, 2008
- Berlin / Germany : 500,000 people celebrate Christopher Street Day .
- Davos / Switzerland : James Bond director Marc Forster receives Swiss citizenship.
- Vienna / Austria : The German Tobias Bonhoeffer has been nominated as founding president of the Science and Technology Austria Institute.
Sunday June 29, 2008
- Ulaanbaatar / Mongolia : The ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party wins the parliamentary elections in Mongolia
- Vienna / Austria : The Spanish selection wins in the final of the European Championship football 1: 0 against Germany and brings Spain's first title at a World Cup or the European Cup in the senior level .
Monday June 30, 2008
- Berlin / Germany : For the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, the CDU People's Party has more party members than the SPD People's Party . Both popular parties have been suffering from membership decline for years.
- Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia : Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim fled to the Turkish embassy.
See also
- Nekrolog June 2008 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in June
- Category for memorial days, holidays or action days in June
Web links
Commons : June 2008 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elenco Edizioni. In: museociclismo.it, Museo del Ciclismo Associazione. Retrieved October 24, 2017 (Italian).
- ↑ The Republic of Macedonia's 2016 Parliamentary elections handbook. In: kas.de . Retrieved on May 20, 2019 : "parliamentary elections took place on June 1, 2008"
- ↑ Star : King Kong is dead (accessed June 1, 2008)
- ↑ Wikinews: At the large dairies Müller-Milch and Ehrmann there were blockages by dairy farmers
- ^ Politiken.dk - Bombe mod dansk ambassade , June 2, 2008
- ↑ google.com : GM to close 4 truck, SUV plants, focus on getting smaller ( Memento from June 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ n-tv.de: Primary elections ended - Obama is the winner (accessed on June 4, 2008)
- ↑ Another cave discovered in the Bleßberg tunnel in Thuringia. In: arge-grabenstetten.de, Arge Höhle & Karst Grabenstetten e. V. June 5, 2008, accessed on September 27, 2018 : "Two days ago"
- ↑ n-tv: Success for Red-Red-Green Studying cheaply in Hesse, accessed on June 3, 2008
- ↑ EU triggers alarm after nuclear incident
- ↑ News Sentinel: Midwest Flooding - American Red Cross Issues Appeal For Disaster Relief Fund ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 16, 2008)
- ↑ FAZ : Erdogan's AKP loses in the headscarf dispute on June 5, 2008
- ↑ n-tv: More green electricity for climate protection
- ↑ The World -Online Autoball EM: Raab takes revenge for the World Cup semifinals in 2006 Access 7 June 2008
- ↑ Ftd: Dibaba runs world record over 5000 meters in Oslo ( Memento from June 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Accessed June 7, 2008
- ↑ Die Welt attempted coup against Assad in Syria failed June 6, 2008
- ↑ dpa / cor: Election day: CDU in local elections in Saxony ahead. In: welt.de . June 8, 2008, accessed May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ fat / ddp / dpa: Dispute over commuter flat-rate: CSU distances itself from Merkel. In: Spiegel Online . June 10, 2008, accessed May 15, 2020 .
- ^ Petra Philippsen: Paris: Nadal follows Ivanovic. In: tagesspiegel.de . June 9, 2008, accessed May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ netzeitung.de - Numerous dead after crash in Sudan ( Memento from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 10, 2008)
- ↑ DPA: Ten dead in floods in the American Midwest (accessed June 22, 2008)
- ↑ Kerstin F. healthy. In: n-tv.de . June 11, 2008, accessed May 5, 2019 .
- ^ Message from the FTD of June 11, 2008 ( Memento of June 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 11, 2008)
- ↑ tagesschau.de - US President ends visit to Germany (tagesschau.de archive) (accessed June 11, 2008)
- ^ Opening of marriage in Norway. In: lsvd.de . June 12, 2008, accessed May 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Frank van Bebber: Campus toll Rating: 6: 5 for Hesse's tuition. In: Spiegel Online . June 11, 2008, accessed May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ RTE: Turnout slow in Lisbon referendum (accessed June 12, 2008)
- ↑ https://www.sudd.ch/event.php?lang=de&id=ie012008
- ^ N-tv: Law for Guantánamo prisoners (accessed on June 13, 2008)
- ^ Spiegel: Constitution of Kosovo entered into force (accessed June 15, 2008)
- ↑ BBC: Earthquake rocks northern Japan (accessed June 16, 2008)
- ↑ yahoo.com : Death toll after earthquake in Japan rises to eleven ( Memento from June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ AFP: Pakistan angry about Karzai's threats ( Memento of March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 16, 2008)
- ↑ AFP: South China ravaged by floods, densely populated north in danger ( Memento from July 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 17, 2008)
- ↑ n-tv: Over 150 refugees drowned (accessed on June 16, 2008)
- ↑ Faymann becomes the party leader. In: vol.at . June 16, 2008, accessed June 15, 2019 .
- ↑ AFP: Car bomb kills 51 in Baghdad: security officials ( Memento from May 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 17, 2008)
- ↑ spiegel.de
- ↑ n-tv: Yes-Words in California (accessed June 17, 2008)
- ↑ FAZ: gay wedding couples with a pioneering spirit
- ↑ AFP: US welcomes France's rejoining NATO military command ( Memento from May 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ World: EU plans light bulb ban from 2009 (accessed on June 18, 208)
- ↑ Prime Minister Tillich appoints three new ministers to the cabinet of the Saxon state government. Communication from the Saxon State Chancellery. In: VSWG.de , June 18, 2008.
- ↑ FAZ: EU adopts controversial deportation rules
- ^ Sebastian Fischer: CDU environmental paper: Why the blacks turn green. In: Spiegel Online . June 19, 2008, accessed May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ BBC: EU lifts sanctions against Cuba (accessed June 21, 2008)
- ↑ Tagesschau: Overnight price increase China makes petrol and diesel more expensive (tagesschau.de archive) (accessed on June 23, 2008)
- ↑ Süddeutsche: Jason-2 launched into space
- ^ New York Times : US Says Exercise by Israel Seemed Directed at Iran, June 20, 2008
- ↑ Stern.de: The Englishman who occupied an island (accessed on June 26, 2008)
- ↑ https://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/node_10/node_37/node_84/2008/06/24/121427461040529.shtml
- ↑ dpa: Little hope of survivors in the event of a ferry accident (accessed on June 24, 2008)
- ↑ Tagesspiegel: Crumbling Solidarity ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 24, 2008)
- ↑ Tagesschau.de: Another refugee storm on Melilla (tagesschau.de archive) (accessed June 25, 2008)
- ↑ n-tv: EU freezes big bank credit (accessed on June 23, 2008)
- ↑ BBC: Tsvangirai seeks embassy refuge
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Israel prohibits transports to the Gaza Strip etc. focus.de - Breaking the ceasefire: Israel closes the borders with the Gaza Strip
- ^ Norway: Gay marriage with all rights and obligations. In: diepresse.com . June 24, 2008. Retrieved June 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Tagesanzeiger - Maori receive record compensation ( Memento from August 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bundestag passes risk limitation law More protection against "grasshoppers" ( Memento of September 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ n-tv: North Korea is disarming (accessed June 27, 2008)
- ↑ RBB: Party under the rainbow ( Memento from August 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 1, 2008)
- ↑ orf.at : Brain researcher Bonhoeffer becomes first boss ( memento from July 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ World: Severe unrest after election in Mongolia
- ↑ FAZ: CDU has more members than the SPD (accessed on July 29, 2008)
- ↑ Malaysia's opposition leader fears for his life. In: The world . June 30, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .